customers buying the Maruti & Honda cars Sales promotions are marketing strategies companies use chiefly to increase sales temporarily to gain sales volume and market share. They are occasionally used to clear out year-end inventory before new models arrive in showrooms as is often done in the automobile industry. Sales promotions are also used as a competitive strategy to undercut competition by offering a lower price or other incentive. Although sales promotions usually produce sales volume over and above
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Vertical integration is the process in which several steps in the production and/or distribution of a product or service are controlled by a single company or entity‚ in order to increase that company’s or entity’s power in the marketplace. Simply said‚ every single product that you can think of has a big life cycle. While you might recognize the product with the Brand name printed on it‚ many companies are involved in developing that product. These companies are necessarily not part of the brand
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characterized by a highly integrated vertical structure. In contrast to the model that has been adopted by competing international corporations‚ the Group handles all the processes required in the apparel industry—design‚ production‚ logistics‚ distribution to retail outlets—on its own. This model is based on a desire for structural flexibility and a belief that the customer should come first in every aspect of the company ’s operations. The main elements of this vertical structure can be seen in the retail
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Zara Case: Vertical integration and outsourcing 1. How is Zara organized with respect to its vertical integration and outsourcing decisions? What governance structure does it appear to follow? Support your conclusions with reference to details of the Zara case and the Ferdows reading. Answer: Very well organized to facilitate its strategic competency: speed and flexibility. Decentralized governance structure fully supports the company core competency. The above supply chain mapping
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How is Zara organized with respect to its vertical integration and outsourcing decisions? What governance structure does it appear to follow? Support your conclusions with reference to details of the Zara and the Ferdows reading. Zara manufactures and distributes its products in small batches. Zara is vertically integrated as the company manages all design‚ warehousing‚ distribution and logistic functions. Zara outsources sewing of garments to an outside supplier. Zara controls the product it
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with the idea of vertical farming. The idea of vertical farming is continually growing. According to Wikipedia online‚ the encyclopedic definition of vertical farming is a form of farming done in urban area high rises that utilize greenhouse growing methods and recycled resources year-round to grow crops. Using these Vertical Farms will allow the populations of the future to rely more on themselves and not depend on others so much. There are many beneficial advantages to vertical farming. (Wikipedia)
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4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 19.9 TRANSFER‚ PROMOTION AND REWARD POIJCIES Objectives Introduction Need for a Transfer Policy Types of Transfer Promotions and Promotion Policy Reward Policies and Processes Vehicles for Rewards Need for Continual Retraining on Transfers or Promotions Let Us Sum Up Clues to Answers ( 19.0 OBJECTIVES After going through this Unit you should be able to understand the: purpose of and reasons behind transfers and promotions‚ changes in organisational structure necessitating
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Sales Promotion campaign 1 Definition – Sales promotion includes incentive-offering and interest-creating activities which are generally short-term marketing events other than advertising‚ personal selling and publicity. The purpose of sales promotion is to stimulate‚ motivate and influence the purchase and other desired behavioral responses of the firm’s customers.” Definition 2 - A series of advertisements using various marketing tools that share the same message and ideas to promote a business or event to
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Vertical Value Chain The following companies form the raw materials suppliers to the service providers indicates and comprise the global industry value chain. This value chain table explains level of vertical integration by the firms. Some firms participate in only one or a few stage of the industry value chain‚ while others comprise many if not all states. Vertical Integration John Deere is highly vertically integrated because it participates in more than one industry value chain activity. John
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Vertical integration is a business growth strategy for economics of scale. It is typified by one firm engaged in different parts of production example; growing raw materials‚ manufacturing‚ transporting‚ marketing‚ and/or retailing to expand business in existing market for the firm. It can function in two directions both forward integration and backward integration. In Forward integration involves company to develop strategy to control the firm product distribution either through distribution centers
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