STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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CASE STUDY: APPLE Chapter 7: Pricing Contents A. Understanding Pricing 4 1. Internal and External Considerations Affecting Price Decisions 5 1.1. Internal factors 5 1.2. External Factors 9 2. Setting The Price 10 B. Introduction to Apple 13 1. Product 14 2. Promotion 15 3. Place 16 4. Price 17 C. IPHONE 19 1. Introduction to iPhone 19 1.1 Main Features 19 1.2 Market share 20 2. Pricing Strategy of Apple’s IPhone 21 2.1 High Reference Pricing 21 2
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Apple Ipad’s carefully choreographed PR Campaign: Rumors for close to two years about an Apple tablet device. Little tidbits‚ like filings for obvious Apple-style names like iTablet‚ left sitting for reporters to pick up‚ but with no direct trace back to Apple‚ which increased curiosity and coverage. Rumors about which content companies were partnering with Apple started to arise‚ and such rumors are often a result of Apple’s own planting. The press started finding details about a
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MARKETING CONCEPT OF APPLE Mrs Raheleh Barkhordari By Abubakar kassim Gaidam 3916923 Mohammed Lawal budah 4284926 Mirza saadat Baig Aria khosravi Executive Summary This report analysis the marketing concept of the globally known corporation(Apple)‚the report tries to answer some problems and also explains the marketing strategy of Apple‚ the report focuses on further to highlight how Apple has affected people or to say the consumer in both positive and negative ways‚ The report discusses also the
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differentiation 1. The similarity of the turning points and the points of inflexion is both of them can be stationary point‚ but not all the stationary points are turning points or points of inflexion. A turning point is a point which is the point of the sign of the derivative changes. And the turning points are the local maximum and minimum where the derivative of the function changes from positive to negative or from negative to positive. When the shape of the function is smooth‚ the turning
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Competitive Strategy: Apple’s competitive strategy is differentiation across the industry. Apple prides itself on innovation more than any other company‚ and is known for their unique top of the line products. Using differentiation as their main source of competitive advantage‚ they have succeeded to the top of their industry‚ while retaining higher than industry average profit margins. This innovative attitude is the source of long-term success throughout the history of Apple. For example
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TYPES OF COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES Apple Inc. Cost Leadership Strategy Cost leadership strategy has been highly adopted by Apple Inc in its endeavors of ensuring competitiveness and success in the technology industry. The company’s management has been able to draw policies and strategies that are aimed at ensuring that the company is the lowest cost producer and distributor. • By lowering the cost of production and management‚ Apple Inc has been given golden opportunities on determining prices
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Apple Mini Case SWOT Strength: 1. Strong brand name and customer loyalty. Weakness: 1. Limitation on customer segmentation because Apple has limitation on its price and product varieties. Opportunity: 1. Chinese economy is still booming right even though the economy is kind of slow down right now‚ it still has a lot of room to grow. If Apple could catch the chance‚ for sure it has a lot of business opportunities. 2. Largest population in China so there is a lot of potential customers
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You are the secretary of the Environment Club in school. You have been asked to write an article on the effects of air pollution and suggest ways of solving the problem for your school bulletin. Use the notes given below to write your article. Effects of the air pollution: • deteriorating air quality • health hazards – lung diseases and skin irritations • acid rain – affects agriculture and wildlife Measures to overcome air pollution:
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Q4. Is Apple’s strategy in its computer business strong enough to compete successfully against Dell and HP? From Exhibit 3 we can see that in 2008 Apple upholds 8.5 % of the U.S. PC Market. Today’s generation are now more techno aware and therefore their expectations are higher than what they used to be. Apples rivals such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard possess a large size of the market at 31.9% and 25.3% respectively. From analysing the case study it is evident that a vast majority of consumers
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