Individual report (20%): What are the strategic choices for Ryanair? a) The choice of business positioning relative to competitors. b) The choice of strategic directions to pursue. c) Evaluate the reactions of key stakeholders regarding the strategy of Ryanair bid for Aer Lingus. -The business report should be précised. - Length is 2‚000 words (1‚800 to 2‚200) plus 10% deviation. Too brief or too long will be penalized. You need to indicate the words count at the front page of your report.
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Ryanair Ryanair is one of the largest and still fastest growing low-fares airline companies in Europe. Led by CEO Michael O’Leary‚ a diverse board of directors‚ and an experienced top management‚ Ryanair has been very successful following a cost leadership strategy‚ partially achieved by a “no-frills” service strategy. External influences such as the European economic crisis‚ aviation deregulation‚ and rising oil prices have created opportunities or threats to Ryanair‚ and internal weaknesses such
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Ryanair Marketing Mix Product or Service. - Low cost‚ no frills air travel to European destinations. - No free food or drink onboard. You buy them onboard‚ or you don’t. You can take your own food and drink. - The company has deals with Hertz car rental‚ and a number of hotel businesses‚ phone cards and bus tickets. Ryanair takes a commission on ’up selling’. About 16% of profit is made this way. Price - Ryanair has low fares. -70% of seats are sold at the lowest two fares. 30% of seats
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Assignment Ryanair Case 1-What is your assessment of Ryanair’s launch strategy? - Will it be successful? Or is it fatally flawed? Why? - Does Ryanair’s strategy give it a competitive advantage over the rivals? 2- How do you expect Aer Lingus and British Airways to respond? Why? - Focus on competitor analyses of Aer Lingus and British Airways. What does Aer Lingus want to achieve? What does British Airways want to achieve? - What are the reasons to expect vigorous retaliation from Aer Lingus
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William Hesketh Lever Doing well and doing good LIFE CYCLE •The course of a products sales and profits over its lifetime is called theproduct life cycle. •PLC shows the stages that products go through fromdevelopment to withdrawal from the market. •Product Life Cycle (PLC): –Each product may have a different life cycle. –PLC determines revenue earned. –Contributes to strategic marketing planning –To identify when a product needs support‚ redesign‚renovating ‚ withdrawal‚ etc. NTRODUCTION
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human resource strategies in such stage of their life cycle. Most product life cycle curves are portrayed as bell-shaped curves. This curve is typically divided into four stages: y y y y Introduction Growth Maturity Decline INTRODUCTION STAGE OF PLC GROWTH STAGE MATURITY STAGE DECLINE STAGE ABOUT THE COMPANY y y y y Cadbury started in 1824 by John Cadbury. In India‚ Cadbury began its operation in 1948 by importing chocolates. Cadbury India operates in four categories mainly Chocolate
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do you expect Aer Lingus and British Airways to respond? There could be 4 ways to respond: 1. Start price war with Ryanair by immediately reducing AL and BA prices: unsustainable due to high overheads. 2. Gradual cost cutting (staff reduction‚ less customer service‚ less perks‚ lower quality travel‚ outsourcing of services‚ etc.) to bring pricing structure in line with Ryanair: without losing core competence‚ brand value and profit at bigger stage where they are now profitable. However subsidizing
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Brief introduction to airservice Ryanair Ryanair Holdings was incorporated in 1996 as a holding company for Ryanair Limited. The latter operates an ultra-low cost‚ scheduled-passenger airline serving short-haul‚ point-to-point routes between Ireland‚ the U.K.‚ Continental Europe‚ and Morocco. Incorporated in 1984‚ Ryanair Limited began to introduce a lowfares operating model under a new management team in the early 1990s. See ―Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospect - History
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Sun Yat-Sen University Strategic Management Professor: Richard Lihua Individual Reflection Date:April 13‚ 2013 Student: Wu Yanfei (12211208) 1 目录 1. Knowledge Reflection ........................................................................ 3 2. Individual Experiences on Strategic Management Reflection ............. 6 3. Future Expectations ........................................................................... 7 2 1. Knowledge Reflection Strategic Management is the
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Introduction: Greggs plc (Greggs) is a UK based bakery products retailing company. Through its subsidiaries‚ the company produces and retails takeaway foods that include savouries‚ sandwiches and fresh bakery food products. It also offers health range and regional products with lower fat‚ calorie and salt quantities. The bakery food products offered by the company comprise pasties and sausage rolls‚ pies‚ doughnuts and drinks. It also offers health range and regional products. Greggs operates 1
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