The Ikea site visit : organisation of Saint Quentin Fallavier platform
Case study - 16 pages - Logistics
IKEA is a privately held international low-cost home-furnishings retailer. It was founded in 1943 in Sweden by Ingvar Kamprad, but is now owned by a Dutch-registered foundation, which is still controlled by the Kamprad family. This foundation, whose offices are in the Netherlands,...
Human Resources department of IKEA
Essay - 38 pages - Human resources
Since it was registered as a corporation in 1943, IKEA has developed into an international group, present in approximately 43 countries. IKEA gets its name from the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, located in Småland, Sweden. Ingvar Kamprad was just 17 when he registered...
The market of the cosmetics and essential oils in Northern Europe
Market study - 15 pages - Services marketing
This study presents the main characteristics of the market for cosmetics and essential oils in northern Europe. The targeted countries are Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Initially, the general characteristics of the markets will be studied and then a more detailed analysis on...
The Strategy of the Ikea group
Essay - 16 pages - Business strategy
In 1943, Ingvar Kamprad, a young Swede, finished his studies. He soon created a small company which he called IKEA. The acronym IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) is composed of the initials of his name, the name of his parent's farm and the name of his village. In the beginning, the...
Harald Bluetooth and the Jelling Stones
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Medieval history
The custom of erecting rune stones to commemorate the dead was a fashion that became predominant during the latter years of the Viking age, with the high period starting around 950 AD and continuing for the following 80 years in Denmark, Norway, and southern Sweden. In northern...
Competitive environment analysis: H&M
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
We chose to write our report about H&M for many different reasons. First of all, even if we focus on the French market, the fact that H&M is a global brand, operating from nearly everywhere in the world, both made us sure that we would have to analyze a very strong and efficient strategy, and to...
International marketing strategy: Ikea
Case study - 29 pages - Services marketing
This Swedish chain began as the vision of one enterprising young man. As a boy, Ingvar Kamprad used to purchase matches in Stockholm, and sell them to people in his native rural town of Agunnaryd at a discount price. Eventually, he applied this concept from matches to mattresses and home...
Creatinga strong brand - example of Green Home
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Green Home is a Swedish company created in 2001, it specializes in Kit houses, more precisely the mission of the company is to create and build ecological houses. The brand makes an authentic connection between its 'green' products and its sustainable business practices and policies. The...
Strategy of the IKEA group - published: 24/11/2010
Thesis - 20 pages - Management
Ingvar Kamprad, a young Swede, finished his studies in 1943 and went on to establish a small company, which he called IKEA. The acronym IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) is composed of the initials of his name, the name of his parents' farm and the name of his village. Initially, he...
Strategy of the IKEA group
Case study - 27 pages - Business strategy
Ingvar Kamprad, a young Swede, finished his studies in 1943. He quickly established a small company which he called IKEA. The acronym IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) is composed of the initials of his name, the name of his parents' farm and the name of his village. Initially, he...
IKEA: Leadership and organizational culture
Case study - 9 pages - Management
It all began in 1943, when a young man Ingvar Kamprad, 17 years old, decided to create his own company, starting from a reward from his father for having finished his studies. This small company located at Agunnaryd in Sweden has now become a major performer in the world of organizations,...
Ikea strategies in the marketplace
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
IKEA was founded in the late 1940s by Ingvar Kamprad, an entrepreneur from Sweden, who hit upon the idea to offer home furnishing products of good function and design at much lower prices than competitors by using simple cost-cutting solutions that did not affect the quality of products....
Strategy marketing of the Zara group
Case study - 28 pages - Services marketing
The clothing industry represents a steady 6%- 7% of household incomes. The sector is inevitable, and everyone from the most affluent to less affluent, spend the same share. However, the textile market is primarily a volatile sector, subject to seasonality and fluctuations of fashion. Furthermore,...
PESTEL Analysis - H&M
Case study - 6 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
There is no other company such as H&M. Both in terms of identity, business model and location, the group, founded in Sweden at the end of the Second World War (1947) by Erling Persson, has established itself over the decades to acquire a place now central to global ready-to-wear market....
The right to strike in Europe
Essay - 9 pages - European law
'A strike is the name given to a collective movement conducted at the initiative of all or part of the staff of a company, usually intended to compel employers to negotiate working conditions and pay (Law Dictionary). The right to strike presupposes that there is a contract of employment....
Analysis of Nokia
Case study - 16 pages - Services marketing
Nokia's history began in 1865 in south-western Finland, where the mining engineer Fredrik Idestam founded a forest industry enterprise. In 1966, the companies created by Idestam (Finnish Rubber Works Ltd. and Finnish Cable Works) merged to form Nokia Corporation. In the early 1980s, Nokia...
H&M's Marketing Analysis
Thesis - 9 pages - Services marketing
H&M´s founder Erling Persson, began as a buisnessman in Vasteras, Sweden. During a trip to the USA in 1947, Erling became interested in a new kind of clothing store that combined a high turnover of garments with low prices. Upon his return home, he opened the first Hennes retail store in...
Vattenfall Nordic Heat: Strategy and control
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Vattenfall is the fourth largest generator of electricity and the largest generator of heat in Europe. The company has more than 32 000 employees and is active in all stages of the electricity value chain: generation, transmission, distribution and sales. Operations are carried out in...
Reva: The Indian electric car
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
REVA electric car company is a joint venture between the Maini group and AEVT Inc. of USA. Other companies, world leaders in their respective fields, have also partnered with Maini and AEVT to design and develop key components for the REVA. Today, Maini is a multi-product, multi-division...
The entrepreneurship within IKEA
Case study - 8 pages - Management
We have chosen to use Ikea as the company in which we will base the analysis of this case report. The Ikea has been chosen is because we believe that it is a company which stems from entrepreneurial activities right from the beginning of its existence, to the present day. Ikea is a worldwide...
Harboe : implant a Danish brewery in the French market
Case study - 32 pages - Services marketing
To export beers in the French market is quite different than selling it in Denmark. The concept of the company is selling a very wide range of products. Due to the success achieved in other Nordic Countries we thought it would be interesting to see if Harboe would succeeds in the French market...
Logistics at H&M
Case study - 6 pages - Logistics
Logistics is a process that forms the heart of modern retailing. Currently, supermarkets are going through major strategic developments. Logistics is one of the key factors that can help them to improve their performance. Logistics involves managing the flow of information, material and other...
The case study of Ikea
Case study - 32 pages - Services marketing
There are a wide range of questions such as: How to choose the location of a shop, how to organize the shelves, which products to choose, how to attract customers to its point of sale, before venturing on a business. Understanding the distribution business is not easy. The specialists in the...
Ikea in Russia
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Entering Russian market has often been hard for foreign companies; Russia is well-known for being a tough country in business. Some of those companies may make it achieve a certain success, but success does not come easily. In the following report we will see how IKEA entered Russia and the...
Porter's Five Forces - Areva, the French nuclear energy operator
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
As a world leader in its sector, and the flagship company of the French nuclear power industry, Areva must defend certain commitments that allow it to remain competitive. However, it must also preserve its public image in the sensitive field of nuclear energy. It is also led, like most large...
Tobacco and Health
Presentation - 64 pages - Medical studies
Currently, about 46 million individuals in the United States are cigarette smokers, including 26% of men and 22% of women. People who are less well educated and/or have unskilled occupations are more likely to smoke. Smoking is responsible for about 430,000 preventable U.S. deaths annually. A...
Eurocamp : Proposal for development in Slovenia
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
Eurocamp is a UK-based tour operator specializing in self-drive camping holidays. The company was founded in 1975 and began with camping holidays in Brittany. Initial success spurred the managers on to expand the product range over the next 10 years to include holiday locations in South and West...
Nordstrom Inc
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
John W. Nordstrom was only 16 years old in 1887 when he left his home country of Sweden to fulfill the American Dream in New York City. With no English speaking ability and only five dollars in his pocket, Nordstrom had a hard time making ends meet by laboring in mining and logging camps...
Hedging international risk: Renault and risk management
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Renault is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. The group is well known for its motor racing (through Renault Sport department), revolutionary designs (for example: Vel Satis, Avantime, Megane) and concepts (namely the Espace, the first monospace to be...
A discussion of two controversial works of art : Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sure l'herbe and Olympia
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
A name associated with controversy in the art world, French-born artist, Edouard Manet, has come to be viewed as one of the founders of modern art. (Cole & Gealt, 1989). Born on January 23, 1832, his mother the goddaughter of Charles Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden and father,...
