Case study: Southwest Airlines 1. Southwest Airlines has been a highly successful undertaking. This is due in part to the marketing objectives it has set for itself. Its main objective was to create brand awareness/preference‚ customer value and be a market share leader. The next step was to come up with a marketing mix strategy of price‚ place‚ product and promotion to achieve its objective. Southwest cut out many amenities in order to differentiate itself from its competitors. Its main objectives
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had explored the market in synthetic fibre manufacture by take-over. In 1988‚ Alpha Plastics involved in merger with the Colmar Chemical Company‚ which is a slightly larger organisation with 8‚500 employees and located near Stockport. Colmar produces a variety of industrial chemicals besides plastic and specialises in the production of synthetic fibres. Alpha Plastics believed that the merger would allow taking advantage of Colmar’s Research and Development facilities as well as its marketing organisations
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Instructor Case: Southwest Airlines in 2010 Dr. Deb Sircar University of Greenwich Business School http://create.mcgraw-hill.com Copyright 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976‚ no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means‚ or stored in a database or retrieval system‚ without prior written permission of the publisher
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Southwest Airlines (A) Case Study 1. In June 1971‚ air transportation was not seen to be the primary transportation tool because of all the time wasted from checking in‚ expensive price‚ and air time. Therefore‚ SWA was not only competing with other airlines‚ but also on ground public transportations. SWA had to come up with a marketing strategy that will convince people that they are different from Braniff and other airlines that were seen to be inefficient and poor punctuality. SWA utilize
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Situation Analysis Since day one‚ Southwest Airlines has been able to maintain a winning strategy. Starting with just three aircrafts in the state of Texas‚ Southwest implemented a low cost‚ low fare‚ no frills strategy that proved successful. As they have grown‚ more plans have been put into practice‚ such as a widely popular frequent flyer program and their now legendary customer service. These strategies have proved successful‚ as Southwest is the only airline to have maintained a profit in the
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Mission Statement: The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual pride‚ and Company Spirit. (source: Southwest.com website) Vision statement: Our vision is to expand our locations both domestic and overseas by being the largest and most profitable airline company to achieve both short and long-haul carriers efficiently and with low cost. Also to be an airline carrier that has the most productive
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attribute the success of Southwest Airlines? 2. How significant is the 10 to 15 minutes turnaround time of Southwest’s aircraft in terms of savings in investment and utilization of its aircraft compared to competitors? 3. What challenges is Southwest facing in the future and how should they meet those challenges? 4. What should their business and operations strategy be for the future? 5. Has Gary Kelly‚ the new Southwest CEO since 2004‚ been able to maintain the profitability of Southwest Airlines while insuring
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What are Mergers and Acquisitions? Mergers involve the integration of two firms’ operations on a relatively equal basis. Acquisitions involve one firm buying either a controlling portion‚ or 100% interest‚ into another firm. This essentially creates new subsidiary business for the controlling firm. What are Benefits of Mergers and Acquisitions? Why would a firm decide to enter into a merger or acquisition? There are several reasons including increased market power‚ overcoming high entry barriers
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Employers are more concerned about the health insurance mergers The regulators of the national and state are analyzing the state of the health insurance merges that are kept pending are expecting the officials to take action against it. The fear of most of the employers in the industry is that the deduced competition among the health insurance distributors results in the increase in their health rates. Acquisition of Cigna Corporation by Anthem for fifty three billion dollars is quite problematic
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AirTran 5 forces analysis New Entrant * The 1978 deregulation of the U.S. airline industry * The increasing of fuel price and labor costs * High competition * Brand loyalty The 1978 deregulation of the U.S. airline industry has attracted many new entries of low-cost airlines. However‚ as the competition in low-cost airline industry is very high‚ as well as the price of jet fuel and labor costs‚ many airline companies declared bankruptcy. Moreover‚ consumers start to have brand loyalty
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