Assignment # 1 Strategic Practice Exercise: (page #81) 1. Score each competitive force in the airline industry and provide a brief rationale for your assessment. · Rivalry Among Existing Firms: (High) When one major company in an industry makes a change in costs or services that could potentially increase their clientele‚ a major competitor almost always follows suit. Price matching is a prime example of that‚ therefore the threat is high. West Jet is one company that offers flights at a discount
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MKTG410-001 Case Study 2: Starbucks: Forbidden in the Forbidden City Submission Date: 3/2/2015 BB202121‚ CHAU HONG CHON‚ Eric BB201531‚ CHEN CHAOHUA‚ Cherish BB102089‚ LO CHENG MAN‚ Karina 1. Why is China‚ traditionally a non-coffee drinking culture‚ an important market for Starbucks? China contains large number of population. For Beijing’s Forbidden City‚ which is China’s top tourists attraction‚ as a destination of choice for both Chinese and foreign visitors‚ hosts millions of visitors
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New Venture Porter five forces – the pure competition model implies that the risk adjusted rate of return should be constant across firms and industries. However‚ there is number of economic studies have affirmed that different industry could sustain different levels of profitability. Part of the difference is explained by industry structure. Michael Porter has provided a framework to identify an industry as being influenced by five forces (Anon‚ 2010). Barriers to entry It can be complicated
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fundamental. Especially‚ although financial crisis leaded economy growth slowdown‚ it did not cause a serious influence for chain coffee shop. As Howard Schultz said‚ CEO of Starbucks‚ “I don’t think we had a business plan for the severity of what has taken place. History demonstrated to us that a downturn in the economy would not affect us‚ and in fact‚ we would be recession-proof.” (Katie Couric‚ 2008) Based on Financial Times‚ Starbucks revealed that strong earnings of $242m of 2008‚ a jump from the
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internal audit‚ we will have the analysis of the value chain‚ plus the identification of the core competencies of the company. The external audit will be based on the Microenvironment and Macroenvironment of the company. A SWOT analysis as a TOWS Matrix will be used. 1.2. Scope of the Report The report will be covering the Starbucks Coffee Company which includes Starbucks Coffee Europe and Starbucks Coffee International. 2. Executive Summary Starbucks is the leader in the coffee retailing
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Cited: Starbuck ’s Annual Report 2001. http://www.starbucks.com/investor reltations
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McDonald’s‚ with over 17‚000 outlets in 105 countries. (KFC.com) Part II: Industry analysis by Five Forces In 1979‚ Michael Porter published “How Competitive Force Shapes Strategy” in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) which started a revolution in the strategic field. He proposed five competitive forces which could to great extent determine the profitability of an industry and strategy’s formulation. In this part‚ Five Forces will be utilized to analyze the fast food restaurant industry. [Type text]
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Starbucks Value Chain Analysis Companies can attain competitive advantage when the value chain is heightened by organizing these activities to gain profit greater than the cost of performing the value chain activities. Primary Activities Inbound Logistics This involves Starbucks agents going to coffee farmers with the best coffee beans in the world where they purchase and make contracts with Farmers. Most of these farmers are from Africa‚ which Starbucks still pays‚ a reasonable fair price
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THE STARBUCKS EXPERIENCE An Impacting Journey towards Globalization 1. An Insight to the Starbucks Company: ➢ Formed in 1971 ➢ Current position- 12‚440 + stores across 37 countries ➢ Average is more than 35 million customers per week ➢ Loyal patrons visit 18 or more times a month ➢ If you invested $10‚000 in 1992‚ it would have resulted in an income of $6‚50‚000 by 2007-08 ➢ Value of leading company’s since 1992- S&P= 200% rise‚ Dow= 230% rise
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Starbucks‚ is the leading specialty coffee company that collaborated with the environmental nonprofit Conservation International. Together they created a strategic alliance promoting organic coffee-growing practices that would help both companies reach their goals. Through this alliance‚ Conservation International promotes farmers’ shade-grown practices and protects endangered habitats. As for Starbucks‚ they receive high quality coffee and fulfills its social responsibility strategy. This is a win-win
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