VIRGIN’S GROUP CORPORATE STRATEGY DIVERSIFICATION 1. Introduction The Virgin Group is one of Britain’s biggest and successful empires in the 21st century. The company has successfully incorporated a great number of diverse industries under the Virgin brand. This includes travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ cosmetics‚ retail‚ and music businesses. Virgin has been able to dominate the British market and has therefore continued to rapidly expand into other regions such as the United
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Chapter 7 Corporate Strategy 1. Corporate strategy is concerned with ’where’ a firm competes (in which industries it competes)‚ while business strategy is concerned with ‘how’ a firm competes in a specific industry. @Pages and References: Pages 308-310 *a. T b. F 2. Product scope‚ international scope‚ and vertical scope are part of corporate level strategy decisions. @Pages and References: Pages 308-310 *a. T b. F 3. "How profitable do we want to be?" is the starting-point of corporate strategy
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CHAPTER 6 STRATEGY FORMULATION: CORPORATE STRATEGY Corporate Strategy Corporate strategy deals with three key issues facing the corporation as a whole: 1. Directional strategy- the firm’s overall orientation toward growth‚ stability‚ or retrenchment 2. Portfolio strategy- the industries or markets in which the firm competes through its products and business units 3. Parenting strategy- the manner in which management coordinates activities‚ transfer resources‚ and cultivates
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highly mobile‚ onsite remedial technology Exclusive right to use TPS technology in China‚ patent in Canada & USA till 2019 Highly liquid balance sheet‚ no long-term loan Weaknesses Scarce resources and expertise personnel (a limitation to high diversification) Opportunities China’s environmental agency’s expression of interest to go joint-venture Increasing environmental expenditure by China government ($162.5 billion) $725 million PCB & POP treatment market in China and more POP waste are expected
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Premises of corporate strategy Premises of corporate strategy • Competition occurs at the business unit level. • Diversification inevitably adds costs and Diversification inevitably adds costs and constraints to business units. • Sh h ld Shareholders can readily diversify themselves. dil di if h l The essential tests The essential tests • The attractiveness tests h i – The industries chosen for diversification must be structurally attractive or capable of being made t t ll tt ti bl f b i d attractive.
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Industries’ main corporate strategy is broad diversification through M&A. Cooper Industries acquired firms in order to lessen its dependence on cyclical natural gas industry and to exhibit stable earnings. Cooper Industries acquired firms that had stable earning‚ a broad customer base and proven manufacturing operations using well-known technologies. Cooper Industries had a good corporate level strategy of diversification. Copper Industries acquired both related and non-related
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Corporate Strategy Of Adidas SCOPE OF THE FIRM VERTICAL INTEGRATION STRATEGIES (EXISTING MARKET/ DIFFERENT STAGE OF PRODUCTION) A vertical integration strategy describes “The degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers” (Blackwell Reference Online‚ Vertical Integration Strategy). The purpose of vertical integration is to increase the control of the stages of development. In the early beginnings Adidas produced all the shoes and apparel on its own. Through
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problems between borrowers and lenders. It presents a characterization of the costs of providing incentives for delegated monitoring by a financial intermediary. Diversification within an intermediary serves to reduce these costs‚ even in a risk neutral economy. The paper presents some more general analysis of the effect of diversification on resolving incentive problems. In the environment assumed in the model‚ debt contracts with costly bankruptcy are shown to be optimal. The analysis has implications
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December 2013 Part A Question 1 Explain F&N strategies for its future plan. The first strategies for F&N future plan is to development new manufacturing facility. Manufacturing facility is to increasing the number of producing F&N product and services at new geographic areas. F&N plan to open new development in Johor Bharu‚ Kajang and Selangor. It is the part of F&N strategy to explore value enhancing initiatives for its existing land assets that are primed for development. The current geographic
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APPLE COMPUTER INC.: - CORPORATE-LEVEL STRATEGY REVIEW - A review on the strategy adopted by Apple Inc. at corporate level to ensure that the company remains at the forefront of the electronic media industry either in terms of innovation and range of products . EXECUTIVE SUMMARY An analysis was done on Corporate-Level Strategies adopted by Apple Computer Inc. (“Apple Computer”) that has brought tremendous success to the firm since it started. Apple Computer started off in 1976 by Steve Jobs
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