presentation we’re going to tell you about the takeover of 1 big confectionery company. Leader in the confectionery market. We won’t tell you‚ which company it is but we’ll show you its’ product instead. Suppositions? NEWS: Cadbury VS Kraft Foods What happened to Cadbury and who was it taken over by??? After months of negotiations‚ Kraft (KFT) announced in 2010 that it would acquire U.K. сonfection giant Cadbury. The takeover bid was $19.5 billion. Background of Cadbury… Now a little
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KRAFT FOOD COMPANY Chapter I INTRODUCTION A. COMPANY’S HISTORY According to Frank (2010)‚ in 1903‚ there was a man named James Lewis Kraft who had begun cheese delivery service at Chicago area after he had been eased out from a cheese company at Buffalo. Every morning‚ he will buy cheese wholesale and resold it to the local vendors in order to avoid the cheese melt or spoil. The business was successful and several of his brothers who are known as Charles H.‚ John H.‚ Fred Walker and Norman
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Operational Effectiveness Is Not Strategy For almost two decades‚ managers have been learning to play by a new set of rules. Companies must be flexible to respond rapidly to competitive and market changes. They must benchmark continuously to achieve best practices. They must outsource aggressively to gain efficiencies. And they must nurture a few core competencies in the race to stay ahead of rivals. Positioning-once the heart of strategy-is rejected as too static for today’s dynamic
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Effectiveness Is Not Strategy According to Porter‚ various management tools like total quality management‚ benchmarking‚ time-based competition‚ outsourcing‚ partnering‚ reengineering‚ that are used today‚ do enhance and dramatically improve the operational effectiveness of a company but fail to provide the company with sustainable profitability. Thus‚ the root cause of the problem seems to be failure of management to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy: Management tools have
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The Haier Group The Company Haier Group started in 1984 manufacturing and selling refrigerators to the Chinese market. Under the leadership of Zhang Ruimin‚ Haier’s CEO grew a collective run factory into a global multi-national with over $12 billion USD in global sales. Haier produces a wide range of household electrical appliances‚ 15‚100 varieties of items in 96 product categories‚ and exports products to over 100 countries including Wal-Mart and Target. In just 20 years‚ Haier became the
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1. Threat of New Entrants - The easier it is for new companies to enter the industry‚ the more cutthroat competition there will be. Factors that can limit the threat of new entrants are known as barriers to entry. Some examples include: • Existing loyalty to major brands • Incentives for using a particular buyer (such as frequent shopper programs) • High fixed costs • Scarcity of resources • High costs of switching companies • Government restrictions or legislation Power of Suppliers
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Question 1- Five Major Food Groups Fruit Vegetables‚ legumes Lean meat‚ fish‚ poultry‚ eggs‚ nuts‚ legumes Bread‚ cereals‚ rice‚ pasta‚ noodles Milk‚ yoghurt‚ cheese. How many serves children and adolescents need each day? Children and adolescents | Bread‚ Cereals‚ rice‚ pasta‚ noodles | Vegetables‚ legumes | Fruit | Milk‚ yoghurt‚ cheese | Meat‚ fish‚ poultry‚ eggs‚ nuts‚ legumes | Extra foods | Children 4-7 years | 3-4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1/2 - 1 | 1 - 2 | Children 8-11 years | 4-6
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PORTERS 5 FORCES. DEFINITION OF ’PORTER’S 5 FORCES’ Named after Michael E. Porter‚ this model identifies and analyzes 5 competitive forces that shape every industry‚ and helps determine an industry’s weaknesses and strengths. 1. Competition in the industry 2. Potential of new entrants into industry 3. Power of suppliers 4. Power of customers 5. Threat of substitute products The Porter’s Five Forces tool is a simple but powerful tool for understanding where power lies in a business situation. This
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CRITICALLY ANALYSE PORTER ’S DIAMOND THEORY.APPLY IT TO EXPLAIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF AN INDUSTRY OF YOUR HOME COUNTRY. Overview of Porter’s theoretical perspective The theory of Porter is a study which works as a tradition that is related to the neo-classical economics with the nature of self adjusting nature of markets. The theory of Porter places innovation and industrialisation of geographic which is one of the number of theories for competitive advantages which aims at the process
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TATA steel strategy was to integrate the value chain of steelmaking to aid the growth of Asia’s bubbling construction economy. When presented with the opportunity (financially the government policies made it easier) to gain access to the other markets‚ they later acquire CORUS which was an established name in Europe‚ but were not cost effective in their operations (Tarun Khanna‚ Krishna G. Palepu and Richard J. Bullock‚ 2009). This acquisition provided them the right synergy by combing the low cost
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