Groupe Danone is the world market leader for fresh dairy products‚ and‚ in volume terms‚ a worldwide co-leader in the bottled water market. It is also ranked second in biscuits and cereal products. Main brands include Danone‚ Actimel‚ Activia‚ Danonino and Vitalinea in fresh dairy products‚ Evian‚ Volvic‚ Wahaha and Aqua in bottled waters‚ and LU in biscuits and cereal products. The three leading brands Danone‚ Evian and LU account for around 48% of sales. Up to 1996 Groupe Danone’s growth strategy
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Nestlé-Danone and the bottled water sector 1) Presentation of the structural features of the bottled water industry. a) strategic segmentation. There are four different family of product in the bottled water market : * mineral water ; they are spring waters with specific properties such as medical treatment. They cannot be processed. * spring water ; they are naturally pure and from groundwater as mineral water. No treatment shall be given to them. They are on average three times
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expertise from Danone‚ whereas Danone did get a its place in the Chinese market‚ which they hoped for. From Danone’s view‚ however‚ there was managerial expertise offered to the Wahaha Group personnel in R&D and marketing for the Joint ventures‚ but Zong kicked them out. Because of this‚ there might have been a learning asymmetry when taking Danone’s perspective into account. Question 5 Has Danone been able to access the location-bound FSAs of the Wahaha Group? Should Danone have rejected the
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Nestlé-Danone and the bottled water sector M34 Table of contents |Introduction 3 | |I. Presentation of the structural features of the bottled water industry 4 | |I.1. Strategic segmentation (market segmentation) 4
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Threat of New Entrants: It is quite difficult to enter the yoghurt industry because DANONE has most of the market shares and that makes it hard to make up a new brand. It would mean spending lots of money to arrive to a good position. ● Bargaining Power of Suppliers: In this case the power of suppliers is exclusively related to Danone because it has more than the half of the market share and this provides a lot of power for taking decisions about price and makes it easier to invest in new yoghurts
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4194 APRIL 19‚ 2010 TIMOTHY A. LUEHRMAN JAMES QUINN Groupe Ariel S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation On June 23‚ 2008‚ a Monday morning‚ Arnaud Martin arrived at his office in Groupe Ariel’s corporate headquarters in Mulhouse‚ France. The previous week‚ Martin had requested additional financial information about an investment proposal from Ariel-Mexico‚ a wholly owned subsidiary that operated a manufacturing facility and a regional sales office in Monterrey‚ Mexico. The information
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Danone Business Conduct Policy Version Distribution Version 4.1 This document has been included in full in the Appendices of the May 2009 « Danone Inside PACK » so that it could be widely distributed throughout Danone. The highlights of these principles are laid out in the « Danone Inside PACK » itself (pages 49-60). In charge : DGD – Risk‚ Control & Audit Department Co-authors : DGD – Group Legal Department DGRH – Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility Department DGRH – Social Policy
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Assignment Grameen Danone Review reading from Bridge International class: "Disruptive Innovation for Social Change" Latitude Responsable Danone Communities - Projet Grameen Danone URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pUd7eCf7Sg Note: Please watch this short (8-minute) video as part of class preparation. 1. Evaluate the Grameen Danone business model. What are its attractive features? What are its weaknesses? 2. Prof. Yunus’s Social Business Model is explained on pages 1 and 2 of the
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success-yoghurt. The factory was named Danone‚ a Catalan diminutive of the name of his first son‚ Daniel Carasso. Ten years later‚ the company moved from Spain to neighboring France and the first French factory was built. In 1949‚ the yoghurt was firstly packaged in a glass can. In 1951‚ this glass package replaced the porcelain can which was used before and because of this change the yoghurt became more popular and very common in diary healthy alimentation. In 1968‚ Danone was firstly announced in TV.
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Case 3 Guilty as Charged [pic] 1. Perform a SWOT Analysis for Gilt Groupe. 2. Looking at your SWOT‚ what is the single greatest threat facing GG? How would you react to this challenge? What strategy would you follow or propose? 3. Looking at your SWOT‚ what is the single greatest opportunity facing GG? How would you go about taking advantage of this opportunity? What strategy would you follow or propose? 4. Five years from now‚ where do you see GG? A success? A failure
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