Benihana Case Analysis

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Q1. In my view, Progressive Corporation is pursuing differentiation strategy in the automobile insurance market. First of all, rather than competing with major insurance companies in highly competitive standard segment, Progressive chose to enter in high-cost, high-risk non-standard industry, which most of standard insurers were not willing to enter in. By tailoring its the demand of non-standard customers, whom have been ignored for a g time, Progressive occupied a unique niche with fewer competitors and larger demand. The uniqueness in positioning added value to Progressive’s service, and thus enabled Progressive to gain higher consumer’s WTP comparing with its main competitors in standard segment arena. Progressive, on the contrary, differentiated itself from its competitors by increasing service quality and providing value to its customers. Progressive’s efforts in providing better service to its target customers includes investing heavily in collecting and analyzing data, providing customer with wider choice of payment plans; using technology to increase to compare quotas with more convenience; implementing “immediate respond” system to realize /7. By doing so, Progressive earned a group of loyal customers for its quality services. Progressive’s superior value in its services contributed to high WTP of its target customers. According to the statistic in Exhibit 4, despite its highest underwriting expense rate and highest salaries and fees expense rate, Progressive still ranked first in net income rate among top 10 underwriters in 1993, which may statistically imply that its differentiation strategy generate high profit. Q2. Progressive’s strategy was to differentiate itself from competitors and control the traditionally high cost at the same time to create wider wedge. With this strategy, Progressive successfully built its competitive advantage over

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