marketing opporunities & MARKETING MIX ASSIGNMENT LENOVO VS DELL BRANDS: Lenovo：The company was founded in 1984 by a group of eleven engineers‚ headed by Liu Chuanzhi‚ in Beijing. This company had become the biggest PC manufacturer of domestic and distributed third party products through its wholesale business. Today，these two companies lenovo and IBM are united under the Lenovo name. With Lenovo’s landmark acquisition of IBM’s Personal
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Dell Brand Audit Brand Inventory History Dell Computer was founded as PC’s Limited in 1984 by Michael Dell. It is one of the largest hardware manufacturers and computer corporations. Dell Computer mainly develops‚ sells and supports computers and related products and services. Dell grew during the 1980s and 1990s to become (for a time) the largest seller of PCs and servers. As of 2008 it held the second spot in computer-sales within the industry behind the Hewlett-Packard Company. The company
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which firm exists in and explain convincingly why your team believes so. Dell market structure is monopolistic competition. Why? This is because Dell has many competitors such as Toshiba‚ Acer‚ Sony‚ Lenovo‚ Asus‚ Hp‚ Apple‚ and Sharp .The existence of these firms makes Dell not the only single computers firm in the market. This have let Dell met the conditions which is many sellers in monopolistic competition. Thus‚ Dell pricing decisions will not affect the market outcome. Even though there
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opened a new market. All other competitors all followed its step to innovate high-density energy-saving server‚ and want to gain some shares in this market. At this time‚ Dell entered to the market with its own low-priced‚ customized servers to compete with SGI. Along with the time passed‚ more and more companies‚ especially Dell‚ targeted SGI’s customer and provided them low-price products that SGI cannot compete with them anymore. In May 2009‚ Rackable Systems that is the former SGI merged with
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Dell (DELL) Analysis – At the close of ’07 (results reported in January of ’08)‚ Dell had an outstanding ROE of 76.97%; however things started to change in ’08-‘09 when ROE dropped down to 58.02%. This was caused by a decrease in Net Income which reduced the profit margin‚ as well as a decrease in Total Assets which reduced the equity multiplier. Due to further decrease in Net Income (58% decline) in ’09‚ the profit margin was cut in half. At the same time the sales decreased from $61‚101 to
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Dell’s Value Chain Dell Computer‚ with close supplier relationships‚ encourages sup-pliers to focus on their individual technological capabilities to sustain leadership in their components. Research and development costs are too high and technological changes are too rapid for any one company to sustain leadership in every component. Suppliers are also pressed to drive down lead times‚ lot sizes‚ and inventories. Dell‚ in turn‚ keeps its research customer- focused and leverages that research to
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CASE STUDIES Innocent case study Strategies for building brand loyalty Reference Code: CSCM0132 Publication Date: August 2007 DATAMONITOR VIEW CATALYST Innocent is the leading smoothie maker in the UK‚ selling around a million fruit smoothies a week. The company has grown fast due to its successful marketing and brand positioning‚ which focuses on conveying product quality and personal connections to drive consumer loyalty to the brand. SUMMARY • Consumers have responded warmly
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many ways‚ the Dell story is a textbook example of American entrepreneurship. Michael Dell began by selling computers from the trunk of his car and quickly rose to being CEO of a highly respected computer manufacturer. Dell’s business model was simple: make computers to order and deliver directly to the customer. As the company grew‚ it encountered growth problem. A maturing industry caused Dell to rethink it’s business model and this case study asks the question‚ “Should Dell continue with its
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{draw:frame} Universidad Virtual *“Dell en* China: *El replanteamiento estratégico *” ESTRATEGIAS DE COMPETITIVIDAD TECNOLÓGICA EQUIPO 58 *Usando el modelo de las 5 fuerzas de Michael Porter‚ analice la industria de las computadoras personales (PC) en China. *De acuerdo con este análisis ¿qué tan atractiva es esta industria en China? (muy atractiva‚ regular‚ poco‚ nada). _Poder de negociación de los proveedores (medio): _Dell tiene muchas ventajas sobre otros proveedores ya que
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