Department of Business Management Assignment topic: Chapter 7 Summary – Corporate strategy and diversification Name: Mr T Mdletshe Student number: 200903233 Module code: CBM 503 Module Description: Advanced Aspects of Management 1. CORPORATE STRATEGY AND DIVERSIFICATION This chapter is about choices of products and markets for an organisation to enter or exit. Organisations often choose to enter many new products and market areas. For example‚ Virgin Group started out in the music business‚ but is
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VIRGIN’S GROUP CORPORATE STRATEGY DIVERSIFICATION 1. Introduction The Virgin Group is one of Britain’s biggest and successful empires in the 21st century. The company has successfully incorporated a great number of diverse industries under the Virgin brand. This includes travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ cosmetics‚ retail‚ and music businesses. Virgin has been able to dominate the British market and has therefore continued to rapidly expand into other regions such as the United
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services provide governments and large private companies IT services all over the world‚ including the UK. BT retail caters to customers in the UK including broadband‚ landlines and TV services. It also supplies SMEs companies in the UK through its BT Business operation and more complex services to larger enterprises through their BT Enterprise operation. Their wholesale operation services smaller providers in the UK and Openreach services their ‘local loop’ network. In the year ending March 2013 BT Group
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Content 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 2.1. Overall Company Background 2.2. Brief proportion of business 3. From Core Competency to Diversification 3.1. Core Competency 3.2. Joint Venture and Diversification 3.3. Restructuring 4. Today’s Sony 5. Recommendation 6. Conclusion 7. Reference 1. Executive Summary Sony started the business as a small electronics shop and after 67 years hard works‚ Sony has became one of leading entertainment company in the
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Fast food‚ race/ethnicity‚ and income: A geographic analysis • Jason P. Block‚ MD‚ MPH Affiliations o Tulane University School of Medicine‚ Department of Internal Medicine (Block‚ DeSalvo)‚ New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ USA o Address correspondence to: Karen DeSalvo‚ MD‚ MPH‚ MSc‚ Department of Internal Medicine‚ Tulane University School of Medicine‚ 1430 Tulane Avenue‚ SL 16‚ New Orleans LA 70112 ‚ • Richard A. Scribner‚ MD‚ MPH Affiliations o Louisiana State University Health Sciences
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Analysis on Burger King Worldwide Inc. (BKW) Burger King (BKW) is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world which was founded in 1954; it operates in over 12‚600 locations serving over 11 million customers daily in 83 countries and territories worldwide. About 95 percent of Burger King Restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees‚ many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. This company became a publically traded company in this
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For my social norm violation I decided to order Burger King’s and Wendy’s food at McDonald’s. I chose to break this social norm because‚ here in America‚ the majority of people know what type of food each fast food chain offers. For example‚ everyone knows that a Big Mac is from McDonald’s and a Whopper is from Burger King. I wanted to see the reaction I would get from the McDonald’s employees if I tried to order a Whopper and a baconator. So‚ I went to the McDonald’s on Weber at a time when it wasn’t
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China Buffet vs. Burger King Dirty Dining Today there are more and more reports of dirty dinning in so many fast food restaurants. Any time a person decides to eat out in any type of fast food restaurant they are taking a big risk‚ and stand a chance of getting sick from the food that they eat. All fast food restaurants have their own little dirty secrets. Some are clean whereas some are filthy and should be shut down. There are several shows on television today that show how nasty
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rP os t TB0383 Andrew C. Inkpen General Electric’s Corporate Strategy Like the premature obituary of writer Mark Twain‚ reports of the death of the conglomerate are often exaggerated. Diversified companies‚ straddling multiple industries‚ or even just different parts of one large sector‚ remain a dominant‚ if not always fashionable‚ feature of stock markets from the U.S. to continental Europe and Asia. But a new backlash against conglomerates suggests that a more lasting shift in investor preferences
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1. Statement of Purpose: Corporate Strategy & Policy Any meaningful organization has certain mission‚ objective(s) and goal(s) and a strategy to achieve them. Business environment consists of all those factors that have a bearing on the business‚ such as the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ internal power relationships and orientations of the organization‚ government policies and regulations‚ nature of economy and economic conditions‚ socio-cultural factors‚ demographic trends‚ natural factors‚ global
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