market positioning and branding politics optimization. So‚ we have found 4 conceptions : Simplifying brand line‚ Organizational structure modifying‚ distribution network development‚ competing with regional ice-cream producers‚ Opening a “pilot” ice-cream café. Each of these help to solve case questions. Brand line simplifying plan and Organizational structure modifying •Analysis and excluding from production line the less profitable or unprofitable commercial grade in order to decrease total
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To Ice-Fili CEO: The Vision of Ice-Fili Ice-Fili pursues a strategy of product separation‚ focusing both on high quality‚ new flavors and product lines‚ and more importantly‚ and original branding methodology that combines long-established business goals with a progressive public agenda to form a definite unique attractive product offering. Ice-Fili sells a product that is not only a leader in its market share‚ but truly a product made of value to bring success. Our overall corporate focus
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The problem that Ice-Fili was stemming from the rising level of competitiveness in a growing industry in Russia. Currently the companys position is favorable given the fact that it has a higher production capacity than its rivals. And it also has the lead over internation competitors such as Nestle and Baskin Robbins in terms of market share. However the competition position was not sustainable because of the rising level of competitive threat‚ not only in the form of manufactuerers upgrading their
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Ice-Fili Situation Analysis Ice-Fili is a Russian ice cream producer who can survive during the hard time in Russia while some competitors left the market. Since Russian ice cream market became more competitive‚ Ice-Fili tried to maintain its market share leadership among domestic‚ regional‚ international producers. Value chain analysis and SWOT were conducted below. Value chain analysis was conducted to show the capabilities of the firm in various activities. ----------------------- Firm
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1.Problem / Issue Identification: The Russian ice-cream market is not structurally attractivePorters 5 ForcesBargaining Power of Suppliers:-Not an issue-Commodities but big seasonal variations-Limited local sources of high quality butter-High availability of imported raw materials-Specialist equipment must be imported (but may be easy to copy?)Bargaining Power of Buyers:-consumers have low disposable income-distributors have power - they have many suppliers-Growth in supermarket sectors - may wield
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1. How structurally attractive is the Russian ice cream market? How is it likely to evolve? Analyzing from using five force model we can conclude that the structurally attractiveness of Russian ice cream market is quite low due to several reasons. Firstly‚ the crisis in 1998 had greatly reduced the consumption ability of ice cream market and increased the imported ingredients for producers. Secondly‚ Centralize planning system that is used in Russia caused the Russian managers to have little
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School MBA – Global Strategy Spring 2015 CASE ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS Ice-Fili Please prepare the following questions for the in-class case discussion (not to be turned in) 1. 2. 3. What quantitative indicators can you find in the case that could capture the changing attractiveness of the Russian ice cream market between 1996 and 2001? What explains this change in market attractiveness over these years? What‚ in your opinion‚ should the Russian incumbent ice-cream makers consider to enhance the market
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As Russia’s largest domestic ice cream producer‚ they had held onto their market leadership for many years. However‚ increasing competition from foreign companies‚ along with the emergence of regional producers of ice cream led to Ice-Fili’s market share erosion in the recent years. Porter’s five forces model was the primary method to analyze Ice-Fili’s industry and its competitiveness in the industry. Segmentation analysis was used for further study of the ice cream industry in Russia. The analysis
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Introduction Ice-Fili is currently competing in Russia’s ice cream industry. Although they have expanded to other products such as margarine and mayonnaise they will continue to focus on their core product line‚ which is ice cream. The reasoning behind this is that their ice cream production constitutes the majority of their profits and it is what Ice-Fili is most skilled at. The short-term and long-term corporate goals of Ice-Fili are relatively similar in that they both are concerned with
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Ashley Springer Ice-Fili case analysis November 22‚ 2012 Through tough times in the Russian ice cream market; one company has one company has pulled their weight and maintained their position on top. Established in 1937; Ice-Fili has survived the change in government‚ financial hard times‚ and the ever growing competition from international companies. However‚ given these events their market share‚ which was once dominated by Ice-Fili‚ has been significantly reduced. In fact the Harvard Business
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