...to determine the impact and consequences global forces have, by using the PESTEL framework. This framework is used to help form a strategic analysis of the macro-environment; the outside factors beyond the control of a company. It categorises the environmental influences into six groups: political, economical, socio-cultural, technological, environmental and legal; making up the acronym PESTEL. Analysis Political factors Europe has traditionally been seen as the centre of the beer brewing industry. However, the level of alcohol consumption is gradually declining. This is because many of the key markets within Europe are increasingly more aware of the social and health issues caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Governments are actively campaigning against the abuse of alcohol and the possible consequences of drunk driving, ‘binge drinking’, and the long-term effects related to health. These key factors relate directly to government policies and their decisions towards the European beer market. Economic factors As a result of government intervention, there has been a marked decrease in product sales in public premises. As people are more and more likely to drink at home rather than out to bars, the alcohol sales has shifted from ‘on-trade’, where beer is consumed on public premises, to ‘off-trade’, where beer is purchased by retail and consumed on private property (e.g. at home). This has resulted in the increase of supermarket sales, along with the added incentive...
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...Western European Brewing Industry Case Study Question: 2. For the breweries outlined above explain: (a) How these trends will impact differently on these different companies; and (b) The relative strengths and weaknesses of each company. (A) Impact of these trends. 1. InBev (Belgium/brazil) • INBev is a merger of two companies Anheuser and Busch and hold the top spot in the world’s top 10 breweries. • INBev is known for being the world’s largest brewing company through mergers and acquisitions and has a 25 percent global market share • By diversifying its enterprise into many countries outside of Europe (where the consumption of beer was increasing), has helped the companies continued success. • INBev are geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets and leverages the collective strengths of its approximately 155,000 employees based in 25 countries worldwide. • The corporation has a significant position in the Latin American market. • INBev occupies 50% of the US market and 50% of the Mexican market. • The company is established in countries where the consumption of beer is rising. • Revenue of 47 billion US dollars in 2014 • INBev has around 200 beer brands and continues to forge strong connections with consumers. The global brands included are Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck’s, Leffe, Hoegaarden, Bud Light, Skol, Brahma, Antarctica, Quilmes, Victoria, Modelo Especial, Michelob Ultra, Harbin, Sedrin, Klinskoye...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1; GLOBAL FORCES AND THE WESTERN EUROPEAN BREWING INDUSTRY DATE OF SUBMISSION: 09/02/2012 1. (i) PESTEL ANALYSIS OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN BREWING INDUSTRY The PESTEL framework provides a comprehensive list of influences on the possible success or failure of particular strategies (Johnson et al, 2008, p55). PESTEL stands for Political, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal. Political- Governments in Europe were campaigning strongly against drunken driving. This affected the propensity to drink beer in pubs and restaurants. Economic- Some low consumption European markets have been showing good growth. Pubs have suffered as a result of large supermarket chains such as Tesco and Carrefour who often use cut price on beer to lure people into their shops. The result was that an average of about 50 pubs closed per week during the recessionary year 2009. Social- There was increasing awareness of the effects of alcohol on health particularly in the UK. This led to a growing hostility to excessive alcohol consumption in pubs. Beer consumption in the UK as well as in Germany began to fall as a result of this. Wines were becoming increasingly popular as Europe was turning off beer. There was an increasing demand for Exotic imported beer more especially in Belgium, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands according to Table 2 of the case study. (ii) FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN BREWING INDUSTRY According to Johnson et al...
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...firm strategy has to be immediately fixed and improved to move in conjunction with the needs of the external environment (Stead et al., 2004). Understanding the importance of strategic management, the report’s purpose is to exploit supplied information from the case study “Global forces and the European brewing industry” to carry out the external environment analysis which uses PESTEL and Five Forces Models. Basing on the achievements from the industry analysis, a further analysis called strategic groups which based from strengths and weaknesses of four brewing firms is made to categorize each kind of firms. References from books, journal articles were used to providing proper prove for supporting the trend in the case. INTRODUCTION The case study reflects how international forces have influence on European brewing industry as well as how such breweries firms has tried to overcome the difficulties. Despite of the fact that the European governments have enforced some restrictions and carried out a campaign against alcohol, these firms still tried their best in order to increase growth rate via alliances, acquisitions and closures within the brewing market. Firms are focusing on broadening their appearances in other marketplaces while several of firms are mustering on innovating and branding their products. Furthermore, they also pay much attention to cut down cots, including...
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...Five Forces in Western European the Brewery Industry Porter’s five forces framework helps identify the attractiveness of an industry. The five forces are as follows; Threat of Entry, Threat of Substitutes, Power of Buyers, Power of Suppliers and the Extent of Rivalry between competitors (Johnson, Whittington and Scholes 2011, p.54). These five forces help to organize an industry’s structure. Originally, the five forces framework helped to identify industry structures that offered good profit potential. This was based on the belief that where the five forces are high, these industries are not attractive to compete in. Firstly, we will provide a brief background to the beer industry in Western Europe and then implement the five forces framework to assist in deciding the attractiveness of the industry. Beer Industry Background There is a long history of beer. As said by Benjamin Franklin; “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”. Beer is one of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages. It has a lengthy history and can be dated back to when the main method of making beer was by way of home brewing. With no sign in beer declining, it could be presumed that beer is in the mature stage of the product life cycle. We are focusing on the beer industry in Western Europe, choosing to apply the five forces to the larger brewers who have significant operations in the industry; Heineken, Carlsberg and A-B InBev?.... Competitive Rivalry within the Industry This force...
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...Global forces and the European brewing industry Mike Blee This case is centred on the European brewing industry and examines how the increasingly competitive pressure of operating within global markets is causing consolidation through acquisitions, alliances and closures within the industry. This has resulted in the growth of the brewers’ reliance upon super brands. In the mid 2000s the major centre for production of beer in the world was Europe; its production was twice that of the USA, which in 2003 was the world’s largest beer-producing country. In the alcoholic drinks sector beer sales are dominant: total sales across the world accounted for 74 percent of all alcoholic purchases (Euromonitor 2002). Although the European market as a whole is mature, with beer sales showing slight falls in most markets, Datamonitor 2003 reported that the alcoholic beverage sector grew at an annual rate in value terms by 2.6 per cent year between 1997 and 2002. Table 1 European beer consumption by country and year (000 hectolitres ) |Country | |1980 |1997 |1998 |1999 |2000 |2001 |2002 | | | | | | | | | | | |Austria | |7651 |9145 |8736 |8810 |8762 |8627 |8734 | |Beigium ...
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...SABMiller case study 2009. SIAMAK MOULAEIFAR 20207133 Introduction: SABMiller (SAB) plc is the second largest brewers in the world with brewing interests or distribution agreements in over 75 countries across six continents. The group’s brands include premium international beers such as Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Pilsner Urquell, as well as an exceptional range of market leading local brands also SABMiller is one of the world’s largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products. (The SAB Miller, 2009) Exhibit below provides a summary scope of SABMiller operation today. (Below figures refer to year ended 31 March 2009) Source: www.sabmiller.com The purpose of this report is to discuss the strategic position of SABMiller in 2009 (SWOT analysis), the SABMiller acquisition strategy in particular the acquisition of Miller in 2002 along with issues rose in acquisition. It will also set out to recommend a strategic development plan for future. The strategic position of SABMiller in 2009 Understanding the strategic position is concerned with identifying the impact on strategy of the external environment, an organisation’s strategic capability (resource and competent) and the expectations and influence of stakeholders. (Johnson & schools & Whittington, 2008) The strategic position that SABMiller has chosen to follow is to continue to protect and further develop its operations, whilst investing for growth in its international beer business, several...
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...The Carlsberg Group is a Danish brewing company it was founded in 1847 by Jacob Christian Jacobsen mostly known as J.C. Jacobsen. He established his first brewery on a hill outside of Copenhagen. J.C. Jacobsen then, decides to name the brewery after his son Carl and on the bjerg (hill) on which the brewery was built on. Due this innovation, Carlsberg played such a big part of Copenhagen’s history. In 1868, Carlsberg began exporting to other neighboring countries in Eastern Europe. The first barrel of Carlsberg was exported to a grocer in Edinburgh, Scotland. Within that year, the lager became very popular in Scotland and other countries such as India, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Jumping forward a hundreds years, in 1970 Carlsberg and another renowned Danish brewer merge together called Tuborg. Together the breweries developed their business with exporting, licensing agreements, and breweries outside of Denmark. To further their growing export Carlsberg and Tuborg combined under one name becoming the United Brewery’s. This combination has enabled their unique lager for global export as well as continental styles for both domestic and foreign markets. During that profitable time, one of the most important markets to the United Breweries was Great Britain. The United Brewery’s two main brands were at one’s disposal in essentially every European country. Moving into the 1990’s, export sales were declining both on Eastern and Western Europe, yet Carlsberg achieved modest but still...
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...Question 1 (i): Using the data from the case (and any other source available), carry out for the European brewing industry a PESTEL analysis. What do you conclude? Beer has been a part of the social fabric of cultures around the world for thousands of years. Even today beer ranks as the third most popular beverage in the world next to water and tea. Considered one of the oldest drinks, the origin of beer dates back to 6000 B.C. With low-cost strategies and lack of marketing and product innovations all created a very stable situation guaranteeing high returns on investments for most breweries in Europe. However, this situation has been changing dramatically and the industry has witnessed different brewing styles over the last decade. The market entry of large multinational breweries resulted in shrinking demand due to changing consumer preferences, the emergence of more aggressive competitive strategies and rapid changes in important distribution channels have created growing competitive pressures for European breweries. An industry that was used to stability must now find its way in an increasingly turbulent market environment. First of all, I need to evaluate the macro environment of the industry. The most suitable tool to analyze the broad macro-environment is the PESTEL analysis. In the PESTEL analysis environmental influences are categorized into political, economical, social, technological, environmental/ecological and legal aspects. It helps to identify how future trends...
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...most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, and is the third-most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is thought by some to be the oldest fermented beverage. The brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers. We estimate that the global beer market represented approximately 1.85 billion hectoliters in 2010, producing total global revenue of approximately $160 billion. The most dynamically growing regions have been Asia Pacific and Africa/Middle East, which have seen the highest real GDP growth. The highest density of breweries in the world, most of them microbreweries, exists in the German Region of Franconia, especially in the district of Upper Franconia, which has about 200 breweries. In 2012 the four largest brewing companies controlled 50% of the market: Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, Heineken International, Carlsberg Group. Using the PESTEL analysis, the political factors are the actions against overconsumption and the restrictions by government (prohibition, taxes), the economical factors are the cost reduction, rise prices of packaging, and economy crisis. The fitness and health, the face of customers drink more wine than before, and the demand for flavered beers are the social factors of beer industry. The technological ones are the new brands and flavors, the innovation in beer production, increase in efficiency, and the centralization of production and administration...
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...Reference 14 Question 1 Using information exclusively from the European Brewing Industry and SABMiller cases as supplied and appropriate models from the course analyse the external environment in which SABMiller operated in 2010. After conducted a series of cross broader mergers and acquisitions SABMiller successfully become the second largest brewer by volume in the world. SABMiller is now operating worldwide: Latin America, Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and South Africa. Nevertheless, the environmental condition and potential of growth vary between each region (Blee and Whittington, 2010). European brewing industry was one of the world’s major beer consumption regions. Recent years, the market has come into mature stage of the industry life cycle and demand is now decreasing (Euromonitor, 2010). PEST analysis and Porter five forces model are the appropriate methods to evaluate external environment on European Brewing Industry (Johnson, 2002). PEST analysis Political / Legal Governments were strongly against drunken driving, meanwhile, increasing the awareness of the effects of alcohol on health and fitness. This campaign has beaten beer consumption and furthermore shifted the selling pattern from on-trade (sales in restaurants or pubs) to off-trade (retails) (Blee and Whittington, 2010). European Union has...
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...position; it is important to carry out its Business external analysis; it is also essential to identify its core competences and capabilities as well as stakeholder expectations in order to successfully identify the company's strategic position. SABMiller's External Analysis: In order to asses SABMiller's external analysis; I have constructed a PESTEL analysis (appendix 1); Porters 5 forces (appendix 2); THE BCG matrix (appendix 3) and its competition Analysis (appendix 4). After conducting Porter's five forces of the Brewing Industry; I have found many interesting outcomes relating to SABMiller as the overall markets of the brewing industry aren't clearly attractive; its performance depends on the ability to expand its market share and exploit opportunities in the emerging markets. However, the brewing industry in growing markets, which SABMiller operates, is highly attractive but not for new entrants; it's especially attractive for the dominant players in the Industry; which in this case SABMiller is one of them. After analysing my Porter's 5 forces; it is conclusive that it would be extremely hard for new entrants to compete in these emerging markets due to the high dominance of the main competitors. I have also observed other good points such as the low level of power within suppliers; however the power of suppliers is increasing especially in USA due to the rising costs of energy and Aluminium but in under developed countries; it is conclusive that SABMiller has the overall power...
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...trademark of St. Louse-Based Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest brewing company. At the present time, however, Anheuser-Busch can’t market beer using the Budweiser brand name in every country of the world. The reason is firmly rooted in history: The European brewing industry dates to the fourteenth century. During the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bohemian was famous for its bee; beers from the Bohemian town of Budweiser were held in especially high esteem. A person from Budweiser would be known as a Budweiser; the same would be true of the town’s beer. While traveling in Europe in the mid-1800s, Adolphus Busch, the founder of Anheuser-Busch, became familiar with beers from Budweis-Budweisers, in other words. After immigrating to the United States, Busch married into the Anheuser brewing family; in the 1870s, he registered Budweiser as a trademark. Two decades later, in 1895, the Budejovicky Budvarbrewery was established in Budweis, and its beer was officially named Budweiser, “the beer of kings.” Adolphus Busch dubbed his company’s Budweiser “the king of beers.” In 1911, representatives of Anheuser-Busch and Budvar signed an agreement that entitled the European company to market Budweiser beer in continental Europe. The American company would have rights to the name in the United States and Latin America. Later, the name of the town was changed from Budweis to Ceske Budejovicky. In several European countries, including France, Italy, and Spain, Anheuser-Busch...
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...Company Overview 3 Executive Summary 5 Mission Statement 6 Vision Statement 6 Objectives 6 Strategies 6 Products 8 External Assessment 9 Competition 9 AB/InBev 9 SABMiller 11 Heineken 12 Craft Beer 13 External Trends 14 AB/InBev Trends 14 Water Management 15 Energy Use 16 Recycling 16 Government/Political/Legal 17 Economics 17 Internal Assessment 18 Growth Strategies 24 AB/Inbev Strategies 25 SAB Miller Strategies 26 Heineken Strategies 27 Craft Beer Strategies 28 Growth Strategy Advantages v Disadvantages 28 Space matrix 29 SWOT Analysis 30 IFE Matrix 31 Company Overview As the largest brewer in the world, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB/InBev) has had quite an intense but creative history. In 1852, George Schneider, St. Louis brewer and saloon operator opened the Bavarian Brewery. Four years later, he expanded into a larger location for his brewery to operate due to positive production. However, shortly after the second opening financial problems resulted in Schneider having to sell his brewery to various owners. In 1860, as the brewery reached a worsening financial position, William D’Oench, a local pharmacist, and Eberhard Anheuser, a wealthy German-born soap manufacturer, purchased the brewery and saved it from bankruptcy (Anheuser-Busch...
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... possibly dating back to at least the 7th millennium BC (perhaps prior even to bread), and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Earliest known chemical evidence of beer dates to circa 3500-3100 BC. As almost any substance containing carbohydrates, namely sugar or starch, can naturally undergo fermentation, it is likely that beer-like beverages were independently invented among various cultures throughout the world. Today, the brewing industry is a huge global business, consisting of several multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries to increasingly popular home brewing and is selling more than 133 billion litres (35 billion gallons) per year - producing total global revenues of $331.8 billion in 2004. 1. Carlsberg Introduction 1. History of Carlsberg Carlsberg was founded in 1847 by the visionary brewer J.C. Jacobsen. His new brewery located just outside the city ramparts of Copenhagen, Denmark, pioneered steam brewing, refrigeration techniques and, greatest of all, the propagation of a single yeast strain. J.C. Jacobsen demanded quality above all else and his innovations in...
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