Demographics and Micro Environment

The companies that are competing in this industry are Blue Nile, Zales, Tiffany 's, Online Jewelry Stores (Diamonds.com, etc…), and Local Jewelers. The Rivalry among the competing sellers is strong because there are many competitors and they are basically offering the same product. Also, the costs buyers experience when switching brands are low.

1. Macro environment analysis: the major externals which affect company’s decision making, marketing strategy and performance. It includes:

My God, am I such a jewelry fanatic! I knew as soon as I saw jewelry I had to write about it. Jewelry is something women and men but mostly women tend to adorn themselves with to either show stature, beauty or just to feel special about themselves. The Jewelry gives a lot of details on where it was made and the interesting designs on the necklace and earrings. Also, because it’s made of real gold and silver any women would be honored to wear such an amazing work of art.

An organization’s macroenvironment consists of nonspecific aspects in the organization’s surrounding that have the potential to affect the organization’s strategies. Macroenvironmental variables include

Macro environment or macro forces consists of the larger societal factors that have the potential to affect an organization’s strategies. According to Phillip Kotler, these variables include demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural outside forces. (“Josbd”, n.d, para. 7)

Macro environment are the external and uncontrollable factors that influence an organization’s decision making and affects its performance and strategies.

The response rate of our survey was 68.1% (81 out of 119 households we visited). The re-sponse rate was at par with similar survey studies that involved environmental issues. Kreiger et al. (2009) conducted a door to door survey of 281 households and got data from 155 households in 2005 of the residents of the old High Point community, a multicultural public housing site, in Seattle, WA to evaluate how built and social environments affect walking activity of a public housing community. Osmond and Hardy in 2004 conducted a door to door survey of the five communities in North Carolina to understand and determine residential fertilizer and water use behavior for future lawn education programs. The

I started off by gathering research for the demographic factors that would be easy to find for both cities by looking at the US Census database as well as the American Community Survey database. I was able to get through this process fairly quickly because the US Census publishes ‘quick facts’ about each city and I was able to do a side by side comparison between San Jose, CA and St. Louis, MO. After filling out the main demographics, it was time to fill the table with health prevalence rates, number of uninsured people, food insecurity and etc. I was able to find a lot of the health rankings through BRFSS. CDC and County Health Rankings (refer to table for specific information). I used County Health Rankings in the case where I wasn’t able

Barbecue. NASCAR. Pig statues. These are the first things that come to mind whenever someone asks me about my hometown in Lexington, NC. Attending university in Chapel Hill gave me a glimpse of the distinctions areas can have from their surroundings. This paper will discuss my hometown from a demographic perspective. I will briefly explain the various data I utilized followed by several analyses of sample components of my hometown that demography examines. These components include projections thirty years from now in addition to the socioeconomic and demographic changes from 1990 to the present. In addition to interpreting these values, I will also explain how these variables influenced myself and my family living in this area.

Response: There are many resources to help departments reach there goals and objectives. The organizations high communication level and interaction cause benefit to departments assisting and complimenting each other. There has been a constant and gradual increase in employee productivity and goals are normally reached. The company has recently experience growth due to the

In society, there are generally two levels of sociological analysis or theories which are also referred to as branches of sociology namely, macro and micro theories. A Macro Theory is one that analyses and focuses on major structural phenomena of society and gives us a wide understanding of how societies survive and change. On the other hand, a Micro Theory is one that studies the nature of everyday face-to-face human social interactions between individuals and how these individuals interpret the social world. Similarly, Macro Theory is interested in the broad social features of society whereas Micro Theory is interested in how human beings in the society function, interpret, change and respond accordingly to these broad social phenomena. There are

MYDIN is one of the largest retail and wholesale organization in Malaysia with close to 90 outlets with consisting of hypermarkets, mini markets (MyMydin), convenience stores (MyMart), Bazaars and emporiums in the nationwide. It carries a broad range of goods ranging from food line, household, soft line and hard-line items. The Soft line products include cosmetics, textile, leather and various clothing whereas the hard-line products include hardware, electrical, stationery, porcelain and toys (Mydin, 2014). Besides that, “Mydin has been appointed as the operator for the Malaysian government-initiated Kedai Rakyat1Malaysia (KR1M) outlets in 2012 and open another 90 KR1M outlets for the year 2013 in the whole of Malaysia” (Ariz, 2013). In addition

Macro environment consist of those major external and uncontrollable factors that influence an organization's decision making, and affect its performance and strategies.

An organization is an open system; therefore it interacts with its environment. To manage the relationship with the environment, a large part of strategic planning is concerned. The environmental factors can be divided to 2 main categories, which is MACRO and MICRO .Macro environmental factors seriously affect an organization business practice, profitability and future progress. It can

The organization have a great vision which is striving to ceaselessly reinforce its position as a