Panera bread company
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Founded by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich in 1981, Au Bon Pain Company was the forefather of Panera Bread. After many years of success in St Louis, Missouri, the Company grew up fast and now Panera Bread Company represents 1,027 units in 36 states and is one of the dominant restaurant operators in the...
SWOT Analysis - Nespresso
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
We would like to think that the customer of Nespresso looks like 'a perfume addict' who does not really care about the quality of coffee. He attaches more importance to the packaging and the purchasing atmosphere than the contents themselves. Two of the three key points of the Nespresso...
TomTom N.V in the industry of the PND (Personal Navigation Devices)
Case study - 27 pages - Business strategy
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S. space-based global navigation satellite system. It provides reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services to worldwide users on a continuous basis in all weather, day and night, anywhere on, or near the Earth. GPS is made up of three parts:...
FedEx strategic analysis
Dissertation - 32 pages - Business strategy
FedEx is the IT-focused market leader of the international express courier business and further offers supply-chain-management solutions. Indeed, this company was founded as Federal Express in 1971 by the U.S. Marine and Frederick W. Smith in Little Rock (Arkansas). FedEx has been chosen in...
Innovation at Procter & Gamble
Worksheets - 3 pages - Business strategy
To innovate is to create something; it is necessary to distinguish innovation from invention because an innovation need not necessarily always be an invention. Innovation can assume four forms: •Marketing plan for a new product launch or the improvement of a product that already exists...
Strategic Analysis of the brand of liquor Pernod Ricard
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
Pernod-Ricard is a French company which produces alcoholic beverages. It was established in 1975 with the merger of two French anise-based spirit producers namely Pernod and Ricard. During the initial years, the company's strategy was to strengthen its global position by building a strong...
Food Processing: Frozen ready meals - The Marie Case
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
Marie is a food processing company that specializes in fresh ready meals and frozen ready meals. Marie manufactures and commercializes products with the brands Marie, Bocuse, Luang (exotic meals), Weight Watchers (light meals) and also the Uniq group which is a major player of the food...
Competitive Environment Analysis : Haagen- Dazs
Case study - 24 pages - Business strategy
Since it was created in the early 1920s, Häagen-Dazs has become a strong and powerful brand, and is well established in the ice cream market. The company has made quality and originality its motto. Its philosophy is also based on the same principles: 'Find the purest and the finest...
Beneteau, an international market leader
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Beneteau, the giant in the nautical industry, was founded by Benjamin Beneteau in 1884, with the creation of a familial shipyard. After the long wars period, the apparition of the polyester had cost the yard to develop itself considerably, by starting a mass production. Thus, Beneteau has really...
Business plan for a new board game: Flagpoint
Business plan - 33 pages - Business strategy
A new fun and attractive game is born: Flagpoint. This document describes the development of the new game in all its detail. The study starts with a short introduction of our company and its mission, followed by a detailed marketing research to figure out the needs of our target group. The...
Internationalization process: Michelin
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The Michelin Company was founded in 1889 in Clermont-Ferrand (France) by Edouard Michelin. Initially, Michelin employed 52 persons in a plant spread over 32 acres. Edouard Michelin benefited of his brother's (André Michelin) support. The two brothers were complementary: André was an innovator,...
Air France and KLM, Case study
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
To be competitive in the airline industry, companies need to be in control of cost control and management. Companies need to reduce their exposition to risk (fuel management) and control the efficiency of each type of plane they operate. As the industry requires high fixed costs, companies have...
"Global strategy and Globalization in emerging markets"
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Organizational culture, like national culture, is an iceberg, with some elements above water and others submerged. Elements above water are not only more visible, but easier to understand. Elements below water are difficult to observe and are more important for understanding culture because they...
Case Study: GE's growth strategy - The Immelt initiative
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
This report analyses GE's growth strategy, mainly regarding the new management style: since Immelt's appointment as the Chairman and CEO of the American multinational conglomerate, new initiates have been launched. We aim at analyzing GE's businesses and determine how they are driven and how they...
Sanofi Aventis, corporate strategy
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Sanofi Aventis is a company operating in the pharmaceutical industry. Created in 2004 from the merger of two European companies, Sanofi Aventis is today the leader in Europe, and is part of the top 5 global companies in its sector. Sanofi Aventis's self-given mission in the pharmaceutical...
Dyson : history, strategies and performances
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
A new vacuum cleaner appeared due to Dyson, the inventor of the first bagless hoover. The successful British firm decided to outsource its manufacturing department to Malaysia in 2002, which caused many reactions. We will study the history of the company, its strategy and performances taking into...
Wells Fargo's cross selling strategies
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Particularly in the United States, the link between politics and banking has always been strong and notably with lobbies so that the US government was used to helping the banking system when crisis hit the country but was also used to withdrawing during auspicious periods. These are partly the...
Analysis of Ryanair's Strategies
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
For many years, air travel was a distant dream for the common man.Thanks to the emergence of low cost airline companies such as Ryanair, flying is no longer reserved for the elite class. Ryanair, the pioneer of low-cost airlines, is an Irish company that was created in 1985 by Michael O'Leary....
The Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry
Market study - 6 pages - Business strategy
In the beginning, pharmacists developed new products in their back shop. Industrialization started a century ago, with the universal exposition where scientists wanted to find new processes and develop their market. Moreover, the two World Wars led to significant growth in this particular market....
Case study: eBay in China
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
The proposed case deals with the eBay Company's plan to expand its activity to China. eBay is a US company offering e-commerce, e-payments and internet communication services globally. It was founded in 1995 in California. eBay is the international online market place enabling trade on a local,...
Accor financial statements
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Accor is a French group which specializes not only in hotels and services to corporation, but also catering and leisure. The company is the European leader and a major global group in hotels. It is also the global leader in providing services to corporate clients and public institutions. It...
Dubai land
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Dubai is at the same time a city and an emirate of the United Arab Emirates. Though Dubai is not the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the largest emirate or the most populated one, it is the most known of the seven emirates which compose the federation. This fame is due to the huge media...
Google's development strategy
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Google is one of the best examples of companies that have boomed owing to the eruption of the Internet at the beginning of the 21st century. The companies based their entire business model on the Internet and trust the growth potential of this emerging media. After a slump in the early...
The Sourcing and Procurement Strategy of Sanofi- Aventis
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
Sanofi Aventis, a multi-national pharmaceutical company, uses purchasing structures and procedures that aim to cover all activities and all types of purchasing. The structure is based on placing the purchasing responsibility on entities and business units, under the supervision of a central team....
Strategy monograph: Colas Rail, Turnkey produts
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
Colas Rail continues to be the French leader in the rail-track laying business. Its leading role in this business is partly due to its unique ability to deliver turnkey products to its clients. The company has been active in all the spheres of railway business, from building up to the maintenance...
Europe's leading telecom companies : Overstretched and under threat
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
According to Campbell in 2002, the classic prescriptive process can be defined as a “strategy that is planned in advance and which follows a rational process through each stage from analysis to implementation.” Widely recognised as the most principal theories for strategy development,...
What make Haagen-Dazs so successful?
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
Haagen-Dazs was established in Bronx, New York in 1961 by the Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose Mattus. Haagen-Dazs is the pioneer in the luxury ice cream market for manufacturing the best quality ice creams made with only purest and finest ingredients. It started with three flavours Vanila,...
Pharmaceutical industry analysis and merck's strategic assessement
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The pharmaceutical industry is characterized by a harsh competition between large companies, biotech start-ups and generics, long and risky R&D processes, increasing government regulations and strong purchaser pressures. Merck & Co Inc. is one of the biggest players in this industry, due to its...
Corporate entrepreneurship: Nestle Nespresso case
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Nestlé Nespresso is one of the fastest growing subsidiaries of the Nestlé group. The group includes many different brands of coffee. Among them, there are two very profitable entities: Nespresso and Nescafé. Although they are not the same company, they are owned by the same group, yet the...
Analyzing financial statements: Puma
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Despite few important sport events, the sporting goods industry as a whole, has continued to record further growth. The healthy growth in the sport lifestyle segment was due to the sustained trend towards fitness and wellness, the increasingly important connection between sport and lifestyle, and...
