Diego Rodriguez‚ Deema Alomar‚ Seungyeon lee 10/05/09 Case Analysis Southwest Airline final draft Jennifer Uhler BPE reading‚ writing research Background Summary Southwest Airlines based in Dallas was founded in 1967 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. It is one of the major domestic airliners which provides carrier and transportation service. This company has 35‚499 employees and it runs over 500 Boeing 737 aircraft in 67 cities in the US. Southwest’s principal values are: Providing low-fare and
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obstacles for SWA’s sales strategy. The acquisition will threaten the pricing structure of SWA. It will give them the opportunity to raise its fair‚ as there is less competition in the Northeast (where AirTran serves) and major airlines have paired off leaving only five major players (Huffington post‚ 2010). Further promoting a fare increase is SWA’s refusal to charge for baggage. Although‚ this is a great sales tactic‚ it provides no source of revenue‚ resulting in a fare increase that would
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Porter’s Five Forces on Smart Phone industry Threats of New Entrants 1. The Smartphone industry is a well established market and the threats of a new entrant is low‚ as technology needed to rival the devices already available is quite advance if they want to differentiate from them 2. Barriers to entry in the mobile phone industry is high because any new entrants will need high investments in R&D‚ capital investment‚ technological investment and marketing in order to compete with the established
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International Acquisitions‚ and Managing Working Capital simulations. Secondly‚ an evaluation of Southwest Airlines (SWA) management of working capital and the optimal financial strategies employed is presented. Also evaluated are the potential improvements in financial performance along with long-term and short-term strategies. Lastly‚ considered in this paper is whether a merger or acquisition would affect SWA ’s employed strategic outlook. The financial challenges facing the company in the working
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Turnaround at Southwest Airlines Video Case Study Southwest Airlines was started in 1971 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. Their idea was simple. If they could take airline passengers where they want to go‚ on time‚ at the lowest possible price; all while having fun doing it‚ then people would love to fly on their airline. As a result of this‚ no other airline in the industry’s history has enjoyed the customer loyalty and extended profitability which Southwest is now famous
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would you characterize the business model of Southwest Airlines? How does this differ from the business model used at many other airlines‚ such as United and American Airlines? The business model that Southwest airline uses can be characterize as "keep it simple" that are they don’t fly everywhere they employ a point to point route system‚ no seating class distinctions‚ no choices on type of aircraft and simplest pricing structure. Southwest Airlines flies point to point which a lot differ from
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Kelleher at Southwest Airlines “You shouldn’t get too heady about anything‚ because the greatest thing you do is not big in the universe. It’s not saying it doesn’t matter. It matters all the more. You’re fighting against nothingness. But you don’t give up. Therein lies the heroism.” -Kelleher (p.156) Although many have a great respect for Southwest Airlines and their disciplined business decisions. I have a greater respect for their “family like” environment and how they encourage their
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This is the historic background of an American Airline company called the Southwest Airlines Co. based in Dallas which still exists and operates with great success between 57 cities in 26 states of the US‚ by over 300 airplanes ‚ providing primarily short-haul‚ high frequency‚ point to point‚ low fare service . Through this essay we will see an analysis of the company ’s advantages and disadvantages through a SWOT Analysis. We will try to localize the problems of the company at the time and in the
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Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ Wal-Mart Suppliers Wal-Mart is an important and dominant customer to its suppliers‚ for some of them it’s also the largest one. Wal-Mart isn’t dependent on one supplier‚ but rather obtains its goods from a lot of different suppliers. For this reason‚ suppliers need to satisfy Wal-Mart in order to keep it as a long term customer. This is realized by special payment terms‚ delivery dates and discounts. The success of these relationships is proved by the increasing
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Family name Bao First name Cheng ( Steven ) Title: The analysis of Nike in athletic footwear market based on porter’s Five forces model 1. Introduction One and a half months ago‚ the biggest athletic event in the world ultimately drew its curtains after a pitched one-month-long battle‚ which saw thirty-two teams vying for the roll of honor of being crowned the final kings of football – the World Champions – and earn bragging rights for four years at least. It was not only
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