Executive Summary The strategic opportunity is to choose between international standardization and the Henkel European model of local heritage. Henkel’s main competitors are following the international standardization strategy resulting in optimization of product portfolios and significant margin growth. There are three strategic alternatives: * Continuing the local brands in Spain and Italy * Replacing the local brands with the flagship Persil brand * Holding the local brands as
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Simmons – Strategic Transformation Case Summary: Henkel was a German manufacturer of laundry products. Went public in 1985. In 2008 it was 14 Billion pounds in 125 countries. Majority in EMEA. Most of exe team were German. Organized into three major business units: Adhesive Technologies 48%(glue stick)‚ Laundry and Home Care 30%‚ Cosmetics/Toiletries 22%. Industry leader in adhesives. Rorsted took over as CEO in 2008. Henkel was reporting comfortable growth and profits with 8% growth
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>> OPPORTUNITIES Huge Market Potential - In a country of a billion people‚ the Indonesian aviation industry is puny. Indonesia have 12 million people who travel by air every year against 3 million passengers who fly everyday in the US‚ even though its population is one-fourth that of Indonesia. Even if we assumed that only one-fourth of that large middle-class could afford and would be willing to travel by air‚ it would call for at least a 5-6-fold increase in capacity. This points to a huge opportunity
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There are five condition of risk that can be covered by takaful concept. Firstly is to cover the property. This means that‚ an individual or company can insured their property to the insurance company. In case‚ anything happen 2 their property‚ they will get compensation from insurance company. There are many types of property such as house‚ factory and many more. Secondly is takaful company also covered the types of vehicles such as car‚ van and so on. Nowadays‚ there are many of incidents happen
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increases‚ consumers tend to reduce their consumption commensurately. The Company ’s net revenues increased from $1.3 billion in fiscal 1998 to $1.7 billion in fiscal 1999‚ due primarily to the Company ’s store expansion program and comparable store sales increases. As part of its expansion strategy of clustering stores in existing markets‚ Starbucks has experienced a certain level of cannibalization of existing stores by new stores as store concentration has increased. However‚ management believes
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CHAPTER TWO EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS At the end of this chapter‚ the student should be able to: 1. Understand the processes for an environmentally conscious organization. 2. Know the importance of SWOT analysis in analyzing both external and internal environment. 3. Understand the different segments of the external environment known as the general environment. 4. To find out how the strength of the company’s competitive forces are congruent with the industry’s through the five-forces
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Opportunity First of all ‚ Cadbury should increase in market potential of developing counties. Especially expand into the emerging markets of Nigeria ‚China and Russia‚ based on their growing populations‚ increasing consumer wealth and increasing demand for confectionery products. So that It would be a potential market for Cadbury. Moreover ‚ based on their strong brand name ‚ Cadbury can try doing different types of businesses like innovatively doing Co-Brand Marketing with other brand industries
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The controlling function for McDonalds globalization is one of the many reasons why McDonalds has such great success. As of today‚ McDonalds is huge on globalization and they have locations in many countries. McDonalds executes the controlling function by investing and supporting initiatives to adapt their products to different locales to insure their global brand. McDonalds creates with many different ideas in order to fit all sorts of their customer’s needs and wants. They make adjustments constantly
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External environment External Factors (environment) - It is the external forces that are beyond the control of the individual business A number of external factors can affect business (STEEPLE analysis) - economy - These are factors outside the business - political/government policy that may affect its - social decisions. - External factors that - technological may present opportunities - ecological or threats to - legal a business - ethics Economy – business need to observe the economic
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What were the strengths and weaknesses of Sunshine’s current internal control system? “Internal control is broadly defined as a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of effectiveness and efficiency of operations‚ reliability of financial reporting and compliance with applicable laws and regulations”(COSO.org‚ 2012). Internal control can help an entity achieve its performance and profitability targets‚ and prevent loss of resources. The Committee of Sponsoring
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