THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT OF VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Introduction The Virgin Atlantic Airways is a UK-based private international airline that started operation in 1982. Flying up to 20 destinations in North America‚ Asia and Africa‚ it is 51% owned by Virgin Group and 49% owned by Singapore Airlines (Wikipedia). It competes with other local and international airlines including British Airways‚ the biggest and leading in UK. In 2005‚ it posted $2.5B in sales and $40M net income
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Introduction With the foundation of Virgin Records in 1970‚ the first step was taken towards what is today Virgin Group‚ which in 2007 comprised 215 companies under its structure‚ in businesses as diverse as space travel‚ mobile telephony and fitness centers. Ever since the start‚ the image and culture of the Virgin Group have been so tightly linked to the personal image and personality of its founder‚ the high-profile entrepreneur and multimillionaire Sir Richard Branson‚ that it is
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A case study of Virgin Airlines Introduction Internationalization of the business nowadays apparently became a trend for the organizations to expand their market position and gain the competitive advantage among their contemporaries. The extent and nature of business activities are almost as diverse and comprehensive as the totality of the social and economic interest of a man. Various business activities acknowledged the opportunities that the internationalization may deliver. Through their
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Optimal CRM Implementation Strategies Seung Hyun Kim Department of Information Systems‚ National University of Singapore‚ Singapore 117417‚ kimsh@comp.nus.edu.sg Tridas Mukhopadhyay Tepper School of Business‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania 15213‚ tridas@cmu.edu A lthough companies have spent a great deal of money to adopt CRM (customer relationship management) technologies‚ many have not seen satisfactory returns on their CRM implementations. We study optimal CRM implementation
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VIRGIN’S GROUP CORPORATE STRATEGY DIVERSIFICATION 1. Introduction The Virgin Group is one of Britain’s biggest and successful empires in the 21st century. The company has successfully incorporated a great number of diverse industries under the Virgin brand. This includes travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ cosmetics‚ retail‚ and music businesses. Virgin has been able to dominate the British market and has therefore continued to rapidly expand into other regions such as the United
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Virgin Active is one of the largest health club businesses in the world‚ with over 170 clubs and more than 900‚000 members spread across the UK‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ Portugal and South Africa. Virgin Active is currently developing sites across Australia. The Virgin Active club located at 138 Bourke St‚ Melbourne officially opened in May 2009. Virgin Active opened its first Australian club in French’s Forest‚ Sydney in December 2008. Virgin Active offers convenient class times as well as fast classes for
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Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….... 3 2.1 Company Overview ……..………………………………………………… 3 2.2 Company Perspectives …………………….………………………………. 4 2.3 Virgin’s Business Model …………………………………………………... 4 2.4 Virgin’s Corporate Strategy …………………….………………………..... 5 3. Case Study Analysis: The House That Branson Built: Virgin’s Entry Into The New Millennium .………………………………………………………………………. 9 3.1 To what extent does Branson’s strategic thinking fit the generative reasoning
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Leading Turkish Airline Manages All Agency Activities Thanks to New CRM System Pegasus initially began using Microsoft Dynamics CRM to manage the activities of sales representatives. Thanks to its strong infrastructure‚ the company quickly expanded the area of Microsoft Dynamics use in order to manage all agency relationships and respond to unscheduled charter flight requests coming from different channels. Business Needs Pegasus is expanding its operations with each passing day‚ while investing
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SUPERBRANDS ANNUAL 2011 SuperbrandsDigital.com virgin.com VIRGIN Virgin Holidays achieved unprecedented success in 2010 with a record 13 trophies at the British Travel Awards including the Gold Award for Large Holiday Company of the Year. It was also voted Long Haul Operator of the Year at the Travel Trade Gazette Awards and topped the tourism category in the 2010 UK Customer Services Index. Virgin is known for applying its brand values across many sectors‚ making it arguably one of
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Virgin Australia Airline Report Report on external environment and management functions Taffy Ghozali‚ Hafizhah Chandra Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to examine Virgin Blue’s external environment followed by its impacts to the organization as well as how management functions could help overcome the external environment for the organization to compete properly in the domestic airline market. Virgin Australia is Australia’s second largest domestic airline‚ commenced in
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