History of The Body Shop International In the early to mid 90’s‚ the revenue growth for The Body Shop was at least 20% each year. The Body Shop was able to grow at a fast pace early in the decade because of the lack of competition. Over the course of the decade‚ competition grew fierce‚ and‚ by the end of the decade‚ revenue growth fell to 8%. Another reason for the slow growth in the late 90’s was the over expansion in the previous years. The Body Shop was in almost every mall in America (and
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Michael Porter’s Generic Strategies According to Porter‚ strategies allow organizations to gain competitive advantage from three different bases: cost leadership‚ differentiation and focus. Porter calls these bases as generic strategies. Cost leadership emphasizes producing standardized products at a very low per unit cost for consumers who are price sensitive. Differentiation is a strategy aimed at producing products and services considered unique industry wide and directed at customers who are
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Management and The Body Shop In this paper I will be taking a look at basic management functions. The approaches‚ and the synthesis of two views of management. I will attempt to take an overview of culture and its effect on a company. In today’s changing global environments many companies have joined the open trade policies‚ and existing foreign opportunities available to growing companies with positive views and socially responsible attitudes. It all sounds like a lot to cover in a short essay
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THE BODY SHOP: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR SUSTAINED GREENWASHING? Suatu bisnis awalnya hanya bersaing secara kompetitif dengan strategi yang unik‚ yaitu product leadership‚ operational excellence‚ dan customer intimacy (Treacy dan Wiersema dalam Niven‚ 2006). Namun‚ tampaknya hal tersebut menjadi monoton dan perlu terobosan baru dalam berbisnis. Salah satu terobosan dalam bisnis yang mampu memperketat persaingan tersebut adalah social responsibility. Social responsibility dikemukakan oleh Friedman
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The Body Shop International PLC Watersmead Littlehampton West Sussex BN17 6LS‚ United Kingdom Phone: +44-1903-731-500 Fax: +44-1903-726-250 Primary US Office: Subscribers Only http://www.the-body-shop.com Hoover’s coverage by Alex Biesada Overview Promoting beauty in the customer’s eye instead of the beholder’s‚ The Body Shop International sells skin and hair care products so natural they sound edible (Peppermint Foot Lotion‚ Banana Shampoo). The company combines activism with marketing
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Porter’s generic strategies framework constitutes a major contribution to the development of the strategic management literature. Generic strategies were first presented in two books by Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School (Porter‚ 1980‚ 1985). Porter (1980‚ 1985) suggested that some of the most basic choices faced by companies are essentially the scope of the markets that the company would serve and how the company would compete in the selected markets. Competitive strategies focus
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Michael Porter has described a category scheme consisting of three general types of strategies that are commonly used by businesses to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. These three generic strategies are defined along two dimensions: strategic scope and strategic strength. Strategic scope is a demand-side dimension (Michael E. Porter was originally an engineer‚ then an economist before he specialized in strategy) and looks at the size and composition of the market you intend to target.
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THE BODY SHOP The Body Shop was founded in 1976 in Brighton (UK) by Anita Roddick.it now has now more than It changed the image of “Glamour and Beauty”. It brought about use of natural “exotic” products to cleanse and polish the skin & hair. Started new movements by refusing animal testing and being environmentally friendly “The business of business should not just be about money it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good‚ not private greed.” Anita Roddick. Core Values
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The Body Shop International In this case‚ the key is to understand and study the conditions and circumstances of how revenue grew by 13 percent and the decline in pretax profit of 21 percent in 2001. The underlying factor that caused this‚ would be the company’s lack of forecasting‚ which would be the usage of the financial modeling. The financial model gives a better forecast prior to the project as well as a good monitor during the project. For the forecast‚ we only had financial statements from
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The Five Generic Competitive Strategies By Jennifer Williams There are five generic business strategies that companies choose from when trying to successfully compete within their respective industries. This is the first choice a company must make‚ even before deciding an overall strategy. These generic business strategies include low-cost provider strategy‚ broad differentiation strategy‚ best-cost provider strategy; focused strategy based on low costs‚ and focused strategy based on
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