Marketing 01/06/2013 1. Corporate Profile 1.1 Concept and History IKEA offers a wide range of well-designed‚ functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. This is the idea at the heart of everything IKEA does‚ from product development and purchases to how we sell our products in IKEA stores globally. Anybody can make a good-quality product for a high price‚ or a poor-quality product for
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According to Echeat (2006)‚ the IKEA had more than 175 stores spread over 31 countries at the end of 2002 and worldwide sales of about 12.8 billion euros in 2004. During the IKEA financial year 2001-2002‚ a total of 60‚000 people are employed by IKEA worldwide and there are 323 million people visited IKEA stores around the world (Kronos‚ 2006). IKEA mission is to offer consumers good value for their money. The typical IKEA customer is young low to middle income family. IKEA success in the retail industry
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Recently‚ IKEA is one of the most renowned brands of retailers around the world with 351 stores in 43 countries in September 2014 (Wikipedia). China‚ particularly‚ is known broadly as the most potentially profitable with a population of approximately 1.4 billion people. This country‚ hence‚ has become one of the core target in the strategy of internationalization of IKEA. Chinese market contribute eight of the ten largest IKEA’s stores in the globally according to Hatton (in November 2013). This
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Ikea’s strategy toward Corporate Social Responsibility. Corporate social responsibility is a concept that is becoming increasingly important and these days seems like a necessary condition to do business. There appears to be an infinite number of definitions of CSR across academia‚ varying from the simplistic to the complex and includes a range of related terms and ideas- including corporate citizenship‚ corporate sustainability‚ corporate social investment‚ socially responsible investment‚ business
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Introduction IKEA IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943. IKEA brand has always linked to improve the quality of people’s lives and adhering to as many customers as they can afford it with well-designed‚ full-featured‚ low-cost household goods and meet the business purposes. Today‚ Sweden IKEA Group has become the world’s largest merchants of furniture‚ household goods‚ office supplies‚ bedroom series‚ kitchen series‚ lighting‚ textiles‚ cooking utensils‚ housing storage series‚ children’s products
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IKEA – CASE STUDY Is IKEA’s success sustainable? 1. List IKEA’s external and internal challenges. Looking at IKEA’s challenges‚ which do you think pose the greatest threats? Why? How would you address the challenges? External challenges Opening new stores to drive future growth Finding new sources of supply to support more store openings Find suppliers to be a strategic fit with its highly efficient operations Given the issue of deforestation and the link to global warming‚ IKEA would need to
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TASK 4 Identify and compare the effectiveness of different leadership that can be applied by IKEA. (LOC 2.1) There are a few leadership style‚ for example‚ autocracy‚ democracy‚ laissez faire and paternalistic. Autocracy is a totalitarian administration style is one of where administrator sets destinations‚ apportions staff with errands and emphatically supports dutifulness. Thus‚ choices will mirror the feeling and identity of supervisor‚ which thus can extend a picture of a certain‚ very much oversaw
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IWAY right way? IKEA is to furniture what Wal-Mart is to food: a supermarket whose strategy is primarily based on low prices. As a group project‚ I worked on Wal-Mart and was astounded by the negative image associated with the company. IKEA seems to stand at the other end of the spectrum in people’s mind. Newsweek once released an article nicknaming the Swedish Company‚ the "Teflon multinational‚" one to which social criticism does not stick. Does IKEA deserve its positive aura? How to explain
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organizational strategies to be implemented successfully‚ effective leadership is required to rejuvenate the organization and assist employees with adapting to a changing environment. Successful implementation of the organization’s new vision requires management to provide a “big picture” to their employees‚ “as well as all of the sequential steps that lead to it” (Wharton Executive Education‚ (2010). Implementing Strategy: Leading Effective Execution). By GeneOne modifying leadership‚ the company
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three major stages which is strategy analysis‚ strategy formulation and also strategy implementation. At the strategy analysis stage‚ a firm‚ in this assignment IKEA will identify and evaluate its external and internal environment. External environment can be further divided into general environment and also the competitive environment. The use of several tools such as PESTEL analysis‚ Porter’s five forces‚ Value chain analysis‚ SWOT analysis is essential to assist IKEA to identify the firm operating
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