The following report pertains to Unilever Company. This report is an analysis of the internal and external factors of Unilever. This analysis will give an overview of the industry intensity and the profitability by using The Porter’s Five Forces approach. Overview Unilever was created in 1930 through the merger of Margarine Unie‚ a Dutch margarine company and British based Lever Brothers‚ a soap and detergent company. Over the next decades‚ Unilever continued acquiring companies and brands
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Contents Section 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Introduction to the topic 3 1.2 Introduction to UNILEVER 4 1.3 Project objectives 5 1.4 Research Questions 5 1.5 Research approach 6 Section 2 Information Gathering 7 2.1 Sources used and reasons 7 2.2 Description of method used to collect information 8 2.3 Limitation of gathering information 9 2.4 Ethical Issues 9 2.5 Ratio Analysis 10 2.5(a) Limitation of ratio analysis 11 2.6 SWOT analysis 13 2.6(a) Limitations of SWOT analysis
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their needs and desires. Unilever had decided to launch detergents in Brazil basically targeting the low-income consumers living in the NorthEast of Brazil. So the Head of Unilever’s Home Care‚ Robert Davidson appointed Laercio Cardoso for this project as he was from the same country which would be an advantage with respect to knowing the market and doing a successful market research. The project was named “Everyman”. The first phase of the project was a thorough market research to understand the
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CHAPTER 5: SWOT ANALYSIS 11 5.1 STRENGTHS 11 5.2 WEAKNESSES 11 5.3 OPPORTUNITIES 11 5.4 THREATS 11 CHAPTER 6: INSUSTRY ANALYSIS 12 6.1 ICE-CREAM BRANDS 12 6.2 ICE-CREAM PARLORS 12 6.3 INDUSTRY GROWTH 13 6.3.1 Product Life Cycle 13 CHAPTER 7: MARKET FORCES 14 7.1 NEW PRODUCT ENTRY PROSPECTS 14 7.2 RIVALRY 14 7.3 POWER OF SUPPLIERS 15 7.4 POWER OF BUYERS 15 7.5 THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES 15 CHAPTER 8: COMPETITOR ANALYSIS 17 8.1 COMPETITORS OF MAGNUM 17 8.2 DIRECT COMPATITOR (IGLOO QUANTA) 18
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Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch multi-national corporation‚ one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in branded home & personal care and food categories‚ operating in over 150 countries. In 2012‚ Unilever added nearly €5 billion of turnover‚ pushing through the €50 billion mark in the process. With more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing‚ Unilever touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways. There are more than 2 billion consumer worldwide use a product
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emerging economies. These markets are growing so rapidly that within just two years they will account for half of all the world’s consumer spending‚ estimates Harish Manwani‚ head of the Asian and African businesses of Unilever‚ a giant of the world’s consumer-goods industries. But even with more than a century of experience in some of these countries‚ Unilever tripped up. Few companies have had the head start in places like Africa‚ China‚ India and Latin America that Unilever enjoyed. Yet despite the
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in rural India to become capable of earning livelihood and contribute to their family well being • Shakti involves woman to do door to door selling of the branded products • Shakti enabled large conglomerate to penetrate into the untapped rural market of India. • It involved women/entrepreneur to build relationship with customers and provide them the products they require Positive aspects: • It gave opportunity to the rural women to earn livelihood themselves and increase their standard of living
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micro environment The micro environment of the company can be easily understood with the help of the Porter’s five forces analysis. This model can be used in order to properly understand the competitive position of the company with respect to its market and industry. This model consist of bargaining power of buyers‚ bargaining power of suppliers‚ threat of new entrants‚ threat of substitute products and rivalry among the existing competitors. The internal environment The best tool which can be
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Report Introduction and Overview Hindustan Unilever Hindustan Unilever is India’s largest FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) Company. It is working in India since 75 years. It has 35 brands with 20 distinct categories like soaps‚ detergents‚ skin care‚ toothpastes‚ tea and coffee‚ water purifiers‚ etc. It has around 16000 employees in the firm and its turnover was around ₹21‚736 crores in 2011-12. Unilever has 52% share holding in HUL. Some of its brands include Lifebuoy
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Unilever Bangladesh conducted their Corporate Social Responsibility activities as Lever Brothers Bangladesh in past. And they mainly focus their voluntary activities in three different segments. These are ‘Health-nutrition-hygiene’‚ ‘Education’ and ‘Women Empowerment’. They do some activities in climate change issues also. They said these activities as sustainability and responsible business practice. They conducted some movement about health care and launched ‘Lifeboy Friendship Hospital’
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