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Diversification And Diversification Into The New Markets With New Products

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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

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