Case analysis: Firestone
Case study - 11 pages - Automotive marketing
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. is an international manufacturer with 38 production facilities around the world. The company is based in Nashville, Tennessee and was formed in 1990, when Bridgestone USA merged with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Tires are the largest part of...
Evaluating supermarket power: Carrefour promodes
Case study - 8 pages - Distribution marketing
In recent years, large buyers that had previously been in fragmented industries have increased their purchasing power through mergers and acquisitions. This change has placed more importance on the topic of limiting bargaining power and preserving free competition in the market. As a result, the...
Wilkinson sword intuition
Case study - 12 pages - Brand management
Every woman old enough to remove hair knows the Wilkinson Sword Intuition. It is a product which has been launched on the women shaver market because it is a market which is strongly expanding nowadays and represents potential profits for producers: it became as competitive as the masculine...
Boosting sales of the Nespresso System
Case study - 9 pages - Luxury marketing
Nespresso is the result of an innovation process that started inside the Nestle Company: a new idea of coffee that combines the quality of an espresso coffee and the convenience of the use of capsules. The process of launching this product inside a big company like Nestle was not an easy one....
How to succeed on the Chinese dairy products market?
Case study - 11 pages - International marketing
Occidental companies have often experienced difficulties to sell products in foreign countries, and especially in China. Indeed, this country has a strong culture and its own consumption habits. Thus, without considering seriously the differences between occidental and oriental consumers, many...
International Marketing McDonald's and its strategy for success
Case study - 20 pages - Brand management
With more than 30,000 restaurants all around the world, the McDonald's Corporation is definitively considered as the biggest fast-food chain on earth. Created from the imagination of two brothers who wanted to create something new, innovative and attractive, the firm quickly met customer needs...
United Colors of Benetton - publié le 05/03/2008
Case study - 20 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
United Colors of Benetton, a major brand of the Benetton Group, is a leading apparels manufacturer and designer based in Treviso, Italy. Its operations are mainly based in the European Union market; however, recent market trends and developments have compelled the company to expand its presence...
Business plan: Personal traveller - tourism in China
Business plan - 23 pages - Tourism marketing
Personal Traveler is a travel related service company which links with travel agencies in leading European markets in forming a customized package to fit the need of “third-age” foreign travelers in main Chinese cities. The venture will leverage on the sharp increase in tourism expected...
Market presentation about the Ted Baker Company (2006) - publié le 05/03/2008
Case study - 49 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
First of all, Ted Baker is operating on the fashion retailing market, which we are going to study, with particular attention to United Kingdom, where the company started. In this report, we will be mainly concerned with women swear retailing which is currently the most important part of the...
Nespresso's strategy
Case study - 14 pages - Luxury marketing
How Nespresso made it to turn a basic product into a luxury one through its CRM strategy? Drinking coffee is such a common habit that brands always offered all the elements to enjoy this beverage at home; the coffee, the machine, the filters… As a result, the quality and taste can never...
H&M on the Japanese market (2007)
Market study - 11 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Hennes & Mauritz AB, better known as H&M, one of the inexpensive clothing fashion brand's leaders, established an expansion strategy, above all towards the East. They opened a lot of new stores in the best location, on shopping streets and in shopping centers in the United States (Beverly Center...
Report and recommendations: Cathay Pacific - published: 04/03/2008
Case study - 7 pages - Brand management
The framework of this research is based on Hazleton's taxonomy. Thus, the aim of this research is to apply the theory to the company, Cathay Pacific Airways. Cathay Pacific is successful using its current strategies that are cooperative problem-solving, informative and promise rewards for...
Case study: you Tube
Case study - 11 pages - ICT marketing
You Tube is a popular website used to share free videos. It enables the users to share, upload and view videos using the streaming technology. You Tube uses an average rating system depending on how many times the videos have been seen. Daily Motion is the French clone of You Tube, it uses the...
Dove advertising campaign
Case study - 18 pages - Medias&communication marketing
In the modern days, media is everywhere. Communication is not only essential, it has become a necessity. Media includes the choice of advertising channels, for example, television, radio, newspaper, direct mail, and to be recognized, it is important to stand apart from the others. The creative...
Estore at Shell Canada Limited - publié le 03/03/2008
Case study - 13 pages - ICT marketing
Shell Canada Limited took an innovative initiative in 2003: to launch an eStore for our business customers. But even though many customers have signed up, the utilization rate remains low. In that sense, the initiative doesn't match our business objectives which consists of cutting costs of...
Levi Strauss Japan K.K: A denim jeans market
Market study - 7 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Levi Strauss is a world renowned brand in the apparel industry. Its core product lines for men, women and youth are the LSJ brands of jeans and jean-related products. Facing a period of economic crisis in the Japanese market, Levi Strauss risks to lose its market shares. How can LSJ manage to...
How to promote a new form of selling books for the EFE Company?
Case study - 14 pages - Brand management
With analyse-experts, EFE is not only selling a product on the Internet, it is also selling a new concept of using e-books rather than printed books. The distinction may not have been understood. That is why we decided to have three different objectives. First of all, we have to understand why...
Marketing information systems
Essay - 2 pages - ICT marketing
Paul Hogben (2000), defined the origin of Marketing Information Systems as 'underlying the marketing of products to the promotion of professional services'. To this day, the concept of 'systems thinking' has been developing, collecting, storing, analysing and disseminating input...
Tobacco marketing in the contemporary world
Essay - 6 pages - Brand management
After being brought back from the New World and being cultivated first in Portugal during the 16th century, tobacco has gradually become a good for mass consumption all around the world, passing from a status of medicinal plant to the one of a luxury product and eventually to something very cool,...
Rohm and Haas: Kathon MWX - published: 02/03/2008
Case study - 5 pages - Brand management
Since the conception of its new product Kathon MWX, Rohm and Haas has been failing to place it successfully in the market and achieving target sales. Being familiar to a marketing strategy appropriate for large industrial buyers, the company has tried to push its new product through this same...
Human resource issues entailed by the take-over of Credit du Nord by Society General (2004)
Case study - 13 pages - Bank marketing
The French banking system has met several restructurings since the 90's. Banking networks have now to propose, diversify and evolve services to their customers. Besides, these companies are in a more open market which entails international competition and the mergers phenomenon. Several examples...
Monography: The human resources management policy of the Société Générale
Case study - 4 pages - Bank marketing
According to the talk with Charles Millon, there are four main issues that have been put forward during the reshuffling of the bank Crédit du Nord. One of them is manpower planning in the new area, determined by both Société Générale, the buyer, and Crédit du Nord, the acquired. Indeed, that HRM...
Marketing to women
Case study - 7 pages - Clients and users behaviour
A few weeks ago, the French brand Celio launched a very original concept aimed at women. Celio is a men apparel brand, but 50% of their customers are women who want to buy clothes as a present. In more and more Celio shops, women can find “The Shoppenboys”. The Shoppenboys are men from...
The international development of Starbucks (2004)
Case study - 3 pages - International marketing
The Starbucks Coffee Company owns today more than 6,000 retail locations in 37 countries: It is situated in all the continents: North America, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim, that is to say “wherever there is a demand for good coffee”. The first foreign coffeehouse...
Australian agricultural machineries, country justification report
Market study - 10 pages - International marketing
This report shows that AAM will be entering the German market and will not be entering the markets in The Netherlands and Switzerland. The data and analysis in this report shows that Germany offers many opportunities for the development of AAM. Germany's agricultural profile presents the best...
E-Business - vente-privee.com
Case study - 12 pages - Digital & e-marketing
It is now 8.38 am exactly. We are currently 92,773 people connected and the shirt I wanted is still available, but only in XS or XXL sizes. Welcome to my home, this Thursday, 3rd January 2008 during the 2 days Calvin Klevin sales, organized on the Vente-privée.fr website. In France, this very...
Procter and Gamble marketing strategy
Dissertation - 36 pages - Brand management
We chose Procter and Gamble because it's a huge company, which is established in different sectors and owns a multitude of products. It acts internationally and has a good place and a good experience in the market. After a successful start, P&G is now an international company which owns more...
Creativity in advertising agencies
Essay - 6 pages - Medias&communication marketing
Building an advertising campaign requires a great deal of advice. You are not going to venture to communicate for a company without knowing its needs perfectly. It works on the same for products or services. This exploration work, which is realized upstream, has to be realized minutely. Its...
Segway France
Case study - 13 pages - Brand management
What price would be considered as acceptable for potential buyers to buy a Segway? The population used for the survey is homogeneous. We can define a major tendency in their habits, they use all means of transportation other than walking, they mainly travel 15 minutes to 1 hour every day, they...
British Petroleum (BP): Case study
Case study - 13 pages - Brand management
What was BP's overall strategy with respect to organizational processes since Horton's appointment as CEO, and through Simon's term? Did this strategy focus on people management and, if yes, in what way? Was it successful or unsuccessful? How? On June 1992, Robert Horton, Chairman and...
