Name:_______________________________ FOUNDATIONS OF COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS HOMEWORK 1 Jenny Ellis‚ Spring 2013 Due date: Thursday April 11‚ in class. Fill in the blanks‚ and briefly show your work 1. A partial income statement from Webfoot Industries‚ Inc. is shown below: Revenues Revenue from sales of goods and services ................ $27‚500‚000 Operating costs and expenses: Cost of products and services sold.............................. $15‚000‚000 Selling expenses .............
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Starbucks is unique in the fact that every employee is called a “partner.” There are about 60‚000 partners worldwide‚ and each one is given health insurance and stock options. This creates an extremely high employee satisfaction rate‚ and very low turnover rate. The special training that employees go through is also an important part of Starbucks’ image. They go through both hard skill and soft skill training. The hard skills focus on learning how to mix drinks‚ run the cash register‚ etc.
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Porters 5 Forces: Suppliers The bargaining power of suppliers‚ one of Porter‟s Five Forces‚ can have a significant effect on an organization. Suppliers hold power over a firm when they increase prices and reduce the quality of their product and the firm cannot use their own pricing to recover these changes in costs. Switching costs is the “negative costs that a consumer incurs as a result of changing suppliers‚ brands‚ or products”. Switching costs can represent a variety of things: time and
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remains the core product and focus of Starbucks‚ the introduction of various new products has expanded the Starbucks product portfolio. For example‚ the acquisition of Tazo Tea has allowed Starbucks to provide new offerings such as tea-only stores (Blessing). Also‚ as part of the marketing campaign‚ Starbucks is making a push for its store employees to provide customer with exceptional customer service. For example‚ part of the campaign is highlighting Starbucks willingness to remake a drink for a
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COMPANY: STARBUCKS TEAM ASSIGNMENT 5: INNOVATION STRATEGY _Where is your firm’s industry on the life cycle as shown in Exhibit 7.2?_ The coffee brewing industry is in a maturity stage of its life cycle. It has been implanted a few decades ago‚ and now it’s stable. There are a lot of different companies that are in this industry‚ a lot of local coffee shop gets into the market‚ but nothing threatening to the bigger firms. __ _What is the dominant technological design of the industry in which
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1. What type of a business is Starbucks? Starbucks is a coffee retailer that owns its own outlets and provides licenses to outsiders to open outlets. At these outlets‚ they provide premium coffee and food products while bringing‚ "the idea of the French and Italian cafe into the busy North American lifestyle." Ironically‚ while the idea was to bring the French and Italian cafe concept to North America‚ they have -- through international expansion -- brought this to idea to countries across
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The Bottled Water Industry Threat of entry of new competitors is low. Firstly‚ the competitors that currently exist are large‚ dominating companies who already own a huge market share of the industry. New entrants attempting to enter the market will have compete with established brands such as Coca-Cola‚ PepsiCo‚ and Nestle. These brands have decades of experience in the food & beverage industry‚ have developed brand recognition & loyalty and have achieved low-cost production and distribution
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.:Executive Summary:. Starbucks has been the most successful coffee chain using their aggressive expansion strategies to surpass its competitors. Through its expansion‚ Starbucks has focused on creating a dense network of stores all around US‚ while also opening up new locations all around the world. However‚ Starbucks’ aggressive expansion strategies have posed major threats to its financial health such as tight cashflows‚ increase debts‚ poor liquidity ratios and etc. In addition‚ this approach
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BADM 482 – Business Policy and Strategy STARBUCKS Name: Chad Hodges 1. Which one of the 5 generic business strategies best matches Starbuck’s strategy? Why? I believe that of the generic strategies the best match to Starbuck’s strategy is that of the rivalry within the industry. This is the best match because there are a lot of different types of specialty coffee shops out their in the industry so the rivalry amongst all the competitors is very fierce. Of the other coffee shops it
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brand recognition and image. This clearly shows the inability of the Godrej management to capitalize on the excellent brand image. 3>Strategy To Handle Competition : Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) has adopted a two pronged strategy for rapid growth – Diversifying risks ‚ and Tapping new markets. This strategy has helped the company achieve higher than industry
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