Diversification Strategies YourFirstName YourLastName University title Introduction When Kelleher Herb and King Rollin founded Southwest Airlines in 1971‚ they wanted to offer airline services which were low-cost‚ in busy markets of not more than 500 miles. The first flights were between Houston‚ Dallas and San Antonio. Today Southwest is one of the largest airlines in United States for its local passenger miles flown. Southwest has executed business models in an effective manner
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Chapter 8: Diversification: Strategies for Managing a Group of Businesses Diversification and Corporate Strategy A company is diversified when it is in two or more lines of business that operate in diverse market environments Strategy-making in a diversified company is a bigger picture exercise than crafting a strategy for a single line-of-business A diversified company needs a multi-industry‚ multi-business strategy A strategic action plan must be developed Screen graphics
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Arcelik: International Aspirations of an Emerging Market Firm Arcelik‚ a Turkish appliance manufacturer controlled by Turkey’s largest conglomerate company named Kroc Group. From the beginning‚ Arcelik products more than half of Turkey’s appliances‚ including air conditioners‚ dishwashers machines‚ cooking appliances‚ and refrigerators. But since trade barriers declined in 1980s and 1990s‚ many competitors such as BSH‚ Haier‚ General Electronic‚ Whirlpool‚ and Electrolux were threatening Arcelik’s
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Unilever was founded on soap and margarine - both products essentially sharing the same raw materials with diversification into other business areas starting in the midfifties. The second phase started in the mid-fifties when rapid growth in the Western world resulted in increased competition and lower margins in the company’s traditional categories. Unilever’s strategy was an active diversification programme through acquisition. The vigour with which this was pursued‚ while successfully introducing
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INTRODUCTION The growth and survival of most international companies lie in their ability to operate within a marketplace that allows free movement and competition of labour‚ capital‚ technology and the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. For a company to be successful it got to win in every corner of the world as proposed by Jeffrey Immelt the head of GE hence agreeing with Mr Mills to have a boundary-less way of thinking. Governments are aware that companies would like to produce where
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affecting Airline companies and safety is the first thing customers will consider. Since the ticket of Airline are usually expensive‚ customers would not give their money to the firms they do not trust. Secondly‚ this industry needs planes and experience of flying which also lowers the threat of new entrants. If a new firm plan to enter this industry‚ they need to firstly become licensed which may take more than one year‚ and after that they will be constantly being regulated by different organizations
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to high level of diversification in the motorcycle industry. The corporation owns and operates in many countries world wide‚ and has plans to enter more when the time is right. Harley-Davidson‚ Inc. has brought many jobs to local areas and made many joint ventures and projects to help the community and the company. The company has been looking at what did and still does make them the number one seller of motorcycles in the United States and World wide. Diversification Harley-Davidson
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this book. Other reference materials will be added if necessary. Useful Websites: USA accounting standards (FASB): www.fasb.org Hong Kong accounting standards (HKICPA): www.hkicpa.org.hk International accounting standards (IASB): www.iasb.org.uk (IAS Plus): www.iasplus.com Objectives: 1. To orient students to what accounting is and why accounting matters. 2. To provide
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Diversification plans for Just Sleeping Inn Related Diversification In an effort to create a competitive advantage over other hotel chains‚ and give our customers greater service‚ Just sleeping Inn will expand our hotel chain to include a car rental service at all of our locations. Through several years of surveying customers and other demographics we have found that offering rental car service at the hotel instead of at the airport would greatly increase the satisfaction of our customers
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DIVERSIFICATION The Virgin Group covers a wide range of industries But keeping the brand name in all of them is not a good strategy. This is because the brand Virgin originally stood for a particular set of products/services with its own brand image. But when it affixed it to every possible product/service that wasn’t necessarily related to the original product/service‚ it lost its value. The brand lost its brand image that it cannot deliver one particular message to its consumers as the products/services
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