Tietgen Business College MM216 COM October 2011 ANALYSIS OF THE LEGO GROUP Daniella Pascu Daniella Pascu Helvijs Smoteks Noelia García Csaba Precub Keystrokes: 27205 Teachers: Meg Sønderlund Peter Storm-Henningse Executive Summary This project is a case study of the LEGO1 Group to analyse the company´s current situation‚ its future campaign strategy and its further potential of innovate development. The objective is to analyse the management strategy in an objective perspective and find out
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CASE: I Playing to a new beat: marketing in the music industry Questions: 1. Discuss the micro and macro forces that are affecting the music industry. Answer : Factors affecting the music industry include the following: • Consumers have created a new value curve for the music industry • Online file sharing and downloading where copyright holders are bypassed has put the traditional business model of the music industry in doubt • Competition for consumers time‚ attention
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& community‚ education & direct. Under each of these functions are executives for each product and regional area‚ which proves for an effective centralised communication structure. Since its creation LEGO has been privately owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family. The Corporate management of LEGO consists of the CEO‚ CFO & 4 executive Vice Presidents who each have their own business area. Previously‚ to develop stronger leaders with skills to take groups into new areas managers were moved
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removed the Lego brick trademark; and the second largest toy maker in the world‚ Hasbro‚ is getting ready for its new ambitious product line to enter the market. Lego was founded in 1932 during the Great Depression by Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen. He believed that “the only best is good enough” in making children’s toys. “Lego” was comprised by Danish words‚ “leg” and “godt”‚ meaning “play well”. It also means “I put together” in Latin. The first disaster happened to the young company
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company‚ currently owned by the founder’s grandson Kjeld Kirk Christiansen‚ continues to invest large sums around the world to understand changes in children’s tastes and to explore new product developments based around its mission ‘to inspire children to explore and challenge their own creative potential’. The name ‘LEGO’ is an abbreviation of two Danish words “leg godt”‚ meaning “play well”. The company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932. It is now the world’s sixth largest
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Log book - 14 - 10.3 - 15 - 10.4 KarolisKaupas Memo - 16 - 10.6 Amr Youssef’s Memo - 17 - 10.9 Executive summary - 18 - 1. Introduction The LEGO group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen. It was original based on family business. At the moment its managed by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen‚ a grandchild of the founder. Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by Lego Group and it’s based in Billund‚ Denmark where Headquarters are based. The toys were originally designed in
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with others in order to build good relationship with others‚ so technologically- advanced toys is be needed for the society. 2. Identify briefly the marketing mix (4Ps) strategies for LEGO. Product: LEGO is a family toy maker that was founded by Kirk Kristiansen family in Billund‚ Denmark in 1934. At the begin‚ LEGO concentrate on the wood bricks‚ in 1958 they change the material into plastic. Since 1980‚ LEGO group through established DACTA to expand education opportunities to their toys‚ they were
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thrives once again as the world’s most competitive toy company. As such as is the case‚ this essay shall examine Lego groups ‘from riches to rags to riches’ story with a special focus on the strategic management process. Founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen‚ the LEGO Group made wooden toys in the craftsman shop in Billund‚ Denmark. LEGO was an abbreviated form of the Danish expression‚ "leg godt" (play well). Over the following 15 years‚ Christiansen’s business focused around offering great
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1. DHL DHL provides international express‚ air and ocean freight‚ road and rail transportation‚ contract logistics and international mail services to its customers. The company’s name DHL is derived from the last names of the then three budding entrepreneurs‚ Adrian Dalsey‚ Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn who founded the company. 1. IBM IBM’s full company name is International Business Machines Corporation. It is a multinational technology and consulting corporation. The company was founded
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-Summarize the discussion on page 505. INNOVATION‚ ENTREPRENEURSHIP‚ AND THE GLOBAL STARTUP: Italian Entrepreneurs Combine Fashion and Function In Italy entrepreneurship is successful creating rivalry in existing industries. Italians are individualistic and risk takers. Entrepreneurship has become elaborated in Italy; quite a few numbers of magazines celebrate these entrepreneurs. According to Peter Drucker an entrepreneur is someone who would introduces innovation .He further explains how innovation
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