A LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT BUSINESS STUDIES A LEVEL RESOURCES. Issue 3 Sept 2004 Page 1 PEST Analysis A PEST analysis examines the Political‚ Economic‚ Social and Technological environments that affect industries and companies. (PEST analysis is also known STEP analysis). It is now recognised by marketing professionals that in the longer term survival and success of a business is dependant upon the external environment a business operates within. It is not enough to say we have the right marketing
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PEST Analysis A scan of the external macro-environment in which the firm operates can be expressed in terms of the following factors: * Political * Economic * Social * Technological The acronym PEST (or sometimes rearranged as "STEP") is used to describe a framework for the analysis of these macroenvironmental factors. A PEST analysis fits into an overall environmental scan as shown in the following diagram: Environmental Scan | / | \ | External Analysis | Internal
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Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is the world’s largest producer of trucks‚ and the second largest producer of cars and trucks combined. Ford has manufacturing‚ assembly or sales affiliates in 34 countries and Ford companies employed 337‚800 people world-wide in 1996. Ford has manufacturing facilities in 22 countries on 5 continents‚ with 87 plants in North America and 41 in Europe. In Europe‚ in 1995‚ Ford’s combined vehicle market share‚ at 12.2%‚ was the highest for eleven years‚ with three
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Analysis of Honda Motor Company Report by Valanium Analysts: Yutaka Matsumoto‚ Yuichi Murakami‚ Michio Okazaki (ymatsum@mit.edu‚ yuichi@mit.edu‚ mokazaki@mit.edu ) Investment Recommendation: MARKET OUTPERFORM December 3‚ 2001 NYSE (11/30/00) 52 week range Revenue (2002 Est.) Market Capitalization Share Outstanding $ 76 $ 54.59 - $92.35 $ 60.08B $ 37.02B 487.2M 0.55% 34K EPS Forecast FYE 12/30 EPS Ratios Forward P/E Forward PEG M/B 2001A 2002E 2003E 2004E $3.85 $5.49 $5.88 $6.27 Firm
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Toyota Motor Company‚ USA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Toyota Motors Manufacturing (TMM) faces increasing problems with its seat supply. TMM’s single seat supplier‚ Kentucky Framed Seat (KFS)‚ is responsible for the majority of the problems with material flaws and missing parts as the major encountered defects. These problems are increasingly occurring with an increase in varieties of and demand for the seats. Toyota currently addresses these problems offline; however‚ this is a deviation from the
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around 275 million passengers a year. It is the UK’s largest bus operator and also runs a rail freight business. In the US‚ it operates school transport for nearly four million students a day. The company is seeking to extend it operation in UK in the coming few years. There are challenges faced by the company in UK which need to be addressed. A key government policy affecting all transport services in UK relates to the reduction of CO2 emissions. The UK government has signed an international treaty
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factors butalso forecast change‚ so that it can take advantage of changewithin the environments in which it operates.PEST analysis is used to identify the external forces affectingan organisation .This is a simple analysis of an organisation’sPolitical‚ Economical‚ Social and Technological environment.A PEST analysis incorporating legal and environmentalfactors is called a PESTLE analysis. 3. P for POLITICAL FACTORS E for ECONOMIC FACTORS S for SOCIAL FACTORS T for TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS 4. Legislation
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the company? 2.2 How can Ford successfully position itself in terms of the five forces of competition? 2.3 In what ways can the company effectively manage customer relationships to increase strategic competitiveness? 2.4 What conditions and tools can facilitate Ford’s efforts to produce differentiated products at relatively low costs? Outline a rough competitor analysis. What can be learned about expected competitor behaviour by using the
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I. Company background Honda Motor Co.‚ Ltd. is a Japanese public multinational corporation‚ primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 as well as the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume‚ producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. In 2001‚ Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer and the eighth-largest automobile
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Ford Motor Company Case Submitted to: Perry Davidson Submitted by: Claudio Parra Submitted on: November‚ 17th‚ 2014 Class: SCM-Module 1 – Monday nights @ Seneca Ford Motor Company Case Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Issue Identifiers………………………………………………………………………………………….5 Environmental Root Cause……………………………………………………………………….6-9 Alternatives……………………………………………………………………………………………10-11
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