Brittani Edwards April 6‚ 2011 MKG 631 Black and Decker Case Study Cause of B&D’s 9% share in the Tradesman segment; In the 1990’s Black and Decker had a great position in the market for their products to appeal to the Professional Industrial segment and the Consumer segment but when it came to the Professional Tradesmen segment they were lacking. Their 9% market share vs. Makita’s 50% market share in the tradesmen segment was incomparable. Makita clearly had a better product in the
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Despite maintaining a very strong brand name and being #1 in the Consumer & Industrial segments of the power tools market‚ Black & Decker (B&D) was being significantly outsold by Makita Electric of Japan‚ who had taken over the Tradesmen segment with 80% market share in cordless drills and 50% overall share in this segment. Tradesmen appeared to perceive the B&D brand as a household product unworthy of their usage given B&D’s success in the Consumer segment and Makita’s dominance
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Case Overview and Thought Questions > MKTG 534-301 – Fall 2012 – Exec MBA Program Integrated Market Communications and Brand Management Dr. Ralph Oliva Note: Cases will be discussed in class – Please be sure to read all of them. Questions below will help in thinking through the implications of each case‚ and in preparing “Case Insights.” Each team should turn in at least 4 Case Insights – if more are submitted‚ the best 4 grades will be selected as part of your final grade (40%)
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be used as a building block to promote Grunewald’s plan for creating a global lock business. It would also help to improve market knowledge along the dimensions of completion‚ consumer segments and product requirements. Another factor is that Black & Decker would now have a worldwide distribution system. the factors that stand in the way would be problems in loosing key managers‚ simplifying production design and engineering and overcoming regional differences. 2. What are the organizational
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The Black & Decker Corporation. Mission Statement Black & Decker is the worlds leading manufacturer and marketer of many consumer and industrial products. Black & Decker is committed in offering always the most innovative‚ high quality and technologically advanced products and is recognised worldwide for its reputation and excellence. Apart from its commitment to the customers the company had devoted much effort for the satisfaction and good relation with its stockholders‚ suppliers
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I. Background and Problem Identification Black and Decker (B&D) was founded in 1910 by Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker. By 1917‚ B&D had world’s first patent in portable power drills. Since then‚ B&D has been the world’s largest producer of power tools and power tools accessories. The power tools market in 1990 in the US mainly comprised of three segments-Professional Industrial Tools (PI)‚ Professional-Tradesmen (PT) Tools and Consumer tools. B&D was a market leader in America power
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Running head: BLACK & DECKER BLACK & DECKER Marketing MBA 504 Introduction Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker‚ SR.‚ in 1910‚ started a machine shop business and in 1917 receiving the world’s first patent for a power drill. The company was later named Black & Decker‚ (B&D) and over the next 73 years they became one of the most well known brands and market leaders of power tools‚ accessories‚ lawn‚ garden supplies and residential security hardware worldwide. In
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Stanley Black & Decker‚ Inc. February 7‚ 2013 Introduction From the start‚ the merger announced November 2‚ 2009‚ looked good on paper. Stanley Works agreed to buy Black & Decker for stock valued at a 22 percent premium in exchange with $3.6 billion in its stock. That was justified because Stanley got management and board control‚ and its shareholders were to own more than half of the stock‚ with the 50.5% of the stock in the combined company. This case not only explores shareholder
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What they didn’t mention was that you can fill the bowl up with liquid and there won’t be anything leaking out of the center shaft. Another incredible assest to owning an Oster Total Prep Food Processor is that there is no hole! Other brands such as the Black & Decker FP1600B tends to leak if you fill it to close to the suggested fill markings. A friend of mine owns a Delonghi 9-Cup Food Processor. She paid tens times the amount of my Oster and the darn thing doesn’t even shred cheese. Mine does
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1. FINDINGS Black and Decker’s DeWalt line has been so successful in the USA that it is now the standard for both the Professional-Industrial and the Professional-Tradesman market segments. Nolan Archibald‚ Chairman‚ President and CEO of Black and Decker (B&D) saw the potential in 1994 to increase the companies market share through worldwide sales of B&D products. While the company had a definite presence in the European Consumer Power Tools market segment‚ it lacked penetration in the Professional
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