The Garden Organic Restaurant: Business Plan
Business plan - 29 pages - Services marketing
The Garden, a trendy organic restaurant, and classified as a health food restaurant, will open in April 2005 in the city of London (England) on Jamaica Road. The Garden is a great place to eat, offering the blend of an intriguing atmosphere with excellent, tasty, original and good quality...
Business Plan Medco, 2009
Business plan - 12 pages - Services marketing
Motor insurance is the most familiar and widespread product of the insurance industry. With almost 300 million vehicles on the road, Europe has the largest motor insurance market in the world. The motor market is also the largest sector in non-life insurance business and it generated a total...
Producing coconut oil for industrial purposes in Madagascar
Thesis - 27 pages - Business strategy
As the Malagasy economy does not hold forth great prospects for the industrial utilization of coconut oil, we propose to create a company called "Enterprise for the Industrial Exploitation of Coconut Oil" to improve it. The objective of the project: - Ensure the development of the market...
SABMiller: Strategy behind the success in a hostile environment
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
There are very few South African companies that can boast of a history of 100 years. Despite this situation, SABMiller crossed the twentieth century in a country whose political system has a disastrous influence on the development of the local companies. The strategy carried out by SAB enabled...
An analysis of both micro and macro environments of Russia, Sweden and Spain in order to evaluate the potential to internationalize a DVD player product
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
This report will analyze the micro and macro environments of Russia, Sweden and Spain in order to evaluate the potential to internationalize in each country. Pennine Electronics is a small to medium size enterprise based in the UK and consists of 150 employees. Its incentive to internationally...
Financial Analysis of Carrefour
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
This report is the financial analysis of a EU-listed consolidated group, the Carrefour group. This company, operating on the retail sector, seemed to be an interesting company for us to analyze. Majority of the companies in this industry are characterized by a negative working capital requirement...
The absorption of Lucent by Alcatel (2006)
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Introduction For a Master CCA especially for the current tax-merger, we must prepare a detailed report that reflects a tax, accounting and legal perspectives on merger or on absorption. We chose to examine the case of Lucent and Alcatel. Alcatel acquired Lucent at the end of 2006. We thought...
Is the consumer always sovereign in the free market economy?
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Theoretically, the free enterprise market economy produces a situation in which the law of supply and demand, in conjunction with a competitive economic environment and well-informed consumers guarantees consumer sovereignty. The consumer possesses a significant advantage over suppliers...
Need for financial statement analysis in a computer hardware industry
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Finance
Financial management, as an integral part of overall management is not totally an independent area. It draws heavily on related disciplines and fields of study such as economics, accounting, marketing, production and quantitative methods. The scope of finance function was treated by the...
Amazon.com: Case study
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Amazon.com (AMZN) does not publish a public or known official mission statement, yet the company's mission and goals can be revealed by examining the concepts of Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO. Bezos has stated that the strategy at Amazon.com is to provide the customer with the best...
McDonald's and the McCafe Coffee Initiative: A presentation
Presentation - 20 pages - Business strategy
McDonald Canada opened in 1976, after a decade of operating in Untied States. McDonald Canada was the first McDonald restaurant to be opened outside the United States. McDonald Canada has 1200 locations throughout the country and 70% of them are owned by franchisees. Company's success is based...
An empirical study on the relationship between outsourcing determinant factors and outsourcing performance in Korea
Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy
The Outsourcing Industry has grown at a swift pace and evolved over time, and the Global IT Outsourcing market has shown signs of a steady growth. The domestic IT Outsourcing market is also no exception. The domestic IT Outsourcing industry is characterized by a bigger share of a captive market...
Cisco financial analysis
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
The computer network industry had undergone an economic slowdown of 4% in 2002/2003, after two years of sustained growth with two figures. Moreover, many computer network suppliers outsource their production to reduce their cost. As a consequence there were mass redundancies in Alcatel,...
Brand management - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 21 pages - Services marketing
In these modern times, we can notice that many managers prefer sales or operations instead of brand management. Indeed, this task is less useful in a basic commercialisation process. But they are wrong and we will prove the efficiency of brand management, which is the creator of more value....
The VSM Group: Company analysis
Case study - 8 pages - Management
VSM group has been developing, manufacturing and selling household sewing machines for more than 130 years after its first sewing machine was launched in 1872. It became an independent company after it was divested from Electrolux and acquired by the investment fund, Industri Kapital in 1997....
Analysis of Carrefour's failures and success (citing the example of China and Mexico)
Thesis - 12 pages - Business strategy
‘Carrefour', which means ‘Crossroads' in French, is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret. A year after its conception in 1959, its first supermarket was opened in Annecy in Haute-Savoie. Today, in the large distribution sector, the Carrefour group is the...
PESTEL analysis and Porter's Five Forces - Innocent Drinks Company
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Companies utilizing proactive approach cannot distance from conducting regular environment scanning to avoid hurried reactionary response to emerging trends. Performing a PESTEL analysis facilitates knowledge finer details of the external environment. In that view, the PESTEL analysis of Innocent...
SWOT Analysis - General Electric
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
Sometimes confused with the English company General Electric Company (GEC) or with the French company General Elektriks, General Electric (GE) is an American company born from the merger of Thomson Houston Electric Company and Edison General Electric Company in 1892. Its activities span several...
Risk management in the supply chain
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Risk management has become a strategic issue for companies since the early 90s. Risk management involves being able to control risks, or at least prevent them. The main objectives behind this process are: increasing the competitiveness of a company, and reducing the company's vulnerability to...
Strategy and organization of the Ford group
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
While developing a strategy, a company no longer considers each supplier, customer or competitor as enemies who will undermine its immediate benefits. Automakers around the world now share this vision, which is why they have completely changed the nature of their relationships with their...
Risk management in a supply chain
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The management of risks has constituted a strategic issue for companies since the early 90s. Risk Management involves being able to control risks, or at least prevent them. The main objectives behind this process are: increasing the competitiveness of a company, and reducing the company's...
Presentation of McDonald's strategies in France
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
In more than half a century of existence, this leader of American fast food has made a global mark and became the largest fast food chain, serving 46 million customers a day. It is a multinational company with over 30,000 franchisees in 121 countries, which recorded a turnover of $20.46 billion...
The concept of quality in the company
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The word "quality" is increasingly used in companies, whether in the industrial, food or even in services sector. There are many concepts behind the notion of quality. The concept of quality has emerged following the emergence of plants. The craftsmanship was in decline and mass production became...
Strategy marketing of the companies Carriere and Nivert
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
The two companies in this study are quite similar. The family canneries were created centuries ago in the Loire Valley. They preserve the same type of vegetables, and cater to the same type of customers. Their production methods differ and are targeted towards the upstream market. The company...
Study of the market of the pork-butchery in Germany (2005)
Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Germany is the European country which is the largest consumer of meat (86 kg per year per capita in 2004). This consumption remains relatively traditional and is evolving very slowly. This country has more than 82 million inhabitants, making it a market that is much larger than that of Belgium....
Basic elements of negotiation
Case study - 4 pages - Services marketing
The essential requirements definition must include a number of factors:-the reference product or service requested designation of the quantity and the manufacturer's name must not be forgotten. It is an important starting point for research by the buyer. The description of the brand will,...
International legal tools
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
An Italian company orders some chemical products by phone from a German supplier on the 12 of December 2001. On the 18th of December, a confirmation by fax of the order is sent by the Italian company to the German supplier. The purchase order specifies that the product must be in...
Kompan: Supply chain
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Now Kompan has a flexible production platform - modular product architecture, which is suitable for a large number of product variations . It enables the mixing of different components and creating different end-products, making the customization easier. A great advantage of this type of product...
The situation of the French energy market within the European Union: Case study
Thesis - 6 pages - Services marketing
Since its conception, the EU has been aware of the importance of energy issues. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, served as the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) as the foundation for the modern-day European Union. EU aims...
A study on GE's business strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Business strategy
GE Lighting is a leading supplier of lighting products for global consumer, commercial and industrial markets. Products include incandescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, halogen and holiday lamps, along with portable lighting fixtures, lamp components and quartz products. GE...
