Analysing Tesco’s Position in the BCG Matrix The table below shows the relative market share and the relative market growth for Tesco and its competitors in the UK’s retail market. Retail Firms Relative Market Share Relative Market Growth Rate Tesco 0.561 32.8% Asda 0.469 12.7% Sainsbury 0.405 11.3% Morrison 0.223 7.9% Waitrose 0.144 1.1% Aldi‚ Netto‚ and Lidl 0.286 -----------
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B OSTON C ONSULTING G ROUP (BCG) G ROWTH -S HARE M ATRIX MS-Excel & MS-Word Templates User Guide In the early 1970’s the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) developed a model for managing a portfolio of different strategic business units (SBUs) or major product lines. The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a four-cell (2 by 2) matrix used to perform business portfolio analysis as a step in the strategic planning process. . www.business-tools-templates.com 11/1/2009 © Copyright Business Tools & Templates
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THE BCG MATRIX Introduction: * Imagine that you’re reviewing your organization’s products. You need to decide which ones you should focus investment on. * One of the products is doing well financially. However‚ demand has fallen‚ and this trend looks set to continue. * Another product is also doing well‚ but it’s in a new market‚ and needs a lot of cash to support it. Should you continue investing in it? * And another product is barely profitable‚ although its market is growing
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The ultimate fast follower Samsung is better than anybody else at learning from its competitors. "A market reader is sort of the classic fast follower‚" explains Barry Jaruzelski‚ senior partner at Booz&Co and the co-author of the Global Innovation 1000. "It doesn’t mean they ignore their customers‚ but they’re very attuned to what competitors are doing and what other people are bringing to market first and observing what seems to be gaining traction‚ then very rapidly coming up with their own
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Introduction: The BCG Matrix and the Product Life Cycle are two important tools that relate to different aspects of a product’s performance: • The BCG looks at market share and market growth and how they impact on cash usage and generation. • The PLC looks at sales/revenues over time and levels of profitability. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix Businesses must keep their product offerings relevant and profitable to stay in operation. The Boston Consulting Group developed a tool‚ called the BCG matrix
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BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP MATRIX ( BCG ) This technique is particularly useful for multi-divisional or multiproduct companies. The divisions or products compromise the organisations “business portfolio”. The composition of the portfolio can be critical to the growth and success of the company. The BCG matrix considers two variables‚ namely.. N MARKET GROWTH RATE N RELATIVE MARKET SHARE The market growth rate is shown on the vertical (y) axis and is expressed as a %. The range is set somewhat
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BCG ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC BANK The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix is a tool that used to evaluate strategic business units. It is organizes business by two dimension‚ the business growth rate and market share. The growth rate is use to show how rapidly the entire industry is increasing and the market share is whether a business unit has a larger or smaller share than its competitors. The combination of market share and business growth rate have provides four categories to determine the SBUs
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Marketing Strategy At the heart of any business strategy is a marketing strategy Businesses exist to deliver products that satisfy customers. Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception‚ pricing‚ promotion‚ and distribution of ideas‚ goods‚ and services. A marketing strategy is composed of several interrelated components called the marketing mix: The Marketing mix consists of answers to a series of product and customer related questions. The Marketing Mix
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To begin with‚ BCG is the acronym for Boston Consulting Group—a general management consulting firm highly respected in business strategy consulting. BCG Growth-Share Matrix (see figure 1) happens to be one of many of BCG’s strategic concepts the organisation developed in the late 1970s‚ and is being taught at leading business schools and executive education programmes around the world. It is a management tool that serves four distinct purposes (McDonald 2003; Kotler 2003; Cipher 2006): it can
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The company I chose to conduct my BCG Matrix on was Wal-Mart‚ because this company has become one of the largest and most successful companies within the United States. Wal-Mart started out as a small retail business in 1962 in Rogers‚ Arkansas by Sam Walton. Today Wal-Mart has more than 10‚000 stores in more than twenty eight different countries. In 2012 Wal-Mart gained revenue of $421‚849 million dollars‚ which was an increase of 3.4% from the previous year. (www.topics.nytimes.com>Business>Companies
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