determine how this competitive environment affects the competence in our evaluated firm. Then comes the internal analysis to determine if Apple has or not the tools to be considered as a firm with a competitive advantage above its rivals. Porter´s Five Forces Analysis: New Entrants’ Threat: * Because of standardization of PC components and thanks to the economies of scale‚ the prices came down significantly in this industry‚ this represents a great barrier to new entrants who has to decide to incur
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Five forces : New Entry (Low to Medium) * New entrants will have to deal with high and large fixed cost * incentive because of profitability of zara * newest fashion at an inexpensive price * Zara as part of the Spanish Inditex Group‚ can benefit from the micro-economic concept of the Economies of Scale. Hence it gains cost advantages as production (scale) increases * Zara is operating within the market of “fast fashion” hence size as well as economic efficiency matter. Inditex’s
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Porter’s Five Forces on Smart Phone industry Threats of New Entrants 1. The Smartphone industry is a well established market and the threats of a new entrant is low‚ as technology needed to rival the devices already available is quite advance if they want to differentiate from them 2. Barriers to entry in the mobile phone industry is high because any new entrants will need high investments in R&D‚ capital investment‚ technological investment and marketing in order to compete with the established
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way(s) is Tiffany exposed to exchange-rate risk subsequent to its new distribution agreement with Mitsukoshi? How serious are these risks? . 1) Transaction Exposure‚ the probability of loss associated with a business transaction denominated in a foreign currency‚ due to changes in the exchange rate . 2) Operating exposure is the degree of risk that a company is exposed to when there is some type of change in varying currency values that are relevant to the operation of the company. Tiffany is exposed
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1. Prepare an industry analysis using Porter’s 5 Forces model. What are the key determinants of Vershire’s aluminium can profitability? Explain. (20%) * Barriers to entry I would suggest that the barriers to entry are relatively high in this industry. Although there would not be huge capital requirement to enter into the aluminum cans producing business and customer-switching costs are considered to be low‚ the fact is that the competition in this industry is very intense. There are already
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consolidation with the fittest carriers surviving and the rest being acquired or going out of business. Analysis of the airline industry To determine the profitability of the airline industry‚ we will do an industry analysis using Porter’s five-forces framework. This industry analysis will help us in understanding the size of the Potential Industry Earnings (PIE)‚ and how much of this the different participants can extract. Rivalry among competitors There is intense rivalry among different
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Tiffany Case Amy Simmons Regis University With the recent restructure of Tiffany Japan‚ the profits earned by our Japanese division are now exposed to foreign exchange risks that were previously not a concern. In light of this new exposure‚ it has become imperative that we needed to determine whether or not Tiffany should implement a risk management program using financial derivatives to hedge against this risk. The first step in this evaluation was to determine the amount of profits
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1. Exchange rate point of view. From the story‚ Tiffany bought the property and inventory from Japan Mitsukosi. It will expose to the exchange rate translation risk. So it should do the risk management. The analysis structure will be that: (1) Define the risk source: the exchange rate flucturation‚ the cash flows of different currencies from asset change‚ account receivable and account payable. (2) Define the scope of risk control: the natural currency settlement hedging‚ the overflow exchange
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IKEA‚ the Swedish furniture conglomerate‚ has taken on aggressive growth goals over the past several years in an effort to remain competitive. With this in mind‚ Michael Porter ’s "5 Forces" are applied to IKEA for better understanding of the organization as such: INTERNAL RIVALRY/COMPETITORS- The organization operates in a highly competitive industry‚ characterized by other low priced furniture producers such as Galiform of England and retailers such as Wal-Mart of the United States. Internally
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product differentiation in this industry is low‚ the switching costs are also low. Therefore‚ the competitive force coming from customer bargaining power is very strong. Supplier Bargaining Power: There is a scarce amount of raw materials for steel in this industry and there are very few suppliers for them. Most of the materials are imported into the United States. Therefore‚ the competitive force coming from supplier bargaining power is moderate to weak. Potential New Entrants: Again‚ there is low access
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