SWOT Analysis Strengths The internal assessment of an organization begins by identifying the company’s strengths. A company has a competitive advantage over rivals when it is able to implement value-creating strategies using its own resources, capabilities, and core competencies. Ralph Lauren has successfully aligned their core competencies in order to meet demands from their customers and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors. Distinct Image and High Brand Recognition: Ralph Lauren is one of the most recognized brands in the world due to its premium product lines. With such recognition, Ralph Lauren has been able to expand its product offerings from not only men and women’s apparel, but also into jewelry, fragrances, and home furnishings.
SWOT Analysis Kodak’s strength and Competitive Capabilities Forças da Kodak e Capacidades Competitivas Kodak’s strengths can take several forms as follows: Valuable intangible assets: Kodak’s strengths were its brand equity and distribution presence. After almost a century of global leadership in the photographic industry, Kodak possessed brand recognition and worldwide distribution. Kodak could bring new products to consumers’ attention and to support these products with one of the world’s best known and most widely respected brand names as a huge advantage in the market where technological change created uncertainty for consumers. Kodak’s brand reputation was supported by its massive worldwide distribution presence - primarily through retail photography stores, film processors, and professional photographers. Competitive Capabilities: Prior to 1990s Kodak had invested huge in R&D. Moreover, its century of innovation and development of photographic images gave Kodak tremendous depth of understanding of recording and processing images.
Clorox also has a large marketing budget, an experienced research and development team and most importantly, brand recognition. Clorox can use their large market share to attract customers to new or improved products. Also brand recognition will be very important in the sale of the faucet filtration systems. They claim to have the best tasting water and according to their research, customers are more concerned about taste than removing contaminants. Even though the Brita products are a bit more expensive, people are willing to pay at that price for greater tasted water.
The basic necessities will always be bought by consumers no matter what the economy is doing. Companies within the sector do not have as much potential for immediate growth but provide steady growth over time. The relevant macroeconomic factors that affect information technology sector are economic, legal/political, technological, socio-cultural, demographic, and international. The economic factors that concern this industry include unemployment, consumer sentiment, and inflation. The consumer staples sector need consumers to be employed: so the consumers will have money to purchase more products.
Furthermore, in terms of business stream, Southland vertically integrated into businesses to ensure a favorable pricing and qualified products. It also worked flexibly with its business modes, such as franchising, licensing, and opening international affiliates. With its wide coverage of product range, easy access, continuous opening hours, plus its franchising strategy, Southland was able to expand successfully. Its operations dominated in the United States and Canada, and performed well in other countries including Japan, Mexico and Sweden. LBO: While the stock price before market was informed a restructuring was $55.875, the Thompsons and Belzberg could possibly
Target Corporation had announced their financial revenues to be estimated at $69.9 billion by the end of January 2012 (TGT Annual Income Statement 2012). As the organization strived to reach organizational benchmarks, Target supply chain played a significant role in providing all of the organization success. Overview of Target’s Supply Chain As one of the top leading retailers in the nation, Target has created a way too easily respond to the overall demands of the customers by proficiently refining the organization logistics of the supply chain. Some of the ways the organization chooses to become more effective is by enhancing shipment and transportation costs to create leverage on operations. By doing this process, this provides more value to the transportation networks.
Across its brands Smuckers aims to be the number one product in all of the product lines in which they compete. Smuckers expanded beyond jams, and jellies to protect it from becoming an acquisition of a larger firm. By expanding Smuckers has made itself less likely to be acquired by increasing its cash flow and size. Smuckers has been very successful so far in expanding purchasing number one brands and increasing both revenues and profits by large margins along with an increase in stock price. Smuckers decision to expand the business has been a successful one.
Brazo 1. Is Cheddar’s an attractive investment? Did Brazos underpay, overpay or get it just right in their initial investment? The proposed LBO deal of Cheddar’s is an attractive investment for Brazos because it fits into Brazos’ “sweet spot”- a reasonable priced company with solid cash flow and good management. Cheddar’s had always been profitable through that it had ever closed a company-owned store and had shown steady increases in sales and customer counts over time.
It represents one of the most successful retail stories. There are many levers which make Zara more special than other apparel retailers. (1) The main strength that Zara has is its operations, which depend on relationship between manufacturing and retailing. Communication circle is one of the most important parts in Zara’s process. The continuous business cycle began with the customer and good communication between store managers and headquarter.
Farnsworth Re-engineering In order to understand this recommendation we need to address two important decision criteria: a) Market potential; b) Profitability and Working Capital assessment. a) Market Potential Farnsworth incredible growth since 20071 onwards, has been primarily through decorative laminates and Mr. Thursday continues to believe this should be the company’s expansion route. This belief lies in two basic assumptions: i) Our current growing decorative participation in Farnsworth sales is a reliable prediction of the decorative market trend altogether; and ii) There is still a big white space in decorative laminates, specifically through furniture manufacturers, and we will be able to capture this share of industry. Even though our current growth trend is through decorative plastic laminates, it is unfair to correlate this to a similar