Running head: GBCA – SOUTH AFRICA 1 Global Business Cultural Analysis: South Africa Raymond J. Landis BUSI 604-D06 LUO – International Business Professor – Dr. Stephen P. Preacher Liberty University May 13‚ 2011 GBCA – SOUTH AFRICA Abstract This paper will endeavor to form a comprehensive analysis of South African culture‚ principally for the perspective of doing business in that nation. Ultimately‚ the paper will point out the crucial points for US businesses to consider before committing to
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Walmart in South Africa The beast in the bush A hungry predator stalks Africa Feb 17th 2011 | JOHANNESBURG | from the print edition • • Actually‚ I do care about prices ON FEBRUARY 11th the world’s most successful retailer came a step nearer to establishing a presence in Africa. South Africa’s Competition Commission approved Walmart’s proposed acquisition of a 51% stake in Massmart‚ a South African firm that owns 265 wholesale and retail stores in South Africa and 25 more in 13 other
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General 2 2. Economic/Business 5 3. Political 9 4. Social & Cultural 11 Market Entry Strategy 12 References 15 Appendix 17 Country Analysis 1. General South Africa is a medium sized country that occupies a total land area of slightly more than 1.2 Million square kilometers. It stretches more than 2‚500km from the desert boarder with Namibia on the Atlantic coast‚ southwards around the tip of Africa‚ then north to the
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Environmental Factors MKT 421 March 8‚ 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS Nike is an organization that conducts both domestic and global marketing. The environmental factors will be identified that will affect the global and domestic marketing decisions. The following will be addressed as they relate to the organization’s marketing decisions: Analyze the influence of global economic interdependence and the effect of
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Goal: In 2003‚ DANONE France indicated that it wanted the South African business unit to introduce a dairy product into the market at the base of the pyramid (here we show THE pyramid ). South Africa has one of the highest inequality gaps in the world and the country is characterized by both pockets of world-class excellence and a large impoverished population. Challenges the DANONE SA (South Africa) company faced before launching the product (Danimal): * Even with a specialized distribution
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SHOPRITE The Shoprite Group (www.shoprite.co.za) is one of South Africa’s largest food retailers. It owns a whole range of brands with which it attempts to serve the South African food retail market. It has also succeeded to export its business model to the rest of Africa‚ the only South African retail company to have done so with considerable success. They were clever enough to develop a business model to fit the situation in Africa. They are facing stiff competition from Pick ‘n Pay (www.pnp
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A South African Investment American oil companies Texaco and SoCal (Caltex) were refining oil in South Africa. They planned to expand their refining capacity. However there was numerous discrimination issues pertaining to the status and treatment of the black citizens. At the time‚ the South African government maintained an apartheid system of governing their nation. Caltex was under scrutiny by American political parties and its stockholders for the way African workers were treated. Whites
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Environmental Factors Heidi Wallen HSM/220 March 21‚ 2013 Environmental Factors The four external environmental factors are: economic factors‚ sociological factors‚ technological factors‚ and political and professional factors. The six internal factors are: organizational purpose‚ mission‚ and philosophy‚ Organizational planning‚ Organizational operations‚ Human resources‚ Technological resources‚ financial resources. Economic
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The external environment is made up of forces and factors that affect the organization performance‚ be it positively or negatively. To explain in greater detail‚ the external environment consists of two categories‚ the specific environment and the general environment. I shall use the Soup Restaurant Group Limited as an example. Specific environment comprise of four factors: customers‚ suppliers‚ competitors and public pressure groups. These factors directly affect or impact the organization and they
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Environmental Factors Rod Mathill MKT 421 January 14‚ 2013 Ron Rosalik Environmental Factors One can make little argument that the current economic state of the world is largely dependant upon the whole rather than the one. The old days of a country being able to completely sustain itself are coming to a rapid conclusion. Information technology and global shipping and receiving abilities have really created a global link from one country to the next. The United States was at one time
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