CEMEX: TRANSFORMING A BASIC INDUSTRY COMPANY Case Study Questions 1. How is CEMEX Mexico providing added value to its customers? R: As cement is a commodity market‚ CEMEX realized that they should provide added value by developing customer services and offering solutions for the needs/wants of their customers. See Appendix 1: CEMEX - Customer Services 2. How has CEMEX developed and leveraged its strengths to enhance its market position and profitability? R: The Company was extremely
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popular so companies can sell them for a large price. Actually‚ it is a very unique case‚ that such a product‚ which is in the group of basic commodities‚ is profitable. Both concentrate and bottling businesses are interrelated‚ because they create one product‚ but at different stages‚ they have the same consumers‚ however‚ there is a big difference in the structure and most significant is gaining profitability. 5 forces structure of both businesses would help to explain the phenomenon: The power of
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What benefits have CEMEX and the other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? More broadly‚ how can cross-border activities add value in an industry as apparently localized as cement? - Reduction of tariffs associated with exporting - Due to internationalization these companies have been able to spread their risk. Therefore‚ if one market is not performing they can rely on the other (diversification) - Talent across markets - Ability to identify new emerging markets and having
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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. (Cemex) Executive Summary This paper presents fundamental and financial analysis of Cemex. The analysis is performed by analyzing the company ’s financial data for the period beginning December 2002 through December 2005. The paper introduces Cemex by presenting the company ’s information and a brief summary of its main activities. Following the introduction‚ the paper will perform an extensive industry and company analysis and summarize
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FDI • Understand why and how host government encourage FDI inflow NVESTMENT 1 2 1 FDI occurs when a firm invests directly in facilities to produce and/or market a product in a foreign country 2 3 4 3 4 1 11/1/2013 5 2 11/1/2013 – Investment in the “same” industry – Nokia & Samsung build factories in Bac Ninh‚ Thai Nguyen (Vietnam) – Investment in upstream supplier (backward) or downstream purchaser (forward) – Backward: invest in input industries
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Porter Five Forces – Degree of Competition The UK banking industry is made up of three distinct types of competition which include the following (OFT‚ 2010): · Retail banks - Accept deposits and use these funds to make loans as well as offering other financial products to consumers and firms. Lloyds Banking Group‚ Virgin Money‚ Metro Bank‚ · Universal banks which not only offer retail banking services but also offer wholesale and investment banking services. For example: Barclays‚ HSBC
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Porter five forces. Potential new entrants. The home furnishing market is a big market with many players. IKEA is one of the biggest players in the market especially in Europe. The threats of new entrants is reduced by the tremendous amount of money needed to start up a home furnishing shop. IKEA has a big advantage to other home furnishing shops‚ they don’t just sell furnish but also kitchen and home accessories. But IKEA doesn’t reach small town and villages‚ here is a change for new entrants
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March 5‚ 2009 CEMEX: Globalization “The CEMEX Way” Donald R. Lessard and Cate Reavis When one wants to globalize a company‚ especially when it is from a developing country like Mexico‚ you really need to apply more advanced management techniques to do things better. We have seen many cement companies that use their capital to acquire other companies but without making the effort to have a common culture or common processes‚ they get stagnant. 1 —Lorenzo Zambrano‚ Chairman and CEO CEMEX On June
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PORTERS FIVE FORCE MODEL Porter’s Five force model includes 4 forces: * Potential Entrants(Threat Of Mobility) * Buyers(Buyer Power) * Substitutes(Threat Of Substitutes) * Suppliers(Supplier Power) * Industry Rivalry Application on the Telecom Industry: The forces that affect the Telecom Industry:- INDUSTRY RIVALRY: The above shows the different market share of the different firms such as Airtel which holds 28% of the total share being the highest ‚ Vodaphone
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