1980’s – early 1990’s‚ Dell noticed that its market share was only 1% of total and that industry amalgamations could potentially force Dell out of the market. It was time to make a decision; it could remain status quo or pursue an aggressive growth strategy. The latter option proved to be favourable and Dell expanded into the B2B marketplace through a growth plan that focused on selling to retailers to improve its market share. The plan worked and Dell saw subsequent revenue increases of 268% within
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Apple Case Apple Inc. recently told some customers they would have to pay $1.99 to download a software enhancement that enables a wireless-networking technology already included on some of its computers. Apple’s reason: Accounting rules forced it to make customers foot the bill for the enhancement. That’s an excuse‚ counter accounting experts and officials at the body that sets accounting rules‚ known as generally accepted accounting principles‚ or GAAP‚ for public and private companies. Rather
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be found liable for any infringements. Further Microsoft reached a licensing agreement in April 2010 with HTC to pay royalties on Android based handsets ("Patent wars"‚ 2011). More recently‚ Apple launched a lawsuit against Samsung in April 2011 claiming Samsung copied design features of the iPhone in its Galaxy line of Android phones (Quigley‚ 2011). These are just a few examples of legal challenges faced by smartphone manufacturers. Mentioning all lawsuits in the past several years is beyond the
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------------------------------------------------- CORPORATE & BUSINESS STRATEGY ------------------------------------------------- CASE STUDY 1– APPLE ------------------------------------------------- dUE: monday‚ JANUARY 23‚ 2012 “Apple Inc. 2010” By Group 5: Gautam Pangaonkar David Mead Mark Deveny Lindsey Liotta Apple’s Performance Glance at the history: Apple in 2001 had to go through hardships and it was a critical year for the company. The revenue fell from $8 billion in 2000 to
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CASE REPORT: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS PROBLEMS Samsung competitive advantage is under attacks. Their biggest market share product in micro chip was threaten by Chinese manufacturer. New low-cost competitors: Chinese manufacturer Samsung didn’t know yet how to respond to Chinese invasion: Low-cost‚ differentiation or both? Collaborative ANALYSES EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 6F Threat of new entrants (High) High economic of scale High product differentiation High capital
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Sustainability Marketing Practices of Samsung Electronics Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Macro Issues……………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Theoretical Review of Sustainable marketing issues………………………………….. 4 Review of Samsung’s sustainable marketing practices……………………………….. 6 Recommendations…………………………………………………………………………………….. 8 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9 References…………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Group 5 Gillette’s Marketing Strategy for Indonesia Executive summary The analysis has been done to achieve the country manager‚ Chester Allan’s objective to increase the market share by 19% through identifying the new customer segments‚ and increase brand loyalty. The problems faced while achieving the objective are as follows: * The rural population in Indonesia is unaware of the modern shaving trends and therefore do not add to the total sales of the company. With time‚ when the urban market
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1106 : PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING CASE STUDY : FROM GALLOP TO RUN PREPARED FOR: PROF. DR MD. NOR OTHMAN GROUP MEMBERS: SITI NUR AMIRA BINTI ZAMANI CEA110138 NUR HIDAYAH BINTI ZAINAL SEF080022 INTRODUCTION The Samsung Electronics Group is part of the South Korea’s Samsung Group‚ largest conglomerate corporation founded in 1938. Samsung Group also owns the world’s second largest shipbuilder‚ a major global construction‚ and the largest life insurance company in Korea and it’s headquarter
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bond issue was a self-dealing transaction. Because the Samsung Electronics issued the private convertible bonds‚ which worth 60 billion won‚ to the chairman’s son Lee Jae-Yong (45 billion won) and another Samsung affiliate (15 billion won). We think the purpose of issuing the convertible bonds is to transfer the management power to the chairman’s son‚ thus maintaining family control‚ because the bonds can be converted to shares of the company. Even though they knew this kind of activity could depress
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Samsung Electronics Questions 1. Why should Samsung globalize? Globalization should consider as Samsung’s second strategy‚ as Kim mentioned in the article. The world becomes a single market‚ which is associated with globalized resources and systems. Globalization should consider as a beneficial and efficient plan for the company. First of all‚ when Samsung goes global‚ Samsung can gain greater market share‚ increase sales and profits. In the case study‚ the article mentions that not only there’s
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