EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this analysis is to maximize profit of Giant Motor Company which has 3 lines of products and offers 3 brands of cars namely Lyra‚ Libra and Hydra which corresponds to subcompact car class‚ sporty car class‚ and luxury car class respectively. Currently the company has 3 manufacturing plants and each of them is dedicated to a specific product line. For future planning‚ the company has an option of retooling its manufacturing capacity which would bring a major expense
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-problems faced by Tata to build world’s cheapest car: =battle sky rocketing costs =huge engineering hurdles =bad press (car caught fire). Some of the early nanos caught fire on the streets. Local and intl experts were brought in to investigate the problem but nothing was found wrong with the design of the car. In response the nano design team of the car decided to take further safety measures in order to make a more robust nano. Additional protection was provided on exhaust system. In electrical
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TATA MOTORS & JLR- THE SUCCESSFUL TURNAROUND The story of IBM was always considered to be the greatest turnaround stories of all times but wait‚ have you heard how an Indian MNC Tata has turned it around for itself through its acquisition and revival of the global luxury brand ‚ Jaguar-Land Rover(JLR). In the past few years‚ Tata motors have gone from a sheen losing family business to a global profitable brand. In April 2012 share price of Tata motors surged 90 % (6 months data) when the BSE rose
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ USA‚ Inc Case Analysis * Main and sub ideas of the case. The main topic of the case was the problems caused by defective or damaged seats. TMM USA’s seat problem was threefold. The first was the actual defects with the hooks and the damaged caused by cross threading by employees when installing the seats. This problem led to the second problem‚ which was the departure from the Toyota Production System (TPS) when dealing with the seat problem. Rather than fix the problem
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Strategist: Sir Ratan Tata When Ratan Tata became Group Chairman in 1991 he ushered an era of change. According to him “A company or business that remains static will die. A company that constantly changes and accepts that there are better ways to do things than they are done today is a company that will survive in the global market that we face.” He is admired not only for managing the Tata Empire but creating history by making Tata group an MNC by acquiring steel companies like Chorus
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STRATEGY MAP- Meru Cabs: A spectacular growth story About Meru Cabs: Meru Cabs‚ operating in four metros of the country has popularised and boosted the concept of radio cabs. "Today almost 70 per cent of our passengers say that they travel by ’Meru’ instead of calling it a ’taxi’ and this is what has been our focus.” – Gavin Dabreo‚ VP-Sales & Marketing‚ Meru Cabs Meru now runs a fleet of 5‚000 taxis in Mumbai‚ Bangalore‚ Hyderabad and Delhi and has 700 employees. The company has a top line
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computer was launched in 2003 by Quasar. The Neutron is the result of revolutionary efforts by the company. The product processor and memory uses high-speed optical conductors that are five times the speed of existing microchip based companies. The Tata simulator exercise is an aid to decide which industry structure Quasar should use to increase profits‚ create competitive advantage and explores implications of each on business ventures. Market Scenario According to Grant (1991)‚ a corporation’s
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an average rate of 17%. Currently contributing to around 5% of the GDP‚ this is expected to rise to 10% of GDP. TATA NANO: Overview TATA Nano is the cheapest car in the world. It is manufactured by TATA Motor Limited‚ the largest automobile company in India. Its chairman‚ Mr. Ratan Tata envisions that Tata Nano to become a “People’s car” which is affordable by almost everybody. Tata Nano is manufactured totally in India. Its assembled in its two factories atPantnagar and at Uttarakhand and also
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The company’s strategy is a set of answers tо the questіоns "how". These questіоns are оwn fоr each cоmpany and depend оn іts sіtuatіоn and goals. Іn any kind оf business market cоndіtіоns allоw even the clоsest cоmpetіtоrs tо avоіd strategіes-twіns: sоme chооse the path оf cоst reductіоn‚ оther - dіfferentіatіоn оf gооds оr servіces‚ thіrd - servіce market nіches оr satіsfactіоn оf narrоwly specіfіc custоmer needs. Sоme cоmpanіes cоmpete lоcally and regіоnally‚ оthers glоbally. There are many method
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India and the Tata Nano Project: A Comparison of Singur with Sanand By Devparna Roy Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing 6-8 April 2011 Organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of Peasant Studies and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium at the Institute of Development Studies‚ University of Sussex GUJARAT’S GAIN AND BENGAL’S LOSS? “DEVELOPMENT‚” LAND ACQUISITION IN INDIA AND THE TATA NANO PROJECT:
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