General Motors: Strategic Management
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
General Motors is a 100 year-old company which has built a big holding that owns many different car manufacturing brands distributed all around the world. During this century, GM has become the biggest car manufacturer in the world, with a turnover of more than a hundred billion...
PSA Peugeot-Citroen
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
The story of PSA Peugeot-Citroen starts with the Peugeot's brothers when they started to provide accessories for clock factories in 1810. Lead by the industrial revolution, they rapidly began to build cars; the 100000th car was reached in 1925. In the 1970's, Peugeot took Citroen...
How did the BMW Group successfully launch the Mini Cooper?
Case study - 16 pages - Services marketing
The major demographic changes in France (Europe for that matter) in the last 10-15 years experienced the decrease in birth rate (13 children per 1000 women in 2006) an aging population and increase in the single-parent families and divorces. For a product such as the Mini Cooper, these figures...
Twingo by Renault, in Japan: A case study
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Launching a product in a foreign market requires thorough knowledge of that market. The objective is to introduce the Renault Twingo in the Japanese market. Such a venture cannot be successful without rationally assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the product compared to competitors, the...
Study of the Porsche company
Case study - 20 pages - Management
Registrations, turnover, and financial results: all these have only grown for Porsche over the years. The arrival of the Cayman was witnessed on November 26, 2005, but the hybrid Cayenne and Panamera arrived in 2009 and offered outstanding performance. Amid a global automotive industry in serious...
Case Study: Launching of the Nissan LEAF in France
Case study - 10 pages - Services marketing
The year, eco mobility was honored saw many automakers put forward the electric cars. Many questions concerning the evolution of the electric car persist but its prospects remains grim. Many consumers want to drive 'green' but the adaptability of these vehicles is difficult...
Porsche and the marketing analysis
Case study - 30 pages - Services marketing
This document is dedicated to the automaker who was born in 1948 in the village of Gmund in Austria; the builder won all sorts of competitions, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans 16 times; the builder who has created a myth by his range of Cars: Ferdinand Porsche. Today everyone knows the...
Website evaluation : Audi
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
Audi is a German car manufacturer and a part of the group Volkswagen AG. The official name of the company is Audi AG, and its registered office is located at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The name Audi is the acronym of Auto Union Deutsche Industrie. This name also comes from Latin audi...
Corporate finance: Financial analysis of Ford and BMW
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
This report will deal with the financial analisys of two main competitors of car market. Effectively, Ford and BMW (Bayerish Motoren Werke AG) are two important car manufacturers in the world. Even if they are competing on the same market, we can't say that these two...
Study of Renault's strategy
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Renault is a famous car-constructor. It was created in 1899 by the brothers Renault and was considered one of France's flourishing industry throughout the XXth century. But now the firm has adapted itself to a new global and more complex environment. This adapting process was no simple...
Toyota case
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The success of Toyota is incredible today, and the company is showing astonishing financial results when most of Japanese companies are in the doldrums. It is the biggest of the heavyweight competitor in the car industry. General Motors and Ford, whose market shares are falling in favor of...
Volkswagen's Touareg "Kong" advertising campaign study
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
December 2005, one of the most anticipated films of the year has come to the cinemas all around the world. This film is King Kong, produced by Universal Studios. January 2005, Volkswagen, the largest car manufacturer in Europe, had made an alliance with Universal Studios. Thanks to this...
Daimler Chrysler: Lessons in post-merger integration
Essay - 19 pages - Management
Professor Herbert Paul and student Myriam Tamim prepared this case, solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either the effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was compiled from public sources. Abstract: The merger of...
Customer's perception towards the service quality of Hyundai
Case study - 34 pages - Business strategy
A detailed & systematic study on the customer relationship management with the sales process, product & after sales service for Hyundai Santro car was under taken in the Bangalore city on behalf of Advaith motors private limited. This survey was taken up to know about the customer...
Case study of Twingo
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Renault's presence in the Japanese market dates back to the 1950's, where about 50,000 cars were sold. However, the import of cars to the Japanese market declined considerably during the 1960s. It was not until 1994 that Renault saw its sales increase in Japan with the signing of a...
To what extent did the interwar motor industry overcome its pre-war difficulties?
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
The pre-war motor industry was in its infancy and suffered from a lack of investment backing, high production costs, an over engineered end product and a saturation of small family orientated manufactures. Developments in the industry often came from pioneering engineers with components being...
Formula one and the automotive industry
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, F1 has been a highly-recognized sport full of extraordinary popularity. This is motor sport with racing cars that are deemed the most efficient in the world. For years, Formula 1 remained confined to a closed society exclusively meant for...
Strategic analysis of Porsche
Case study - 24 pages - Services marketing
How profitable an automotive manufacturer is, mainly depends on how he can use his production facilities to full capacity. Examples of manufacturers, who are unable to do so, are Opel or Volkswagen, where overproduction leads to small profit margins. The strategy of Porsche is the opposite....
Strategic Analysis - Uber
Case study - 23 pages - Services marketing
Uber Technologies Inc. is a global transportation technology company operating in more than 760 cities around the world, and in more than 70 countries. The American giant generated net revenues of $6.5 billion (excluding China) in 2016, simply from its transport business. Uber, where the...
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merger
Case study - 6 pages - Management
In 1998 Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged to become DaimlerChrysler, a leading carmaker group that was supposed to benefit from significant synergies between the two companies. Actually this industrial combination aimed at preserving, strengthening and expanding the different brands of the former...
The strategy of Honda
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Honda is a Japanese conglomerate and produces automobiles (the automobile service represents more than 80% of its revenue), motorcycles, power products and power tools and offers financial services. Honda became famous abroad and expanded from Japan to the US in the 50s and to Europe in the 60s,...
China, the 'auto'-mobile zone
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
China has long been regarded as the land of the bicycle. This Asian country is now a new Eldorado for the automotive industry. In 2005, China became the third largest producer of cars after the U.S. and Japan, and the fourth largest market in the worldwide vehicle sales. Within a span of...
Analysis of supply and environment for Renault
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The Renault Automotive Group has more than 350 industrial and commercial sites in over 40 countries and 131,879 employees. In 2004, the Group achieved a turnover of 40.7 billion Euros, up 8.4%. The strategy of profitable growth is built on three pillars: competitiveness, innovation and...
The feasibility of the launching of Twingo in Japan: Development of a marketing strategy
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Renault's presence on the Japanese market dates from the 50s, during which about 50,000 cars were sold. However, the import of cars to the Japanese market declined considerably during the 1960s. Indeed, Renault was forced to ban the import policies of Japan. In 1994, Renault saw...
Strategic analysis of Renault
Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy
Renault is a globally renowned automobile group and car maker present in 118 countries with approximately 130,000 employees. The Renault group achieved a turnover of almost 41 million euros in 2007. The Company Renault Freres was created in 1898 by three brothers Louis, Marcel and Fernand....
Critical analysis of Toyota
Thesis - 30 pages - Business strategy
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese firm that was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda. Now, it is a multinational corporation that is employing more than 300,000 employees worldwide and has become the leader as a car manufacturer in terms of sales. Toyota became very famous as it...
Strategic marketing: The brand image functional to Nissan
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Nissan is a Japanese motor company that was founded in 1911. It operates in many countries and employs more than 185,000 workers around the world. Its 2008 sales were worth $1.52 billion USD, and Nissan produced 3,395,065 cars in the same year. Nissan is one of the Japanese biggest...
Analysis of General Motors
Essay - 6 pages - Management
General Motors Company incorporated in 1908 is a multinational car manufacturer with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. In this case study, GM intends to offer products with either less energy consumption or consumption of new fuel, with new design. Actually, General Motors possesses rich...
Ford case study: Developing a new strategy
Case study - 22 pages - Services marketing
Ford Motors Company has been founded in 1903 by Henri T. Ford and 11 associates.Over the years, the company developed and expanded its automotive activities (design, development, manufacture, sale and service of cars and trucks). The Company had the credit in financing a wide variety of...
Analysis of Abbas Kiarostami's Ten
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
A car may be the most inconvenient and difficult setting for a film. I made a sixteen-minute movie which took place almost entirely in a car, and I ended up at one point crying from the frustrations. The three actors and I didn't leave so much space left for the camera, and so the...
