...A company must get to know about the targeted market environment before it decided to operate internationally. There are the macro-environment that affects Starbucks marketing decision, economic factors, socio-cultural factors, demographic factors, political factors, natural factors and also technology factors. Economics Factor Being a producer of first-rate and specialty coffees, Starbucks requires a market that able to withstand the demand for the coffee. Starbucks marketing decisions for an economy with high disposable income that leads to high quality of life country like US. It is an example of a developed country that has the high purchasing power and spending patterns which most of the citizen in US are willing to spend more in return for a quality product such as Starbucks coffee. It shown that economic factors affect the business function and largely alarm consumer purchasing power. This requires an important market research about economic and financial stability of a city before they move it in. http://www.ukessays.com/essays/marketing/internal-and-external-factors-affecting-starbucks-marketing-essay.php There are two economics factors that help a company to determine if the country would be a good market, which are the country’s industrial structure and income distribution. Country’s industrial structure is referring to industrial economy, raw material exporting economy or subsistence economy of a country. These show the employment, product and service needs and...
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...is, “the monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination of information from the external and internal environments to key people within the organization.” (Wheelen and Hunger, Ch.4, Sec. 4.1) Managers scan the internal environment for strengths and weaknesses and the external environment for opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses can be found within the company structure, as well as the employee pool. Scanning the external environment can expose the company to opportunities not yet taken advantage of by other companies. This external scan can also bring light to threats from other organizations in respect to products, services, and costs. Starbucks was founded in 1971 when the first coffee store was opened, and became the competitive company it is today when expansion began in 1987. Starbucks’ mission is “to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time.” (Starbucks, Our Heritage, 2014) Internal factors affecting Starbucks’ product decisions involve environmental aspects such as where their coffee beans are farmed and the cost of those beans. If the farmers have issues with their beans, this limits the availability to Starbucks. This will force Starbucks to look elsewhere for their beans, which may cost more and be of lesser quality. If the price of the beans increases, this price will have to be passed on to the customer. The price of Starbucks’ coffee is currently quite expensive for an ordinary cup of coffee. Increasing...
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...5. 5. 2016 PESTLE Analysis of Starbucks What are you looking for? PEST ANALYSIS MARKETING SWOT ANALYSIS STEEP ANALYSIS BUSINESS PEST Analysis, PEST Examples GET MORE ANALYSIS Subscribe to our mailing list and get our articles and updates to your email inbox. Enter your name here PESTLE Analysis of Starbucks Jim Makos 1 Year Ago FACEBOOK 0 Comments PREV ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE PESTLE is a strategic analysis tool. It is often seen as the most effective analytical tools to analyze the Enter your email here impacts of external issues. It is an extended version of PEST analysis. Other forms of this tool are PESTEL, SIGN UP NOW STEEP, and STEEPLE. The acronym PESTLE stands for 6 factors which affect the business. The factors are: We respect your privacy Political Economic http://pestleanalysis.com/pestleanalysisofstarbucks/ 1/9 5. 5. 2016 PESTLE Analysis of Starbucks Social Popular Recent Technological Legal Environmental In this article, I am discussing the PESTLE analysis of SWOT Analysis Examples for Every Business Situation December 30, 2013 Starbucks. The constant global economic recession has dented the macroeconomic environment which Starbucks operates in. The recession has hurt the consumer’s purchasing power. Recent market research re䈠ects that consumers have not cut down on their coffee...
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...External and Internal Environmental Analysis Introduction Starbucks is a coffee company based in Seattle Washington. It was founded in 1971 by three entrepreneurs, based on the idea of selling coffee beans. After substantial growth, they decided to open five stores with roasting facilities and start selling coffee beans to local restaurants. In 1987 the company was sold to Howard Schultz for $4 million, who saw a different future for the company after expanding it to 3 more stores. The company suffered a financial crisis due to mostly to the coast of its operations overhead. Despite all of that the company was able to open up 870 more stores by the year 1996, and by the year 2000 it has already 2000 stores worldwide. Much of Starbucks success is due to its employee’s treatment, their training and the way they run the company without managerial supervision. They feel part of the company and Starbucks trust their decisions in running the business. This philosophy has paid back tremendously. Starbucks is one of the fastest growing companies in the world with stores opening in Russia, China, India and remote parts of the world like Africa and South America. Internal and External Analysis The SWOT analysis is a method used to evaluate the external and internal environmental factors affecting the company wellbeing. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. The Strengths and Weaknesses are part of the internal evaluation. Opportunities...
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...Foresight Exercise - W1 Assignment Company nominated: Starbucks Corporation (Starbucks) Outline what the Probable scenario might be in 3-5 years time. Then consider if you could predict the future by creating it; what would be the Preferred scenario? Outline what the gap between the two scenarios are and outline some strategies that could be used to bring the Probable outlook closer to your Preferred outlook, thereby gaining competitive advantage. The business environment is the internal and external conditions with legal, social, economical, political or technological character that affects the operation of organizations. Current Scenario: Starbucks Internal Environment: (based on 2008 to 2010 Starbucks’ information) * People: Highly trained Baristas. Employees are called “partners” and has power of making decisions at the stores * In 2009, the corporation had a significant restructure, review of stores portfolio (which included a closing of about 182 stores in 2010 and 659 in 2009), headcount reduction of non-store support, product waste reduction and stores labor efficiency. * Product & services: Launching and expansion strategy in 2009 of the “Seattle’s Best Coffee” coffee places and in 2010 the ready brew Starbucks VIA (instant coffee sold at Starbucks stores and grocery markets). There is a trends to keep launching on a quarterly basis new products, some of them different from coffee, such as Food (sandwiches, muffins, etc), and Tazos tea flavors ...
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...------------------------------------------------- STARBUCKS MARKETING REPORT OF STARBUCKS Module code: D001 Module tutor: Moitaba Institution: Nottingham Trent International College Group: Group B T number: T0030643 Word count: 1679 words (-10/+10) 1: INTRODUCTION Starbucks Corporation, an American organization established in 1971 in Seattle, WA, is a head roaster, advertiser and retailer espresso (coffee) around world. Starbucks has around 182,000 representatives across over 19,767 organization worked and authorized stores in 62 nations. Their item blend incorporates roasted and carefully assembled high quality/premium valued espressos (coffee), an assortment of new nourishment things and different beverages. They likewise offer a variety of espresso (coffee) and tea items and permit their trademarks through different channels, for example, authorized stores, basic supply and national foodservice accounts. Starbucks additionally showcases its items blend with other brand names within its portfolio of organizations, which incorporate Teavana, Tazo, Seattle's Best Coffee, Starbucks VIA, Starbucks Refreshers, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange and Verismo. Starbucks had all out income of $14.89 billion as of September 29th, 2013.2. (Starbucks annual report, 2013). This report will analyse on this business organisation (Starbucks) stating its PESTELE, SWOT analysis, customer analysis and proving recommendation according to the marketing analysis provided in this report. ...
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...Starbucks is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world.Starbucks was formed in 1985 and its common Stocks trades on NASDAQ Global Select market. Starbucks purchases and roast high quality whole bean coffees and sells them, along with fresh rich brewed coffees, Italian style espresso beverages, a variety of complementary food items, teas, and beverage related accessories and equipment. Starbucks also sells coffee and tea products and licenses its trademark through other channels such as licensed retail stores and through certain of its licenses and equity investees, they produces and sells a variety to drink beverages. The company objective is to maintain Starbucks as one of the most recognized and respected brands in the world. Its mission statement is: “ To inspire and nature the human spirit-one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time.” Currently Starbucks has spread its empire throughout the world with an estimated of 15000 shops worldwide and will continue to seek strengthening and establishing its brand to all parts of the world. With this scale of business, there will be many environmental factors that’s can affect Starbucks. Economic (The local, national and world economy impact): Economic growth- If growth is low, this will affect the sales of Starbucks as consumer disposable income will reduce to spend on luxury product like premium coffee. Exchange rate- Starbucks are affected by exchange rate as the value of currency in that respective...
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...Environmental Scan There are many uncertainties organizations face when operating their businesses. These uncertainties can be limited if organizations perform environmental scans for their organizations. Environmental scanning assists businesses in providing information from internal and external environments to the executives so measures can be taken to take advantage of the information and succeed. SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis is a key element of environmental scanning process which provides detailed information for the organization that can assist in growth and profits. Environmental scanning and SWOT analysis and how organizations use these tools to succeed and grow will be discussed in this paper. Environmental scanning is a process which monitors, evaluates, and disseminates information from internal and external environments to the people of the organization responsible of making decisions regarding growth and success of the company. Scanning the natural environment, societal environment (STEEP analysis), and task environment are the key elements of identifying the external environment. SWOT analysis should be performed to assess the internal environment of the organization. (Wheelen & Hunger, 2010) In scanning the natural environment, strategic managers must assess physical resources, wildlife, and climate. “The concept of sustainability argues that a firm’s ability to continuously renew itself for long-term success and survival is...
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...Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 1 2.0 Introduction of Starbucks 1 3.0 Current situation and Performance 2 4.0 Strategic position 3 5.0 External Analysis 4 6.0 Internal Analysis and Core Competency 11 7.0 Current Strategic Choices 17 8.0 Appendices 18 1.0 INTRODUCTION Johnson, Scholes and Whittington (2006, p.9) defines strategy as, “strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term; which achieves advantages for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholders expectations. Strategic Planning is a management tool that guides an organization focus its energy, to ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals, to assess and adjust the organization's direction in response to a changing environment. In short, strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future. (Adapted from Bryson's Strategic Planning in Public and Non-profit Organizations). The Harvard Business School contended that strategy could be a potentially powerful tool for linking business functions and assessing a company's weaknesses and strengths in relationship to its competitors' strengths and weaknesses. This can be evaluated using various management analysis as such PESTLE, Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT, TOWS, CPM...
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...The Internal and External Factors Affecting Starbucks Decision-Making By Deryl McKnight June 29, 2014 MGT 230 / Prof. Ronald Sprague Globalization’s Effect on Starbucks’ Management Functions In 1987, Starbucks started as a single coffee shop on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street in Seattle, WA (Business Week, 2002). In the following fifteen years, the company grew to nearly 5,700 outlets in 28 countries. In order for this to happen, many changes needed to take place in both thinking and management strategies. Globalization affects the four functions of management in many ways. When reaching out to a global market, Starbucks needed to make changes to how they planned and organized their strategies; they also needed to take the many different business cultures into account when leading and implementing these new management strategies. When analysts gave Starbucks two years at most before it saturated the U.S. market, they needed to formulate a plan to branch out to international markets. Using the first function of management, planning, Starbucks’ managers came up with plans to expand into other countries by working with local partners in those areas. By hiring managers and workers from the local workforce, Starbucks gave foreign stores a local face for their respective areas and also allowed for each location to be managed by someone who would know that culture and be able to adapt the Starbucks ideology into it. Letting local managers handle the everyday workings...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION Name : Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) Headquarters : Seattle, Washington, U.S. Employees : 176,000 in 2008 Revenue for 2008 : US$10.383 billion CEO : Howard Schultz (Founder of Starbucks coffeehouse) Starbucks Corporation is an international coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 16,120 stores in 49 countries, including around 11,000 in the United States, followed by nearly 1,000 in Canada and more than 800 in Japan. Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, espresso-based hot drinks, other hot and cold drinks, snacks, and items such as mugs and coffee beans. Through the Starbucks Entertainment division and Hear Music brand, the company also markets books, music, and film. Many of the company's products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand ice cream and coffee are also offered at grocery stores. Starbucks’ Italian style coffee, espresso beverages, teas, pastries and confections had made Starbucks one of the greatest retailing stories of recent history and world’s biggest specialty coffee chain. In 2003, Starbucks made the fortune 500. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY 1.1.1 Era before Howard Schultz In 1971, three academics, English Teacher Jerry Baldwin, History Teacher Zel Siegel and writer Gordon Bowker opened Starbucks Coffee, Tea and Spice in Touristy Pikes Place Market in Seattle. The three were inspired...
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...organisations making strategies by helping them understand the external environment in which they operate now and will operate in the future. It is a method of examining the many different external factors affecting an organisation - the outside influences on success or failure The PESTLE analysis will be used to identify and understand the important factors Starbucks must consider in all areas of the business. Political: * Taxation policy - high taxation imposed on farmers in those countries producing the coffee bean will usually mean Starbucks pay a higher price for the coffee they purchase. Any fluctuations in taxation levels in the industry are almost certainly ultimately passed on to the consumer. Recently (June 13, 2003) Tanzania's Minister of Finance harmonized and rationalized local government taxation to boost rural productivity of the coffee bean. Tax was lowered for these 'small holder' farmers and this saving will have been passed on to purchasers of coffee like Starbucks. * Deregulation - A decade ago, the USA pulled out of the ICA (international Coffee Agreement) that set export quotas for producing nations and kept the price of coffee fairly stable. Coffee quotas and price controls ended. Since the deregulation farmers have suffered and their earnings have dropped. Many have struggled to make a living so have given up. * International trade regulations/tariffs - Trade issues will affect Starbucks predominantly when exporting and importing goods. When another...
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...people in the region to attract people to it, so it makes a lot of advertising and also attractive advertising; to attract customers to Etisalat from all around the areas where its services are able to reach. 3. People Orientation: • People orientation in Etisalat is high. People working in Etisalat, work under one condition which is to achieve the organizational goal (satisfy the customer needs with lowest cost and price possible). Also there are many other factors affecting the people working in Etisalat Company, such as a suitable working environment, which has a big role in making the employees work efficiently and friendly with each other. Also salaries earned by the ope operating staff is a factor of great importance that greatly affects people orientation in the company, because salaries are not suitable, chances of employee's efficiency to decrease is likely high. The third important factor is the Incentives that employees get provided with. Incentives must be high in order to encourage staff to work. These factors are all achieved by Etisalat in order to increase and attain the highest level of people orientation possible. Etisalat's provides special offers to its employees, to improve their working mood and provide a sense of satisfaction in...
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... Introduction Starbucks has been leading the coffee shop market in more than 40 years now. It has always been the place to find the world's best coffees. Its first store was founded at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It has given a positive outcome so they serve consumers all over the world. The success of Starbucks coffee had come this far because they expand their operation and services and didn't limit their products. They sell not just coffee but tea, pastries, frappuccino, beverages and smoothies as well. Starbucks is the largest coffee house company in the world ahead of UK rival Costa Coffee, with 22, 551 stores in 65 countries and territories, including 12, 739 in Canada, 1,117 in Japan and 830 in the United Kingdom. From Starbuck' founding in 1971 as Seattle coffee bean roaster and retailer, the company has expanded rapidly. Between 1987 and 2007, Starbucks opened on average two new stores every day. Starbucks had been profitable as a local company in Seattle in early 1980's but lost money on its late 1989's expansion into the Midwest and British Columbia. Its fortune did not reverse until the fiscal year of 1989-1990, when it registered a small profit of $812, 000. By the time it expanded into California in 1991 it had become it trendy. The first store outside the United States or Canada opened in Tokyo in 1996, and overseas stores now constitute almost one third of Starbucks' stores. The company planned to open a net...
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...March 20, 2014 GBA 490-005 Written Case #2: Panera Bread Company Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………….Page 3 Recommendations and Justification……………………………………..Page 4-5 Appendix…………………………………………………………………..Page 5 External Analysis of Industry Exhibit 1: Economic Characteristics & Driving Forces…………….Page 5 Exhibit 2: PESTEL Analysis……………………………………… .Page 7 Exhibit 3: Five Forces Analysis…………………………………….Page 8 Exhibit 4: Key Success Factors……………………………………..Page 9 Exhibit 5: Driving Forces…….……………………………………..Page 10 Internal Analysis of Yammer Exhibit 6: VRIN(E)……………………………………………… …Page 11 Exhibit 7: Weighted Competitive Strength Analysis.…. …………...Page 12 Exhibit 8: SWOT(TOWS)…………………………………………...Page 13 Exhibit 9: Strategic Group Map……………………………………..Page 14 Exhibit 10: Financial Analysis………………………………………Page 15 Executive Summary In 1981, Louis Kane and Ron Saich founded a bakery-café named Au Bon Pain that were opened up in airports, shopping centers, and malls throughout the east coast. Au Bon Pain found stiff competition from fast-food competitors, so they initiated a company overhaul and opened re-concepted restaurants which would soon become nation-wide. In August of 1998 they announced the sale of Au Bon Pain for $73 million in cash and the company changed its name to Panera Bread Company. Panera Bread Company was founded during a time of growth in the economy when customers were more willing to spend the few extra...
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