business only in the home country or has a presence in many markets around the world. However, in a global industry, companies that fail to pursue global opportunities risk being pushed aside by stronger global competitors. A firm’s global marketing strategy (GMS) can enhance its worldwide performance. The GMS addresses several issues. First is nature of the marketing program in terms of the balance between a standardization (extension) approach to the marketing mix and a localization (adaptation) approach
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International Business ( Semester 2, 2014) * Topic 1: Context * Globalization: There is no agreed or consistent definition for globalization but the key features including: * Everything and everyone equal * Intensive and rapid flows cross border flows (eg product, finance) * Not just economic but social, culture also. * Implication for nation states (countries)- a loss on power for the countries on politically as well as economically. * “ Globalization is
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Fin573 Fall 2007 Manager: Suhardi Abadi Sector: Consumer Staples Industry: Food and Nonalcoholic Beverage Company: PepsiCo (PEP) Recommendation: BUY 70 SHARES Company Overview PepsiCo is part of the global snack and beverage industry. Originally incorporated in 1919, the company manufactures, markets and sells a variety of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, and foods. With a market capitalization of $120 billion, PepsiCo is one
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Flow of foreign direct investment: The amount of foreign direct investment undertaken over a given time period (normally one year). An example of foreign direct investment would be an American company taking a majority stake in a company in China. Stock of foreign direct investment: The total accumulated value of foreign-owned assets at a given time. For example, French enterprises have been significant foreign investors for McDonald’s; some 1,100 French multinationals account for around 8 percent
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EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS External Analysis There are two conditions that are most significant in McDonald’s external environment that are: 1. The new trend in which customers are changing fast –food restaurants to healthier ones. 2. The arising competition to achieve growth in this industry. The fast-food industry is very complex and saturated. The key success factors in APPENDIX 1 show that in order to be able to compete there is a need for research and development
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Economist readings 1. It pays to give Allowing consumers to set their own prices can be good for business; even better if the firms give some of it to charity http://www.economist.com/whichmba/it-pays-to-give?fsrc=nlw|mgt|01-12-2011|management_thinking [pic]IN OCTOBER 2007 Radiohead, a British rock group, released its first album in four years, “In Rainbows”, as a direct digital download. The move drew a fair bit of attention (including from this newspaper) not only because it represented a technological
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Industry Analysis: Soft Drinks Meghan Deichert, Meghan Ellenbecker, Emily Klehr, Leslie Pesarchick, & Kelly Ziegler Strategic Management in a Global Context February 22, 2006 Industry Analysis: Soft Drinks Barbara Murray (2006c) explained the soft drink industry by stating, “For years the story in the nonalcoholic sector centered on the power struggle between…Coke and Pepsi. But as the pop fight has topped out, the industry's giants have begun relying on new product flavors…and looking to
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Odak continued Holland’s effort in improving profitability and efficiency. However, he also pressed harder on expanding sales with more emphasis on marketing. The firm aggressively introduced new flavors and began to pay more attention to international potential. In 1999 food giants Nestle and Pillsbury created a joint venture to
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Dheepak on Retail STVP 2007-002 STVP-2007-002 [June 12, 2007] Organized Retail “Inquilab” in India Current Landscape of Retail in India The Indian government does not recognize retail as an industry. In India 98% of the retail sector consists of counter-stores and street-vendors.1 With no large players, inadequate infrastructure and a small affording population that believed in saving rather than spending, Indian retail never attracted the interest of large corporations. That was till
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summary We select Axiata Berhad as our research assignment and we focusing in Celcom Axiata Malaysia. In this assignment we will discuss on company introduction, internal and external factors and company strategy. The discussion is about company strategy that had been implemented, the benefit of the strategy and negative impact to the company. For internal and external, we use macro-environment or PESTAL analysis, porter five forces model of competition, value chain analysis and financial ratio to evaluate
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