MGT Strategic Management Case Study: Scotts Miracle Gro Company

They can investigate the option of improving their current products to be able to compete with the new technology in some way and to invest in product innovation to see if there are possibilities of improving or matching this new technology. This should be done cost effectively to also be able to offer products at an

The submitted report identifies Scotts Miracle-Gro’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) (Pearce & Robinson, 2011, p. 140). Key issues will be explored concerning Scotts Miracle-Gro’s external environment and solutions developed to maximize its opportunities or minimize its biggest threats. This comprehensive analysis will used to add value to the company and its consumers.

This report demonstrates the evaluation of current performance of JD Sports Company. Method of Analysis includes Ansoff’s matrix and Porter’s generic growth strategies to discuss the nature of the market which JD Sports invest in. The financial methods are including the flexibility and stability of JD sports which judged by the liquidity, current ratio, operation capital, gearing and profit margin of this company. These figures could be collected from the annual report or balance sheet. This report analyzed the JD sport’s position in the market, and used generic and external growth method to expand market size. Such as acquired a lot stores to improve business profitability. Obviously, JD has expanded to the European

The automobile manufactures belief that expansion of a company in increase in the global competitive market explains that the firm is likely to face competitive environment. Many companies are forced to develop their supply chain according to the decision by reducing their manufacturing expenditure and improvement of the products. JLRs decision to build a new plant in the North America to serve the customers is taken for customer satisfaction and values and to avoid all the barriers between the ultimate customers and the suppliers. For a positive supply chain, many decisions involving to the flow of product and information are required. Efficiency of the work done is very much essential in any company. To increase the efficiency of the company the best key is to connect with the suppliers online by sharing the future plans and decisions of the company. This kind of sharing will help the company in considering the proper data and information of the demand or requirement of the company. E-Collaboration with the suppliers gives great benefits to the company. Technologies such as inventory planning, online analytical processing and enterprise resource planning help in collaborating with the suppliers in a best possible way. The inventory planning helps in forecasting the demand of the products or services in the market. The online analytical processing gives a detail note of the past performances from various suppliers which can help in the current efficiency. And the

In 1982 they began selling outside UK (sales to Europe & Australia reached 300000 sterling)

Even so, they have many threats that trouble them to maintain their performance. As they are starting to have competitors, they must do something to assure their business survives. If they decides to expand internationally, they must account the high cost of starting up business in other country. Besides the different language and culture, they lacks of expertise to recruit local quality staff. They also might faced difficulty to transfer their fragile installations equipments.

Based on the different market demands, the fresh food items are classic and simple in the U.S. stores. Moreover, the fresh food sale is lower than Seven-Eleven Japan. The U.S. stores need the fresh food item to deliver daily or every two days. Therefore, using the outsourcing food distributors can reduce the production and transportation cost. However, the Japanese customers request the stores to provide the variable fresh foods. More than 50 percent of food items change in the course of a

They planned to become $1 billion Company by 1988. But then the problem started as they growth rate only 6.7 percent and profits fallen by 30 percent by the end of 1986. The defect level was increasing. In that scenario the revenue became stagnant and profitability started decining.

This is a deceptively simple-looking case. The lazy student will simply adopt the critical line on the company’s strategy being fed to him or her by Jeremy Kahn, the author of the article. In fact, things are by no means so clear-cut, students need to do some careful analysis, particularly in the area of Gillette’s corporate-level strategy, before this becomes plain. They have to be prepared to think hard about the success factors in the different businesses – if they simply pick out the points proffered by the case study, then they will not derive the full benefit from the case.

Actually, the company is well positioned in the consumer’s mind and in the market because of its good strategies over the world. This company has evolved because at the beginning it was a company focus in mapping, printing and location information businesses, but then with the technology evolution they improved and adapted its products to the new market tendencies.

ABC Company is planning to introduce the new product line which would utilize the spare manufacturing capacity. The product line will add up additional raw material, more time intensive labor but it will also provide higher revenue and gross margin to reach growth targets. The product will need advertising and sales promotion activities to promote customer awareness. The company will have to plan strategies satisfying the competition in market. As the product is new, initially it will cost more, the company should analyze other revenue sources to meet the cost of expansion. The risk that should be taken into consideration with the project would be the ability to have an adequate cash flow to justify the $42,000- investment for the equipment purchased.

This is shown by the fact that their decisions support financing the procurement of modern technology that can improve the firm’s production quality.

2.1 Identify sources of data and information that will support the aim of the project.

General Mills, as one of the Big Three companies that focused on diversification of consumer goods on cereal division, restaurant chains and packaged consumer foods. In 1994, the cereal industry was profitable and had been one of the most concentrated industries overall historically, and the big Three company had a dominant position in this industry. However, the problem was although the high profitability attracted fewer entry company due to the high entry barrier restrained by joint monopoly of the Big Three, they were facing the threat of private label companies which grew fast in market share by sales and volume. Therefore, what is General Mills strategy to increase revenue while dealing with the threat of private labels. This is a critical issue because General Mills need measure the trade-offs among strategies, and this determines whether General Mills would still be one of the top players in terms of market shares in the industry.

During peak periods, the company 's customers ran out of stocks of popular brands for consecutive years. Due to the seasonal nature of the products they are also facing demand fluctuations. While two plants produces only specialised products, the two other manufacturing plants produce all the products from the company’s product portfolio and supply the other two plants to cater their respective market regions. Hence scheduling was also identified as a major issue.