Equipex: Case presentation
Case study - 50 pages - Business strategy
Early 80s: Expansion of Activities in North America and Asia. Equipex's business grew with the establishment of small sales subsidiaries in India, Thailand and Indonesia. 1981: Establishment of Equipex in Karistan as a Joint Venture with a Karistane firm specialized in the same sector....
Strategic marketing in today's Indian markets
Dissertation - 43 pages - Services marketing
This study has been undertaken to study the strategic marketing trends in the white good industry, the growing competing among various white goods competitors and emerging scenario in the new millennium. The study reveals that though many MNCs have entered, their growing concern has been towards...
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...
A study on Ramee guestline hotel
Thesis - 35 pages - Business strategy
One of the biggest challenges facing a marketing researcher is converting a complex set of data to a form that can be read and understood quickly by executives, managers and other employees who will make decisions from the research findings. This has been the main purpose of the research on Ramee...
Should Lipton leaf tea enter the Brazilian market?
Market study - 60 pages - Economy general
Western Europe, Lipton's biggest market, shows a poor growth outlook in the tea market. The brand and other tea brands of Unilever are also present in other markets where the sales outlook is better, but are almost absent in Latin America with a unique presence in Chile. Nevertheless, this...
Marketing and the promotion of Bordeaux Wines in France and abroad
Thesis - 60 pages - Services marketing
In the past few years, there has been a new phenomenon known as the "French Wine Crisis". This industry of French wine previously known as unique and untouchable is nowadays confronted by an international competition that was able to adapt its products and features to a new kind of consumer and...
French cosmetics in the United States
Thesis - 60 pages - Business strategy
The establishment of new French cosmetic companies in the United States is an interesting topic to discuss in the current scenario. For many years, France and its beauty products in particular have always enjoyed a good reputation across the Atlantic that allowed young French companies to achieve...
Internet: A new pillar for the marketing of large distribution
Dissertation - 47 pages - Services marketing
Initially founded as the Arpanet, for military purposes in 1969, for some time, the Internet was reserved for researchers and academics. It functions primarily through a computer network connecting millions of computers to access and share information. Since the 1990s, the Internet has been...
Luxury brands on the Internet - between irony and opportunities
Dissertation - 81 pages - Services marketing
The image of the luxury sector on the market is that of selectivity and the scarcity. The challenge for luxury brands is to transmit a burst of accessibility while addressing a segment of consumers, who are the affluent class. Thus, the Internet, which is defined as a mass medium, seems to be...
Management of a terroir company: The example of the Burgundian cheese producer Berthaut
Essay - 15 pages - Management
The Fromagerie Berthaut is one of the four AOC Epoisses producers. It is located in Côte d'Or, in Burgundy. Since 1956, this cheese dairy has produced the “Epoisses”, a terroir soft dough cheese made with raw milk. Over the last ten years, the company's sales have regularly...
Reporting analysis: Daimler-Chrysler (1998-2006)
Essay - 21 pages - Finance
We assume for the analysis of the group that the impact of IFRS in year 2004 is insignificant given that IFRS and US GAAP are closed. Moreover a complete analysis was impossible given that we didn't have all the figures before 2004. From 1998 to 2006 we can see that inventories increased from...
A look at the Bass model: Report structure
Essay - 16 pages - Services marketing
Diffusion is a popular theory of communication used in marketing to model the first-purchase sales growth of a new product over time. As Mahajan et al (1990) put it diffusion theory suggests that a new product is first adapted by a few innovators who, in turn, influence others to adopt it....
McDowell & Company Ltd
Dissertation - 55 pages - Finance
The corporate exposure and learning program was undertaken at McDowell and company limited. McDowell's consolidated its position as the No.1 Company in the highly competitive Indian spirits industry with a market share of 26%. The company sold 21.22 million cases during the year and has...
Customer Relationship Management and the call centers
Tutorials/exercises - 60 pages - Management
Before we begin to examine the conceptual foundations of CRM, it will be useful to define what CRM is. CRM stands for "Customer Relationship Management." CRM is a business strategy and a collection of technologies that enable seamless coordination between sales, marketing, customer...
Direct marketing
Thesis - 28 pages - Services marketing
An interest rousing advertisement in the press entices you to dial a toll free number for more information on a great looking proposition. You find it hard to hold your curiosity and go ahead with making a call. At the other end, you hear a friendly voice who, with cultured interactive skills...
Financial instruments and documents that facilitate export import trade
Tutorials/exercises - 51 pages - Finance
Exports are vital to any economy, be it developed or developing. No country can isolate itself from exports in some form or other. Export performance is one of the main economic parameter of a nation. However, exports all over the world face tough challenges than before and Indian exporters are...
A study on spurious products
Case study - 29 pages - Services marketing
Counterfeit and Pass off Products - Counterfeiting is a kind of duplication where even the original manufacturer would not be able to distinguish between a genuine and a fake product. These fake products bear the identical name of the original product, its packaging, graphics, color...
Major trends in the domestic mid - sized car industry in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
The global automobile industry is undergoing dramatic change in recent times. There has been enormous consolidation, both amongst vehicle manufacturers and component vendors to achieve economies of scale product synergies and strong and presence. By contrast, there has been little or no...
Managing customer relationship and their financial aspects: Standard Chartered India
Case study - 33 pages - Finance
The objective of the project was to study the choice criteria to decide upon a bank for savings account and accordingly prepare the competitive update, i.e. Standard chartered VS other private banks to facilitate sales. The nature of the project involved a comprehensive market survey in...
Study of rural marketing in the present scenario in India
Market study - 53 pages - Services marketing
While we all accept that the heart of India lives in its villages and the Indian rural market with its vast size and demand base offers great opportunities to marketers, we tend to conclude that the purse does not stay with them. Nothing can be far from truth. Rural marketing involves addressing...
Seeff Properties: Marketing and strategy analysis
Thesis - 27 pages - Business strategy
Seeff is the premier South African property and Real Estate Company. Founded in 1964 by Geoffrey Steeff, the company has grown from a small family business to one of the leading professional property and real estate companies in SA. Today, the youngest son, Samuel Steeff is the chairman and the...
Export procedures and documentation in India
Tutorials/exercises - 74 pages - Government finance
India has a mission to capture 2% of the global share of trade by 2010, as compared to the present level of less than 1%. Export is one of the lucrative business activities in India. The government also provides various promotional schemes to the exporters for earning valuable foreign exchange...
Study case : sanofi aventis - published: 13/05/2009
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
Over the past few years, Sanofi-Aventis strategic decisions have enabled the company to reinforce its leadership on the international market. The company has grown by merging with competitors, it has increasingly invested in R&D, reinforced its presence on the major markets (the United States and...
Creating an application for proper implementation of wealth management
Dissertation - 101 pages - Finance
“ Without order nothing would exist, without chaos nothing would evolve “. As the saying goes nothing would evolve without chaos and nothing would exist without order, the same applies in the areas of business. Something new comes into the market to bring order and safety in the markets...
A study on the E-Brands and case studies of Amazon.com, Boo.com & Gap
Tutorials/exercises - 57 pages - Business strategy
Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the online world - an explosion that is also a harbinger of how business will operate in the future. Supply chains are being rethought, products and services reconfigured, and business models revamped. As such, the Internet is having a...
Basic concepts of CRM
Thesis - 23 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) refers to the methodologies and tools that help businesses manage customer relationships in an organized way. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a process or methodology used to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors in order...
Analysis of LG products in rural marketing
Tutorials/exercises - 36 pages - Services marketing
After the liberalization policy introduced by the Indian Government, a number of Multinational Corporation(MNC) came into India. Among the major companies, which decided to spread its tentacle in India, LG was the leading one. The year 1997-98 has been characterized a stiff competition period,...
Future of tobacco industry post tobacco ban
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Social sciences
Americans spend an estimated $51.9 billion on tobacco products in 1997, or just under 1% of their disposable income. Of this amount, $48.7 billion (or 94%) was spent on cigarettes, $2.2 billion on smokeless and smoking tobacco, and $0.9 billion on cigars. Cigarette production in the United...
A study on the competitive environment in the retail market
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Services marketing
The Indian retail industry is now beginning to evolve in the line with the transformation that has swept other large economies. There is a change a foot in Indian retail too, the liberalization of the consumer goods industry initiated in the mid-80's and accelerated through the 90's has begun to...
A closer look at the company 3M
Thesis - 28 pages - Management
3M is a well-established business presence in the 61 countries where it operates. In these, it has 109 plant locations and 223 sales offices. In Japan alone, 3M's largest single-country market outside the United States, the company's sales top $1.4 billion annually, and it...
