The Alliance Theater : A case study
Tutorials/exercises - 54 pages - Business strategy
Team Alliance initial objective is to focus on the key points that would help us gain more knowledge regarding the motivations and decision-making processes of the Alliance Theatre's 18-35 year old target market. Currently, Alliance Theatre's patrons are composed of 35-50 years old, more females...
The Thomas Cook case
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Thomas Cook UK had transformed its business processes in order to improve the profitability and minimize losses. The Thomas Cook management team developed a program to reduce costs and improve the margins and integrate operations. Behind this real case, I will go deeply into the IT consulting...
Clarins : Yesterday and today
Thesis - 28 pages - Business strategy
The aim of this document is to critically review the marketing and business of the company plan by producing a marketing strategy report (see Appendix). Afterward, we shall present a new strategy to address issues that have been highlighted during the audit. This report contains a marketing...
The case of Google
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Google Inc. is a company created on the 27th of September 1998 in the Silicon Valley by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. About 16,000 employees work for this company. Google's mission is “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful .” Currently, Google...
Virgin Mobil's proposed takeover by NTL
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
NTL proposed a £871 m takeover of Virgin mobile but was rejected, then a second proposition was made at £961 m. On the 3rd of April they announced a total of $1.66 billion for Virgin Mobile. The negotiation will be ready to receive both cash and NTL shares in a deal. Virgin Mobile will have a...
Understanding strategic decisions and impacts on service innovation
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
By network strategy we can understand that firms are willing to develop their networks and to make them denser, being able to offer always more and better services. For instance, Mc Donald's opens several new restaurants worldwide every day and tries to position them in strategic places....
SWOT Analysis - Starbucks France
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
Taking its name from a character of the book Moby Dick, Starbucks specializes in coffee retailing. It is currently the most important chain in the coffee industry. When Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, an English teacher, Zev Siegel, a history teacher, and the...
Business tourism in France
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Working in a family business, named DESERTOURS™, we perform in a challenging and competitive market: tourism. With twenty years experience, DESERTOURS™ is the 4WD and motorcycle adventure travel leader in the French market. Our company offers trips around the world, including Morocco,...
Identifying and evaluating strategic opportunities for the followers of a seemingly unbeatable leader
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
In the French market, the food market represented a global turnover of 134 billions of euros in 2004. In this food market, the leading products are vegetables and corn. The turnover of this specific market saw a growth of 6% just for 2004 and the leader firm for the European market is the French...
The SKF group
Tutorials/exercises - 110 pages - Business strategy
The SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions, and services in the business of rolling bearings and seals. SKF Group's main competencies include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. The Group also holds an increasingly...
Can Tesco expand and succeed in North America?
Case study - 30 pages - Business strategy
In the first part of this report we evaluated Tesco's international expansion to date, taking their main global competitors into consideration. Results showed that Tesco has one main strategy that they use to approach international markets. Although, the company uses a different entry method and...
A look at Electricite de France (EDF)
Thesis - 12 pages - Business strategy
There have been great modifications made in the organization of the electric sector in Europe. It is agreed that the sector management must change and must adapt to the requirements of the European Unique Market, and that the invisible power of the private market must replace the all too visible...
Escada: A presentation
Presentation - 38 pages - Business strategy
This presentation is based on the Escada Group and will help us understan the company better. The trend followed by the document is that the very first thing presented is a short introduction of the company. From there the presentation moves onto the time line of the company from 1976 to 2006....
Start-Up Project: FIBLUX
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
FibLux will be a fiber optics manufacturer and wholesaler. It will be a b-to-b company with a strength of 20 to 25 people. It will be based in Luxembourg. With low taxes and other incentives, it seems to be the best country for establishing our business. Furthermore, its strategic location will...
Business plan for the creation of an enterprise: Bubbles Inc
Business plan - 9 pages - Business strategy
Bubbles, Plc. is going to increase its offer by implementing one of the biggest stores dedicated to children in London and soon all around the world. All the products are designed to fulfill all the kids' needs. Since the kids are kings in today's society (2025), it appears that this market is...
Thai Polyester Company: A case study
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
Chimie du Sud was considering the opportunity to get involved in a joint-venture with Yipsoon of Thailand for setting up of a polyester fiber plant in Thailand because its textile division is facing serious difficulties in Europe due to competition from Japan and the third world countries. Chimie...
Kirlangiç business plan
Business plan - 25 pages - Business strategy
“Being a strong and professional company which has efficient, trustworthy and standard products and also being proactive to the customers needs.” Ana Food Company's mission statement is “To be a multi-national entrepreneurial group acting locally while thinking globally”....
Halifax in Ireland
Presentation - 14 pages - Business strategy
Halifax is the “personal” branch of the HBOS group. The bank is present in the Irish market for less than 2 years. The Irish marketing strategy is unlike the UK one (different service marketing mix). The overall objective is to become the 4th largest bank in Ireland by 2009. We cannot...
Nintendo Wii: Entering a new industry of simulation
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
In 1975, the world is changed by the creation of the interactive television. The components are packed with a 13-inch black-and-white TV set in a futuristic-looking cabinet. In this time period, the introduction of the first arcade video game comes about. However, the public found this new...
Brand study of Louis Vuitton
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
Asian market is a very good opportunity since the Chinese market today is the third one in terms of luxury (12% of sales), behind Japan (41% of sales) and the USA (17%). What is more, Indians doubled their buying power between 1999 and 2003. Another point that needs to be explained in the...
The future for the French customer loyalty programs
Thesis - 15 pages - Business strategy
In a context of globalization, companies need to be very competitive and to find the best way to be more and more attractive. In France and all over the world strategy marketing is nowadays a priority for companies according to Lefébure and Venture (2005). Brand loyalty programs are good examples...
Microsoft vs. Netscape: The war of browsers
Thesis - 2 pages - Business strategy
In the middle of the 90's, a large-scale scandal shook the new market of Internet browsers. The protagonists of this affair were Netscape, the pioneer of the sector and Microsoft, the Bill Gate's powerful firm. Beyond the conflict between both companies, this scandal is interesting because it...
The Coca-Cola Company on a strategic level
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays more than ever, with this financial crisis that does not seem to end and creates more and more losses every day, it is very crucial for companies to not only settle for a long term strategy but also a back-up strategy to face problems such as the ones they could face during those times....
Fnac.com: An example of a successful E-business strategy
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
I took Fnac.com as a subject for many reasons. The first one is that Fnac store are very developed in France which means, that they are one of the main actor in the compact and media industry in France. Since a couple of years and the development of peer to peer, Fnac had to adapt its offers if...
Moneo: A success or a failure?
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Moneo was one of the first three experiments with the electronic wallet (or e-wallet). In 1999, Modeus (in Ile de France), Mondex (in Strasbourg) and Moneo (in Tours) were launched in France by Société Européenne de Monnaie Electronique (SEME, which is made up of seven French banks -Crédit...
From a new organization to sustainable development
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
The aim of our proposal is to attract new customers and adapt C2D to the new market industry. C2D likes all companies in the world needs to adapt itself everyday to stay competitive in the actual market. The company image is important now more than ever and each company must find new markets to...
Why do people around the world are embracing Starbucks?
Thesis - 2 pages - Business strategy
Today, Starbucks is the first purveyor of the finest coffee in the world. Starbucks history began with the following interpretation: “more people needed to join the coffee bar culture […] smell the coffee and enjoy life a little more”. Starbucks started the in United States and now...
The German automobile industry
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Traditional economic theories say that there are a lot of factors for comparative advantage of a country such as the land, the location, the natural resources, the labor and the local population size. In the opinion of Michael E. Porter, a nation can create new advanced factors endowments. It is...
Decisions of investments in the stock exchange - The case study of Burberry
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Burberry was founded in 1856 in Basingstoke (England) by Thomas Burberry. So, investors can consider that the company has a unique heritage associated with Great Britain because many people consider that the brand represents an authentic British lifestyle. First, let's take a look at the history...
Tourism in Nord-Pas-De-Calais: Evaluation and recommendations
Thesis - 18 pages - Business strategy
The Nord-Pas-de-Calais is located in the north of France (Appendix 2) and is bound by three borders, the Sea, a border with Belgium and a border with the French area Picardy (Appendix 3). The surface of the territory is 12 414 km2 i.e. 2.3% of the French territory. Its littoral edge is...
