...A Suggestion to improve HongKong Suning’s customer service 1. Introduction: Established in 1990, Suning is the top one appliance retail operator and E-commerce in China. It is the commercial leader in China. Among China’s top 3 privately-run enterprises. As the largest commercial retail enterprise in China, Suning Commerce ranks first among top 500 Chinese private enterprises with the brand value of 95.686 billion yuan. In July of 2004, Suning Commerce (Suning Appliance (002024)) was listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange, thus having become the first listed Chinese home appliance chain enterprise featured by IPO, with its market value ranking in the first tier of home appliance chain enterprises worldwide. It has 180,000 staff with annual sales revenue 230 billion yuan. At the end of 2009, Suning enters Hong Kong market through the cooperation with Citicall Hong Kong which had been incorporated into Suning’s business entity. On Mach 1st 2010, Suning officially launched direct headquarter in Hong Kong, naming Hong Kong Suning Commerce Co., LTD, which takes retail and trading of electronic appliance as its main business. By the year of 2013, Hong Kong Suning has total 28 stores in Hong Kong with nearly 600 employees and its annual turnover reaches HK$ 9 billion. 2. Marketing Mixes: 7PS analysis 2.1 Target Customers Hong Kong Suning targets at three types of cutomers: (1) Local customer. According to the statistics released by the Census and Statistics Department...
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...Suning and SAP HANA Suning is one of the few proactive companies that made an early shift to an internet-based platform. With such high volume moving through their stores, the ability to use big data was all but a necessity. Since 2005, they have been collaborating with SAP to build the largest centralized real-time retail system. Through SAP HANA, they have bolstered their value chain by making it more precise and timely with instant data and accurate results. Despite many peoples’ early reservations about the riskiness of trusting this emerging technology, Suning seized the opportunity to get ahead of the competition, and the reward for their firm was very significant. In terms of background, Suning is the largest retail firm in China, with over 1800 stores and 180,000 employees. Currently, their market cap is at approximately 470 billion Yuan (Bloomberg), which means that the volume that they move through their stores and online is immense. Their main industries are consumer electronics and appliances. In the fourth quarter of 2013, Chinese home appliance market value reached about 527.8 billion RMB (PRWeb), and the consumer electronics market is almost 1.4 trillion RMB (MarketSearch). Their largest competitor is Gome Electrical Appliances Holding, which merged with China Paradise Electronics Retail back in 2006. With the rise of e-commerce over the past five years, these companies sought ways to move large quantities of product from their stores and warehouses into the homes...
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...better than foreigners. So it is something we all take for granted: the locals can manage locals easier or build local ties better. In addition: Cultural exchange is a two-way process, after local employees working with foreign staffs, the locals can give suggestion to help foreign staffs to adapt faster. For example: There are two telecommunications companies want to expand business in U.S.. One is from India,another is from China.Indian company's U.S. division has been fully localized, senior staffs are almost all Americans, it has been deemed to come from behind global competitors after U.S. local telecommunications giant's did a strategic analysis. On the contrary, Chinese state-owned enterprise, all the senior staffs are sent from China. In addition to considering the Chinese market, U.S. telecom operators never consider the Chinese counterparts as a global competitor.[i] Therefore it is necessary for every multinational corporations to provide an...
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...An Overview of Mobile Phone Distribution Channels in China February 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 CHINA MOBILE PHONE MARKET ...........................................................................2 2 CLASSIFICATION OF CURRENT HANDSET DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS ..................3 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Conventional Handset Distribution Channels .....................................................................3 Conventional IT Distribution Channels...............................................................................4 Household Appliances Chains .............................................................................................4 Number of Distributors/Retailers ........................................................................................6 3 OPERATIONS OF CHINA HANDSET DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS ..............................5 3.1 3.2 3.3 Inter-Channel Relationship..................................................................................................5 Distribution Modes for GSM Handsets................................................................................7 Distribution Modes for CDMA/GPRS Handsets..................................................................8 4. 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 CHARACTERISTICS OF HANDSET DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS IN CHINA ........9 High-end vs Low-end Handsets ...........................................................................................9 Major cities vs medium-to-small cities ......................
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...research process. My special thanks go to the Logistics and Transport Research Group within Graduate School, the University of Gothenburg, for giving me the great opportunity to commence this thesis in the first instance. I am also thankful to my supervisor Ove Krafft, whose stimulating suggestions, guidance and encouragement helped me all the time in the research and writing process of this thesis. Special appreciation is further devoted to all the respondents in the interviews, for their openness and patience in taking time to answer the questions and providing me with relevant and essential information for my study. Without their contribution, it would have been inconceivable to make this thesis a success. Particular appreciation goes to Suning Appliance. In additional I am also grateful to my classmates in Master Programme of Science in Logistics and Transport Management, especially those who opposed on my work and posed their constructive suggestions for further improvements of this thesis. Last but not least, I would like to give my immense thanks to my family for their love and patience. Göteborg, May 2011 Wei Yin I Master Degree Project in Logistics and Transport Management Title: Reverse Supply Chain Management - Explore the feasibility to incorporate forward supply chain strategy into the reverse supply chain in electronic industry Wei Yin Ove Krafft (School of...
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...MEMORANDUM To: James C. McKeon, Executive Vice President – World Marketing From: Matt Bridges Re: Case #4: Best Buy Inc., Dual Branding in China Date: December 2, 2013 The Situation: The situation presented was Best Buy Inc., the number one retailer of consumer electronics (CE) in the United States, had acquired ownership in the Chinese company Five Star, the third largest CE chain retailer in China. The problem occurring from this ownership of Five Star was the international expansion of Best Buy and how it would be handled while expanding into China. In 2002, Best Buy had acquired 100% ownership of the largest Canadian CE chain retailer, Future Shops, in their beginnings of international expansion. Senior vice president, John Noble, was at the head of the Best Buy International and steered the company to implement a dual-brand strategy in launching Best Buy into Canada. What this means by dual-branding was that even though the two retailer were owned and operated by the same mother company, they went into a head-to-head competition as separate entities of the single companies. This was the first of this strategy that Best Buy had ever implemented and it was deemed to fail because the company was not used to this type of operation. But within the first year of full competition between the two brands, upper management had seen this tactic become very successful. In the decision of how to approach this situation there was much controversy on how this would...
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...Penyedia layanan pos Singapura yaitu SingPost telah meluncurkan konsep e-commerce futuristik lainnya dimana sebuah mal yang menggabungkan belanja online dan offline bersama di bawah satu atap. Mall tersebut akan berlokasi di Singapore Post Centre (SPC) dan dijadwalkan akan selesai pada pertengahan 2017. Perusahaan itu mengatakan akan ada fitur sebanyak 25.000 meter persegi ruang ritel yang tersebar di lima lantai. Akan ada bioskop delapan dan yang paling penting SingPost membayangkan mall tersebut akan menjadi masa depan dalam bidang ritel dimana pembeli dapat membaca dengan teliti barang di toko dan memesan secara online untuk pengiriman ke rumah mereka. (pengiriman dan logistik merupakan bagian dari SingPost.) Organisasi ini percaya bahwa menggabungkan perdagangan online dan offline akan menguntungkan kedua pelanggan dan pengecer, seperti yang dijelaskan dalam pengumuman hari ini: Seorang konsumen dapat mencari didalam toko, membeli produk dan mengatur pengiriman produk langsung ke rumah mereka. Kemudian konsumen dapat melanjutkan belanja, menonton film atau makan di mal tanpa harus membawa tas belanja besar. Disisi lain pengecer dapat menghemat ruang penyimpanan di toko sebagai pemenuhan yang akan dilakukan pada backend dari gudang. Ini tentu sebuah visi yang berani, terutama karena konsep mal ini akan menjadi yang pertama, meskipun secara online ke offline sudah merupakan tren yang memungkinkan beberapa pengecer fisik untuk memperluas jangkauan mereka kepada pelanggan...
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...7 2.2 The management of the website 8 3- The marketing of the website of JD.com, Inc. 8 3.1 The outdoor advertising and promotion strategies 8 3.2 The cooperation with brand shops and famous payment systems 9 4- The shortcomings of the website of JD.com 9 5- Conclusions and Recommendations 10 Reference 12 Introduction As one of the important patterns of electronic commerce, B2C e-commerce has a great impact on the development of the macro-economic and the life of the enterprises and consumers (Ayo et al, 2011). JD.com is a big online professional platform for 3C products in China’s B2C market, and it is one of the most popular and influential e-commerce websites in China. In the first quarter of 2012, JD.com ranked first in the independent B2C websites of China with a market share of 50.1%. How does the e-commerce website go so will? And why do consumers like to purchase on the website of JD.com? This report will first describe the distribution and development of the website, and then illustrate the management and the features of the website, next discuss the marketing of JD.com, and last indicate the disadvantages of the website, as well as drawing some conclusions and recommendations from the whole discussion. 1- The layout of the website of JD.com, Inc. 1.1 A brief introduction of JD.com, Inc. The...
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...Umeed Sherpa Critical Analysis Paper 3 Dr. Christopher Monos BA 3103 Section 008 4th April, 2014 Best Buy Hits Rock Bottom Best buy the specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States is no longer the all-powerful super store that it used to be. Over the last fifteen years Best Buy, like many retailers, is “competing with a perfect storm of disruptive technologies (Savitz 2)”; making it hard to compete with companies such as such as Apple and Amazon that are embraced with innovations. As a result, Best Buys 2012 financial performance fell subpar, with a revenue decrease of 2.4% in the brick and mortar sector and operating profit plummeting by 54.30% in 2012. The net loss of the company was $1,231.00 million for 2012, against a net profit of $1,277.00 million during 2011 (Global Data 1). Lastly, Best Buy appears to be having cash flow problems in terms of declining liquidity of $1125 million (41.28% drop) for the year 2011. It is obvious by these numbers that Best Buy, a company that has been historically successful, has been running into some recent troubles. In this report I will conduct a situational analysis of potential causes of Best Buy’s problems and identify the major causes for declining revenue, net loss and declining cash flow position. Revenues Declining Best buy’s main source of revenues is contributed from the US market (76%) out of which the traditional brick and mortar accounts for 94% of the revenues and rest is from e-commerce segment...
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... One of China's color TV industry, the changing course of Marketing channels 1.1 The reform and opening up previously Before the reform and opening up of China's color TV has not yet formed a complete industry, although a few companies able to produce black and white TV, but because of restrictions on people's living standards, only a very small number of urban households and even the 'privilege' home in order to spend household appliances, color TVs for the rural households is going to happen. During this period the basic characteristics of China's household electrical appliance is inadequate supply, color TV manufacturers in the market has the absolute right to speak. At this point, China is still in the planned economy era, the latter part of the planned economy to market economy, the gradual transition period, sales of color TV's main channel for delivery of five state-owned department stores at the same time starting from the nineties, to the individual in the form of franchise Business began to squeeze the profit appliance market. 1.3 an over-supply period (the mid-90s - present) During this period, after 10 years of rapid economic growth, people's living standards...
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... II. Wal-Mart in China III. Wal-Mart suggested business model in China A. General Analysis B. Suggestions I. The Chinese Retail Market China is first of all a demographic power: 1 human being out of 5 is living there. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council is in possession of the nuclear weapon and recently shoots down its own space satellites: this makes from it also a military power. As a matter of fact, China is replacing Japan as the diplomatic focus in Asia, and above all as the economic focus. Indeed, industrialized countries must take into account anew economic power and inevitable partner, all the more as it is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 2001. As a consequence, a good many foreign groups have decided to gain a foothold in the Chinese market, which is not an easy thing. We will firstly mention the opportunities and the obstacles which feature the Chinese retailing market. Secondly, we will try to establish a picture of this market, with its main current facts and figures. A. Analysis of the Chinese retail market China is today part of the WTO, entailing progressive liberalization of the market. Nevertheless, this does not mean that it has become easy to set up in China. There are of course numerous opportunities but those are weakened by the quite many obstacles. The Chinese market is today still an emerging one, which goes hand in hand with high growth rates. Indeed, China experienced an average...
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...recognized and well-loved brands in the world. It was trampled and nearly destroyed by the disruptive innovation of Apple’s iPhone and the massive success of Android OS in the smartphone sector. Nokia holds many of the key technologies for mobile devices, but lacked the foresight and leadership to seize the massive opportunity in the shift from feature phones to smartphones. (Patric, 2013) In order to regain its lost market share and return to the leadership position, Nokia created series smartphone called Nokia Lumia. In June of 2013, Nokia launched its flagship Lumia 1020 – the best shot at making a real impact in smartphone, according to Nokia. However the smartphone market becomes super competitive than ever before. Especially in China, the world’s largest smartphone market, Nokia is facing increased competition from both international and domestic rivals. In this essay, I will...
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...Best Retail Brands Founded in 1974, Interbrand is one of the world’s largest branding consultancies. With nearly 40 offices in 26 countries, Interbrand’s combination of rigorous strategy, analytics and world-class design enables it to assist clients in creating and managing brand value effectively across all touchpoints in all market dynamics. Interbrand is widely recognized for its Best Global Brands report, the definitive guide to the world’s most valuable brands, as well as its Best Global Green Brands report which identifies the gap between customer perception and a brand’s performance relative to sustainability. It is also known for having created www.Brandchannel.com, an international online exchange and resource about brand marketing and branding. For more information on Interbrand, visit www.Interbrand.com. For more than 30 years we have been creating retail brand experiences for companies around the world. Interbrand Design Forum’s talent for game-changing innovation spurred us to create a business model that integrates analytics-based strategy into what began as a design and architecture group — the first and only company with such a comprehensive offering. Our broad range of services includes: retail design, brand strategy, shopper sciences, packaging, digital, documentation and rollout. This unique ability to address retail’s growing complexity has led many of the world’s top companies to our doorstep and propelled Interbrand Design Forum to the forefront of...
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...APPLE INC IN RETAILING (WORLD) June 2014 SCOPE OF THE REPORT Scope All values expressed in this report are in US dollar terms, using a fixed exchange rate (2013). 2013 figures are based on part-year estimates. All forecast data are expressed in constant terms; inflationary effects are discounted. Conversely, all historical data are expressed in current terms; inflationary effects are taken into account. Retailing Disclaimer Much of the information in this briefing is of a statistical nature and, while every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy and reliability, Euromonitor International cannot be held responsible for omissions or errors. Figures in tables and analyses are calculated from unrounded data and may not sum. Analyses found in the briefings may not totally reflect the companies‟ opinions, reader discretion is advised. Non-Store Retailing Internet Retailing Non-Grocery Retailers Electronics and Appliance Specialist Retailers Apple Inc, goes from strength to strength thanks to unparalleled consumer loyalty and brand equity, superlative store experiences, a strong portfolio of products and a customer service strategy that sets it apart from its rivals. Lacking strong leadership store sales have struggled - sales per store in 2013 were flat. Appointment of ex Burberry CEO as new VP of Retail and Online is expected to provide much needed boost to Apple retail operations – both in store and online. STRATEGIC EVALUATION COMPETITIVE...
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...Wal-Mart in China Executive Summary Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the largest retail company in the United States and is larger than any other retail chain in the world. Wal-Mart is more than just the world's largest retailer. It all started with a simple philosophy from founder Sam Walton: Offer shoppers lower prices than they get anywhere else. That basic philosophy has shaped Wal-Mart's culture and driven the company's growth in the United States. This culture is most prevalent at the company's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Wal-Mart has had phenomenal success in the US due to a few key factors. First, a model based on cost control was centered around offering the lowest prices in the market, with an emphasis on beating any competitors’ price by an average of around 20%. Second, it targeted a niche by focusing on the customers that everyone else seemed to neglect, the small town shoppers. Wal-Mart started by concentrating on opening stores in small towns and introduced innovative concepts such as self-service. Their strong customer demand in small towns led to the rapid growth of Wal-Mart. The main reason for Wal-Mart's success in smaller towns was that it offered low prices and catered to the specific needs of the targeted consumer. The strategy was especially successful as it achieved instant market saturation leading to very strong loyalty. This strategy also helped Wal-Mart stay below the leading competitor’s radar while building up their competitive...
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