UNIVERSITY OF SURREY FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND LAW School of Management MSc Programmes Module Leader: Dr. Laura A. Costanzo Academic Year: 2010-2011 |Industry |European Airline Industry | |Company |Virgin Atlantic Airways | STRATEGY MODULE COURSEWORK |Student URN |MSc Programme |Surname & First Name | |6098320
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Virgin background Virgin is an international investment group that operates in over 34 countries and that employs around 50‚000 people in about 400 companies worldwide. Its product ranges from mobile services to travel‚ finance services‚ music and many many more. It was funded in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson who started the company by selling cut price records by post through his Virgin Mail Order business. The company expended really quickly and is now a well-recognized and trusted brand all around
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1370026BBAHM2 Pegasus Airlines: Delighting a New Type of Traveling Customer The following is a case study of an airline called Pegasus founded in 1989 in Turkey‚ which has already been flying for over 20 years and is Turkey’s most established private airline. It experienced financial crises a couple of times since it was created but yet‚ it won about a total 4.4 million passengers in 2008 because it was known as a low-cost airline. The key to its success is the fact that Pegasus Airlines makes sure it is
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PRICING PROF.: JURA LIAUKONYTE VIRGIN CELL CASE: EXCERCISES Pricing Structure from the Carrier Perspective ¨ Contracts: ¤ ¤ ¤ Annual churn rate WITH contracts Annual churn rate WITHOUT contracts The difference: =2% * 12 months = 24% (p.8) =6% * 12 months = 72% (p.8) 72% - 24% = 48% Take AT&T example: customer base = 20.5 million If AT&T abandons the contract based plan how many new customers would it need to acquire to offset customers from an increased churn rate? ¤
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Szegedi Anita Brigitta Learn and understand Learn and understand are two different kinds of words‚ but their meaning can be similar. Thinking that the dictionary may help us to understand the meaning of these two words‚ we have to realize that a closer examination is needed. The definition of the word “learn” given by the dictionary is: “to gain knowledge of a subject or skill‚ by experience‚ by studying it or by being taught”. The word “understand” is defined: “to know the meaning
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The flag of the United States Virgin Islands is one of the most attractive flags of this world . The flag is very similar to the United States presidential flag. The flag consists of a white background on which a strong bald golden eagle sits in the center holding a green branch on the right talon and three light blue arrows in its left talon. These three light blue arrows represent the three islands St. Thomas‚ St. Croix and St. John. The mighty shield on its chest bears a blue chief on the top
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Marketing‚ Customer Value‚ And The Relationship Between The Two‚ With Regards to Smiggle Marketing Theory and Practice- MKF1120 Lecturer- Peter Wagstaff Due Date- 30 March‚ 2012 Marketing is a management function which involves creating‚ communicating and delivering value for an organisation’s customers (Kotler‚ Brown‚ Burton‚ Deans & Armstrong (2010). Although many earlier academics define marketing as merely a process of satisfying customer needs
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environment influence marketing strategies and outcomes The airline business is an industry that is competitive and unique‚ focussing on consumer choice and the responsiveness of airlines to changes in the external business environment. For any airline‚ this environment can be very complex as it is ‘hard for them to fully understand and impossible for them to fully control’ (The Times‚ n.d. p1). Virgin Atlantic is an international airline that is based in the UK. It was started by the entrepreneur
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1) Do you agree with Virgin Mobile’s target market (14 to 24-year-olds) selection? What are the risks associated with targeting this segment? Why have the major carriers been slow to target this segment? - As a group‚ we all agreed to this TM. We find this strategy suit extremely well with virgins advertising budget‚ as niche market will mean that advertising can be specifically targeted towards the target market rather than as a whole. Specific media vehicles can be used such as interactive
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Introduction With the foundation of Virgin Records in 1970‚ the first step was taken towards what is today Virgin Group‚ which in 2007 comprised 215 companies under its structure‚ in businesses as diverse as space travel‚ mobile telephony and fitness centers. Ever since the start‚ the image and culture of the Virgin Group have been so tightly linked to the personal image and personality of its founder‚ the high-profile entrepreneur and multimillionaire Sir Richard Branson‚ that it is
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