Essay on Enrique Villarreal Tesco PLC The Strategy For India

Due to the fact that they are in an oligopoly market, Tesco 's decisions would be mainly

McDonalds was founded in 1943, and 1967 British Colombia was its first international expansion, advertising to middle and upper class. McDonalds decided to expand internationally, due to the enormous success in America. There was heavy research involved in the expansion. Through globalization and internationalization, McDonalds were able to develop marketing strategies according to cultural needs, to serve specific target markets. McDonalds enter India’s foreign market and 1996 and is a tough foreign market to enter, but with McDonald’s success they were able to earn high revenue in India. The success strategy is researching and the development of food. McDonalds thoroughly analyzed the preferred taste, especially to not offend locals. Their key to success is to “think global, act local.”

Despite this India is still a complicated place for foreign investors. A weak parliamentary government has very little purview over the provincial and local ministers who were elected entirely separate from federal elections. The fragmented nature of the country’s political system has and will continue to prevent major

The economics factors are bit sign of worry for Tesco since they effect directly to buy of clients behavior. Although the economy of United Kingdom declared officially that country’s economy is in recession and due to this the positive aspect is that the clients to eat less and to eat in house that also offer opportunities for the retailers to increase its production and Tesco were on top in production.

The Americans were confused whether it was a convenience store or a discount store. (Sonne & Evans, 2012). This was not an American style. Tesco was overconfident that British and Americans speak the same language therefore it shouldn’t be too hard convincing the customers but Tesco didn’t realise that British and Americans have a totally different culture. (Tesco close American strores,2012, para 6). Any business experiencing environmental problems are likely to experience failure, for example Nokia struggled due to rise of smart phones. Tesco’s success in UK was due to its use of consumer data garnered from loyalty cards but that might not be enough for American market to be convinced. Isomorphism states that for a business to be successful it must be able respond to factors of the environment effectively that affects them. Tesco’s did chose a favourable environment to do business because during it research Tesco found that west coast was one of the healthy eating rout. (Geoghegan, 2011,para 25). Somewhere during their research Tesco did forget that America has the highest obesity rate in world at 30.6%. (Health statistics, 2013). Therefore they are the biggest buyers of fast foods in the world. Another important environmental factor Tesco should have used to manipulate the American customers was through heavy advertising. Fresh & Easy should have used sports celebrities to promote the supermarket as one of the

Tesco is a public limited company and it’s one of the largest retailer in UK and is the fourth largest retailer in the world. They have over 500,000 colleagues and they provide goods and services to 12 other countries like South Korea and Poland. Tesco is an international business but UK is where its business is more focused on. 75% of Tesco group revenue comes from UK business as they get lower sales from other countries outside UK. By offering the customer new goods and services in expanding UK markets, such as telecom and financial services and expanding their market abroad, enabled Tesco to expand their business so that it can deliver long term growth for the business. It also allowed Tesco to expand into new markets and improve their business in the competitive markets. On the other hand, Tesco main value is to provide good quality of goods and services that are cheap and affordable to the public. Which link to their slogan “every little helps.”

Indian foods that are found in the freezer sections are not just main meals such as Butter Chicken, they are also popular Indian snack such as samosas. These frozen foods can all be quickly heated and cooked in the microwave or oven for a quick Indian meal, without the trouble of preparation. Along with India influencing food found in grocery stores freezer sections, India has also influenced to number of products sold in grocery. These products often have aisles dedicated to the cuisine, often stocked with sauce bases, such as butter chicken and tikka masala, which can easily be added to meat and served within 20 minutes. These aisles also include naan bread, roti, poppadom and rice. Indian’s have also influence Australian to consume more rice they we would have done decades

•  India's $250 billion retail business is the eighth largest in the world and has the potential to grow 7 per cent by 2011. [McKinsey Report] For a company already dominating the world markets, this is an un-passable opportunity.

A/ The Indian government was unfriendly to foreign investors, because outside investment was only allowed in high-tech sector and the remaining industries were discriminated. In addition, the “Principle of indigenous available” played a major role in the political environment by forbidding imports of items that could be produced

Prepared by: Martin Witthoeft Module Title: Strategic Management Module Leader: Graham Webster Module Code: BC315017S Academic Year: 2008/9 Semester: One Level: 3 Submitted: 17 December 2008

That is why fdi (foreign direct investment) show huge growth with the last decade. Many foreign companeis (pepsico, nokia, walmart, general electrical etc) and bank (citi bank, standard chartered, abn amro etc) are entering in India day by day however many more is to come. |

The Indian range would be ready to eat/cook food. I will be creating marketing strategies on Marks and Spencer’s food as to meet the customer needs and to analyse in ways I could meet the strategies successfully. The ready to cook food would be invented for the simplicity to people and to break into the market with more of these inventions in much more variety. I will be creating strategy on Indian food range, on chicken tikka masala curry and chana masala and such, so all the customers whether vegetarian or non-vegetarian can get taste of Marks and Spencer’s food, which are experimented by owner, director and chef of Benares, Atul Kochhars who has a passion for Indian food.

4. What were the problems in transferring the Toys “R” Us competitive advantages to a foreign market? Why did Toys “R” Us internalize the firm-specific advantages rather than license another retailer abroad?

Government drivers – In both its Home market and international markets, Tesco had to mitigate the governmental pressure, ranging from UK government’s department for environment, food and rural affairs to governments of East Asia. However governmental pressure has contributed to the evolution of Tesco’s business model. Even when its exit from Taiwan was based on asset swap model with its competitor Carrefour, it had favorable policies (expect Slovakia). Low trade barriers & compatible marketing regulations in the newly open markets allowed them to integrate the local community.

In the scenario, economy exhibits high line of consumerism. The curry powder industry has witnessed the entry of many companies in the Indian market by pumping huge amount of capital in order to capture the market share. However many domestic companies have emerged with various attraction products with a view to overcome the country wide companies and capturing a large number of customers. On our observation most of the companies are performing satisfactorily for a particular brand to move fast in the market it has to meet the 4 A’s. That is the market customers should be aware of it, should be an