Lenovo: Building a Global Brand 1. Why did IBM want to sell its PC business? Why did IBM sell to Lenovo? The reasons that IBM wanted to sell its PC business to Lenovo are: • • • To shed an unprofitable operation as the company saw the limitation and more competitors in the market. Selling its PC business to Lenovo would help them increase market share‚ especially in Asia. IBM shifted their business from producing PCs to concentrating on consulting service. Therefore‚ merging with another company
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Strategic Management I Pere Clavero Framework Case Analysis Organization Processes & Culture • In 1997: “Rosso” acquired a VP for the “Retail & Intl” dept.; with 10 years of experience within the FMCG multinational industry‚ the new VP was given the responsibility for heading the Italian market. • In 2000: Former VP from LEVI’S joined the company as the VP Marketing & Sales. A great contribution for the line development process which was
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Name: Lili Zhang Title of Case: LOreal and the Globalization of American Beauty Date of Submission: 04/18/2013 The central theme of this case is LOreal’s Beauty business globalization in the USA with its carefully planned acquisition strategies. From the case we can see that LOreal has successfully defined and set the beauty industry standard and adopt it as the competitive advantage from the domination of an industry standard. Look back to the time when LOreal first entered the US market
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Business 330 Principles of Marketing Victoria Secret Pink I’m your typical Pink customer and I mostly buy sweaters‚ pajamas‚ sweatshirts‚ and blankets. In my closet you will find pretty much all UCLA items from the Pink line. I buy them because they’re comfortable and fun to wear. Especially when it has your favorite teams name on it. Each time I think of Victoria Secret I think of UCLA to be honest. When I walk into the store I head straight to the Pink items. The Pink dog and the bright colors
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Jell-O Lab Guiding Question: Are some laundry detergents better than others? Purpose: We intend to test if the cost of a detergent affects its quality but putting 3 drops of Jell-O into 25mL of Jell-O and examining how much of the Jell-O dissolves. Hypothesis: If the cost of the detergent increases‚ then the amount of Jell-O dissolved will increase by 0.3 cm. Materials/Equipments: * 4-1mL Pipettes * 5cm long standard drinking straw with a diameter of .6cm. * Jell-O brand
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William Wrigley Jr.‚ now referred to as the “father of chewing gum‚” made chewing gum known to the world. He is known for his Wrigley Chewing Gum and starting the William Wrigley Jr Company‚ a manufacturing business without even going to college. The company took previously invented gum‚ and made it into its own very successful business. William Wrigley Jr. was born on September 30‚ 1861 in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. His parents were William Wrigley and Mary A. Ladley Wrigley. He was the oldest
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Marketing Environment What leads people to buy Crest toothpaste instead of Aquafresh toothpaste or Crest toothpaste instead of Sensodyne toothpaste ? Is it the price‚ the taste‚ the advertisement or thehabit of always buying that product? The toothpaste industry is a widespread industry with many different brands. Each brand has many different products. So how do we as the consumers decide which brand we want to use? Three different brands for toothpaste are for example Crest‚ Sensodyne and
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BATTERY LIFE Problem Which battery lasts the longest out of two different brands‚ Duracell or Energizer ? Hypothesis I think that Duracell will last the longest because Their advertising claims that no other battery "beats the copper top." also‚ it is the most popular brand of batteries. Materials Two of the same type‚ size and brand flashlights. Two D-size batteries from each of the following brands: Duracell Energizer Two other D-size batteries to test
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Consumer Behavior Kaplan University Unit 5 Project The strategic benefit of stimulus generalization doesn’t outweigh the possible disadvantages in strategic marketing. I think that many times people want to have choices in the products that they use on a regular basis. According to our book‚ classical conditioning learning depends not only on repetition but also on the ability of individuals to generalize. Without this‚ not much learning would take place (Schiffman‚ L. & Kanuk‚ L. pg. 203)
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We shall now take up one company‚ HUL (Hindustan Uni Lever Ltd) formerly HLL and see how the complex task of brand management is actually handled. This company is taken for this article as HUL is considered as one of the most successful in Brand Management. HLL has a large brand portfolio consisting of nearly 110 bands. In every product line‚ it has built a number of brands over a period of time. Quite a few brands have come to its fold from the parent company. It has also acquired several ongoing
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