1. What are the greatest opportunities and threats existing in eBay’s current external environment? In the current external environment the online sales are still a growth industry there are some opportunities for ebay‚ the actual global economic crisis it could be an opportunity due the unemployment and the decrease in the power purchasing parity and mortgage crisis generates two effects‚ first the buyers are look for discounts‚ and second the sellers by this channel could increases. The importance
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Juan Tisera Case38 – eBay 1) EBay pursue international growth through acquisitions and partnership in related and unrelated business. eBay goal was to expand its international presence in an effort to create an on line global marketplace. In many of this international website‚ eBay had to adapt and provide local language and currency options to gain popularity. The best approach that eBay had was by forming partnership with local companies. This strategy helps them to understand local cultures
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resides today. EBay Inc is an American internet company that is wholly responsible for the management of eBay.com a worldwide auction and shopping website that different categories of people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of products and services‚ in today’s market this community has gone on to span into tens of millions and also with an ever growing popularity making it the most popular shopping destination on the internet. Millions of buyers and sellers have made eBay Inc. the world
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STEEL ASIA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION: Company Case Study STEEL ASIA MANUFACTURING CORPORATION COMPANY DESCRIPTION Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation (SAMC)‚ a joint venture with TATA Steel from India‚ is located in Bulacan in the Philippines and produces reinforcing steel bars (also referred to as rebar) for use in construction. The plant was commissioned in 1996 and currently has 400 employees. Annual production is 360‚000 tons of steel bars compared to its 400‚000 tons annual designed capacity
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05 2 0.10 Investment and capital is not big enough 0.05 2 0.10 Can not provide free service 0.05 1 0.05 Total Scores 1.00 26 2.60 Lessons: This table shows us to consider the whole things rather than just part of the factors. We can see that eBay has exhibit internal strengths but not too much. They can still work on some parts they are not good at but important. For example‚ improve new technology for enhancing trust and safety and decrease fraud and potential risk. In addition‚ they should
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This case study aims at evaluating the rationale of AirAsia’s strategic plan and how have these strategies been associated with its structure and system. It further aims at assessing the sustainability of the business model and its competitive advantage. AirAsia’s performance and business process management will also be discussed in details. AirAsia- A Case Study Contents Introduction This case study aims at evaluating the rationale of AirAsia’s
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Case Study: Air Asia Identify the competitive advantages of Air Asia as a low cost carrier. Air Asia has a number of competitive advantages as a low cost carrier that fall into the following general categories; low cost operations‚ efficiency of operations‚ proven business model and management expertise and finally a distinctive corporate culture. Low cost operations: Air Asia has gone to great lengths to ensure all of their operational costs are kept to an absolute minimum‚ and have passed
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Submitted by: Atika Imtiaz (7184)‚Hira Sarwar (7208)‚ Khadija Tahir (7554)‚ M. Waqas Moghul (7727)‚ Natasha Akber (7546)‚Shayan Rasool(8093) Submitted to: Mr. AbdulQadir Molvi | Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 3 eBay 4 INTRODUCTION TO eBAY : 5 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE CASE: 7 PORTER’S FIVE – FORCES MODEL: 11 RIVALRY AMONGST COMPETING SELLERS: 12 SUPPLIERS 13 THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES 14 BUYERS 14 THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS 15 INTERNAL AUDIT: 17 EXTERNAL AUDIT 19 INTERNAL FACTOR
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CASE ANALYSIS I. Background of the Study A pioneer and a market leader in the online auction industry‚ eBay has been able to grow the business significantly in the last decade amidst turbulent times for many contemporary dotcom companies. EBay’s strategy to focus on a niche market and differentiate itself through strong brand management and continuous improvement in the value-added services has enabled the company to defend the market leadership in the industry. While many new competitors
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EBay Case Analysis Step One: Read. Step 2: Dupont Ratio and Financial Analysis o Two year Financial Ratio o Short Term o Current Ratio 2002: 1‚468‚458/386‚224= 3.8 2001= 4.9 o Long Term o Total Debt Ratio Total ass. Total equity/ Total ass. 2002= .1377 2001= .1485771 o Asset Utilization‚ or turnover ratios o Total Asset Turnover Sales/ total assets 2002= .29 2001= o Profitability o Return on assets= net income/ total assets o 2002= .0117 o 2001= .053885
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