Introduction The swatch group was formed in Switzerland in the year 1983 under the leadership of Nicolas G. Hayek. Originally the company was founded by a merger of two Swiss watch manufacturing division’s which are ASUAG and SSIH which was named SMH (Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd). The group was renamed as Swatch group in the year 1998. Nicolas G. Hayek (CEO)‚ strongly constructed new opportunities and rooted a new culture. In the coming decade‚ SMG Group
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Distribution Swatch Group products are distributed mainly via a global distribution networkthat has been carefully selected by Group subsidiaries. The network is developed through shops in its own name or under the Tourbillion brand. However‚ in order to maintain a direct link with end consumers‚ the Swatch Group has created a retail section that develops global retail strategies and new approaches to consumer markets‚ including monobrand stores and a network of multibrand prestige watch and jewelry
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Swatch case study "This watch is the product which will reintroduce Switzerland to the low and middle price market. It is the first step of our campaign to regain dominance of the world watch industry‚" said Dr. Ernst Thomke‚ President of ETA SA‚ a subsidiary of ASUAG and Switzerland ’s largest watch company. Ernst Thomke had made this confident declaration about SWATCH to Franz Sprecher‚ Project Marketing Consultant‚ in late spring 1981. Sprecher had accepted a consulting assignment to help
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companies helped create a new market for Swiss watches. Asuag and SSIH merged to create Societe Micromecanique et Horlogere (SMH). They developed a line of watches called "Swatch" that appealed to a younger target audience. Their new design‚ distribution and production strategies created a niche market that became popular worldwide. The Swatch Watch Company transferred itself from near bankruptcy in the early 1980 ’s to a world leader in terms of value by the late 1990 ’s‚ at this time facing again new sets
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Maryam Tahririha GSB576 L. Grant Swatch and the Global Watch Industry Case Analysis July 13‚ 2005 THE SWATCH GROUP: COMPETING IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBAL MARKET FOR WATCHES Nicholas Hayek and Ernst Thomke formed the Swatch Group (the Group) in 1983 by merging two bankrupt watch-making groups. The merger gave the Group ownership of many of the Switzerland’s dominant watch brands. Swatch‚ their first product initiative‚ was so successful that it helped pull the squandering Swiss watch industry
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Swatch Revolutionises Watch Manufacture Answer 1. What do you think has been the contribution of the marketing function‚ the product design function and the operations function to the success of Swatch? Swatch is a good example of the way three sets of competitive abilities in a company relate to each other. The three key contributions to Swatch’s success (or the three important micro operations) are • the way they have developed their products and services. • the way they have positioned
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THE BIRTH OF SWATCH Summary by Stefan Jonathan Susanto – MM 2015 Ten years ago‚ bankers and suppliers thought the idea of the Swatch team were crazy and would ruin the industry. The people on Swatch team wanted to design a striking‚ low-cost‚ high-quality watch and built it in Switzerland. The team overcome the resistance and in 1993 Swatch was the best-selling watch in the history. Prior to 1950‚ watchmaking required the skills of a master jewelry maker and micromechanical engineer. Watches were
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the fully automated assembly line is implemented without the human intervention. In addition‚ to keep Swatch competing with low cost manufacturers‚ the capital-investment is applied as a result of decreasing in costs. The lean and flat hierarchies help enhancing the innovativeness and creativity throughout the company. The hybrids of centralization and decentralization management allow Swatch to yield the benefit from the local knowledge while maintaining the control over the distribution and management
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE STUDY SWATCH AND THE GLOBAL WATCH INDUSTRY International Strategic Management 1st year master’s degree student: Inarkaeva Lamara Supervisor: Ekaterina Makhnovskaya Moscow 10.12.2014 Key strategic issue The Swatch Group is the world’s leading manufacturer of watches with 14 per cent share of the world market‚ which was the first Swiss company started to compete in a low price segment. In 1998 Swatch increased its net profit by 7.5 percent. However
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1) Why was the Swatch so successful? In what way was this watch different from others in the industry? The first main reason why Swatch managed to gained so much popularity in the watch industry is because they managed to cut costs. Heyek had started a low-end product initiative and was fully committed to vertical integration‚ that is‚ he intended to build and assemble the low-price quartz watches entirely in Switzerland. This‚ along with the decision to encase the watch with cheap plastic‚ helped
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