INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY OF PARENT COMPANY When a firm decides to go international with their business they must face many competitive decisions. Two of the most important decisions a company will face are the pressures for cost reduction and pressures for local responsiveness. The pressure of cost reduction forces a firm to lower their value of the cost of creation. Firms can outsource to places where costs of their products are much cheaper or they can mass-produce a standardized product
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Marketing Strategy Case Analysis – Apple Inc. Content Introduction -----------------------------------------------------------3 SWOT analysis -------------------------------------------------------4 Question 1 -------------------------------------------------------------6 Question 2 -------------------------------------------------------------7 Question 3 ------------------------------------------------------------10 Recommendation ---------------------------------------------------12
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I. Country Profile A. Background ❖ Bahamas The Bahamas‚ officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas‚ is a country consisting of more than 3‚000 islands‚ cays‚ and islets. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti)‚ northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands‚ and southeast of the United States (nearest to the state of Florida). Its land area is 13‚939 km2 (5‚382 sq mi)‚ with a population of 353‚658. Its capital
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APPLE DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGY Post Published: 17 January 2011 Author: Nellie Amirah Lim Found in section: MWS Articles We can describe Apple’s strategy in terms of product differentiation and strategic alliances Product Differentiation. Apple prides itself on its innovation. When reviewing the history of Apple‚ it is evident that this attitude permeated the company during its peaks of success. For instance‚ Apple pioneered the PDA market by introducing the Newton in 1993. Later‚ Apple introduced
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Chinese markets Flexibility Patience Persistence Most Emerging markets with a few unique twists Best way to enter the markets for companies Exporting to China: Advantages: Effective‚ especially for small and medium size companies can’t make any significant financial investments; they sell to China through local distributor or producer. Challenges: Sales person could become more rely on Chinese distributor Chinese distributor sells multiple products even the competing ones‚ hard to monitor
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Apple prices strategies. Introductory prices. This strategy means to set low prices that are used to gain entry into the market. It is usual used from startup companies and companies that want to enter in the new market. Establish a high reference price Behaviorial economist Richard Thaler has noted that consumers are really bad at making decisions about value and constantly need "reference prices" for comparison. A dress costs $80. Is that too much? Not if it’s marked down 50 percent from $160
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All foreign entry modes have advantages and disadvantages. Select a company and explain why it chose a particular entry mode among all the possible alternatives. Introduction Due to international market integration‚ over the last three decades there has been a dramatic change in the ever-expanding global market place. Leading scholars propose 3 main causes to explain this phenomenon; increased cross-border trade‚ multinational production‚ and international finance (Garret‚ 2000). This paper
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of $599 in the United States‚ the iPhone was one of the most anticipated electronic devices of the decade. Despite its high price‚ consumers across the country stood in long lines to buy the iPhone on the first day of sales. Just two months later‚ Apple discontinued the less-expensive $499 model and cut the price of the premium version from $599 to $399. Target Group A study conducted by Rubicon (2008) on iPhone users indicates that 50% of the surveyed users are age 30 or younger. Most of the
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CASE STUDY: APPLE Chapter 7: Pricing Contents A. Understanding Pricing 4 1. Internal and External Considerations Affecting Price Decisions 5 1.1. Internal factors 5 1.2. External Factors 9 2. Setting The Price 10 B. Introduction to Apple 13 1. Product 14 2. Promotion 15 3. Place 16 4. Price 17 C. IPHONE 19 1. Introduction to iPhone 19 1.1 Main Features 19 1.2 Market share 20 2. Pricing Strategy of Apple’s IPhone 21 2.1 High Reference Pricing 21 2
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Chapter 2: Analysis of marketing strategy 2.2 Pricing Strategy 2.2.1 Factor affecting pricing decisions (type of market) iPhone4s is a product from Apple which sells in oligopoly competition market. As we know‚ the characteristic for oligopoly competition market are product differentiation‚ few sellers but many buyers in the market‚ high barrier market entry and exit‚ price maker in the market and spend money in advertisement. It has a few of competitors‚ such as Samsung Galaxy S2 (RM2099)
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