In current competitive business environment any company’s organisational goal is affected by company’s strategy planning and implementation. Strategic planning helps to develop internal and external future direction of the business and to define the needs to be anticipated and adapted to change with the external competitive market environment. It is related with marketing strategy, production and operations strategy, finance and other business objectives. A weak strategic marketing planning could create wastage of resources and miss the opportunities. Effective strategy is able to correlate the different operations within the organisation in order to reach a common goal.
Graeme Drummond, John Ensor, Ruth Ashford (2008) Strategic Marketing: Planning and Control (3rd edition)
Task1: Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots the chosen company for this essay is a leading global pharmacy-led health and beauty group which offering a vast range of products and services to its customers. In Goose Gate, Nottingham Boots opens the first store in 1849, selling herbal remedies.
Reason selection and its corporate strategy:
Alliance Boots have a strong planned governance of the organization, and the strategic marketing planning towards the pharmacy-led health & beauty deal and pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution market. Alliance Boots operates in highly good-looking markets with possible for important long term growth.
Through its every day’s action in addition to operation, it is team play, a significant role in contributing to the largely development of healthcare in the communities they serve. Alliance Boots works within such a unique sector, helping millions of consumers and patients look and feel their best.
The merger among Alliance UniChem and Boots Group has created an worldwide pharmacy-led health and beauty organization. The health and beauty group comprises 3,000 vend outlets, of which about 2,700 have a pharmacy. Also, there is a
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