1. Abstract IKEA is a furniture company founded by a Swedish billionaire - Ingvar Kamprad‚ who is a successful leader and a living legend of IKEA. He made a great contribution to the innovation and successes of IKEA as well as keeping it grow strongly: Just in 10 years‚ sales of IKEA tripled from over $ 4 billion in 1993 to more than $ 12 billion in 2003. Starting a new career with IKEA by small business in the village Agunnaryd Elmtary - where Kamprad lived‚ but finally he turned to selling
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Introduction IKEA states in their business idea: "We shall offer a wide range of home furnishing items of good design and function‚ at prices so low‚ that the majority of people can afford to buy them"(IKEA 2005). IKEA manage to keep costs low by their superior relationship with their suppliers were they buy low-cost components in huge quantities. Together with efficient warehousing and customer selling service it passes on to customers resulting in lower prices‚ anywhere from 25 - 50 % lower than
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IKEA Strategic Management Report Executive summary This report provides an analysis‚ evaluation and recommendation on the strategic management of IKEA. Methods evaluating and analysis includes SWOT analysis‚ Pestle Analysis‚ Porters five forces and finally internal environment analysis. This report will show findings on the internal and external forces of the company and then illustrate on how the company deals and curb with these factors and gains
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by Ingvar Kamprad Turn over : 21‚5 billion €uros (+1‚4% in 2008) 16‚3% market share in France Staff : 128.000 persons 267 stores in 25 countries Visitors in stores: 590 millions 561 millions/year visitors on the website Ikea.fr Graphs PESTEL IKEA Economical factors Better purchasing power of emerging countries Pricing different according to the country Low price strategy in general Technological & Legal Technological factors Creation and innovation of new products Better stock management
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consumers strategy cannot help IKEA achieve that aim. The reasons are that Scandinavian design and style is just a niche‚ that the market segmentation is narrow and that the target consumers are also just a small portion of the mass furniture buyers. These 3 aspects cannot help IKEA appeal broader consumers. So we need to reevaluate and redesign the three aspects. We can introduce more popular product and style‚ increase target market size and consumers size to help IKEA realize its aim. IKEA’s
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cheap. Above all else‚ one factor accounts for IKEA’s success: good quality at a low price. IKEA sells household items that are cheap but not cheapo‚ at prices that typically run 30 to 50 percent below the competition’s. While the price of other companies’ products tends to rise over time‚ IKEA says it has reduced its retail prices by a total of about 20 percent during the past four years. At IKEA the process of driving down costs starts the moment a new item is conceived and continues relentlessly
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ESC Rennes school of business Supply chain management of IKEA IKEA Table of content Executive summary 2 IKEA supply chain and background 2‚ 3 Strategy and market 4 Process structure in terms
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effectively. IKEA mostly based on Scandinavian design and quality. IKEA target young low to middle class consumers with its competitive advantage such as low cost. When expanding to the United States market‚ IKEA ran into a few problems by using this formula because of the different tastes in furniture‚ cultural change‚ and more competition. Therefore‚ IKEA had to adopt some activities to fit American consumer behavior. For example‚ as American consumers do not enjoy the long queue‚ IKEA offers delivery
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identified that IKEA has been usingVERTICAL INTEGRATION to the Global furniture industry. Managers use corporate levelstrategy in VERTICAL INTEGRATION to identify which industries their company shouldcompete in to maximize its long run profitability. There are two types of vertical integration:1. Forward vertical integration 2. Backward vertical integration. So far we found that IKEA using backward vertical integration to expand their business and to make profit. Here are some benefits of IKEA to have vertical
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1. Develop a profile of the typical IKEA customer. To what extent does the profile vary across countries? IKEA customers’ profiles are typically relative to their domestic markets as their perceptions can be more or less easily matched with their expectations. IKEA targets customers who are willing to assemble furniture themselves‚ self-servicing while looking at the furniture‚ and willing to deliver furniture home by themselves. The majority of the customers like to perceive themselves as either
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