HEADING To: Mr. Muhtar Kent‚ CEO From: Erica Wei‚ Corporate Analyst Date: May 1st‚ 2013 Subject: Increasing Marketing Focuses in Asian Markets As society becomes more health conscious‚ domestic consumers are looking for healthier products. Increasing public concern of health issues‚ such as obesity‚ poses new challenges for the carbonated soft drink (CSD) industry‚ which has experienced declining growth in demand for recent years (Exhibit 1). As the United States has been Coca-Cola’s
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Shoyu (soy) had come to Japan with the arrival of Buddhism‚ a teaching that turned Japanese from meat based to vegetable based flavorings. It was brought by a Japanese Zen Buddhist who studied in China. Noda became a major center for shoyu manufacturing in Japan because of its rich agricultural kanto plain and strategic location. The Mogi family was the one who began brewing shoyu in Noda and has maintained an exceptional quality of shoyu for almost a century. Another Noda family
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Edgar‚ my cousin‚ is always thinking of the next business idea. His next business idea includes buying to gas stations. He believes that both gas stations would be profitable and allow revenue for him to increase. After recently reading an article named “$4-a-Gallon Gas Fueling Fears for Recovery” I decide to research the market in terms of supply and demand‚ elasticity‚ costs of production‚ pricing‚ and normal or economic profit or loss. In order to help my cousin Edgar I would like to provide
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An essential part of corporate strategy is choosing the right portfolio of business to compete in especially when it concerns growth strategy and over the years this has become one of the key challenges faced by managers. It is highly imperative for business leaders to understand the different strategic options suitable for operating in various types of industries or markets. Suffice is to say that the business environment‚ which includes the competitive activity also plays a deep-seated role in
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The external environment of a business includes a variety of factors such as competitors‚ suppliers and regulations that influence major strategic decisions. Scanning and assessing the external environment is a vital part of strategic decision-making in entrepreneurial ventures. This helps small-business managers locate factors that pose opportunities or threats to their businesses. A better understanding of the ramifications of external environmental factors can improve success and survival for
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KINGFISHER AIRLINES - BUSINESS STRATEGY AND MARKET ANALYSIS FOR INDIAN BUSINESS Aviation Sector in India – an Overview History of Civil Aviation in India. 1. The history of civil aviation in India began in December 1912. This was with the opening of the first domestic air route between Karachi and Delhi by the Indian state Air services in collaboration with the Imperial Airways‚ UK‚ though it was a mere extension of London-Karachi flight of the latter airline. Three years later‚ the first Indian
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for a year; August 16‚ 2010 The economist; Of bits and bites; August 12‚ 2010 NEXTUP‚ Nextup Research Report; January 2‚ 2011 EDELMAN‚ B. & JAFFE‚ S. & DUKE KOMINERS‚ S.‚ To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts‚ in Harvard Business School; December 17‚ 2010 Deatsch‚ K.‚ Groupon launches features to keep merchants happy and away from rivals‚ Interenter Retailer; February 2011. Videos CBS News; Surprising Ways to Save Money; October 22‚ 2010 CNBC; Groupon: Fastest Growing
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LOW COST AIRLINES: A FAILED BUSINESS MODEL? Kenneth Button University Professor Director of the Center for Transportation‚ Policy‚ Operations‚ and Logistics‚ and Director of the Aerospace Policy Research Center School of Public Policy George Mason University (MS 3C6) Fairfax‚ VA 22030‚ USA. E-mail: kbutton@gmu.edu “You fucking academic eggheads! You don ’t know shit. You can ’t deregulate this industry. You ’re going to wreck it. You don ’t know a goddamn thing!” Robert L. Crandall‚ CEO American
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CHAPTER 9: THE STRATEGIC GAINS FROM HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION AND DIVERSIFICATION Work‚ itself‚ is not organised as it used to be. Organisations are not now drawn as pyramids of boxes. [They] now have circles and amoeba-like blobs where boxes used to be. It isn’t even clear where the organisation begins and ends‚ with customers‚ suppliers and allied organisations linked into a varying ‘network organisation? Charles Handy‚ The Empty Raincoat (1994) The acid test of competitive success is the ability
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switched to alternatives‚ it becomes hard to persuade them to return to buying the initial product when they go shopping again. P&G decided that sophisticated demand chain management‚ establishing direct connections between sales and supply chain business processes‚ could be the key to maintaining its leading position in the consumer packaged goods industry. Thus‚ P&G has implemented “consumer-driven supply network” (CDSN) program into their company where consumer is the boss. P&G’s aim to create
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