STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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and recalls the company’s start as an aircraft engine manufacturer. It symbolizes a pilot’s view through a propeller as alternating white and blue segments. • Most successful multi-brand premium car manufacturer-BMW has three brands‚ BMW‚ MINI‚ and Rolls-Royce. They delivered 141‚952 BMW‚ MINI and Rolls-Royce automobiles in 2007 and sales increased by 7.4% from the previous year. • Super luxury Rolls Royce car-The Rolls-Royce phantom holds the number one position in the super-luxury car segment
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Module I: BMW Augusto Avendaño Global Strategies- IG 200 Professor Harold Wilson January 30th‚ 2014. History 1916 BMW or Bayerische Motoren Werke as it is known in German‚ starts building engines and planes (BMW Group‚ n.d.). 1928 With the acquisition of Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach‚ BMW starts building its first cars (BMW Group‚ n.d.). 1939 At the outbreak of the SWW‚ BMW is classified as an armaments manufacturer and therefore given priority in the allocation of resources. It devotes
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WIntroduction BMW Group manufactures products under three brands: BMW‚ MINI and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. As a worldwide organisation‚ BMW Group has a long and established heritage of manufacturing premium products. This section offers an overview of the Company. BMW Group headquarters is located in Munich at D-80778‚ Munich‚ Germany . In 1973‚ the Viennese architect Karl Schwanzer revealed his design for BMW Group’s head office the ’Four-Cylinder’. The building located next to Munich’s Olympic
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Competitors Heineken: this is Modelo’s main rival in the international market. Heineken markets its beer as a premium import – old and respected recipe for taste – “high quality product.” It is very controlling over its marketing and advertising strategies‚ however‚ campaigns weren’t getting to local customers. Thus‚ fail to increase the market share for quite some time. Heineken is the only dominant importer that has local brewery. It owns and operates its distributors. FEMSA: this is Modelo’s
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HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR LUXURY GOODS Once a company decides to expand in emerging international markets‚ it faces a stream of decision making sequences and marketing strategies. The criteria to select entry market exclusively depends on country infrastructure‚ political risk‚ market access and potential‚ shipping considerations‚ foreign exchange‚ service requirements‚ timing‚ product fit and factor cost‚ conditions etc. Type A company: Identifying a country Since
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BMW Competitive Analysis The automobile industry is the most interesting and complex business sectors in the global framework for analysis. The Japanese cars are now supplemented by luxury models‚ such as Lexus Infinity and Acura to compete with European cars made by BMW and Mercedes and Audi. In this analysis‚ I’m going to develop company profile of BMW and its competitors (Lexus and Mercedes-Benz) per Porters criteria. BMW AG Group BMW AG was founded in 1916. Today the Company
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Marketing in MBA Marketing Analysis for BMW 1. Market Segment BMW focuses on the luxury/performance segment of global automobile business. BMW’s main markets are in Germany‚ Great Britain‚ Japan‚ Italy and France‚ while the United States is its critical market. 2. Customer value proposition BMW is neither a boutique‚ offering one or two specialty models‚ or the producer of several million automobiles a year with some sold through a luxury car division. Nor is it a vast conglomerate with
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Samuel Adjetey. Business Strategy & Policy Thinkpiece 1 BMW SWOT Analysis One of the most critical processes of management of any company is the formulation of a sound business strategy. Strategic planning must combine a number of internal and external factors putting in mind how these factors affect the performance of the company. The company’s Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) are some of the critical factors a company must consider to effectively strategize. The
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TB0301 Dmitry Alenuskin Andreas Schotter BMW of North America: Dream It. Build It. Drive It. Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. Henry Ford Introduction In early January 2012‚ Joseph Wierda‚ BMW’s X3 Product Manager‚ reviewed the latest sales numbers of the popular X3 Series compact SUV. He was‚ in particular‚ interested in the effects of BMW’s customization program called “Dream It. Build It. Drive It.” on both unit sales and overall profitability
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