Southwest Airlines’ Strategic Management Chungsun Park Nonhanhla Nene Mohit Khatri Junbai Ma HOS 407 – Strategic Management Dr. Richard L. Valente 12/12/2011 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Mission‚ Vision‚ Values‚ and Goals 4 Organizational Structure 5 Management Process and Roles 6 Porter’s Five Forces 6 Threat of New Entrants 6 Threat of Substitute Products 8 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 9 Bargaining Power of Buyers 10 Rivalry 11 The Roots of Competitive
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March 2006 Immediate Release Hyundai Launches Family Pricing Strategy and Standardises Parts Prices The cost of owning and servicing a Hyundai has never been cheaper for Kiwi motorists from this week. Hyundai Automotive New Zealand has announced a revolutionary new parts policy that will see genuine part prices across Hyundai’s model range standardised‚ and in many cases becoming considerably cheaper. Known as the Family Pricing Strategy‚ the policy sees the price of regular maintenance
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Southwest Airlines Case Analysis Problem As a fledgling operation‚ how does a startup company compete within an established market in terms of price‚ performance and promotion Issues On February 1‚ 1973 Braniff airlines announced a half-price “Get Acquainted Sale” on all flights between Dallas and Houston. This was Southwest Airlines most profitable route. Southwest had to decide how to respond to Braniff Airlines move. Southwest Airlines is a startup business * They faced barriers to
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Presented by: Allan Abutin Rick Boone Peter Bond Bethany Lam Phuong Nguyen A. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Southwest Airlines has been serving its customers since 1971 and has focused its business on convenience‚ customer service and low-cost flights. From the outset‚ the two founders were dedicated to success and the company has taken many steps since then to accomplish this. Through the use of technology‚ strategic placement of travel routes and keeping the business person
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MARKET SKIMMING PRICING: It is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first‚ then lowers the price over time. The purpose of such strategy is to make higher profits within the short run period in order to recover the costs incurred in product researching‚ manufacturing‚ marketing etc. because such costs associated with the product are high. However this strategy carries with it the risk of acceptance of the product in the market as other
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Rudelius Chapter 11 APPLYING MARKETING KNOWLEDGE 1 How would the price equation apply to the purchase price of (a) gasoline‚ (b) an airline ticket‚ and (c) a checking account? 2 Under what conditions would a camera manufacturer adopt a skimming price approach for a new product? A penetration approach? 3 What are some similarities and differences between skimming pricing‚ prestige pricing‚ and above-market pricing? 4 Touché Toiletries Inc. has developed an addition to its Lizardman Cologne line
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organization creates value by converting inputs into outputs. It takes several resources such as raw materials‚ machinery‚ information‚ knowledge‚ human resources‚ money and capital as inputs and applies appropriate production and transformation processes at the conversion stage to produce finished goods and services. Consumers purchase these goods and services to satisfy their needs. The environment‚ in which an organization operates‚ affects stages in the value-creation process. According
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penetration theory for my product. Penetration is pricing low to stimulate the sales‚ encourage trail‚ and trigger by word of mouth. Nature Beauty’s mineral powder foundation will not be a new product that no company has similar to. We will need to start by gaining the trust of the consumers by word of mouth and different marketing strategies to the targeted customers. This way once the product has some buzz and customers appreciate the products value‚ we can price the mineral powder foundation at higher
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Indomie Pricing Strategy One of the four major elements of the marketing mix is price. Pricing is an important strategic issue because it is related to product positioning. Furthermore‚ pricing affects other marketing mix elements such as product features‚ channel decisions and promotion. In this case‚ Indomie is brand of noodle which was produced by PT Indofood Sukses Makmur‚ Tbk. As a leader of brand noodle‚ Indomie has pricing strategies‚ it product-line pricing. They set different price in
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NESTLE PRICING STRATEGY Price In Price strategy‚ Nestle has adopted the strategy of non-price competition. It is offering one price for NPL to all. It also keeps the check on distributors to maintain single price of NPL. It offers trade discounts to its distributors. “Price is the amount of money and/or other items with utility needed to acquire a product and utility is an attribute with potential to satisfy the wants.” A product price influences wages‚ rent‚ interests‚ and profits. Some
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