Assignment Grameen Danone Review reading from Bridge International class: "Disruptive Innovation for Social Change" Latitude Responsable Danone Communities - Projet Grameen Danone URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pUd7eCf7Sg Note: Please watch this short (8-minute) video as part of class preparation. 1. Evaluate the Grameen Danone business model. What are its attractive features? What are its weaknesses? 2. Prof. Yunus’s Social Business Model is explained on pages 1 and 2 of the
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CHAPTER I THE PROJECT AND ITS SETTINGS Introduction The use of audible traffic lights at pedestrian crossing is to assist the vision less and disabled persons across any intersections. When reaching a pedestrian crossing‚ and knowing which direction to cross‚ the visionless and disabled persons must then know when to begin their crossing after hearing the audible traffic light’s signal sound. Since the traffic lights and the audible device are wired in parallel‚ as soon as the traffic
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Threat of New Entrants: It is quite difficult to enter the yoghurt industry because DANONE has most of the market shares and that makes it hard to make up a new brand. It would mean spending lots of money to arrive to a good position. ● Bargaining Power of Suppliers: In this case the power of suppliers is exclusively related to Danone because it has more than the half of the market share and this provides a lot of power for taking decisions about price and makes it easier to invest in new yoghurts
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When and how did Danone expand into the Chinese market? There are several products primarily sell by Danone are yogurt‚ biscuits‚ and beverages in China. Danone emerged Chinese market at the end of 1980s. Since then‚ Danone has invested heavily in China‚ included building factories and expanding production. Danone purchased shares of numerous market and industry leaders as well. Danone has a network of partnership with few of local market leader in China‚ including Wahaha Group which is 51%‚ Robust
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QUESTION 1: What “international strategy” and “modes of entry” did COKE/PEPSI use to penetrate the Chinese Market? How effective were these choices? When Chinese markets opened up in 1980’s‚ Coke/Pepsi focussed on defining several strategies to Differentiate‚ Market and distribute their Cola products to Chinese consumers. International Differentiation Strategy: Both used two main aspects of this strategy “Branding” and “Cost Leadership“to force local producers to withdraw from the market or establish
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affair in China As of 2007‚ Danone‚ the French multinational food company‚ was in a fierce battle with China-based Wahaha Group (the largest beverage producer in China) to win control of their joint ventures (JVs) in China. The fight is reported to have started in 2005 when Danone uncovered some unusual financial figures at the JVs‚ but this did not become known to the public until 2007‚ when Danone and Wahaha Group failed to resolve their disputes on the selling price of Wahaha-related non-joint ventures
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DANONE CASE 1. What were the intentions of Wahaha Group and Danone when setting up joint ventures in China? Based on Danone first experience in China‚ Danone looking for experince partner in China who knows about the culture inside China. In response Danone set up a joint venture with reputable companies that give Danone huge advantage in Chinese market. Beside that Wahaha group as a Danone partner wanted acquire technology and managerial skills (transfer knowledge) from Danone. In this partnership
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TURNAROUND STRATEGY FOR DANONE IN CHINA TABLE OF CONTENTS Sr. No. 1 Topic The Industry in China Page Number 3 1.1 Relevant Business Segments – Dairy & Bottled Water 3 1.2 Market Attractiveness & Challenges 4 2 Groupe Danone & its China
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Danone v. Wahaha: Lessons for Joint Ventures in China Steven M. Dickinson Harris Moure PLLC www.harrismoure.com Danone Group and its partner‚ Wahaha Group Company‚ are shareholders in a joint venture company that is the largest beverage company in China. A recent dispute between the partners now threatens to wreck the joint venture. What lessons can be learned from this dispute for investors considering new joint ventures in China? Disputes such as this are not inevitable in China. They can be
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Groupe Danone is the world market leader for fresh dairy products‚ and‚ in volume terms‚ a worldwide co-leader in the bottled water market. It is also ranked second in biscuits and cereal products. Main brands include Danone‚ Actimel‚ Activia‚ Danonino and Vitalinea in fresh dairy products‚ Evian‚ Volvic‚ Wahaha and Aqua in bottled waters‚ and LU in biscuits and cereal products. The three leading brands Danone‚ Evian and LU account for around 48% of sales. Up to 1996 Groupe Danone’s growth strategy
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