PESTEL analysis Political/Legal Environment Over the past several years‚ there has seen a plethora of patent lawsuits within the smartphone industry. In the highlycompetitive environment‚ manufacturers of handsets have been aggressive in protecting their intellectual properties by suingcompetitors by claiming infringements on patents. For example‚ in March 2010‚ Apple sued HTC for allegedly infringing on20 Apple patents (Weil‚ 2010). Apple also sued Nokia in 2010 for similar patent infringements("Patent
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Political Denmark: in 2011‚ introduced fat tax UK: Debate on introducing fat tax which suggest increase in prices of unhealthy food Two-pronged approach in policy in order to encourage healthy lifestyle Public health responsibility deal Traffic labelling scheme Technological GLOBAL Innovation on healthy-oriented chocolate confectionery UK: New formats rather than product innovation Development in packaging: smaller packaging‚ sharing bags‚ multi – purposes single bag Flavour extension
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EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS: - In the overall growth of the company external environment plays very crucial role. In this external environment there are several forces which affects company’s decision making policies very deeply and political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal are those main forces (according to the pestel model). So we will analyse how these forces affects working and decision making of Maruti Suzuki. POLITICAL FACTORS: - As Maruti Suzuki is an automobile
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PESTEL ANALYSIS: A REPORT ON UNILEVER INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment is rapidly changing. Especially‚ the increasing popularity of line extensions seems to depend on advantages inherent in brand leveraging. FMCG manufacturers go into R&D in order to come up with the product that best satisfy consumers because customers become more critical about attaching themselves to a particular brand. They will also like to buy less expensive product due to current
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External Analysis of the UK Biscuit Market 1.1 Definition *and Growth *of the* UK Biscuit* Market Figure A: {draw:frame} Source: Data Monitor (2008‚ (a)) Furthermore‚ Mintel (2009‚ (a)) states how sales within the industry grew by 12.4% between 2007 and 2009‚ with both sweet and non-sweet biscuits contributing to theses impressive figures. Indeed‚ they also point out that the UK biscuit market is worth around £2.1 billion‚ so there is continuing evidence to suggest that the industry is
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INTRODUCTION In this essay‚ I will examine the factors that determine the price of houses in UK housing market. Firstly we will have a look the past and the recent history of UK housing market. The UK housing market has been booming in the past few years‚ with prices rising much faster than household incomes. After its dramatic crash in the early 1990s‚ the UK housing market has staged a remarkable recovery.1 In the early 1980s widespread financial deregulation raised the availability of mortgage
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United Cereal: Lora Brill’s Eurobrand Challenge Introduction: The case is focusing on European division of a giant multinational breakfast food company‚ which describes a launch decision for a new cereal product. United Cereal (UC) was established in 1910 by Jed Thomas. It was known in the industry‚ eventually diversified into snack foods‚ dairy products. By 2010 UC was a $9 billion business‚ but the breakfast cereals still accounted for one-third of its revenues. As the breakfast cereal trend
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1. Situation Analysis a. Customers Customers buying behavior is influenced by cultural‚ social‚ personal and psychological factors. Cultural factors exert the broadest and deepest influence on what a customer is buying. i. Cultural: Culture is the fundamental determinant of persons want and behavior. Our target customer is middle income people. In this customer segment people are usually used to having ‘roti’ or ‘Parata’ for breakfast. But consumers are becoming more health
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Mintel 2007 and Keynote 2008 Task 1 i) Definition of the market The market for Biscuits has been growing in the past few years as the products are popular in the UK market. More than 90% people in UK have consumed Biscuits last year but consumer behaviour has changed during the last few years into a healthier lifestyle. Healthier and low fat Biscuits represent the largest sector of the market. Sales through foodservice and the market for fresh‚ frozen and chilled cakes are not analysed in this
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companiesandmarkets.com/News/Leisure/UK-cinema-market-led-by-Cineworld/NI6625 UK cinema market led by Cineworld The UK cinema market has traditionally proved fairly resilient to recessionary forces. However‚ with consumers being squeezed by a combination of higher taxes‚ low earnings growth and high inflation‚ they are being forced to look again at all areas of their discretionary spending and cinema is bound to come under threat. January saw admissions to UK cinemas hit a total of 17‚081‚70
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