1. From early 1990s to 2004‚ the Lego Group‚ a long successful toymaker with a world-renowned brand‚ fell into the edge of bankruptcy. Compared with the highest revenue in 1999‚ the revenue in 2014 decreased by 35.6% while the net profit was negative‚ seven times less than that in 1999‚ the lowest in the past ten years. Its net profit margin and ROE were also the lowest. The gross margin and inventory turnover were all lower than its competitors. The strategic moves in the two main periods “growth
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Strategic Analysis of the 2004 LEGO Group Crisis Abstract LEGO Group is a worldwide‚ well-known toy manufacturing company. In 2004‚ the company was faced with a major financial crisis and a major decision to make. Do they try to save the business or not? Through strategic analysis of the company’s external and internal environments‚ many contributing factors became evident. External Analysis The external environment facing LEGO “consists of many external conditions and forces that have the potential
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Integrated Brand Communications MKT4070 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 QUESTION 1. (a) Critical analysis of LEGO’s SWOT in 2004 3 QUESTION 1.(b) LEGO’s communication effects and objectives post 2004 considering its SWOT in 2004 6 QUESTION 2. Application of various concepts applied by LEGO as a part of the IMC programme 8 (a) POSITIONING STRATEGY AND POSTIOING TACTICS 8 (b) BRAND NARRATIVES 9 (c) BRAND ENCOUNTERS 10 (d) BRAND COVERSATIONS 12 QUESTION 3. Critical evaluation
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Problem Statement: As a manager of The Lego Group I think the main problem that Lego faces is maintaining its competitive advantage and growth in the complex toy industry. Lego must identify a clear expansion plan to respond to the external (business) threats such as intense competition and new product innovations‚ changes in the toy industry with mergers and acquisitions and legal battles as well as maintain efficient internal operations in terms of supply chain and logistics in order to keep up
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Project 1: LEGO Codename: Childhood Gina‚ Ines‚ Raul‚ & Katja Agenda } } } } } } } } } Lego in a nutshell Evolution & devellopment Marketing Logistics Glob Communication Economics Organization Bussines law Challenges & future LEGO in a nutshell } Family owned company‚ founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932‚ Billund. } The name LEGO: “leg godt”‚ meaning “play well”. } The world’s largest toy manufacturers. Development 2000-2013 Income 20002013
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The company LEGO is a famous toy manufacturing organization headquartered in Billund‚ Demark. It was founded in 1932 and owned by the family Kristiansen. In 1934‚ the founder stumble upon the name LEGO‚ which stands for Leg Godt and meaning “play well” in Danish. The major products of the company LEGO are LEGO-brand toys‚ which consisting most of the interlocking plastic bricks. LEGO also introducing its own system‚ which means that thousands of building elements can be easily combined with numerous
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Case: the LEGO Group: Publish or Protect? Publish‚ Patent or Trade secret? Introduction: The LEGO Group are maintaining their competitive advantage through two main direction which are having more intelligence modular design and product introduction‚ such as new product line and having manufacturing process innovation that can reduce cost‚ shorten manufacturing cycle and improve the product quality. For manufacturing innovation LEGO are introducing new technology into their process. The project
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such as The Lego Group and its’ competition‚ to give any downward variability in quality‚ price and how much their customers value their toys for entertainment. The toy industry is a very saturated market with little room for a drop off in market share. Most organizations within this industry had to find ways to cut cost through their multiple channels in order to make the largest return on the slim margins that this market has for “luxury items” such as toys. This meant that The Lego Group had to focus
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Lego Case Study Analysis Pallav Mathur Q 1. What led the LEGO group to the edge of bankruptcy by 2004? By the end of 2003 Lego was already facing crisis owing to dipping profits and declining market pool for toys. Lego had planned to expand into markets beyond building toys and needed huge investment to be made in it. But it found difficult to compete when fad players and other toy manufacturers were giving them stiff competition in a market that already was supposed to be giving lesser returns
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The Lego Group: Building Strategy‚ Case 10 Overview LEGO‚ the brand of toy that has been played with by multiple generations of people was founded during the Great Depression in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen‚ a Danish carpenter. Kristiansen started making toys out of wood and had 12 employees under him. The word LEGO combines two Danish words leg and godt‚ which mean “play well” and in Latin‚ fittingly means “to put together”. It’s ironic that LEGO was given that name because it was only later
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