ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE STUDY SWATCH AND THE GLOBAL WATCH INDUSTRY International Strategic Management 1st year master’s degree student: Inarkaeva Lamara Supervisor: Ekaterina Makhnovskaya Moscow 10.12.2014 Key strategic issue The Swatch Group is the world’s leading manufacturer of watches with 14 per cent share of the world market‚ which was the first Swiss company started to compete in a low price segment. In 1998 Swatch increased its net profit by 7.5 percent
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wrist watch 1983 Swatch is launched 1990 Worldwide demand exceeded supply ? people started to trade‚ sell‚ and speculate with Swatches US Swatch sales were faltering 1991 Partnership with Siemens to introduce cordless phone 1994 Formation of MCC 1998 Smart Car was launched Oct. SIT was launched ? hits on Swatch homepage was 13M/mo. II. CASE PROBLEM How can Swatch Internet Time become a tool for brand enhancement and brand awareness for The Swatch Group? III. ANALYSIS The Swatch Group Competitive Environment
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the general environment‚ the managers should be able to perform more roles and being more flexible (Penc‚ 2001 cited in CIEŚLIŃSKA‚ 2007). Swatch Group Ltd is a worldwide organisation active in watchmaking industry. It consists of 18 well-known watch brands such as Omega and Swatch and nearly all the watch components required by the brands supplied by the Group (Lorenceau‚ 2014). Besides‚ most of the third-party watchmakers of the world demand for its watch movements and components. Its headquartered
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BUSINESS DESCRIPTION The Swatch Group (known before as Scoit Suisse de Microlectronique i d’Horlogerie) is one of the largest producers of watches in the world. Recently the company was placed second just after Citizen Watch. Swatch group‚ with its subsidiaries‚ is involved in the production of not only watches‚ but also its components and chronological watch movements. Besides its own sub-companies‚ the group is also a supplier for many other watchmakers. It is a key player in the manufacture
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Swatch Group Case Analysis Eileen Weber June 14‚ 2012 Problem: The Swatch group is a family of Swiss made watches that include watches at four basic market segments; basic‚ middle‚ high‚ and luxury/prestige. While net sales have been steadily increasing since 2008‚ Swatch is having a problem with its Omega brand competing with Rolex. Rolex has continuously outsold Omega since 2006 and the problem is how to position the Omega brand to capture the market share that is currently dominated by Rolex
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SwissCorporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries headquartered in Biel‚ Switzerland‚ SMH became known as The Swatch Group Ltd. In 1998. The Swatch Group produces major’s brands of watches‚ from Luxury and private labels to basic watches. Each part of the group has its own organization‚ management‚ and own building sites thus making it decentralized. In the early 1970s‚ The Swatch Group was losing market shares to cheap Asian quartz watches in particular those made in Taiwan‚ China‚ and South Korea
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Case Analysis: The Swatch Summary: In 1978‚ when Dr. Ernst Thomke became managing director of ETA‚ the position of this Swiss flagship industry had changed dramatically. Especially with the presence of a strong competency (Japan and U.S). Macro-environment: (PESTEL Analysis) * Economic: Threat: The market share had fallen from 56% to a mere 20%. Opportunity: The production had grown from 61 million to 320 million pieces and movements annually. Opportunity: the decline of the dollar was
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Today we will present you the analysis of the case «The birth of swatch». First we willl give you the information about the background of the problem‚ then we will define the problem of the case and finally we will present you our recommendations. So‚ let’s start with the background. In the 1940s the Swiss dominated the watch industry in large part because of their centuries-long history of jewelry-making expertise. Watchmaking was a source of national pride‚ and the “Made in Switzerland” label
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Swatch case study "This watch is the product which will reintroduce Switzerland to the low and middle price market. It is the first step of our campaign to regain dominance of the world watch industry‚" said Dr. Ernst Thomke‚ President of ETA SA‚ a subsidiary of ASUAG and Switzerland ’s largest watch company. Ernst Thomke had made this confident declaration about SWATCH to Franz Sprecher‚ Project Marketing Consultant‚ in late spring 1981. Sprecher had accepted a consulting assignment to help
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The Birth of Swatch The continuous decline in demand for the prestigious watches made in Switzerland in the 1970s and early 1980s made the time period devastating for the Swiss watch industry. Before the decline‚ it was master of the watch market‚ shining with its high-end image. However‚ with the evolution of technology in watch making‚ the market began changing rapidly where low-end watches were becoming more accessible and evasive. Nicholas Hayek became the CEO of Societe Suisse de
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