After reading the IKEA case‚ I find following problems‚ * Reluctance to change furniture: mind set of Americans Americans typically have the mind-set that furniture should last a lifetime‚ which is not in-line with IKEA’s value that does not include durability in its products. Thus to increase market share in America‚ IKEA must change the American’s attitude towards furniture as something fun and disposable‚ furniture is something that add value to lifestyle without incurring too much cost
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SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY A summary of the case study: IKEA invades America Submitted to: Nazmus Sadekin Lecturer‚ Dept. of Economics‚ Southeast University Submitted by: Tasnuva Amreen Khan - 2011020106012 (Group Leader) Sayeed ahmed Khan - 2011020106023 (Group coordinator) Amit Roy - 2011020106027 Ferdousy Rahman - 2011020106021 Md. Anis Uzzaman - 2011020106016
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IKEA is a well-known global brand with hundreds of stores across the world. In order to improve performance‚ it must assess its external and competitive environment. This will reveal the key opportunities it can take advantage of and the threats it must deal with. IKEA responds to both internal and external issues in a proactive and dynamic manner by using its strengths and reducing its weaknesses. Through this‚ IKEA is able to generate the strong growth it needs to retain a strong identity in the
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PESTEL Analysis PESTEL analysis stands for "Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Environmental‚ and Legal analysis" and describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental scanning component of strategic management. Political The mobile phone industry used to be a monopoly held by BT; however this was de-regulated in 1984 due to the telecommunications act. The current industry regulator is the telecomm regulator Ofcom. This was created to allow there to
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PESTEL Analysis: (COCA COLA) Political The non-alcoholic beverages falls in the category under the FDA and the government plays a role within the operation of manufacturing these products. In terms of regulations‚ the government has the power to set potential fines for the companies that did not meet their standard law requirement. The company has monitored the regulations and politics in each country to maintain and protect their brand image by assigning the risks. Such regulations are made
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PESTEL analysis is factors that may affect the business environment during operation. The factors determine to understand the organization that impacts the strategy and technology information and could use for decision-making (Yeates and Wakefield 2004 p. 265). Emirates find a broad range of environmental factors from outside of the business is being undertaken‚ ranging from political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal (Yeates and Wakefield 2004 p. 265). The main environmental
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IKEA 1. A firm advantage of IKEA is they have a dedicated supplier network so they are able to offer quality furniture at low prices. IKEA reaps huge economies of scale from the size of its stores and the big production runs necessary to stock them since the same furniture is sold all over the world. Since IKEA saves‚ they are able to match their rivals on quality and still manage to undercut their furniture by 30 percent. A country advantage is they have more than 2‚300 suppliers in 67 countries
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4.1.1 PESTEL Analysis This part of the dissertation will analyze main political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal issues within the Russian Federation. All of the Interviewees outlined the political aspect as the most important when investing into Russia‚ however the Author would like to acknowledge that the economical and legal factors have a critical weight in the issues of FDI‚ therefore their analysis will play a comprehensive role in the thesis‚ assuming that the initial
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…. 3 Introduction………………………………………………………………...………….…. 4 PESTEL Analysis…………………………………………………………………….…... 4 POLITICAL………..………………………………………………………….… 4 - 5 ECONOMIC…………………………………………………………………….… 6 SOCIAL…………………………………………………………………………… 7 TECHNOLOGY…..…………………………….………………………………… 7 ENVIRONMENTAL…………………………….………………………………… 8 LEGAL…………………………….………………………………………….…… 8 SWOT Analysis………………………………………………………………...…….…... 9 PORTAL’S FIVE FORCES Analysis……………………………………....……... 10 - 12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………
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Coursework Supply Management IKEA Supply Chain Analysis Name | Sun Yifei | | Wu Yanli | | Zhang Yuting | Word CountSubmission date | Zhao Yandong4114April 18th‚ 2012 | Introduction IKEA is short for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd‚ as the Swedish furniture corporation‚ which with more than 200 stores in over 30 countries (Chen et al.‚ 2011). In 2011‚ IKEA had 23.5 billion euros in sales with 2.7 billion euros net income and 127‚000employees worldwide (IKEA sustainability report‚ 2011)
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