Virgin Atlantic Airways – Company Overview General Information Since it was founded in 1984‚ Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain’s second largest carrier serving the world’s major cities. Now based at London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports and Manchester airport‚ it operates long haul services to thirty destinations world-wide as far apart as Las Vegas and Shanghai. Virgin Atlantic has enjoyed huge popularity‚ winning top business‚ consumer and trade awards from around the world. The airline
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1) Executive Summary This report aims to evaluate the current strategic directions followed by Virgin Atlantic. Initially we discuss the organisation’s mission statement and identify how the vision of the company is reflected though the strategic objectives. It is established at CSR plays an important role one Virgin Atlantic as it is seen to have principles and high standards on acceptable behaviour‚ BBC News (2009). External factors are evaluated using
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É ( 3 ) MUHAMMAD ADAM BIN AHMAD MUHAMMAD ALIF DANIAL BIN AZMAN MOHD FAQRUR RAZZI BIN MD YAZID AZHANI BINTI LOKMAN FATIN NABILAH BINTI AHMAD SHUKRI Company Background Name of the business : Polka Cupcake Cafe (PC3) Address : Jalan Medan Pusat 2C‚3B Curve Business Park‚ Pusat Bandar Baru‚ Kawasan Perindustrian Bangi‚ 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi‚ Selangor. Telephone number :03- 89258462 Fax :03-89258444 Email : polka_cupecakecafe2014@yahoo.com Main activities :Make the new recipe of the cupcake
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Table of contents Introduction: 3 Competitive strategy of Virgin Atlantics: 3 Advantages: 6 Limitations: 8 Recommendations: 10 Constant analysis: 10 Hybrid strategy: 10 Competitive prices: 11 Value added services: 11 Conclusion: 12 Introduction: Today‚ competition in international markets has become severe and in order to sustain relevant position‚ organizations need to assume competitive strategies so that they can gain competitive advantages. (Rao‚ pp.185‚ 2011) The dynamic condition
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Besides that‚ PESTEL analysis will also be taken into account not only as a remarkable tool to analyze business environment but also as a supportive technique to utilize SWOT analysis. Moreover‚ this essay will shortly touch upon the Tows matrix as a sophisticated upgrade to SWOT analysis. However‚ the ultimate purpose of this essay does not stop at covering definitions and features of those analyses but suggest readers a vertical linear combination of the three tools to introduce a more
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Ansoff Matrix of Virgin Groups‚ McDonald’s and eBay Introduction Ansoff Matrix was introduced by Igor Ansoff‚ a Russian-born pioneer of strategic management and corporate planning. He was also the strategist who first identified the fact that competitive advantage in the market was vital in the element of planning process (2001). Ansoff matrix helps to define two vital factors for marketing: what is sold and who it is sold to. Therefore‚ it pertains on the products
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1 The TOWS Matrix --A Tool for Situational Analysis Heinz Weihrich*‚ Professor of Management‚ University of San Francisco This article has two main purposes One is to review general considerations in strategic planning and the second to introduce the TOWS Matrix for matching the environmental threats and opportunities with the company ’s weaknesses and especially its strengths. These factors per se are not new; what is new is systematically identifying relationships between these factors and
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Internal factorsExternal factors | Strengths: 1. Quality recognition. 2. Leadership positions for flour milling and film exhibition divisions. 3. Strong free cash flow from flour milling operations. 4. Shrewd management with proven track record. 5. Strong financial position. 6. Online system. 7. Cost advantage. 8. Employer relations. 9. Brand recognition. | Weaknesses: 1. Earnings are subject to prices wheat. 2. Less margin profit of flour. 3. Process-oriented R&D.
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289 CASE EXAMPLE The Virgin Group Aidan McQuade Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. The group included‚ in 2006‚ 63 businesses as diverse as airlines‚ health clubs‚ music stores and trains. The group included Virgin Galactic‚ which promised to take paying passengers into sub-orbital space. The personal image and personality of the founder‚ Richard Branson‚ were highly bound up with those of the company. Branson’s taste for publicity has led him to
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Atlantic Computers As Jason Jowers‚ product manager at Atlantic Computers‚ I am responsible for developing the pricing strategy of the new Atlantic Bundle. Atlantic Computers is a large manufacturer of servers and other high tech products. In our server industry‚ there are two main market segments and until now our company has only focused on one. The largest market segment is devoted to the high performance servers that traditionally are meant to run complex application such as scientific
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