Executive Summary Since LEGO Group’s (LEGO) inception in 1932‚ the world-famous toy maker overcame numerous challenging obstacles to become the leader in the building toy segment. By 2010‚ LEGO had witnessed all-time high annual sales of over US$3.7 billion to become the fourth-largest toy manufacturer in the world. Upon analysis of LEGO’s strengths through Resource-Based View‚ LEGO holds few key competitive advantages attributed to their success: strong brand name and innovative culture. These traits
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the Flextronics offshore outsourcing project‚ LEGO had a very tight control of all the elements of the value chain. Their production plants were expansive and specialized which‚ in theory‚ would create a higher degree of standardization. Their Swiss factories only produced DUPLO toys and Technic products‚ their Danish factory solely produced LEGO System products‚ and the U.S. facility focused on American demands‚ while only 5 to 10 percent of the LEGO Group’s total production was outsourced to Chinese
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Introduction In this report I will focus on toy manufacturing company called LEGO and its goals of expending their business in China. The project will contain of 10 pages which will include internal and external analyses of the company and chosen country environment or market. In this project I will try to analyze Chinese market for toys with the purpose of reaching a better foundation for decision regarding their strategic situation. I will use information from books‚ internet and my decisions
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 Date Company Location Misc 11/03 Earl Jorgensen Pine Not hiring 11/03 Muncie Pine Apt. Next Week 11/03 Ryder Pine Corp Freeze 11/03 Grainger Pine Call next Week 11/03 Mac Steel Pine Express/ call next week 11/03 Wej It Pine Not hiring F/U 11/03 Fleet Pride Pine Economy hold 11/03 Dil Beck MFG Pine F/U next Week 11/03 SBS Pine Mystaff/ not hiring 11/03 Rmi Pine Call next week 11/03
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Problem Statement: As a manager of The Lego Group I think the main problem that Lego faces is maintaining its competitive advantage and growth in the complex toy industry. Lego must identify a clear expansion plan to respond to the external (business) threats such as intense competition and new product innovations‚ changes in the toy industry with mergers and acquisitions and legal battles as well as maintain efficient internal operations in terms of supply chain and logistics in order to keep up
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Case Analysis March 29‚ 2012 Presented by: Johnny Burns – Cara Dickinson Joe Martini – Jaime Mizrahi Executive Summary LEGO all started in the workshop of Ole Christiansen‚ who was a carpenter from Billund‚ Denmark. He began making wooden toys in 1932 and by 1934 the company LEGO was formed. LEGO expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947. By 1949‚ the infamous interlocking plastic pieces were crafted. The business of LEGO was ecstatic up until the 21st century. However‚ with an extreme
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Strategic Analysis 2 A. Internal Core Competences 2 B. Company mission and vision 3 C. Future goals 4 D. Organizational Structure 5 E. 7-S model analysis7 6 Improvements 9 Open Innovation………………………………………………………………….10 A. Organization of innovation.…………………………………………………………………11 B. Matrix Innovation…………………………………………………………………………..…..12 Reference 14 Appendices………………………….……………………………………………...15 A. Memos…….………………………………………………………………………………………..…15 B. Project A Log
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Situation Analysis: * The construction toy market is worth $600 million * Lego is a $1.6 billion business in the construction toy market spread across 130 countries * Lego enjoys 80% of market share in the North American market * Lego is as an esteem brand and is looked upon not only as a toy company but also a company with toys that develop learning and new skills * Due to competitors like Mega Bloks Inc.‚ Hasbro etc. Lego started losing market share * Some of the major reasons
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Project definition: LEGO is one of the largest companies in Denmark and a company with a very strong brand. But even so‚ their economy fell apart in 2003-2004 and we are interested in what they did wrong and what they did to turn their significant loss around to a profit in 2005. So our problem is: What caused LEGO’s financial problems in and what did they do to turn it around? This is very relevant‚ because it shows how even one of the biggest brands in a market can’t afford to relax in any aspect
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REBRANDING LEGO 1 BSc (IM) 6th semester‚ Bachelor Thesis Authors: Binh Thi Le Supervisor: Berit Kamp REBRANDING LEGO. AN ANALYSIS OF CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED. Department of Marketing and Statistics Aarhus School of Business [02nd May 2011] REBRANDING LEGO Abstract 2 This paper describes the seven-year rebranding process undergone by the LEGO Group in between 2004 and 2010. In the first part of the paper there is a focus on describing the relevant literature concerning
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