Blockbuster Inc: A Strategy and Competitive Analysis April 27‚ 2007 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Blockbuster History 4 Competition and the State of the Rental Industry 5 The Strategy to Remain Competitive 6 Economic Factors 10 Supply Chain Strategy 11 Sales‚ Service and Promotion Strategy 13 Conclusion 16 Appendix 17 Exhibit 1 Blockbuster SWOT Analysis 17 Exhibit 2 17 Blockbuster Video Facts 17 Hollywood Video Facts 17 Netflix Facts
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Table of Contents Summary 3 Implementation of Porter’s five forces in U.S video rental industry 3 Implementation of Porter’s Value Chains in Netflix 5 IT techniques and applications applied in Netflix 9 Netflix’s Strengths and Problems 10 Recommendation and Conclusion 12 Summary According to Boogren (2013)‚ the video rental industry has changed in the past decade due to the development of IT technology. Customers have more opportunities to choose different ways to catch the TV programs
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Vision and Mission It is part of the business world for companies to establish their visions and missions in order to build around them the success of the company. Blockbuster and Netflix are no exception. Starting with the first; Blockbuster’s vision statement: "At BLOCKBUSTER‚ diversity means valuing differences. It’s a corporate value that must be continually developed‚ embraced and incorporated into the way we do business." The company appealed to the diversity‚ differences‚ making the approach
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REACTION PAPER ON CASE 2: NETFLIX: RESPONDING TO BLOCKBUSTER‚ AGAIN Netflix has been in the forefront of innovation in the video rental industry despite the fact that it came about 20 years after the opening of the first brick and mortar video rental store (The Video Station) and 12 years after the opening of Blockbuster (its most prominent competitor). Netflix’ mail service came in at the right time when the DVD-format was still new making the company’s business model even more relevant. The change
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NETWORK MARKETING (Netflix Case) By Gracie Lee (B94705011 )‚ Jennifer Huang (B94705035)‚ Charles Virgile (A97749219)‚ Nicolas Valaize (A97749221)‚ Vincent Montmoreau‚ Fabien Palmero 1) Would you buy Blockbuster stock or short it at the time of the case? How about Netflix? Why? We would rather short stock of Blockbuster‚ since we conjecture that the price of it will decline. Our conjecture is based on the following reasons: A. Competitors: This is the main reason of our
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History Their main objectives at this time were to rent and sell DVDs over the Internet. Marc helped to start a computer mail order company called MicroWarehouse‚ vice-president of marketing for Borland International. Apart from his background‚ Hastings founded Pure Software‚ and sold it for a massive $700 million. With finances backed up‚ he supplied the startup cash of $2.5 million in order to get the project rolling. During the initial planning stages of Netflix‚ only a few video stores carried
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1. How strong are the competitive forces in the movie rental marketplace? I believe the competitive forces in the movie rental market place are very competitive and tough to stay in business. There are so many competitors that have and continue to take market share of the industry without any sign of it to be regained. This happens because of pricing and the medium in which that can be rented‚ sold or watched. These alternatives to rental are purchasing movie through retailers‚ renting through
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Overview: Prior to the prospectus of Netflix‚ Blockbuster dominated the home video market by opening 5‚194 retail outlets in U.S. and achieving ‘100% brand recognition with active movie renters’. The industry was largely based on retail outlets‚ which subscribers needed to visit physically and pay separate rent fees for each movie for a period between two days to one week. ‘Late fees’ will be charged to overdue rents‚ and these fees account for about 10% of Blockbuster’s revenue in 2004. Netflix
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Quentin Tarantino paints with a palette of the past. As a young man‚ he worked in a video store‚ studiously absorbing film. When he began creating movies himself‚ he construed the elements of classic cinematic storytelling into his own modern pastiche‚ this is what sets him apart‚ and why he is often considered the most influential filmmaker of the 90s. Nearly twenty-five years after his first major film Tarantino gives us his eighth film‚ The Hateful Eight. The Weinstein company has rolled out
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Identify and analyze the marketing issues at Netflix‚ Inc Netflix is an American on demand media provider. Netflix’s core product lines are online streaming‚ and DVD rental service. The on demand Internet streaming media is offered to people in the US‚ and 41 other countries‚ as Netflix is currently operating. Netflix began instant streaming in 2007. People can access their service through rental fees and subscription fees. Netflix market plan is to focus on online streaming‚ and they got over 36
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