companies such as Samsung‚ LG Electronics and SonyEricsson are rushing to introduce strategic handsets‚ aiming to win a larger chunk in the market. In the fiery competition space‚ LG Electronics has introduced its first black-label (premium label) mobile phone which called ¡§Chocolate¡¨ for the competition‚ and tried to use its new marketing strategy for spreading into a new market place that no one has took up before. This report first of all will start from over viewing LG Company and its strategy
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August 17‚ 2007 Kannan Ramaswamy LG Electronics: Global Strategy in Emerging Markets Mr. Nam Woo‚ President of LG Electronics (LG)‚ was collecting his thoughts after the press conference in Beijing. He had been appointed as the President of LG Electronics in China in 2006 and was unveiling an ambitious agenda to accelerate LG’s presence in the country. He reflected on the emergence of South Korea as a major hub in the consumer electronics business and the role that LG had played in the rapid transformation
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LG: From Underdog to Icon LG Electronics started its journey when the two low scale Korean electronics companies Lucky and Goldstar joined forces in 1990 and became LG (Lucky Goldstar). Since then the transformation from ultra-cheap Lucky Goldstar to the LG brand that it is today has been nothing short of a remarkable journey. In 1995‚ Lucky Goldstar purchased the last remaining American-based TV manufacturer‚ Zenith Electronics. That acquisition provided the impetus for the plan to upgrade the
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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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LG Google TV LG Google TV Executive summary: When we chose the LG Google TV we had in mind that this product is a succssesful product which satisfied peoples’ needs ‚ and would be a great choice for making a marketing plan. In this marketing plan‚ we will discuss the following: * Company Background. * The challenge that LG Company went through to have this product. * Companies SOWT analysis (Strengths ‚ opportunities ‚ weaknesses and threats) * Company Background: “life’s
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LG paper LG is a multinational electronic company that is South Korean. The headquarters is located in Yeouido-dong Seoul. This company is broken up into 5 divisions; home entertainment‚ home appliances‚ air conditioning‚ and energy solutions. LG was established in 1958 as a company called “Gold star”‚ which eventually merged with a company “Lucky”‚ creating “lucky Gold star” not “Life’s Good” which is the slogan. “Lucky” was the home appliance side and “Gold star” was the electronics side
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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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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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POSITIONING The diagram above shows that LG’s positioning depends on three relationships which are: I) The relationship between LG and the customers. II) The relationship between the customers and LG’s competitors and III) The relationship between LG and competitors Both LG and its competitors try to convince customers on why (price‚ quality‚ fit for purpose‚ track record‚ novelty‚ etc) they should buy their respective products and not the other. This persuasions and the customers experience
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construct a BCG model for a company having multiple business org. and discuss the following strategies with example: 1) Market penetration 2) Market development 3) Product development 4) diversification ii : discuss related diversification and unrelated diversification. Here we construct BCG model for Unilever brand. Company’s mission: “we meet everyday needs for nutrition‚hygine and personal care with brands that help people feel good‚look good and get more out of life.” What is BCG model? The
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