Threat of New Entrants is weak. Entry barriers are high because of the economy, significant experience-based cost advantages, other cost advantages held by industry members (e.g., access to inputs, favorable location), brand loyalty (which comes from membership and other services), strong network effects and high capital requirements. 5. Substitute Products or Services is moderate. Warehouse clubs like a magnet for customers and pulling them away from other traditional retail channels such as supermarkets, department stores, drugstores, office supply stores, consumer electronics etc… All three warehoused club rivals - Costco, Sam’s and BJ’s – have similar strategies: Low prices, low operating costs, geographic expansion – Costco; Sam’s Club concept is to sell merchandise at low profit margins, which means at low prices to members; and BJ’s offers brand-name merchandise at prices that were significantly lower than the prices found at retail, supermarkets, dept.
In the short run, Kudler was able to maximize its profits and minimized losses. They were making profits because they were producing quantity where marginal revenue was equal to marginal cost and charged prices based on their demand curve. The demand for their goods was very high at first because they had little competition. Another positive effect of a monopolistic competition is that it promotes product variety and improvement. When Kudler makes business improvements, it causes their competitors to either imitate them or get out of the business.
Company G has prided itself on cultivating relationships with it's suppliers built on honesty, confidence, and allegiance in order to facilitate profits for both parties. However, as popularity may grow for the product so too may the market and suppliers might consider increasing costs, in which case a fixed contract would be discussed. Threat from Substitutes – If the Little Wonder does prosper their may be threats from substitutes from larger companies that are able to produce a similar product on an increased scale thereby reducing it's price and making it difficult for Company G to compete. SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis has been done for Company G and the outcome is clearly positive. The details of that evaluation: STRENGTHS Dedication from management, employees, and suppliers 1.
As known that Costco is focusing on high quality of merchandises at relatively low prices, they have one condition in order to purchase merchandises at low prices, which is number of purchases. For example, to have one product that is cheaper than competitors they have to purchase more from original manufacturers. Therefore, Costco realized that they have to keep the sales volume to be high so they are still able to maintain this advantage. Because of this, they try to keep their slogan in customer minds that Costco has lower prices and they try to same membership money. However, there is a problem that Costco has to deal with is that their profits mostly from its membership fees instead its net income.
Most of the time the prices are higher than the rest of the other companies for product, but Zappos offers their customers a different experience. Zappos is able to maximize profits in this market because this company figured out how to dominate with their morals they have created. Zappos focused on how to provide wowing services to online customers. This is a company that knows they have to constantly change and embrace it. Zappos owners wanted his company to be fun and weird, making sure to stay adventurous with an open mind.
A monopolistic Competition market has many sellers and provides good substitutes but differentiates their products from other companies. The nature of competition in a monopolistic market focuses on marketing, special features and pricing (Colander, 2010). Kudler Fine Foods has only a few competitors in the market that offers the same products and service to its customers. This market structure has negative and positive effects. A positive effect of Kudler Fine Foods in a monopolistic market structure is that they lead in the market and can increase competition between companies and make massive profits by setting higher prices (Colander, 2010).
In a highly competitive business world, on a firm’s priority list is the subject of increasing profit and reducing cost. One might than pose the question, has this put them out of business (mom and pop store)? The answer is absolutely not, but rather, they too benefit from cheaper prices as they continue to buy in bulk and continue to operate as the name suggest, convenient
Vender’s sale anything from automotive parts, electronics, medical supplies, office supplies and the list goes on. Huffman Trucking has divided their database of customers into two portions which include type S (small accounts) and type L (large accounts). The large accounts are more loyal customers but are not as profitable as the smaller ones due to the competitive edge that many companies have to compete in to hold these loyal account holders. The smaller accounts can be walk ins, one time deliveries, or companies that only order once in a while. Both customer categories are a source of revenue and must be kept satisfied to stay in top ranks, and by delivering on time and having competitive prices they shall be kept satisfied.
The first red flag would be that they are competing with huge computer companies that can have anything a customer needs readily available to ship. While Keystone seems to be doing a great job keeping up with the demand of certain products, they are forced to charge the customers more money for those products. While this has not currently affected them, it could in the future and could eventually be a problem for them. Another thing is that although business is booming right now, computers businesses do very well when the economic conditions are good. There are reports that say the economy will grow over the next few years (2010), but there is a possibility that they could be wrong and that won’t happen.
They would work hard to succeed because they had less than the American citizens. They worked fast and efficient creating a large add to surplus, they create a demand for outside supplies, which is felt in every department of business. There is more supply and demand, which increases the consumption of coal, and helps expand the railroads. (Doc 3) Immigrants would also act as strikebreakers. This would help benefit businesses because if workers were to go on strike, they wouldn’t have to stop or slow down production.