To begin with‚ BCG is the acronym for Boston Consulting Group—a general management consulting firm highly respected in business strategy consulting. BCG Growth-Share Matrix (see figure 1) happens to be one of many of BCG’s strategic concepts the organisation developed in the late 1970s‚ and is being taught at leading business schools and executive education programmes around the world. It is a management tool that serves four distinct purposes (McDonald 2003; Kotler 2003; Cipher 2006): it can
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The company I chose to conduct my BCG Matrix on was Wal-Mart‚ because this company has become one of the largest and most successful companies within the United States. Wal-Mart started out as a small retail business in 1962 in Rogers‚ Arkansas by Sam Walton. Today Wal-Mart has more than 10‚000 stores in more than twenty eight different countries. In 2012 Wal-Mart gained revenue of $421‚849 million dollars‚ which was an increase of 3.4% from the previous year. (www.topics.nytimes.com>Business>Companies
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BCG MATRIX CASE STUDY OF NESTLE BCG Matrix(Boston consulting Group ) • In the late 1960s the Boston Consulting Group‚ a leading management consulting company‚ designed a four-cell matrix known as BCG Growth/Share Matrix. This tool was developed to aid companies in the measurement of all their company businesses according to relative market share and market growth. Conti… • The BCG Matrix made a significant contribution to strategic management and continues to be an important strategic
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Responses 3 3.1 Macro-environmental and Micro-environmental Changes 3 3.2 Responses 4 3.3 Analysis of Responses 4 4. Evaluation of Marketing Strategies 4 5. Summery and Recommendation 5 6. Appendix: 7 7. Reference 9 Marketing Analysis of easyJet 1.Introduction With the demand on transportation and advancements on technologies‚ airline industry became one of the fastest developing industries on the world. These developments‚ high leveled competitive
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The As an airline company it offers just seats in the plane and for extra administrations clients need to pay. The provision of other services has to be paid separately. The main goal of EasyJet founder needed to offer chance to go for everybody everywhere throughout the Europe at the cheap cost so he discovered EasyJet as minimal effort aircraft organisation. The aim of EasyJet founders was focused with two planes however through brief period
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Pestle analysis of Easyjet Political Factors Political factors reflect the political stability of the region where Easyjet is operating. OPPORTUNITIES Government grants permission to purchase new Aircrafts. Government guidance and assistance available to travel and tourism businesses. European Countries Collaboration and good relationship making EU politically stable. This stability is a significant advantage for the growth of Easyjet THREATS Airlines which fail to comply with strict
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3 law cost airlines as a result a number of people flying more and more today and this industry will grow. This industry should be good for investment. Profitability Total revenue in 2011 was £3.452 million and grew by 16.8% in compare to 2010. This was achieved despite a significant increase in passenger taxes and economic instability around the world. This is a very healthy figure which might grow within the next years as a result of more and more people flying by budget airlines and positive
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easyJet Business Model Analysis BMAN72801 EasyJet’s Business Model Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary................................................................................................................................. 1 1. The Business Model of EasyJet ........................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Theory ............................................................................................
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The BCG Growth-Share Matrix The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a portfolio planning model developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consulting Group in the early 1970’s. It is based on the observation that a company’s business units can be classified into four categories based on combinations of market growth and market share relative to the largest competitor‚ hence the name "growth-share". The growth-share matrix thus maps the business unit positions within these two important determinants of profitability
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As mentioned before‚ Europe has around three thousand short-haul airlines meaning that the competition of easyJet can be very wide. Although‚ the main threat in terms of competition for easyJet is the low-cost Irish company named Ryanair. This company bases its competitive strategy in “cost leadership” approach (supply same service at lower cost) and is double the size of easyJet in terms of profit. It covers the main destinations of Europe offering around 27 different countries and main cities in
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