Case: Blue Nile, Inc., in 2010 (case 9 in text) 1. How strong are the competitive forces confronting Blue Nile and other online retail jewelers? Which one of the five competitive forces is the strongest? Do a five-forces analysis to support your answer. After reviewing all the five competitive forces, my analysis showed that the weakest of the fives forces is the threat of new entry’s despite the possibilities of selling of a good with a high contribution margin, it is very challenging and expensive to develop a new competitor that could go head to head with Blue Nile and make a profit, let alone survive the competition.
The convenience stores and supermarkets are the dominant off-premise retail channels for energy beverages. 2) Does your characterization bode well for a new energy beverage brand introduction generally and for DPSG, in particular? It is very hard for new energy beverage brand to survive as one of the best beside the five most popular energy beverage brands: Red Bull, Hansen Natural Corporation, Pepsi-Cola, Rockstar, Inc and Coca-Cola. Those brands are well known all over the world and they invested a lot of time and money to be recognized as one of top five brands. The new beverage brand and generally the DPSG will need invest much more money than they
To users, it seemed as though synthetic marijuana was a safe alternative for getting high, because it was legal for a while, but it was actually the exact opposite. The drug is very dangerous to people’s health which a lot of people didn’t realize it the beginning. It also became popular and mainstream rather quickly amongst
Inputs have little impact on costs High competition among suppliers This plays favorably for Oracle. Power of buyers: The enterprise software industry has gone through intense consolidation resulting in few larger vendors. Oracle being one of them has positioned itself favorably when it comes to buying power of customers. Some major factors include - Buyers require special customization Limited buyer information availability Product is important to customer Large
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.
Research Paper Word Count: 1274 How successful can a company become before it is an economic danger for our country? That is the question a lot of Americans have begun to ask about the massive super store Wal-Mart. In a struggling American economy Wal-Mart thrives while smaller companies struggle and some even go bankrupt. There is always going to be companies that make it while others don’t, but when do American citizens need to step in and draw the line when one mega company like Wal-Mart becomes too powerful? With Wal-Mart using materials from other countries while its growing and expanding everyday it knocks out smaller businesses everywhere, which in turn hurts the economy and is literally a growing Monopoly in America, which we cannot
One more reason for good earning was their concentration on a niche market which other market participants didn’t value enough. This issue maybe source of risk or source of return from time to time but it largely depends on the economic conditions. In my opinion, the economy was better at those times for the small operating firms that they served and they did not had so many losses for that time. In brief, good service, safer loan portfolio and the market that they operated in has an important effect on the earnings of the company. b) GNB has lower credit risk as compare to its competitors because its loan portfolio constitutes from largely small operating firms who can pay their liabilities with their cash flows and collaterals are mostly second source of financing the loan in the case of default.
Threat of New Entrants: (“The high quality labor intensive creative and technological excellence, was difficult to scale due to scarce talent in marketplace and conflicting client needs”, p.1, para 2). From the above statement, it would be fair to infer that in the digital marketing industry (particularly in case of HUGE), economies of scale is nonexistent. Hence, there is no cost advantage that comes with volume. There are however a few barriers to entry for new entrants because of the “network effects”. (“JetBlue put Huge on the map and increased its credibility as a partner for larger business issues”, p.6, para 3).
Case Summary The case is about the La Shampoo, which is a high quality and more expensive product that has a same marketing strategy over years. From 1989 the line started to slowly decline its sales. Caroline, the brand manager wanted a new marketing plan to improve the sales and increase the market share, not to just keep the product remain on retailers’ shelves. Caroline has been assisted for the new ideas flowing in from Eric Woolf – Sales Manger & Beth Hansol – Ad Agency representative. The solutions suggested by both of them were given a thought but then Caroline wasn’t convinced about the way forward The case was also examined by five other experts, whose recommendations had potent in their own way.
I believe change is always good but not all that change that has been made over the past ten years. In a positive way, technology has advanced when it comes to the movies about our history are more realistic and people can relate a lot more. In a negative way, I feel the media period is destroying our younger generation. Children are “looking up to” their “role models” who are celebrities that are very inappropriate. Sex is about the only thing used now a days to sell anything.