DEFINITION BCG MATRIX Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix is defined by the following authors as follows: Table 1 Definition of BCG Matrix Pearce (2013) David (2012) BCG Matrix is an approach pioneered by the Boston Consulting Group that attempted to help managers “balance” the flow of cash resources among their various businesses while also identifying their basic strategic purpose within the overall portfolio. It is also known as “portfolio techniques”. BCG Matrix graphically portrays
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Placing products in the BCG matrix results in 4 categories in a portfolio of a company: BCG STARS (high growth‚ high market share) - Stars are defined by having high market share in a growing market. - Stars are the leaders in the business but still need a lot of support for promotion a placement. - If market share is kept‚ Stars are likely to grow into cash cows. BCG QUESTION MARKS (high growth‚ low market share) - These products are in growing markets but have low market share. - Question
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LEVIS SWOT ANALYSIS SWOT analysis empowers firms to identify elements that need to be taken into account when developing marketing and corporate strategy. Strengths and Weaknesses are in-house factors that are controllable by the organization. Opportunities & threats are outside factors‚ which are uncontrollable by the organization. According to Kotler and Armstrong‚ SWOT analysis involves a distillation of the findings of an internal and external inspection that lures attention‚ from a strategic
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1 Marketing Study Of The Coca-Cola Company Group 1 Charis McWhorter William Chasteen Christina Davis Brian Gladney Jasmine Verden 2 Introduction The Coca-Cola Company operated as an “independent‚ local business” until it merged with John T. Lupton and BCI Holding Corporation. Collectively‚ they became known as the Coca Cola Enterprise Incorporation (Inc.). They began to offer stock‚ and stales instantly increased. Additionally‚ it merged with the Johnston Coca-Cola Bottling
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construct a BCG model for a company having multiple business org. and discuss the following strategies with example: 1) Market penetration 2) Market development 3) Product development 4) diversification ii : discuss related diversification and unrelated diversification. Here we construct BCG model for Unilever brand. Company’s mission: “we meet everyday needs for nutrition‚hygine and personal care with brands that help people feel good‚look good and get more out of life.” What is BCG model? The
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BCG Matrix (Boston consulting Group): The Boston consulting group a leading management consulting firm develops and popularized the growth share matrix as shown in figure. BCG MATRIX of Unilever Pvt. Ltd: According to the Unilever Pvt. Ltd‚ the relative market share and market growth rates of different products of unilever are given below:- Name Relative Market Share Market Growth Rate Brooke bond supreme 41% 45.03% Knorr noodle 51% 29% Lux 21% 29.15% Surf Excel 23% 27.37% Lifebuoy shampoo
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Boston matrix (BCG matrix) At the end of the 1960s‚ Bruce Henderson‚ founder of the Boston Consulting Group‚ BCG‚ developed his portfolio matrix. The effect on the business world was dramatic. Henderson first came up with the concept of an experience curve‚ which differs widely from the learning curve‚ a concept formulated many years before and which states that staff productivity increases according to the number of times a particular work task is carried out. The experience curve does not have
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Strengths: Well respected and globally accepted brand in the strategy consulting domainBCG‚ over the years has cultivated and built up a reputation for itself and a corporate brand which has become almost synonymous to strategy consulting. In the process‚ BCG has pioneered some path breaking ideas and concepts in the strategy consulting domain that provided innovative frameworks and solutions to address the needs and problems of business community. The company’s focus on conceptual‚
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Boston Consulting Group Matrix The BCG Matrix is based on the product life cycle theory that can be used to determine what priorities should be given in the product portfolio of a business unit. It has two dimensions: the market share and the market growth. To ensure long-term value creation‚ a company should have a portfolio products that contains both high-growth products in need of cash inputs and low-growth products that generate lot of cash. The basic idea behind it is that the bigger the
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BCG Matrix of Hindustan Unilever regarding its Products with proper reasons for the same BCG Matrix of Hindustan Unilever [pic] BCG analysis is mainly used for Multi Category / Multi Product companies. All categories and products together are said to be Business portfolio. Thus‚ the various entities of your business portfolio may move forward by a different pace and with a different strategy. The BCG analysis actually helps you in deciding which entities in your business portfolio are actually
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