Nokia Microsoft alliance LONDON – Feb. 11‚ 2011 – Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers‚ operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity. As each company would focus on its core competencies‚ the partnership would create the opportunity
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or preferences of smart phones for each market segment and use this information to design or offer specific product that meet the behavior or preferences of the user in each market segment. This project helps in developing a segmentation scheme for Nokia Phones with the help psychographic segmentation. Our findings show that the resulted market segment can be identified based on the prices of the phones‚ interests‚ opinions and activities of the consumer. Contents Executive Summary 1. Introduction
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Nokia SWOT Analysis Strengths Strong brand image is Nokia’s core asset. The company continues to strengthen its brand equity through various marketing campaigns. Nokia’s brand was the fifth most valued brand in the world according to the top 100 best brands list compiled by InterBrand in 2009‚ and was the only mobile phone manufacturer in the top 10 best brands list. A strong and highly visible brand enables the company to command a premium for its products and differentiate itself from competitors
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highly competitive $3 billion mobile phone market in India‚ Nokia has managed to make its brand the phone of choice for millions. It currently has a market share of over 70 per cent. Abhijit Joshi tracks the Finnish company’s strategy for success. W A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK DOUBLE THAT OF ITS RIVALS: Nokia’s Sanjeev Sharma hen mobile phones were introduced in India in the mid-90s‚ US based Motorola‚ Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia dominated the handset market in India. Over the years‚ the
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INTRODUCTION Microsoft is to acquire Nokia ’s mobile phone arm in a swansong deal for the software giant ’s long-serving chief executive‚ Steve Ballmer‚ delivering Europe ’s last big handset maker into American ownership. For €5.44bn (£4.6bn)‚ Nokia is casting off the business that once represented Finland ’s most important export‚ in a deal that will result in 32‚000 staff transferring to Microsoft. Overtaken in the smartphone arena by Apple and Samsung‚ Nokia ’s board agreed to end the company
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Political The Political factors relates to the factors which the government also affects such as government instability or rules and regulations which the business must follow. Nokia have recently moved one of its manufacturing facilities to India‚ and because of this it is important that Nokia follow the rules and regulations that are set in India‚ so that they can operate as efficiently as possible. The types of things they will have to be aware of is the minimum wage‚ the maximum hours a week
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overwhelming domination of the mobile handset market‚ Nokia Corp. is entering unknown territory as its core product segment matures‚ leaving it to reorganize and transform operations in the midst of a sweeping recession. Although the company remains a strong competitor in all of its business segments—including the wireless infrastructure market‚ where it has a joint venture with Siemens AG—the reorganization plans announced in recent months indicate Nokia is feeling the heat from the global economic meltdown
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Indian IT: Reduced Growth According to Business Today‚ The Indian information technology (IT) industry’s growth has halved in 2012/13‚ going by the latest numbers from industry lobby Nasscom. IT-BPO (business process outsourcing) exports and domestic market revenues are expected to total $108 billion this year‚ inching just 7 per cent over the previous year. In contrast‚ the industry grew 15 per cent in 2011/12‚ albeit from a lower base. IT exports for 2012/13 are likely to come a touch below body
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regions? In what way? Look up a concept called "value chain". Is it relevant here? Nokia opened its factory in Germany in 1987‚ why do you think it made that decision then and what about the costs that it must have incurred till now? Is Nokia’s decision to relocate its factory is legitimate? Why or why not? Could Nokia have made the Bochum plant more competitive? How? 2. Was the German backlash against Nokia justified? How can nations make themselves more competitive? What are the factors
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT November 2007 Nokia cell phones have been arranged into four different categories‚ according to use‚ price‚ need etc. The four categories are Multimedia‚ Business‚ Lifestyle and Connect and each category contains several different phone models. Here for this exercise‚ I shall evaluate these different business units in relation to the 4Ps model of marketing. 1) In what way are the 4P issues different in Nokia ’s different mobile phone business units? The business units
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