Strategic Management TUI University Winter 2010 External Environmental Analysis Case Assignment Module 2 Professor: Executive Summary This external analysis is critical in the development of a well rounded‚ cohesive strategic plan and will enable the JM Smuckers Company to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the current external operating environment and situational awareness of both future threats and opportunities. This analysis establishes a basic industrial framework‚ and then
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Question1. Market Definition from a customer defined market for Special K The product I choose is the cereals Special K from the very well-known brand Kellogg’s. As it is an international brand‚ I chose to be more specific‚ and only to focus on this product in France. As we all know‚ Special K is famous brand for its low fat and nutritional cereals‚ as a consequence those two factors will be our primary benefits. See figure 1.1 In this case‚ our primary benefit is the fact that Special K is low
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Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning. Reuters. (2012‚ March 23). Reuters. Retrieved March 23‚ 2012‚ from Reuters.com: http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?rpc=66&symbol=BKS Thornton‚ S. (2012‚ March 23). Barnes & Noble SWOT Analysis. Retrieved March 23‚ 2012‚ from eHow.com: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5750571_barnes-noble-swot-analysis.html
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Financial Statement Analysis: A company ’s financial statements and ratios are good indicators of its performance over the years. This report specifically compares the ratios for 2004 and 2005‚ with some additional insight into 2003‚ 2002‚ and 2001. The current ratio has increased by 0.0534 from 0.9900 to 1.434. As the current ratio is a measure of liquidity and ability to meet short-term debt requirements‚ BP was more able to meet their short term debt obligations in 2005 than 2004. From 2001
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3.2 PEST analysis 3.2.1 Political Political factors affecting the specialist eateries industry are few and consist mainly of minimum wage and employment law changes. Krispy Kreme train their staff who usually have little experience or education; consequently‚ they pay employees minimum wage or similar and are therefore affected by minimum wage increases. Other political factors are government actions to reduce obesity; however it is very unlikely that government will legislate against
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Opportunities and Threats from a SWOT Analysis for The BP Helios Initiative. From the SWOT analysis for BP Helios Initiative--Looking forward globally to the next three years; the opportunities and threats components show very important points that can be very decisive for either the success or the failure of this initiative. The fact that BP was the first of the companies in the oil and gas industry to make it clear about going green is a very important point; As we know that consumers are now
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| BP Amoco/Arco Merger | Merger and Acquisitions Term Paper | | | 12/10/2012 | | Contents Time Line of Events 3 Introduction 4 Industry Analysis 5 Overview of ARCO ’s Business 7 Overview of BP Amoco’s Business 7 Value Creation from the Merger: 8 Competitors Analysis 9 Antitrust Issues 11 FTC Arguments 12 What Happened? 14 Divestitures 14 Phillips Acquires ARCO Alaska 15 FTC dissent 16 Performance and key Financials 17 Annual Shareholder’s meeting:
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2010. The oil spill covers a surface area of at least 2‚500 square miles (6‚500 km2) according to estimates reported on May 3‚ 2010 by Reuters. And upwards of 5‚000 barrels of oil a day (NOAA’s estimate) continue to flow into the ocean.On May 13 BP reported that the cost of the oil spill alone had reached $450 million‚ and the price tag for the spill was rising by at least $10 million a day. Due to this massive oil spill‚ one can fear problems‚ such as petroleum toxicity and oxygen depletion
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Cited: Page Klein‚ N. (2010). BP Gulf disaster exposes our reckless abuse of Nature. CCPA Monitor‚ 17(4)‚ 8-10. Impact of Oil Spills. (2010). Congressional Digest‚ 89(6)‚ 167-192. Nijhuis‚ M. (2010). Crude Awakening. Smithsonian‚ 41(5)‚ 10-14. Thomas‚ E.‚ Stone‚ D.‚ Hosenball‚ M
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Page 35 TNK-BP: TREAD WITH CAUTION Christopher T. Bluhm‚ Saint Mary’s College of California Mary Vradelis‚ Saint Mary’s College of California Catherine Li‚ Saint Mary’s College of California Brett Threlkeld‚ Saint Mary’s College of California J. Tomas Gomez-Arias‚ Saint Mary’s College of California CASE DESCRIPTION The primary subject matter of this case concerns the management of international joint ventures. Secondary issues examined include: business in Russia; government’s intervention in
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