EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This dissertation set out to explore how the Internet is changing the brand-building environment, in order to identify the new sources of value, the new brand-building tools and strategies, and to outline the key factors that contribute to the development of a successful online brand. With power shifting to customers, the success of an online brand is largely determined by customer choice. The repeated choice of a certain brand by customers and business partners generates the transactions
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Case 5. Shiseido Company, Ltd.: Facing Global Competition • 667 INTRODUCTION Shiseido was founded by Yushin Fukuhara as Japan’s first Western-style pharmacy in 1872, and has shifted its focus back and forth between cosmetics and pharmaceuticals since 1915. Its strength in both areas has enabled it to weather the Great Earthquake of 1923 and World War II. It leads the cosmetic industry technologically, and has offered Japan many “firsts’’ in products. It introduced Japan to its first toothpaste
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Cider Making Marketing Strategy One of the most essential things that will be a factor towards the long-term sustainable success of your Cider Making business is setting out and implementing a successful Cider Making marketing strategy. Despite this, most Cider Making businesses do not have set out their Cider Making marketing strategy or, even if they do, it is not followed and implemented comprehensively. Cider Making businesses that have the vision to create a vibrant, customer-focused marketing
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Module Guide 2015-16 Module Title – Strategic leadership in a changing world Module Code – 6BUS1059 Academic Year – 2015/16 Semester - AB Module Leader – Keith Seed Contents: 1 Contact details for the module leaders (and teaching team) NameK.SeedS CullifordV. AminP.Mason | RoomM248 | Phone 01707-28400 ext 5589 | EmailK.Seed@herts.ac.uks.culliford@herts.ac.ukV.1.Amin@herts.ac.ukP.Mason3@herts.ac.uk | Office & Feedback hours. The module leader has two office hours per week
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cent share of total retail by 2011-12. In short, both unorganized and organized retail are bound not only to coexist but also achieve rapid and sustained growth in the coming years. This is clearly not a case of a zero sum game as both organized and unorganized retail will see a massive scaling up of their activities. In fact, the
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universe worked. Other examples seem less likely to have deep significance. A walking person who speeds up is making a conscious choice. If one stretch of a river flows more rapidly than another, it may be only because the channel is narrower there, which is just an accident of the local geography. But there is something impressively consistent, universal, and inexorable about the way things fall. Stand up now and simultaneously drop a coin and a bit of paper side by side. The paper takes much longer to
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geographic footprint, Avon continues to have significant growth opportunities. To capitalize on these opportunities, however, we will need to address the near-term challenges which have slowed the company’s recent revenue growth. In 2011, revenues were up 4% or 1% in constant dollars,* compared with the mid-single digit constant-dollar growth we have seen on average over the past five years. At the same time, Avon posted approximately $1.2 billion adjusted operating profit* and generated over $650 million
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pm Welcome to the new HBR.org. Here’s what’s new. Here’s an FAQ. COMPETITION Collaborate with Your Competitors—and Win by Gary Hamel, Yves Doz, and C.K. Prahalad FROM THE JANUARY 1989 ISSUE C ollaboration between competitors is in fashion. General Motors and Toyota assemble automobiles, Siemens and Philips develop semiconductors, Canon supplies photocopiers to Kodak, France’s Thomson and Japan’s JVC manufacture videocassette recorders. But the spread of what we call “competitive
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Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Breakout Strategy Getting on the Fast Track Staying out Front Breakout Dynamics Putting Vision to Work Being a Magnet Company Delivering the Promise Executing Breakout Breakout Leadership Appendix: case study companies Index List of Figures Figure 1.1 Figure 2.1 Figure 3.1 Figure 4.1 Figure 5.1 Figure 5.2 Figure 5.3 Figure 5.4 Figure 5.5 Figure 6.1 Figure 6.2 Figure 6.3 Figure 6.4 Figure 7.1 Figure 7.2 Figure 7.3 Figure 8.1 Figure 8.2 Figure
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