Virgin Mobile India-Think Hat Ke Vision To be the favourite mobile service of India’s youth Company Overview Virgin Group‚ Ltd. operates as a venture capital company. The company engages in various businesses‚ including mobile telephony‚ travel and tourism‚ financial services‚ leisure and pleasure‚ transportation‚ social and environment‚ music‚ holidays‚ shopping‚ media‚ publishing‚ and retailing. It has operations in Africa‚ Asia‚ Australia‚ Canada‚ Europe‚ the United Kingdom‚ and the United
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Virgin Mobile USA: Pricing for the very first time Executive Summary Virgin is one of the world’s most recognized and respected brands. The company was established by Sir Richard Branson in 1970 and has been expanded into different areas such as travel‚ entertainment and lifestyle. Dan Schulman was appointed as CEO of Virgin Mobile USA in 2001‚ with 18 years experiences in telecom industry‚ Dan was confident that he would help Virgin to achieve 1 million subscribers by the end of first
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The ultimate fast follower Samsung is better than anybody else at learning from its competitors. "A market reader is sort of the classic fast follower‚" explains Barry Jaruzelski‚ senior partner at Booz&Co and the co-author of the Global Innovation 1000. "It doesn’t mean they ignore their customers‚ but they’re very attuned to what competitors are doing and what other people are bringing to market first and observing what seems to be gaining traction‚ then very rapidly coming up with their own
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Case Analysis: Virgin Mobile USA What we are analyzing here is pricing of a service in a market which is saturated‚ as it has reached maturity‚ is highly capital intensive and in which a large amount of competition prevails. Virgin however is a known brand name with an extremely diversified portfolio. It has experimented successfully with the telecom business in the UK but failed in Singapore. It now targets the USA market; the problems before it are to: come up with an appealing offer and ensure
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1) Do you agree with Virgin Mobile’s target market (14 to 24-year-olds) selection? What are the risks associated with targeting this segment? Why have the major carriers been slow to target this segment? - As a group‚ we all agreed to this TM. We find this strategy suit extremely well with virgins advertising budget‚ as niche market will mean that advertising can be specifically targeted towards the target market rather than as a whole. Specific media vehicles can be used such as interactive
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BCG matrix The Boston Consulting Group matrix allows a multinational company to manage its portfolio by studying the relative market share and the industry growth rate of each division relative to all other divisions in the organization. It consists of 4 basic elements: 1. Question Marks(?)- falls in Quadrant I that has a low relative market share position but compete in a high-growth industry. 2. Stars- falls in Quadrant II that has a high relative market share and even has a high-growth industry
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Virgin Mobile USA Analysis [pic] August 08‚ 2009 Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE Matrix) 4 External Factor Evaluation (EFE Matrix) 5 Porter’s Five Forces 6 Porters Generic Forces 6 Financial Analysis 7 Competitive Profile Matrix 8 The Marketing Mix-The 5 P’s 9 Key Issues 10 Boston Consulting Group (BCG Matrix) 11 GE / McKinsey Matrix 12 Space Matrix 14 Recommendations 16 Introduction Virgin Mobile is a great company
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Introduction: The BCG Matrix and the Product Life Cycle are two important tools that relate to different aspects of a product’s performance: • The BCG looks at market share and market growth and how they impact on cash usage and generation. • The PLC looks at sales/revenues over time and levels of profitability. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix Businesses must keep their product offerings relevant and profitable to stay in operation. The Boston Consulting Group developed a tool‚ called the BCG matrix
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BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP MATRIX ( BCG ) This technique is particularly useful for multi-divisional or multiproduct companies. The divisions or products compromise the organisations “business portfolio”. The composition of the portfolio can be critical to the growth and success of the company. The BCG matrix considers two variables‚ namely.. N MARKET GROWTH RATE N RELATIVE MARKET SHARE The market growth rate is shown on the vertical (y) axis and is expressed as a %. The range is set somewhat
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To begin with‚ BCG is the acronym for Boston Consulting Group—a general management consulting firm highly respected in business strategy consulting. BCG Growth-Share Matrix (see figure 1) happens to be one of many of BCG’s strategic concepts the organisation developed in the late 1970s‚ and is being taught at leading business schools and executive education programmes around the world. It is a management tool that serves four distinct purposes (McDonald 2003; Kotler 2003; Cipher 2006): it can
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