International Expansion of a Multinational Company ---A Case Study of H&M Authors: Jun Li Maja Frydrychowska Abstract Date: Level: Authors: June 19‚ 2008 Master Thesis in International Business and Entrepreneurship‚ 15 credits Jun Li (1981-11-01)‚ China jli07001@student.mdh.se Maja Frydrychowska (1974-05-29)‚ Poland mfa07001@student.mdh.se Title: The International Expansion of a Multinational Company---A Case Study of H&M Leif Linnskog How did H&M go international and what factors did influence its expansion
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the board of directors of H&M to develop a business manual. This manual has to contain all the required information for a new employee to find his way through the company. We had to do research after a lot of points which where needed for the assignment. We had to do research about: the financial part of the company ‚ HRM‚ products‚ information channels. The information we’ve found was put into words and included to the ‘’manual’’. Most of the information comes from the H&M website itself where all
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Mauritz (H&M) was first established in 1947 and have since expanded internationally and currently operate in 34 countries (H&M‚ 2009). As H&M continues to expand every year‚ the following report has chosen Australia as the new market‚ where analysis has been conducted to provide H&M with recommendations of which market entry method they should adopt and the threats and issues they must overcome to be able to succeed. 1.0 - Country Analysis – Australia For the purpose of this report H&M (Hennes
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Human Resources The Human Resource is a strategic partner to H&M’s business. They set standards for recruitment‚ implement training and support the development and growth of their entire organization. The human resource planning‚ the recruitment and the selection is one of the major human resource management responsibility. All to ensure their have the right people with the right skills in the right positions – and at the right time. H&M’s goal is to be a fair partner to their employees and to act
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Export Merchandising HENNES & MAURITZ (H&M): Hennes and Mauritz popularly known as H&M is a pioneering apparel retailer based in Sweden known for its cheap but chic fashion. H&M is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing clothing retailers. The company is also a pioneer of ―fast fashion‖: a term used to describe clothing collections which are based on the most recent fashion trends on the catwalk but which are designed and manufactured quickly‚ are affordable‚ and are aimed at mainstream
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H&M’s value chain: The value chain‚ made by Michael Porter‚ is really important to see how a company structure is created. The value chain is constituted by two parts: support activities (firm infrastructure‚ human resource management‚ technology development‚ procurement) and primary activities (inbound logistic‚ operations‚ outbound logistic‚ marketing and sales‚ service). (Johnson et al. 2011‚ p.97-99) Support activities: * Firm infrastructure: H&M is present in 44 markets in the
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Personal development and methodology The motivation within H&M 08-10-2012 Picture 1 (www.facebook.com) Tabel of content Tabel of content 2 1.1 Introduction 3 2.1 Problem statement 3 2.2Delimitation/interpretation: 3 3.1 Methodology section 4 3.2 Reviewing theories and models: 5 4.1 Analysis 6 4.2 Motivation to reach the financial goals within H&M 6 4.3 Motivation within the CSR and the environment 8 4.4 Structure 10 5.1 Discussion 12 6.1 Conclusion 13 Appendix
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economy: TAX: Since 99% of H&M´s garments are produced outside of Sweden‚ and they claim that “H&M sees tax as an important part of its social responsibility”‚ it´s hard to understand why the company does not redistribute any profit to the producing countries. H&M avoid paying income tax in sourcing markets by coordinating all their procurement orders through representative (procurement) offices in the producing countries. According to Erik Knijnenburg‚ the Global Tax Manager of H&M‚ there is no commercial
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H&M is one of the largest suppliers of fashion clothes on the Danish market‚ along with Bestseller and IC Company. The Danish fashion market is a Monopolistic Competition market‚ and according to the theory‚ there is free entry barriers (new firms are free to set up a new business‚ if they wanted to). This is not the case in real life though‚ since the initial capital can be an issue for some people‚ the manager simply doesn’t have enough money to set up their company‚ which can be a barrier. H&M
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SWOT Analysis: H&M Megan Davis-Dhuyvetter Marketing Tues. 12:30 Strengths: The nearest H&M store is in Tacoma‚ Washington. That makes the commute from Olympia about 30 minutes. Many people make the trip to Tacoma purely for the shopping experience. The population in Olympia grew 12.2% from 2000 to 2012 and was projected to continue growing. The surrounding zip codes of the Olympia shopping mall have: $50k to $75k as the most common yearly income Ages 21 to 34 the largest age
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