Competitive Strategy Assessment 3 – Individual Assignment: Business Report 29th November 2010 Coopers Brewery Grant Semmler Student ID: 110013428 [pic] executive Summary This report examines the current competitive strategies of Coopers Brewery Limited (Coopers); a family owned South Australian based beer producer. Coopers is a public company which is not listed on the Australian Stock Exchange‚ currently holding a 3.4% market share of the Australian beer market (Coopers Chairman’s
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CASE 3: COOPERS BREWERY Analyze the Australian brewing industry. What characterizes this industry? To analyze the competitive structure of this industry‚ we can apply Porter’s Five Forces. This model of industry analysis uncovers the following aspects of the Australian brewing industry: Threat of new entrants: The Trade Practice Act of 1974 lead to national consolidation and a focus on economy of scale. This created an advantage for high volume firms already competing in the industry
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Marketing Strategy We will have an outstanding marketing operation. Everyone has a smart phone and spends a considerable amount of their time using it. We will exploit this opportunity. We are going to become a sponsor of some of the beer forums such as Beeradvocate and beerforum. Doing this will get us established with beer aficionados and they will have good things to say about us on the forums. Since we are Big Bens Brewery we are going to run an ad on the Pittsburgh Steelers website and buy
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COOPER Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy (A) Brayan J. Coin 5/3/2010 Prepare: Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy 1. What is Cooper’s corporate strategy? How is Cooper Industries adding corporate value to its portfolio of businesses? Would you recommend any changes in corporate strategy? Cooper’s corporate strategy is diversification through acquisitions and mergers. This diversification is in both related and non-related businesses to lessen its dependence on the capital
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Business strategy We focus on business strategy because we consider our organisation as a strategic business unit (SBU) which is any business that supplies goods or services to a distinct domain of activity. Porter’s generic competitive strategies A competitive strategy is concerned with how a SBU achieves competitive advantage in its domain of activity. Porter defines 3 possible generic strategies to use as a business. The cost-leadership strategy has for aim to become the lowest-cost organisation
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22-03-2012 Morena Xodo (matr. 639471) COOPER INDUSTRIES’ CORPORATE STRATEGIES Cooper industries’ is a broad company that strongly uses M&A strategy of diversification. But diversification for Cooper doesn’t mean just ‘adding‚ adding and more adding’. Division managers seek for ‘complementary acquisition’ defined as logical extensions of Cooper’s existing products or markets; furthermore they keep examining what they have‚ not being afraid to get rid of companies that have served their useful
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Analysis 11 SWOT SUMMARY 14 WHAT ARE THE REAL‚ ROOT PROBLEMS? 15 CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES 15 Considering the Ansoff Matrix: 15 Considering other strategies: 16 Part II TACTICAL MARKETING MIX IMPLEMENTATION 17 Promotions 17 PRO-FORMA MARKETING BUDGET 19 PLAN CONTROL 19 SOURCES 21 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper examines opportunities for Brewery Vivant‚ a regional brewery in Grand Rapids‚ Michigan‚ to increase sales to reach their target of 5‚000 barrels a year.
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Introduction South African Breweries (SAB) is an international company committed to achieving sustained commercial success‚ principally in beer and other beverages‚ but with strategic investments in hotels and gaming. The company was founded in 1895 in response to the demand by gold miners in the Johannesburg region. Prior to the introduction of beer‚ the miners’ drink of choice was raw potato spirits mixed with tobacco juice and pepper. No wonder why the new beer was well received! Because of
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MURPHY BREWERY IRELAND SYNOPSIS This case examines the marketing of Murphy’s Irish Stout at the time of the merger between Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. Murphy Brewery is owned by Heineken International and has expanded its scope beyond Ireland in recent years. However‚ the brand is a distant second internationally to Guinness in the stout category. Furthermore‚ the company has launched a new brand—Murphy’s Irish Amber. This case discusses the Murphy’s situation in Ireland‚ the UK‚ and
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Case 1: Will Cooper Will Cooper had spent a total of sixteen years as a successful oil company service station lessee-operator1 in Halifax. In the fall of 1988‚ he was approached by the owner of another service station who wanted to sell his operation to Cooper. Cooper rejected the offer‚ but the owner persisted. Cooper eventually agreed to consider the matter seriously‚ committing himself to a decision by early January 1989. This was a genuine opportunity for Cooper to become the owner of his
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