Panera bread company
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
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...
Strategic analysis of Viagio : a pasta restaurant
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Stratégie
Viagio was born in December 2004, from the collaboration of the group Bertrand and the French leader of the pasta market: Panzani. They wanted to create a new concept of fast food targeting families. They opened their first restaurants in Paris and now have 18 outlets all over France. They will...
TomTom N.V in the industry of the PND (Personal Navigation Devices)
Étude de cas - 27 pages - Stratégie
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:...
Company project: Port de Lille
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
The Port Fluvial was created on the 20th of April 1935 but it really started to be active after the Second World War in 1947. If at the beginning, the Port Fluvial was far away form the city, today Lille is surrounding the harbor. In just a few years the harbor became an important logistic tool...
Strategic Analysis of the brand of liquor Pernod Ricard
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Stratégie
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...
Strategic Management Assignment : strategic analysis and recommendations for the Bénéteau Group
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Stratégie
Like the majority of the world economy, the nautical market is going down. For many years, the Bénéteau Group has remained as the leader of this huge industry, and keeps its strong position in this weakening market. However, such economic situations generate perturbation in the market: create...
Marketing social y estrategias corporativas de responsabilidad social : Sanofi Pasteur "nutrirNos dignifica"
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Stratégie
Tuvimos la oportunidad de encontrar a Catalina Bensenyi y Patricia Charriton, en carga de la parte de Responsabilidad Social Empresaria de Sanofi Pasteur Argentina. Nos presentaron las acciones desarrolladas por la empresa hacia la comunidad, especialmente el proyecto nutrirNos dignifica. Este...
Food Processing: Frozen ready meals - The Marie Case
Étude de cas - 24 pages - Stratégie
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
Étude de cas - 24 pages - Stratégie
Since it has been created in the early 1920's, Häagen-Dazs has become a strong and powerful brand, which is well established on 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...
AkzoNobel consultancy report
Étude de cas - 16 pages - Stratégie
AkzoNobel, once merged from AKZO and Nobel Industries in 1994, is a multinational company which is active in more than 80 countries. It is active in the markets of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals and it has recently moved its headquarters from Arnhem to Amsterdam....
Beneteau, an international market's leader
Étude de cas - 39 pages - Stratégie
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...
Internationalization process: Michelin
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
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,...
Successful person project: Warren Buffet, 2008
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Stratégie
After months of crisis, the first net of United States savings bank declared bankruptcy on 25th of September 2008. It was the symbol of the decline of America's economic power and leadership. In this period of instability, one man stayed positive and invested massively to rebuild American...
Case Study: GE's growth strategy - The Immelt initiative
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Stratégie
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...
Air France and KLM, Case study
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Stratégie
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...
Sanofi Aventis, corporate strategy
Étude de cas - 14 pages - Stratégie
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
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Stratégie
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...
Waterford Wedgwood Crystal Company
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Stratégie
Waterford Wedgwood Crystal Company is the leader in luxury crystal and ceramics, represented in more than 80 countries worldwide. It produces handcrafted crystal, lamps, giftware and tableware and has the largest variety of products in the market. It is also well-known for manufacturing trophies...
Wells Fargo's cross selling strategies
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
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...
Corporate entrepreneurship : the Gillette Company
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Stratégie
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating value by bringing together a unique combination of resources to exploit an opportunity. Corporate entrepreneurship involves the development within an existing corporation of internal markets and autonomous business units, producing products, services,...
Danone's strategies and environment in 2009
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Stratégie
Danone is currently an inescapable world actor in the food-processing domain. The multinational is, at first, a complete example of strategic reorientation. Its original profession in 1966 was the production of glass bottles under the brand BSN. Besides, DANONE has always demonstrated its ability...
Neither a merger nor an acquisition : the Renault-Nissan alliance
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Stratégie
After closing up the 1998 exercise, Renault's profits increased by 68%. Its chairman, L. Schweitzer, is now looking for a partner to become a global player, and then initiate negotiation with Nissan. A. Maher, from Oxford Automotive Services, contended, "It's a fast-track route to become...
Analysis of Ryanair's Strategies
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Stratégie
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....
Dubai land
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Stratégie
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
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Stratégie
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 implementation of new objectives for air freight growth and solutions to fight competition in the sector in 2008
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Stratégie
According to the book "The airline business in the Twenty-first century" by Rigas Doganis (Routledge, 2001), the air freight represents less than 1 million tons a year, in the international exchanges in France, (0, 16 % of the total volume), when compared with the long-distance road traffics...
La stratégie marketing IKEA
Étude de cas - 30 pages - Stratégie
Document: La stratégie marketing IKEA, dossier de 30 pages Extrait: A la clôture de l'exercice 03/04, le Groupe IKEA, qui emploie 84 000 personnes, possède 202 magasins dans 32 pays, visités par 310 millions de visiteurs, auxquels il faut ajouter 23 autres magasins en franchise, implantés...
Strategy monograph: Colas Rail, Turnkey produts
Étude de cas - 22 pages - Stratégie
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...
Management of Multinational Corporations: CITIBANK
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Stratégie
Citigroup Inc. operating as Citi, is a major American financial services company which is based in New York City. This financial service sector was formed through a merger that took place in 1998 between Citicorp and the Travelers Group. Most of us would be familiar with the slogan ?Let's get...
Pharmaceutical industry analysis and merck's strategic assessement
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
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...
