Diversification is entering the new markets with new products and different from those in which the firm is currently engaged in. It is helpful to divide diversification into ‘related’ diversification and ‘unrelated’ diversification. Related diversification is when a business adds or expands its existing product markets. The company starts manufacturing a new product or through new market related to its business activity. For example, a phone company that adds or expands its wireless products or services by purchasing another wireless company is engaging in related diversification. Under related diversification, companies want to make easier the consumption of its products by producing complementing goods or offering complementing services. In a related diversification the resulting combined business should able to improve return on investment (ROI) because of increased revenues, decrease costs and reduced investment.
1.2 Examples
a) Brand name
One commonly found resource that is exportable is a strong established brand name like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Pepsi, BMW and others. For example, Coca-Cola spent $4.1 billion to acquire Glaceau, includes its health drink brand Vitaminwater in 2007.
b) Marketing skills
Usually a firm will lack a strong skill in marketing for a particular market. The frequent motive to diversify is to export or import a marketing talent. For these cases, Coca-Cola’s marketing skills are used to be to bring the plight of polar bears closer to
Diversification is when a company introduces a new product/ service to a new market but does not relate it to the existing product. The product is completely new.
Let us consider China for our example. China is the largest market in Asia and as such, it is an object of great interest for expanding companies. Many companies have already taken advantage of the opportunities afforded by dealing with China and many more will surely
Diversification - Practice under which a firm enters an industry or market different from its core business.
Diversification is when a business introduces a new product to a new market. It is one of the great ways to seek the profit by introducing new products and hoping to sell. Diversification
The first decade of the 21st century challenged firms to prosper financially and even survive in the face of an unforgiving economic environment. Marketing is playing key role in addressing those challenges. Finance, operations, accounting, and other business function won’t really matter without sufficient demand for products and services so the firm can make a profit. In other words, there must be a top line for there to be a bottom line. Thus
The corporate strategy of the business diversification is to create a synergy to achieve more performance under a single umbrella rather than diverse business units (SNU, 2016). A business diversification is to build the company shareholder value when the independent business units can perform under a single corporation as an umbrella organization instead of independent parents or a corporation. A diversified organization has many business units and each business units have its own business level strategy irrespective of whether they are related or not. A successful business diversification not only spreads the business risk across the diverse units but also adds a long term economic value to the company. The strategy for starting a new business is based on industry attractiveness test, the cost of entry and the better off test (Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble, and Strickland, 2016).
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Nevertheless, the vertical value chain created by Aldi benefits the company’s corporate strategy. To be a local supplier,
The multinational company that I have chosen is Coca Cola Company since it is a very popular brand and has been serving its customers for more then 10 decades and even after so many years its popularity seems to be increasing day by day which itself speaks about the company's remarkable performance. The Coca Cola Company is an American multinational corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of the nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups (Wright, 1999). It came into existence in 1886 and was invented in Columbus, Georgia by John Stith Pemberton. The current statistics of the company shows that it is currently operating in over 200 countries offering its customers over 500 brands with each day serving of more then 1.7 billion (Charles W. L. Hill, Essentials of Strategic Management, 2012). .Further more the Coca Cola Company is alone responsible for the 78% of the total gallon sales of all the beverages sold worldwide. The company is listed in New York Sock Exchange and is very popular in most of the countries especially United States of America, which alone consumes 47% of the total gallons, sold worldwide (Zurkuhlen & Meeker, 1987). The company headquarter is located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America and its current chief executive and chairman is Muhtar Kent (Charles W. L. Hill, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, 2012).
This paper focuses on global business strategy of The Coca-Cola Company, who is the leader in the beverage industry as well as, the world?s leading soft drink maker that operates in more than 200 countries and owns or licenses 400 brands of nonalcoholic beverages. The paper will concentrate on the PESTEL analysis of the organization focusing on the external factors of the business and the environment where it operates. All of the following environments will be discusses in the research; Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, and Environmental as they the changes in the market segment. Within this paper it will discuss some of thr
The single and dominant business strategy, which denote relatively low levels of diversification, more fully diversified firms are classified into related and unrelated categories. A firm is related through its diversification when there are several links between its business units; for example, units may share products or services, technologies, or distribution channels. The more links among businesses, the more constrained is the relatedness of diversification. Unrelateness refers to the absence of direct links between businesses.
With this come different strategies to achieve growth such as through market penetration, product development, market development and diversification. When these all are broken down in details, it becomes a clearer picture. So when it comes to market penetration it is the objective of reaching higher number of sales and having a larger share with products already existing. Out of the four strategies this is the least risky one. However, there is still some low risk because prices which are low are being used to penetrate markets and it could lead to potentially damaging price wars that reduces the profit margins of all firms in the industry. When it comes to market development, it means to sell the products already existing in a market, but to sell them in a new market, this includes exporting goods to overseas markets or selling to a new market segment. When it is about Product development it is the progress made in current existing products and then sold or even new products being sold in existing markets. For example, the launch of red bull standard, they took a product which had already been in the market before, changed it a little bit and modified it and converted into a different version and sold it in the same market where red bull standard was sold. Product development is about creating something new or modifying product into its better self to attract consumers. Moving to Diversification- it means selling unrelated goods or new products, in new markets The
There are always business risk when it comes to expanding a company, especially from an international standpoint. There are many strategic risk that needs to be evaluated in order to expand the company successfully. Examining the possible risk of foreign currency exposure, basic functions of international banking/financial market, support of long term financing of operations, and assessment of opportunities that can be implemented within the company. There are risk on three dimensions of international finance, economic trends of the country, impact of globalization and monetary system. All of these situations will be discussed in this paper.
Diversification is a method of investing that been shown to increase portfolio return while reducing portfolio risk as measured by standard deviation. This method specifically increases the efficient frontier for investors. The challenge to an investing firm is an appetite by its customers for an ever increasing efficient frontier. One area to explore to obtain this increase is through further diversifying through international diversification.
A firm's aim is to survive and grow. Marketing helps achieve this through marketing activities, for example the process of market segmentation leads to the identification of a suitable target market. This identification means firms can manipulate a series of controllable factors- price, place, promotion and product, otherwise known as the marketing mix to produce a positive response in their target market. However a firm must also take into account the marketing environment; these are factors outside the firm's control. These can influence a firm's relationship with their target market; ignoring them can have disastrous consequences.