Apple Assignment 2007/2008 _________________________ Historically‚ what were Apple’s major competitive advantages? • Industrial design/Hardware design. • Apples focus and vision. • Integrated approach with software‚ hardware and service. • Patents covering technology‚ “look and feel”‚ interfaces and methods. • Strong legal team to enforce the above. • Dedicated market shares. • Ease of use. • Strong brand. • Brand loyalty. • Marketing. • Steve Jobs. Analyse the structure of
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ASSIGNMENT This assignment is designed and aimed to improve your analytical techniques. The assignment is worth 20% of your total grade. All groups (5 students in a group) should read Case Study Carrefour‚ and elaborate the following issues related to the Case with justifiable theories. 1. Since 2004‚ Carrefour has been in a re-launching process‚ because of a growing competition both on a worldwide level and in many specific country markets. Conduct a SWOT analysis for the group and discuss critically
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Strategic marketing management Company Information Carrefour Group‚ in the past 40 years have grown to turn out to be one of the world’s leading distribution groups. Carrefour began its journey in 1959 which was established in France by the Defforey families and Fournier. The name Carrefour came into existence as shops were located on thoroughfare‚ which literally means a place where it’s convenient to shop. Carrefour hypermarket was first opened outside France in Belgium and the first
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True Earth 1. Wheeler’s primary choices were between targeting the general audience of all men and women over the age of 34‚ and specifically targeting the high value 18-34 year old women. The upside of taking a generalist approach is that it would be safe. There was already evidence that the 1.0 neilson rating was coming from an audience of women 34 and up. However‚ there are many downsides to this strategy. The primary downside is that men only made up 39% of the viewership‚ yet by targeting
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A Reverse Innovation Playbook This case tells us about developing ideas in the emerging market and persuading them to emerged markets. It demonstrates how the companies following the reverse logic focus on major changes such as remodeling the organizational structures‚ restoring product development and manufacturing methods and reorienting sales force. The article cites example of an Organization Sara’s and how Toyota accepted its technology for emerging as well as western markets. Executing
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MKTG461 Moon HBR Case “Introducing New Coke” Executive Summary (1pg): Situation Analysis (2pg): It seems that the most important events throughout Coca-Cola’s history have happened at the end of the United States’ involvement in war-times. From the original invention right after the civil war‚ to share prices falling after World War I leading to a mass re-structuration internally‚ to the company’s involvement with World War II soldiers‚ Coke has continually evolved to stay on top. The
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Chapter 38 1. The 1950’s were different from the 1920’s in terms of women in society and in the workplace‚ also while race relations weren’t great in either decade there were significant steps of improvement in the 50’s. The 50’s and the 20’s were similar in terms consumerism. During World War 2 in the 1950’s there was a shortage of men in the workplace because most of them had left America to go fight the Germans. To make up for the work shortage many employers had to employ women. As a result
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operations outside of its home country is considered as a multinational corporation. For this essay I have chosen to discuss about the multinational company: Carrefour. Carrefour is a French multinational company which works in the sector of retailing and which was created in 1959. Its headquarter is situated in Boulogne Billancourt‚ France. Indeed‚ Carrefour it’s one of the biggest hypermarket chains of the world competing with Wal-Mart‚ Tesco and Costco. Additionally‚ it’s qualified as a multinational company
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MARKET. -THEN POSITION THE CARREFOUR RETAIL OUTLETS. 2. Should Carrefour adopt Wal-Mart’s strategy of "low prices everyday"? What would be the advantage or disadvantage of such a strategy? [NO CARREFOUR SHOULD NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY THE WAL-MART. ADVANTAGES -it will gain some limited gain in the market entry. DISADVANTAGES -it will not be able to match the supply chain strength of wal-mart. 3. How could Carrefour differentiate itself from Wal-Mart? CARREFOUR SHOULD POSITION ITSELF AS ‘’
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powerfully motivate employees to work and share knowledge and adopt a play-safe strategy in internationalization. As for the number two player—Carrefour‚ they provide customers with one-stop shopping‚ lowest price‚ fresh products‚ self-served shopping in a hypermarket with free parking lots. In contrast to Wal-Mart’s internationalization strategy‚ Carrefour expands to foreign markets faster and more flexible than their counterpart. Wal-Mart founded by Sam Walton adopted circumventing strategy
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