Professional Level – Essentials Module Business Analysis Wednesday 15 June 2011 Time allowed Reading and planning: Writing: 15 minutes 3 hours This paper is divided into two sections: Section A – This ONE question is compulsory and MUST be attempted Section B – TWO questions ONLY to be attempted Do NOT open this paper until instructed by the supervisor. During reading and planning time only the question paper may be annotated. You must NOT write in your answer booklet until instructed
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(2001). Corporate strategy. Heinemann. Last accessed 9th August at: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=24N484QuNFsC&pg=PA20&dq=PESTLE+ANALYSIS&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NVACUuuQIpKT0QWd_oHYBQ&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=PESTLE%20ANALYSIS&f=false Institute of motor industry (2010). The automotive retail sector: Impact of recession. July 2010. Last accessed 8th august 2013 at: http://www.motor.org.uk/documentlibrary/Research/Impact%20of%20the%20Recession%20Key%20facts%20v4.pdf KPMG Global Automotive Executive
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unfulfilled niche in the market and past events validated the research indicating there was a market for the new vehicles. General Motors went through hard times in the recent past for similar reasons. While foreign automakers identified consumers wanted an electric or hybrid vehicle‚ they set out to produce one. Honda and Toyota both sold hybrid vehicles while General Motors new Volt is not scheduled to hit markets until 2011.
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Toyota is a great company that has been very successful over the past couple of decades. Toyota was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda‚ and in 2006‚ 8.5 million vehicles had been produced. Toyota has surpassed Ford and is on its way on surpassing General Motors. Toyota still has its challenges and that is what the SWOT and Porter’s Five Force Analysis will show (Hill‚ Jones p. c61-c72). Starting off with the SWOT Analysis for Toyota is strengths are that in 2005 Toyota’s factories in the US and China
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Should Obama Bail Out the Auto Industry? Context and Situations By November 2008‚ Chrysler’s sales had shrunk 25%. GM posted losses of $18 billion‚ and Ford lost $11.5 billion. Despite Ford’s elimination of 1/3 of its workforce‚ GM’s elimination of 30‚000 jobs‚ and Chrysler’s cutting of 13‚000 employees‚ the Big Three were on the brink of bankruptcy. All three testified before both houses of congress asking for loans to avoid default. The Big Three stated their demise would trigger 3 million
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Economics of General Motors The role of the automotive industry in U.S economy is quite important. Given the multiplier effect‚ its impacts on other industries such as glass‚ steel and rubber‚ so it is considered an industry that shows some level of welfare in the economy one that has a greater share of production in manufacturing. The automobile industry provides thousands upon thousands of jobs‚ and in the last century the automobile has revolutionized the world‚ and become an indispensible
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Chevrolet marketing strategy plan [2005] General Motor Corporate Chevrolet Europe marketing plan 1. Company Description General Motors‚ one of the world’s largest automakers‚ traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit‚ GM employs 204‚000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 34 countries‚ and sell and service these vehicles through the following brands:
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M-form in the American Automobile Industry by Daniel Joseph Koblenz Class of 2010 A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in General Scholarship Middletown‚ Connecticut April‚ 2010 Table of Contents Acknowledgements.................................................................................... ii Introduction...........................................................
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INTRODUCTION General Motors Company (GM) is known as one of the world’s top automakers that do business in more than 157 countries. By providing quality vehicle security‚ and information services‚ GM is always listed as one of the best choices that customers from different ages and social classes tend to pick. But recently‚ due to poor management decision‚ the recession of 2008‚ and its inability to be flexible to change and the loss of market share to foreign competitors‚ GM filed for Chapter 11
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firms to produce a range of product to meet the diversity of consumers. In the beginning of the century when oil crisis hits the U.S. automobile industry‚ people were discouraged to buy vehicles with low fuel efficiency. Ford‚ Chrysler‚ and General Motors which have overly invested in low fuel-economy vehicles‚ were inflexible and rigid in its ability to meet the demand of a changing market in a timely fashion. Therefore‚ the U.S. auto manufactories were forced to cut its profits and face a sale
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