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  • Kudler Fine Food Strategies

    Kudler Fine Food Strategies

    Kudler Fine Foods' Strategy Kudler Fine Foods, under the leadership of founder and CEO Kathy Kudler, is going through many changes in its strategy. Through Porter's competitive forces model, Kudler can grasp the need for advancement in technological functions to support whichever business strategy Kudler decides to choose. Although the choosing process is unknown, the apparent choice for Kudler is an innovative strategy. These findings are supported by Kudler's entrance into two new markets, catering

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    Essay Length: 2,288 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Strategy Clock - Starbucks

    Strategy Clock - Starbucks

    In 1970s, the first Starbucks coffee shop opened. After 30s years developed, Starbucks Coffee Company become the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee and owned more than 5000 coffee shops all over the world. Why Starbucks can work so successfully? I will analyze Starbucks and its strategies with the 'Strategy Clock'. The 'Strategy Clock' is based on the work of Bowman. It's a suitable way to analyze a company's competitive position in comparison

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    Essay Length: 798 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: July
  • Borders Express Advertising Strategy

    Borders Express Advertising Strategy

    COMPANY There are more than 1,200 Waldenbooks stores and Borders throughout the world. There are currently over 460 Borders superstores in the U.S. and 41 Borders stores outside of the U.S. In Great Britain there are 3 Borders etc. stores, and Borders Group Inc. has recently acquired a British stationary company by the name of Paperchase Products Limited with 65 locations. It is held as one of the Fortune 500 companies, reporting $3.7 billion in

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    Essay Length: 860 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Microsoft Acquisition Strategy

    Microsoft Acquisition Strategy

    Microsoft Acquisition Strategy Microsoft identifies potential acquisition targets under four categories. Using these four categories, we can evaluate the strategic fit of the proposed acquisition of Sendit: 1. Distribution partners Sendit acts as a distribution partner through its use of Windows as a base operating system for its mobile Internet networks. This expands the potential customer base for Windows, as each mobile network operator will essentially become an ISP with a Microsoft platform. 2. Companies

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    Essay Length: 832 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: July
  • Benetton Marketing Strategies

    Benetton Marketing Strategies

    Marketing Strategies Product Development and Promotion Benetton had a unique product basket with brighter, fashionable yet casual clothes. The market was clustered on the basis age and products were retailed under different labels and product names. The company's product list consisted of more than 2000 different item-label combinations. The major product lines of Benetton were 012 Benetton, Jeans West, My Market, Sisley, Tomato and Mercerie For each trade name, appropriate style of furniture and equipment,

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    Essay Length: 394 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • McDonald’s Operational Strategy

    McDonald’s Operational Strategy

    Overview McDonald’s is the chief global foodservice retailer with more than 30,000 local restaurants serving nearly 50 million people in over 119 countries each day. The example that we used as a guide is restaurant; the scope of business is fast food. The first McDonald’s was opened in May 15th, 1940 by two brothers Richard & Maurice McDonald. The restaurant first sold - barbeque ribs, beef and pork sandwiches. After a survey was done the

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    Essay Length: 781 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Top
  • Ll Bean - a Strategy for the Future

    Ll Bean - a Strategy for the Future

    LL Bean: A Strategy For The Future Leon Leonwood Bean, known as L.L., was born in the small township of Greenwood, Maine, in 1872. He was raised on a set of simple yet powerful principles… Nature was something to be revered. Family ties were a priority. Being neighborly was a matter of course. And "do unto others" was more than just a saying; it was a way of life. When L.L. launched his company with

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    Essay Length: 717 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Building Value-Based Branding Strategies

    Building Value-Based Branding Strategies

    Building value-based branding strategies PETER DOYLE Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Marketing professionals oversimplify the problem of building successful brands. As companies such as Xerox and Procter & Gamble have learned, brands can have strong consumer franchises yet still not generate value for investors. Brands that create shareholder value have to meet four requirements: (1) a strong consumer proposition, (2) be effectively integrated with the Ž rm’s other value-creating assets,

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    Essay Length: 397 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Artur
  • Continuous Improvement Strategies

    Continuous Improvement Strategies

    This essay will discuss how the FedEx Corporation strategically used IS to exploit the Internet to compliment their core business, and dramatically increase company profits. Based on this case study It will explain how formulating an IS strategy can help a company achieve its business objectives, and it will also discuss the importance of strong leadership and management support for the IS strategy. Fred Smith founded FedEx Corporation formerly known as Federal Express in 1973

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    Essay Length: 354 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • Strategies Rejected

    Strategies Rejected

    STRATEGIES REJECTED Sea Goddess Cruises, Limited (SGC) is obviously not accomplishing what it needs to financially to obtain a fair share of the market. There are a number of current strategies that will be reconsidered and rejected. Segmentation The first of these strategies that will be rejected deals with segmentation. Sea Goddess Cruises has not adequately considered enough segments in the market, which has been a major contributor to the lack of market share. SGC

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    Essay Length: 1,126 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Odyssey Strategies

    Odyssey Strategies

    Call to task: The call to task in the “ Odyssey “ was that Odysseus must first go fight in the Trojan War against his own will but after the war is done he must find his way back to Ithaca to see his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. Mentor: Odysseus’s mentors include Athena. Athena helps Odysseus through out the journey by making him look young and Odysseus prays to Athena because she is

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    Essay Length: 338 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Use of Brand Name as a Strategy for Gaining Competitive Advantage

    The Use of Brand Name as a Strategy for Gaining Competitive Advantage

    These days, it has not only become a necessity but a need for all the competitive companies to build around a brand image. Branding in fact is something that companies have to strive if they need to capture a certain share of the market place. “Branding is basically the process of creating a strong identity for an organization and it applies to both product manufacturers and companies that provide a service” (Khan, 1). We see

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    Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Investment Strategy Linear Programming

    Investment Strategy Linear Programming

    INVESTMENT STRATEGY REPORT Submitted to J. D. Williams, Inc. By Mizar Gonzalez Industrial Engineering Department Southern Polytechnic State university 404-519-2792 February 20, 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is our recommendation for an optimal investment strategy that would allow J. D. Williams, Inc. to maximize the annual yield of an investment of $800,000 in a diversified portfolio of funds. To find the investment that would result in the greatest annual yield we have formulated a linear

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    Essay Length: 2,304 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Edward
  • New Market X New Strategy = Cool Future

    New Market X New Strategy = Cool Future

    New Market x New Strategy = Cool Future In Naomi Klein’ article, “Alt. Everything”; the Youth Market is discussed and the strategies behind this market is analyzed by giving examples of the Marketing of Cool. At the beginning of the article referring to author’s youth experiences; it was introduced that in their cosmic counter-culture, teenagers get to be a part of a general consumption system while they believe that they are behaving totally against

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    Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Jack
  • Low Pricing Strategy

    Low Pricing Strategy

    Executive Summary The IKEA Group, one of the world’s top furniture retailers, has emerged as the fastest-growing furniture retailer in the US. To become one of the leading furniture retailers in such huge and promising market, it has set an ambitious goal to have 50 stores around the US by 2013. IKEA has 4 branches in Los Angeles alone. From 1997 to 2001, the revenues of IKEA doubled from $66 million to $1.27 billion in

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    Essay Length: 892 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Initial Strategy

    The Initial Strategy

    The initial strategy of the advent corporation was the intention of making products that were significantly different from other company’s products. Advent was an enterprise committed to the design and manufacturing of superior quality and high-performance products. Instead of competing directly with the experienced players in the market, Advent had the original intent to play it safe. The Advent Corporation had the idea of tapping the unexploited 5% of the home entertainment market which was

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    Essay Length: 298 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Yan
  • Marketing Strategy Pizza Hut

    Marketing Strategy Pizza Hut

    A SWOT analysis has been done to identify Pizza Hut's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats so that these factors can be taken into consideration in deciding whether or not to launch the new "Extreme Pizza." Some of the key elements of our marketing plan first describe the "Extreme Pizza." It will be the largest pizza on the market, with double the cheese and double the toppings. We will target the X and Y Generations, which

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    Essay Length: 4,776 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Coca-Cola Business Strategy

    Coca-Cola Business Strategy

    1.0 Introduction Coca-Cola has sold more than one billion servings every day. More than 10,450 beverages are consumed every second. The company achieved earnings of $4,347,000,000 in 2003. It is present on all seven continents and is recognized by 94% of the world population. How did Coca-Cola grow from its humble roots as a home-brewed Georgia-based patent medicine to be the international soft drink powerhouse that it is today? Coca-Cola used numerous technologies to achieve

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    Essay Length: 1,919 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Top
  • Strategy and Environment

    Strategy and Environment

    Strategy and Environment Introduction With the development of economic globalization, “fast food” becomes a more and more substantial industry in the business world, which adapts to the pace of people’s life. Each organization spares every effort to stand forward the competition due to the fierce competition. In this article, we focus on the “Starbucks”, a prevailing coffee manufacturer in recent years. In 1971, a coffee bean retailing store named Starbucks was opened by Jerry Baldwin,

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    Essay Length: 1,827 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: July
  • Global Marketing Strategy

    Global Marketing Strategy

    Product Development Product design & development is an activity where the potential to globalize needs to be examined carefully. A globally standardized product can be made efficiently at a low cost but may end up pleasing few customers. On the other hand, customized products targeted at different markets across the world may be too expensive. The trick, as in the case of other value chain activities is to identify those elements of the product which

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    Essay Length: 2,327 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Marks & Spencer Case:operational Strategy and Location

    Marks & Spencer Case:operational Strategy and Location

    MARKS & SPENCER CASE:OPERATIONAL STRATEGY AND LOCATION) Introduction In this essay type assignment we are going to look at the various strategies that are undertaken by the organization for improving the services and the quality of product. We are going to throw light on the operating strategies of the organization with special reference to location.We are going to consider the entire example in reference to Marks and Spencer.We will also relate the various aspects of

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    Essay Length: 924 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: July
  • Gateway’s Strategy

    Gateway’s Strategy

    Gateway Inc. TLO Final Draft, April 26, 2004 M003, Team003 Catherine Flynn Rebecca Fowler Jason Gallus Diego Garcia Demetra Gartaganis Alexander Gramajo Table of Contents Executive Summary …………………………………………………… pg 3 Works Cited …………………………………………………………… pg 28 Individual Catherine Flynn ……………………………………………….. pg 33 Rebecca Fowler ……………………………………………….. pg 36 Jason Gallus …………………………………………………... pg 39 Diego Garcia ………………………………………………….. pg 41 Demetra Gartaganis …………………………………………... pg 43 Alexander Gramajo …………………………………………… pg 47 Executive Summary Gateway is one of the main

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    Essay Length: 8,386 Words / 34 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Globalization, Alliances and Networking: A Strategy for Competitiveness and Productivity

    Globalization, Alliances and Networking: A Strategy for Competitiveness and Productivity

    Globalization, alliances and networking: A strategy for competitiveness and productivity Joseph Prokopenko 1. Productivity, competitiveness and development For many years productivity has been a key issue for national development strategies because of its impact on economic and social development. It is important as a source of income and as an integrative objective encompassing improved labour/management cooperation and worker participation, it is the criteria for enterprise competitiveness and a long-term strategy for governments, employers and employees

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    Essay Length: 9,553 Words / 39 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Half Life 2 Strategy Guide

    Half Life 2 Strategy Guide

    The sequel to what many call the greatest shooter ever, Half Life 2 again seats you in the pants of Gordon Freeman. Gordon, an M.I.T. graduate with a doctorate in Theoretical Physics, is not your typical action hero. He is, for all intents and purposes, a nerd. But what he lacks in sheer testosterone, YOU make up for. Half Life 2 begins a number of years after the ending of Half Life. Having been corrected

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    Essay Length: 661 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Measurement Strategy

    Measurement Strategy

    Measurement Strategy Blockbuster faces many new external challenges and opportunities with new competition, increased technological growth, and entering in new major markets. Blockbuster is constantly implementing new strategies and plans that will help boost them past any competitors by always changing the way they do things. The company is also looking for new ways to change or update their current technologies to help support the ever growing needs of society such as DVD, reservations, home

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    Essay Length: 487 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jessica

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