can help assess whether the fast food giant can keep the growth on a high-calorie diet. Strengths: McDonald’s has successfully rolled out new items like coffees‚ smoothies‚ and Angus burgers‚ expanding the range of menu choices. With a strong product offering‚ the company has grown income throughout the recession‚ notching strong increases in same-store sales. Operations are spread around the world‚ meaning the company is not exposed to just once currency or economy. Even trading near its highs
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POSITIONING STRATEGIES Positioning refers to creating a favourable image in the mind of the customers so that they perceive the product or a service to be better than that of its competitors. It is also occupying the mind‚ heart‚ body and wallet space of customers in the selected target market segment through differential advantage higher than rivals in an irreplaceable way by converting differential advantage into sustainable differential advantage. Positioning is not so much what a product
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This strategy is developing new IT features to differentiate products and services. It also use IT features to reduce the differentiation advantage of competitors and to focus products and services at selected market niches. In 1971‚ FedEx began to offer overnight package delivery by air. At that time‚ Fred Smith found that U.S. Postal Service and United Parcel Service (UPS) also taking several days to deliver packages. Therefore‚ Smith started the overnight delivery and he charges higher prices
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SWOT analysis of McDonalds This is a McDonalds Corporation SWOT analysis for 2013. For more information on how to do SWOT analysis please refer to our article. Company background Name Industries served Geographic areas served Headquarters Current CEO Revenue Profit Employees Main Competitors McDonald’s Corporation Restaurants‚ Food Worldwide U.S. Don Thompson $ 27.56 billion (2012) $ 5.46 billion (2012) 1‚800‚000 Burger King Worldwide‚Inc.‚ Yum! Brand Inc.‚ Subway‚ Wendy’s
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food companies. * All products need to have full nutritional value on them so consumers can be made aware of the health risks of some of these products‚ for example in McDonald’s they show on their chips the levels of salt‚ fat ‚ carbohydrates etc. and how each portion measures in terms of the recommended daily human intake of these products * The government hold to right on the final say of who is approved to open a franchise‚ this takes this power out of McDonalds hands Economical- *
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number three on Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 List for 2012. This was recently announced at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May of this year. McDonald’s started in 1937 as a drive-in restaurant by two brothers‚ Richard and Maurice McDonald. Hamburgers were just ten cents. In 1948‚ after realizing that most of their profits came from hamburgers‚ they closed the drive-in and made it a self-serve operation. They set up their kitchen like an assembly line to ensure maximum efficiency
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Substitutes The power of substitutes is moderate and it actually depends on the impact of substitute products. Smart phones do wide variety of functions so any product that specialize In one of those individual functions can also be termed as a substitute. Buyer power Buyers bargaining power is high because of the following reasons: * More choice of products and very limited differentiation of those products * Elastic demand- demand is highly sensitive to economy * Less asymmetric information-buyers
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........................................ 13 Sources ................................................................................................................ 14 Preface In this paper I will discuss how McDonald’s markets its products towards children. This is an issue that has been much discussed‚ especially due to questionable ethics practices. In order to complete my paper I have mostly‚ however‚ focused on the articles of Sarah Pink‚ because they are most relevant to my subject
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McDonalds has one of the largest chain of restaurants worldwide‚ but the other world renowned food chains who cut come as competition for McDonalds are Burger King Corporation‚ Yum Brands – parent company of KFC‚ Starbucks and the other local burger cafes. Burger King has over 11‚500 outlets worldwide which means that they are geographical diversified‚ they are globally renowned for its slogan “Have it your way”‚ and most importantly they serve burgers and a variety of side dishes which are not
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Running Head: MARKETING SWOT Analysis Answer 1. The company so selected for the sake of carrying upon SWOT Analysis is McDonalds. The company is found to run its food outlets all around the globe. It basically deals in fast-foods. The customers serve to be the main aspect for the company. It used to collect feedback from the customers on a regular basis. The SWOT Analysis is the tool that is used from the point of developing pertinent knowledge about company’s position in the market. From this
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