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1. Introduction:
Situation analysis involves evaluating the situation and trends in a particular industry or company's market. We have to consider two things while situation analysis 1. Company’s external or macro-environment • Industry and competitive conditions 1. Company’s internal or micro-environment • Competencies, capabilities, resource strengths and weaknesses, and competitiveness. Industry and competitive analysis uses a tool kit of concepts and techniques to get a clear fix on key industry traits, the strength of competition, the drivers of industry, change, the market positions and industries profit outlook. This tool kit provides a way of thinking
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Total export earning is 20 million us dollar and the local market consumption is 48 million kg per year.
← Growth rate:
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This graph illustrate the trend of domestic consumption of tea from 2000-2005 respectively the charts show an upward trend which indicate that the consumption of tea in domestic market has been increasing which consecutively.
← Number of companies in industry
Approximately 20 companies are there in the in the industry. 18 of them buy through the auction system and the rest two companies have their own garden and they collect tea from their according to their local and export demand. The names of the companies are listed below:
Company name
❖ M.M. Ispahani Ltd. ❖ HRC Syndicate Ltd. ❖ Abul Khair Ltd. ❖ Unilever Bangladesh Ltd. ❖ Elite International Ltd. ❖ Shaw Wallace (BD) Ltd. ❖ Tetley ACI Ltd. ❖ M. Ahmed Tea & Lands Co. ❖ Meghna Tea Co. ❖ Agricultural Marketing Co. Ltd. ❖ Bara Awlia Store ❖ Chittagong Tea House ❖ M.M. Tea Enterprise, Ctg. ❖ Shawpna Tea House ❖ Rose Tea House ❖ Comilla Tea Supply ❖ Tajnur Food Products ❖ Nizam Tea House ❖ James Finlay Bangladesh Ltd ❖ Duncan Brothers
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“This was the routine of the old China trade. These were the commodities traditionally brought to China and traditionally carried away. And at the heart of the trade was tea. It came from no other place. India did not then produce any, nor Ceylon, Java, or Formosa; Japan was inaccessible; the world perforce drank China teas. Above all, the English drank them” (17).
how to process and grow tea or it would be useless to get the thousands of
- First in its market to brew its tea from tea leaves as opposed to artificial powders.
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|the industry and its challenges it is important to understand its various phases of growth so far. |
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Relevance: This is relevant to everyone because tea has a lot of positive health outcomes, that are beneficial to all of us.