Facilitator: Michelle Thong Learning Objectives After studying this topic you should be able to: • Explain what is meant by corporate strategy; • Assess the effectiveness of different growth strategies • Evaluate related and unrelated diversification strategies • Assess the use of portfolio analysis • Explain the role of corporate parenting in creating value • Discuss strategy evaluation. Corporate Level Strategy What is Corporate Strategy? Defines the scope of the different industries
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and compulsory education to children between the age of 6 to 14 and prohibits employment of children younger than 14 in any hazardous environment‚ child labour is present in almost all sectors of the Indian economy[2] Companies including Gap‚[3] Primark‚[4] Monsanto[5] etc have been criticised for using child labour in either their operations in India or by their suppliers in India. Sectors involved in child labour Beedi manufacture A survey conducted between 1994 and 1995 revealed that child
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Unit 1- Business Environment Task: P1 Range of different businesses and their ownership You work as a junior researcher for a business magazine and you have been asked to prepare background material for a reporter. The reporter wants you to carry out Investigation into 2 contrasting businesses- one in private sector and the one in public sector or in voluntary sector like charity. You need to write a report covering all your investigation. Note: The private sector company must be a large supermarket
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Diversification plays a vital role in the economy of our nation. This paper will provide an example of a well-diversified country versus a poorly diversified country. Nations invest in a variety of financial risks to ensure the security of its investment. Diversification can involve investing in a variety of stocks as well as a variety of bonds. “A portfolio strategy designed to reduce exposure to risk by combining a variety of investments‚ such as stocks‚ bonds‚ and real estate‚ which are unlikely
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In addition‚ diversification strategy is suggested for the Mclays. In the past‚ Mclays adopted the horizontal diversification by acquiring companies like Qualitex Printing Limited and conglomerate diversification by developing the products related to the existing products in the recent past. This is because‚ both strategies are cost effective and profitable options. This is the important prerequisite in the print and digital communications market today as per the environmental audit. Therefore‚
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Merger Strategy-Growth‚ Synergy‚ Operating Synergy‚ Financial Synergy‚ Diversification‚ Other Economic Motives‚ Hubris Hypothesis of Takeovers‚ Other Motives‚ Tax Motives Growth – This is one of the most common motives for mergers. It may be cheaper and less risky for the acquiring company to merge with another provider in a similar line of business than to expand operations internally. It is also much faster to grow by acquisition than internally. Sometimes an organization may have a window
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IV. Introduction This analysis is about the company adidas that belongs to the adidas Group. The adidas Group sells products under the brands adidas‚ Reebok and TaylorMade-adidas Golf. Adidas is on the market over 80 years and sells products for every kind of sports. The adidas group was founded in the year 1949 by Adolf Dassler. A company that started with selling soccer shoes contains today a wide product assortment with footwear‚ apparel and accessories. The brand is further divided into three
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VIRGIN’S GROUP CORPORATE STRATEGY DIVERSIFICATION 1. Introduction The Virgin Group is one of Britain’s biggest and successful empires in the 21st century. The company has successfully incorporated a great number of diverse industries under the Virgin brand. This includes travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ cosmetics‚ retail‚ and music businesses. Virgin has been able to dominate the British market and has therefore continued to rapidly expand into other regions such as the United
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Chapter 7 Corporate Strategy 1. Corporate strategy is concerned with ’where’ a firm competes (in which industries it competes)‚ while business strategy is concerned with ‘how’ a firm competes in a specific industry. @Pages and References: Pages 308-310 *a. T b. F 2. Product scope‚ international scope‚ and vertical scope are part of corporate level strategy decisions. @Pages and References: Pages 308-310 *a. T b. F 3. "How profitable do we want to be?" is the starting-point of corporate strategy
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CHAPTER 6 STRATEGY FORMULATION: CORPORATE STRATEGY Corporate Strategy Corporate strategy deals with three key issues facing the corporation as a whole: 1. Directional strategy- the firm’s overall orientation toward growth‚ stability‚ or retrenchment 2. Portfolio strategy- the industries or markets in which the firm competes through its products and business units 3. Parenting strategy- the manner in which management coordinates activities‚ transfer resources‚ and cultivates
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