History of Virgin Virgin Trains was born on 29th of November 1996 when it was awarded the Cross Country franchise following the privatisation of British Rail‚ the franchise will last until April 2012. Along with the Cross Country line‚ Virgin also won the West Coast franchise and took control on the 9th of March 1997‚ this franchise will end in March 2012. The West Coast line was the last but one of the franchises to be handed over to the private sector‚ all of which had been completed in less
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BA Honours: Tourism and Business Management Virgin Trains Lecturer Name: BIRTE SCHMITZ Student Name: Ana Maria Do Amaral Zacarias ID: 20272212 Year: 3 Virgin Trains Introduction Strategic Management involves looking at ground realities and formulating an approach that can achieve desired results in the context of these realities. It follows that strategy will differ from context to context. Readymade strategies rarely work‚ and‚ this is the main problem with strategy development; businesses
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: - “Virgin is about doing things that really work‚ not just looking the parts. We are passionate about running our businesses as well as we can‚ which means treating our customers with respects‚ giving them good value and high quality and making the whole process as much fun as it can be.”—Richard Branson‚ Chairman History - Virgin Group is diversified grouping of more than 200 privately held companies. It included Virgin Atlantic Airways‚ Virgin Holidays‚ Virgin Rail‚ Virgin Retail
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DEFINITION BCG MATRIX Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix is defined by the following authors as follows: Table 1 Definition of BCG Matrix Pearce (2013) David (2012) BCG Matrix is an approach pioneered by the Boston Consulting Group that attempted to help managers “balance” the flow of cash resources among their various businesses while also identifying their basic strategic purpose within the overall portfolio. It is also known as “portfolio techniques”. BCG Matrix graphically portrays
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The BCG Matrix is a method used by businesses to identify market growth and market shares for organizations. It was developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consultant’s Group in the early 1970s. To establish long term value creation‚ a company should have a portfolio of products that contain both high growth products in need of cash inputs and low growth products that generate a lot of cash and use this information to improve it. The basic idea behind it is that the bigger the market share a product
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Placing products in the BCG matrix results in 4 categories in a portfolio of a company: BCG STARS (high growth‚ high market share) - Stars are defined by having high market share in a growing market. - Stars are the leaders in the business but still need a lot of support for promotion a placement. - If market share is kept‚ Stars are likely to grow into cash cows. BCG QUESTION MARKS (high growth‚ low market share) - These products are in growing markets but have low market share. - Question
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Boston Consultancy Group (BCG Matrix) This product portfolio matrix classifies product lines into four categories. The BCG models suggests that organisations should have a healthy balance of products within their range. The Boston Consultancy Group classified these products as following: Dogs These are products which have low market shares and low market growth rates. The options for many companies is to phase these products out‚ however some organisation do go for the strategy of
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LEVIS SWOT ANALYSIS SWOT analysis empowers firms to identify elements that need to be taken into account when developing marketing and corporate strategy. Strengths and Weaknesses are in-house factors that are controllable by the organization. Opportunities & threats are outside factors‚ which are uncontrollable by the organization. According to Kotler and Armstrong‚ SWOT analysis involves a distillation of the findings of an internal and external inspection that lures attention‚ from a strategic
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BCG Analysis In term of Boston Consulting Group‚ there are four types of business. According to the research‚ it shows that Poh Huat Resources Holding is exists as a question mark in BCG matrix. Question marks represent business units having low relative market share and located in a high growth industry. Hence‚ Poh Huat Resources Holding should invest huge amount of cash to maintain or gain market share. If successes in gaining a huge market share‚ then Poh Huat Resources Holding has potential
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A STUDY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF BCG MATRIX FOR NESTLE INDIA Tarun Jain1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Objectives Research Methodology Introduction Studying the construction of BCG matrix for Nestle Conclusion Suggestions Limitations Bibliography Annexure – I (The BCG Matrix explained) Annexure – II (List of Nestle Products worldwide) Annexure – III (List of Nestle Products offered in India) Annexure – IV (List of provisional stores surveyed for the study) 1 For details‚ visit http://ssrn
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