EXHIBIT 1 Porter’s 5 Forces: Computer Industry Threat of New Entrants: Medium With the standardization of most of the computer components‚ it becomes easy for customers to change their laptops. This leads to a moderate customer switching cost. The availability of direct-to-customer service and retailers‚ it becomes easy for customers to find their desired product as well as for companies to provide their products in less time and with reduced cost. If any new player wants to enter into the market
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Under Armour’s accomplishment over the last ten years has been nothing but remarkable. However‚ serious threats to the company growth should be a concern. Under Armour is strongly overlooking the fierce competition in the sports apparel industry that has the potential to seriously hold back the continued success of the company. For instance‚ the marketing strategy of Under Armour should face severe scrutiny as the company delivers a particularly wide-range of products‚ still they only focus on their
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A Porter’s five forces analysis can complement other techniques‚ like a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis focuses on the company‚ while a Porter’s five forces analysis looks at the external factors impacting on a company. * Porter’s five forces are listed in the left margin. Degree of Rivalry is emboldened because it is the central force‚ which involves all the other forces. Classical economics predicts that rivalry between companies should drive profits to zero. This is part of the threat
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Porter’s Five Forces The Threat of New Entrants (Low) There is a great amount of economies of learning and scale in the oil industry for Example BP has been searching for oil since 1901. They invest a huge amount in up-to-date technologies making it difficult for new entrants to compete. His obviously requires huge capital investments in R&D as well as start-up cost‚ for example a truck just to carry the oil costs over $1‚000‚000. There is a lot of regulation in the industry especially with
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Under Armour general and direct environments: The competitive pressures associated with the bargaining power of buyers are moderate. There are two types of buyers: Chain retailers such as Sports Authority‚ and professional athletic teams. These athletic teams do have the power to negotiate the terms of when and where they will use/wear the apparel. Chain retailers have the power to place product where they choose in the store. The competitive pressures associated with the bargaining power of suppliers
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Porter’s analysis of Under Armour Competition in the industry Only a few companies have the sheer size and established distribution channels to compete against UA. The biggest of these competitors are Nike and Adidas. Both these companies have higher market share and total annual sales than UA. Nike’s trailing 12 month sales is over 31billion‚ Adidas’ trailing 12 month sales is over 16billion‚ and UA’s trailing 12 month sales is just under 4billion. Potential of New Entrants Into the Industry
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2013 Company Background Under Armour is an American sports clothing and accessories company. Under Armour is a supplier of casual apparel and sportswear. The global headquarter of Under Armour is located in Baltimore‚ Maryland. The firm has started offering footwear in the year 2006. The European headquarters are in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium while the additional offices are in Hong Kong‚ Jakarta‚ Indonesia‚ China‚ Canada‚ Toronto‚ Denver and Guanghour. Under Armour was established in the year
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Analyze Industry Structure In the analysis of the structure of the industry‚ competitive forces in industry analysis can be developed such as: 1. Threat of new entrants. In every industry there are problems for companies to face such as the entry of new competitor in the same industry. This is because it can lessen the market share of the company. These new companies use different approaches to attract the customers like they might offer cheap rates as compared to the well reputed brands for the
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5 Competitive Forces Analysis 1. Rivalry among existing firms(competitors) Competitiveness of enterprises and the current does not play a very important role in Disney’s external business environment. That is true‚ the company’s very high exit barriers. In addition‚ the ability to increase in a very large investment. Therefore‚ there is no strong direct competitors Disney’s business. Competitors‚ such as "Lonely Tunes" retail stores bear the expensive advertising to gain market share.
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3.0 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 3.1 Rivalry among existing competitors: Padini is currently facing the highest level of rivalry from its competitor due to a large number of competitors operating in the same industry as the company. Nowadays‚ more of the company has expanded its scale in order to rivalry fit. Many companies now are more advanced in terms of scale‚ they will have to compete for the similar products and services such as brand image‚ customers’ loyalty‚ and other factor. This would
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