industrial purposes or in the luxury sector (gemstones) Diamond jewellery is worth more than US$72 billion per year (very high profitability) The biggest slice of the cake A giant’s first steps Founded in 1888 in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes‚ De Beers quickly obtained a dominant position in the world diamond market. In just a few years‚ DeBeers became the leading company of an international cartel‚ mostly thanks to Ernest Oppenheimer and its heirs. “Common sense tells us that the only way to increase
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Strategic Analysis Faculty of Business and Law Business and Management – Top Up Level: 3 Module: SIM336 Strategic Management Assignment Code: SIM336 Module Leader: Derek Harwood Issue date: January 2014 Return date: Wednesday 7th May 2014 – 1pm Contribution to module assessment: 100% First Name: Arthur Surname: TISSERAND Word Total Count: 3294 Student ID: 19907465744 Problematic: Why the Smartbox Company has several difficulties
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Case III: LATE MOVER ADVANTAGE? Questions 1. Why has the ‘late corner’s strategy’ of Toyota failed in China‚ though it succeeded in India? 2. Why has Toyota failed to capture the Chinese market? Why is it trailing behind its rivals? 1.ans – Toyota failed to get a strong hold in the Chinese market due to poor understanding of the market. The reasons being mainly due to high pricing of the vehicle with which it entered the market in China as Toyota followed the price skimming strategy
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Lázaro Cardenas & Mexican Populism The Early Years/ The Birth of Populism Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (May 21‚ 1895 – October 19‚ 1970) was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. From Cárdenas plebian roots‚ in the lower-middle class he eked out a substantial‚ moving and largely successful leadership role in a reformative Mexico. Born in the village of Jiquilpan‚ Michoacán‚ Cárdenas supported his widowed mother and seven younger siblings from the age of sixteen. His many professional pursuits
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Case Introduction De Beers‚ the so-called cartel in the jewellery industry‚ is a company that dominates diamond industry. The core operational of De Beers includes diamond mining‚ diamond shops‚ diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit‚ underground‚ large-scale alluvial‚ coastal and deep sea. The company’s headquarter located in Johannesburg‚ South Africa. As the vertically integrated diamonds
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SBU of Square toiletries ltd. The basic marketing need is to meet people bad dody odor problem. Kool brand is focused on the male segment of the market. 2.1 market summary The estimated market size is approx TK 200 million. Nearly 38% use Telkom powder as deodorant. Major competitors are Unileaver’s rexona‚ Telkom powder and some foreign brands. Very small amount of people use foreign brands. Rexona came up with strong media campaign and has succeeded to have a good share in the market. Kool
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Technology and the Improvement of Player Safety For thousands of years‚ humans have participated in athletic competitions‚ ranging from footraces in Ancient Greece to the extremely popular sports in society today. Every year‚ millions of people play sports competitively‚ and for a wide variety of reasons: the excitement and drama that comes with competition‚ the feeling of elation experienced after a victory‚ or simply the happiness one feels when playing a sport they enjoy. However‚ sports certainly
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case addresses the issue of which positioning strategy Mahindra and Mahindra should adopt in order to ensure that all its strategic objectives are met and it garners enough market share to assume the position of market leader once again. This decision is to be taken at a time where the Indian Automobile industry is in a state of change. M & M’s portfolio mainly consists of utility vehicles that are meant for the rural and semi-urban consumer. But these markets are seen to
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FOUNDATION’S Maharashtra Govt. Reg. No.: F-11724 SUBJECT:-E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT COURSE : Total Marks : 80 Attempt all the cases Case 01 GM’s E-Business Strategy INTRODUCTION US-based General Motors (GM)‚ the largest automobile company in the world‚ was in trouble in the late 1990s. The company’s market share in the US automobile market had been steadily declining from a high of 50% in the late 1960s to a low of 28% by 1999.Analysts pointed out that GM had been in the grip of a vicious circle
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CASE: 8°6 – Queen of the street SWOT ANALYSIS Strengths Cover a large variety of follower amongst younger drinkers (urban tribes): even with usually disparate brand loyalties consumers. Its consumers are from several types of young people: it allows to have more consumer‚ even all type of young consumers Techno parade followers: cailleras‚ skaters and techno-heads Tramp‚ winos and addicts Youths in city suburbs Non-common product: Capacity to intoxicate after only a couple of gulps
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