Case Study: Sara Lee 1. What is Sara Lee’s corporate strategy? How has its retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup? - new CEO wanted to transform Sara Lee into a more profitable company - a part of new strategy is the elimination of eight branded apparel business because of poor economic performance and decreasing sales this leads to concentration of its financial and managerial resources into smaller and better positioned business segments. goal: reaching of economies
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1. What is Sara Lee’s corporate strategy? How has its retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup? Sara lee’s corporate strategy was implementing acquisition strategies. The retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup from a small wholesale distributor to acquiring retail food business. The business also acquired related and unrelated business. Sara lee corporations was able to transform it into a more tightly focused food‚ beverage and household products
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Sara Lee Corporation (research report) Sara Lee Corporation (SLE) is a global manufacturer and marketer of consumer goods like food and beverages‚ branded apparel‚ and household products. The company primarily operates in North America‚ Europe and Asia-pacific regions. It is headquartered in Illinois‚ the US and employs about 138‚000 people. The company traces its lineage to 1939‚ when Nathan Cummings acquired C.D. Kenny Company‚ a wholesale distributor of sugar‚ coffee and tea in Baltimore
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manage the company’s broadly diversified and geographically scattered operations. With the retrenchment strategy‚ Sara Lee Corporation is able to transform it into a more tightly focused food‚ beverage‚ and household products company. Management believed concentrating its financial and managerial resources on a smaller number of business segments in which market prospects were promising and Sara Lee’s brands were well positioned would help the company save cost and more profitable. The company had also
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Brand Management Sara Lee: The Unno Launch 1. What were Grupo Sans’ brands and what brand identity did they have? Grupo Sans‚ a leader in Spanish underwear market in 1970s and 1980s‚ was founded in 1960 in Mataró. Becoming a part of Sara Lee Corporation‚ the multinational company with the biggest at that time textile division in the world‚ in 1991‚ contributed to the growth and development of the company‚ and has led to the fact that 9 years later(in 2000) Grupo Sans’ income accounted for
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Case 16- Sara Lee Corp. in 2011: Has Its Retrenchment Strategy Benefited Shareholders?‚ Page C243 1. What is Sara Lee’s corporate strategy? How has its retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup? Sara lee’s corporate strategy was implementing acquisition strategies. The retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup from a small wholesale distributor to acquiring retail food business. The business also acquired related and unrelated business. Sara lee corporations
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through Sara Lee’s business portfolio‚ there were multiple options for different industries that were attractive. The industries that stood out as the best opportunities were the retail industry‚ the food-service industry‚ and the beverage industries. All of these would be viable options for Sara Lee Corp to pursue. One thing that Sara Lee has on their side is the fact that they have already created a brand image in North America that represents quality products and services. Although Sara Lee is known
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Sara Lee Corp Sara Lee operates as a global manufacturer and marketer of brand-name packaged foods and household products. Their products are distributed in grocery stores‚ drug stores‚ and food-service outlets. In February 2005‚ the firm embarked on mission to centralize and streamline its organization. Several less profitable business segments and brands were divested. Although Sara Lee owns well-known brands such as Sara Lee‚ Hillshire Farms‚ and Jimmy Dean‚ its products are segmented‚ making
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CASE PRESENTATION 1 APPLE 1. What are the chief elements of Apple’s overall competitive strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? 2. What are the key elements of Apple’s strategy in computers‚ personal media players‚ and smartphones? Have its strategies in its core businesses yielded success? Explain. 3. What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple’s computer business‚ as compared to the leaders in the personal computer industry? Use the
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Corporate Strategy Case Questions: #11 Sara Lee Corp 20 points; due Thursday‚ March 7‚ 2013 Sara Lee Corporation uses primarily a related diversification strategy. Note that questions 5 and 6 will be discussion only; no written answers required. 1. (Yair) Prepare a weighted industry attractiveness assessment similar to Table 8.1 on page 169. See Table 1 below as a template. Based on your table‚ what are your conclusions regarding the industries Sara Lee has chosen? For use with Question
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