Innocent Drinks (“Innocent”) should start the European expansion because it has the largest growth potential and best leverages the core competencies of the company. The structure of the chilled drink business in Europe‚ especially for smoothies seems to be an oligopoly. A few large players take the lion’s share of the market. As such‚ Innocent has the potential to achieve similar market share as in the UK by expanding to new European markets and using its strengths in dynamic marketing‚ branding
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Griffith University‚ Queensland‚ Australia Keywords Strategic planning‚ Core competences‚ Management development Introduction My research interest in strategic thinking started in 1993 when I interviewed 35 senior executives for a longitudinal study on the changes in strategic planning and strategic management in large organisations between 1982 and 1993. These senior executives were responsible for strategic planning‚ strategic management or corporate development in 35 of the 100 largest manufacturing
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The Innocent Drinks Case Study The Present Innocent Drinks was founded in 1998 by a group of people that‚ first and foremost‚ wanted to work together. The specific idea rose from that desire‚ and the way that the 3 founders of Innocent Drinks work together is a key aspect to understand how the company’s decision making process works‚ and how the company got to where it is. After 6 years of existence‚ Innocent Drinks is at a crossroad. The three founders of the company need to choose if they are
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The Innocent Drinks Design Culture Discuss and illustrate the extent to which a ‘design culture’ in an organisation can give it competitive advantage. I. Introduction In 21st century‚ the organizations are entering a brand new era full of opportuni-ties and innovations‚ and great changes have taken place in companies’ attitude to-wards some traditional practices. Design has become an essential issue. As the writer in “Designing the 21st century” observed: Throughout the industrialized
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The innocent marketing story Marketing & brand stuff We believe that 95% of our marketing is in the bottle and like to let the drinks do all the talking. We’re very big on keeping the main thing‚ the main thing and try to be as innocent as we can in everything we do. So that means‚ quite simply‚ being natural‚ honest and making business decisions that we can all be proud of. We work hard to keep our brand fresh‚ just like our drinks. From changing our labels every few months‚ to putting nice little
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BA (Hons) Business Studies Word Count: 2‚729 Index Introduction 3 Evaluation 4 Macro Environmental Analysis 4 PEST Analysis 4 Political 4 Economic 4 Socio-Cultural 4 Technological 5 Environmental 5 Legal 5 Porters 5 Forces 6 Threat of Entrants 6 Power of Suppliers 6 Power of Customers 6 Threat of Substitutes 6 Competitive Rivalry 6 Internal Analysis 7 Resource Analysis 7 Physical Resources – 7
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SWOTS ANALYSIS OF INNOCENT DRINKS: Internal: Strengths: * Owners are 3 young men experienced with management consulting and advertising‚ which is crucial when starting a business. Thus by having this fundamental skills‚ they have an advantage in starting their business as compared to someone who does not have the knowledge of business. * Have aims and objectives. * High ambition‚ motivation and excellent personal caliber. This allows them to fulfill their mission and vision‚
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bacon and eggs culture. Also suited for the busy executive who is on the rush - Expand Innocent outlets overseas in emerging markets as consumers are more health conscious - Distribute Innocent products elsewhere to create higher penetration in foreign markets - Promotional campaigns can be done hand in hand with other organizations who focus on healthy living - Use of renewable resources will help Innocent to market themselves as eco friendly and also lower production cost substantially Threats:
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Innocent Drinks Personal Report By Melinda Halasz 1 Introduction The reports objective is to give information about Innocent Drinks‚ company’s initial management approach‚ followed by a comparing analysis between Ryanair and Robert Owen. It will present how its managers added value to their resources they had in the beginning and the latest news about Innocent. 2 Methodology The report is built mainly on secondary research. Qualitative data`s sources is from the business data base such as
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Innocent is the market leader in the £171 million smoothie market in the United Kingdom where it has a mammoth 71 percent market share. It started off very unconventionally when three entrepreneurs namely Richard‚ John and Adam started selling their smoothies at a Music festival in London and for feedback asked its customers to dispose their cups into two boxes “Yes” and “No” to help determine if they should quit their jobs to sell smoothies. With an overwhelming response to this experiment the
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