CAEA 3301 AIRASIA BERHAD DATE OF SUBMISSION: 2 APRIL 2008 QUESTION 1 COMPANY BACKGROUND AirAsia is one of the businesses that have successfully adopted cost leadership through operational effectiveness and efficiency. The cost advantages have enabled AirAsia to become the Asia’s leading low fare airline. Established on 12 December 2001‚ AirAsia has been such a big phenomenon in airline industry especially in Asia. By using a simple but strong slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly”‚ AirAsia has successfully
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and Germany. The company believes that the increasing trend of going green and concerns about the environment in Japan and Germany will merge significant profits shortly after entering those two markets. Anna’s Car has evaluated various market entry strategy alternatives and is now hesitating between direct exporting or foreign direct investment for Germany and franchising or joint venture for Japan. Direct Export The main advantage of direct exporting for Anna’s Car is going to be fact that
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1. Company history 2.1 The sector that the AirAsia Berhad operates is in airline transportation. 2.2 Brief explanation of AirAsia Berhad history AirAsia was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate‚ DRB-Hicom. The heavily-indebted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit with 40 million ringgit worth of debts
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Market entry strategies ——from a case study of Hershey 1 Introduction When talking about Hershey‚people will think of chocolate. Hershey is the largest manufacturer of chocolate and candy in North America‚which had long history of 105 years.Now Hershey’s chocolate sold around the world. From the case study‚ we found that hershey met difficults when entered into Australia market ‚and the same things also happened in China market.They withdrawn from the market and return after strategic recombination
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1. Abstract This report consists of an internal and external analysis of AirAsia using various methods including a PEST‚ Organization analysis‚ SWOT analysis and Porter’s 5 forces model. The main outcomes of the report are: 1.1 Conclusions reached: 1.2 Recommendations reached: 2. Introduction The company chosen for this report was AirAsia. The assignment required that: • A management report of 3‚500 to 4‚000 words is written on an organization. The report should describe‚ analyze and assess
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Industries 4 Firm Strategy‚ Structure and Rivalry 5 External Variables 6 Part 2: Contemporary Management Issues 7 Part 3: Market Entry Strategy 10 References 12 Appendices 17 Abstract This report focuses on the competitive advantage of food industry of one of the fastest emerging economies of the world‚ South Africa. The report uses Porter’s National Diamond model’s attributes factor conditions‚ demand conditions‚ related and supporting industries and firms strategy‚ structure and rivalry
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2.0 Research Client Research AirAsia Berhad is a low cost airline located near Kuala Lumpur. AirAsia covered flights to 22 countries with 100 destinations. Its main Terminal is KLIA2. AirAsia started with MYR 40 million in 2001 with 2 old aircraft. Back then‚ AirAsia face a lot of problems like global financial crisis due to the aftermath of the 9/11 disaster. AirAsia can make it till so far is because of their low fares‚ low cost aircraft and also high quality products and services. There are
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Case: The ascendance of AirAsia 1. What is the macro and industry environment for new budget airlines in the Asia- Pacific region? What opportunities and challenges are associated with that environment? People in the Southeast Asian have low average incomes. The low average incomes should boost the cheap fares demands. In recent years‚ because of the government decreased the entry barrier of airline industry‚ more and more carriers entered the airline market
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INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF AIRASIA AirAsia Berhad is a Malaysian low-cost airline headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. It has been named as the world’s best low-cost airline‚ and an initiate of low-cost travel in Asia.The airline was established in 1993 and started operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom. On December 2‚ 2001‚ the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company
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History of Airasia AirAsia was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government - owned conglomerate‚ DRB-Hicom (Diversified Resources Berhad- The Heavy Industries Corporation of Malaysia Berhad). On 2 December 2001 the heavily-indebted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’ company Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. for the token sum of one ringgit (about USD 0.26 at the time) with USD 11 million (MYR 40 million) worth of debts
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