International Case : Carrefour — Which Way to Go? Wal-Mart’s biggest global competitor is the big French retailer Carretour‚ a firm that has hypermarkets‚ big stores offering a variety of goods. It has made large investments around the globe in Latin America and China. But not all is well as competitors taking market share its home market‚ for instance. There has been even speculation of a takeover by Wal-Mart or Tesco‚ an English chain. Mr. Barnard has been ousted after heading the company
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2013 Table of contents Page1– Table of content 2- Acknowledgement & Abstract 3-4 Introduction 5- History -Japan 6- Aeon Big acquisition of Carrefour Malaysia 7- Carrefour in Malaysia prior to Aeon Big acquisition 8- Aeon Big Vision & Mission in Malaysia 9-11 Aeon Big Hypermarket strategy after acquisition 12-13 Aeon Big SWOT outline against direct competitors
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Competitive Advance of Nations Taiwan has been ranked 6th in “World Competitiveness Report” published on April 13‚ 2011. Taiwan has an intellectual advantage; in this country about 43.7% of the workforce is higher educated (graduate from college and university everywhere in the world). Taiwan workforce represents about 10 million people‚ accounting for 48% of the total population. Every year 320 thousand students are graduated from college and university‚ which make sufficient workforce supply
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SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY Language Center Independent Study Report THE MAIN REASON FOR THE SUCCESS OF CARREFOUR English for Business 1 Section: 30 Teacher’s Name: Dr. Shaukat Ali DATE: 16 December 2012 Acknowledgments We thank all the people who helped us finish this project‚ starting with Dr. Shaukat Ali and Ms. Annette Herzog for their co-operation. Also‚ we would like to thank the students who helped us by filling out the questionnaire. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBJECT | PAGE | Acknowledgements
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Introduction of the Case: Carrefour was the second largest retailer of consumer goods and groceries worldwide‚ after Wal-mart. The company pioneered the concept of hypermarket in their home Country‚ France‚ as early as 1960’s.However‚ towards late 1990’s; Carrefour saw a decline in their French hypermarkets owing to certain unfavorable government regulations and competition from hard discount stores. Carrefour introduced a series of strategic initiatives in an effort to revamp the ailing French
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Question 1: Globalisation has‚ in the last few decades‚ been one of the dominant trends in retailing. Retailers around the globe are striving for higher global market shares. The food retailing industry which has an oligopolistic market‚ especially‚ has strong competition although‚ with a few large firms dominating the market. Among them Tesco and Lidl are one of the major European retailers. Tesco is the UK’s largest retailer with 28.7% market share‚ which is 11% more than its closest rival‚ ASDA
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from UK) include: Republic of Ireland (80) Hungary (62) Poland (69) Czech Republic (22) Slovakia (23) Turkey (5) Total number of stores = 261 Stores in Asia include: Japan (78) Malaysia (5) South Korea (28) Taiwan (4) Thailand (64) Total number of stores = 179 Why is Tesco Plc looking to expand internationally? The major reason for Tesco wanting to expand internationally is that at the moment there appears to be little potential to expand further
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Case Study on Carrefour’s failure in Singapore 1.0 Introduction In November 2012‚ France-based Carrefour SA (Carrefour)‚ the second largest retailer in the world and the pioneer of the hypermarket concept in Singapore‚ closed down its two megastores in Suntec and Plaza Singapura‚ marking Carrefour’s exit from the Singapore retail market. According to the company’s statement‚ Carrefour Singapore had decided to quit‚ as “expansion and growth perspectives do not allow reaching a leadership
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Promotion 7 1.5 People 7 1.6 Process 8 1.7 Physical evidence 9 1.7.1 Parking 9 1.7.2 Buildings 9 1.7.3 Stores/decor/furnishings 10 2. Micro environment - competition 11 2.1 Tesco vs. Biedronka (Ladybird) 12 2.2 Tesco vs. Carrefour 12 2.3 Comparison of the top 3 retail chains in Poland 13 2.1 Current and potential threats to Tesco in Poland 16 3 Suggested recommendations 16 References 17 Appendix 1 Tesco - relations with suppliers and producers of goods.....
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PRINCIPLE & PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT International Case : Carrefour — Which Way to Go? How should Mr. Durant assess the opportunities in various countries around the world? Mr. Durant‚ the new CEO since 2005‚ embarked on the new strategy by offering 15percent new products in its hypermarkets and 10 percent in its supermarkets. Moreover‚ he wants to employ more staff‚ extend the operating hours in certain hypermarkets‚ cutting prices‚ trying small stores‚ and pushing down decision making. Mr
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