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Orange Kingdom is a clothing retail store owned by Between, Inc. It is differentiated from its family brands such as Between and Old Marine, as it gives an upscale image compared to the other two brands, and targets young professional population aged mid twenties to mid thirties both men and women. It provides mid-scale work-to-play casual and business apparel, accessories, and shoes through about 500 stores including factory stores in the United States. It is also gaining market share in Asia, South America, and Europe as well. In this marketing proposal, I would like to discuss three service options to retain and acquire customers.

The internal analysis of the company paints a picture of a firm that is well endowed with resources, both human and capital. The company boasts of an asset base of $11.4 billion according to the financial reports for the year 2012. This is huge, and it shows that the company is well grounded and has the capacity to gain a competitive edge in the highly competitive retail market in which it operates (Britton & Jorissen, 2007).

Target Corporation is one of the largest merchants in the world. Target is recorded to be the sixth largest retailer within the United States. Founded by, George Dayton in 1902 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Target stores have a variety of products which includes everything from clothing to automotive and electronics. It is a corporation that is on-top of their game and continues to grow day-out. It is a brand that is well known and continues to raise the bar each year effectively. This paper will detect the importance of internal and external within the corporation overall.

Another social factor is demographics. As Lululemon products are highly prices, it is important to research the social economic aspects of the neighborhood. Moreover, Lululemon faces high rates of obesity and overweight in America and Australia, hence the importance for well-trained “educators.” As Lululemon incorporated e-commerce in 2009, a technological as well as an external factor is to ensure customer service provides the same level of customer services as the face-to-face interaction in the stores, and to maintain the website up-to date. It is important for Lululemon to maintain a user friendly website that would encourage people from all ages to buy Lululemon’s products.

In the late sixteenth, English put forth their effort to establish in America, specifically on Roanoke island. In 1584, English colonies found east coast of North America but not permanently settled. Until 1587. Raleigh, John White and a group of 115 English settlers arrived at Roanoke Island. Although this great achievement had inflated nation 's economy and promote country’s prosperity, its reign didn’t last long. John White came back to Roanoke after 3 years of disappearance. After his arrival, John had no clue where the colonists went and the only remnant left was a single word “CROATON” carved on a wooden-post. This event has shaken the world with many possible theories and was considered as one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in American History.

The Night At The Surf shop On February 2,2017 at 11:42 pm a bloody, brutal murder case happened in the Swimming summer Surf shop at Cory Plum's residence. Cory Plum had a purple coat and purple hair. The witnesses Mrs. Betty White has spoken that he glanced mysterious and cruel. Rosy Scarlet was working that day at the Surf shop. Rosy Scarlet had on a Blood colored red dress, rosy red shoes, and Scarlet red lipstick. A few weeks back Rosy Scarlet said to Cory Plum that "why do you keep taking my 10k gold ring's." She declared very angrily! After that, she said, " if you don’t stop I'm taking my ring and leaving."

External and internal factors come in many forms that can impact a business in different ways. Assessing external and internal factors that an organization may face can be vital to the planning function of management. As with any organization, there are always four functions of management. These functions are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (Bateman & Snell, 2009, p. 19). Within the organization, Best Buy, which is known to be an electronics store, has their own external and internal factors. Founded in 1966 as Sound of Music and incorporating in 1983 to become Best Buy, Inc. (Ask.com, 2010, para. 1), accounting for 19% of the market (Metaweb, 2010, para. 1), has become one of the

Coney Island and Disneyland are two historical representations of pleasurable pastimes where Americans could go to temporarily leave behind their stereotypical duties and rigid social conduct. The American culture in the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century was a time period where Americans were establishing standards on ways to act and live in America. These standards combined the idea of happiness with socially acceptable behavior. Over time the American Dream became more defined, where the white picket house family was the ideal goal for any American. This traditional mindset would pave the way for the creators of Coney Island and Disneyland to create a place where Americans could escape these social constructs to have fun.

At first glance, Anthony Hecht's "Dover Bitch" is not only funnier than Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", but also describes a more "liberated" relationship; the poem is as free from what some would consider stuffy Victorian morals as it is from references to Sophocles. Hecht's urbane and flippant persona tends to win over its audience, whether they find irony in the poem that adds to their appreciation of "Dover Beach", appreciate the poem as a criticism of Victorian morals, or laugh at Arnold's apparent inability to give his girl "a good time." "Dover Bitch" also seems to give more power to the lover, who is kept behind the scenes in Arnold, by bringing "her" opinions and wishes into the foreground of the poem. However, on closer

Lululemon is a large company, making clothing for athletic activities, not only are they in the women’s athletic range, but they have hit the men’s market and youth range as well. A SWOT analysis will be used to break down Lululemons strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the business. Strengths which Lululemon have achieved include multi-faceted and community-based approach strategy, making customers feel part of a community through marketing strategies like there “ambassador program, social media, in-store community boards and grassroots initiatives” (Lululemon, 2016 Annual Report, 2016, p. 3). Touchpoints which have been a part of this multi-channel include Lululemons websites www.lululemon.co.nz and ivivva.com which is based around female youth active ware. With Lululemon having 12,500 full-time employees worldwide (Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU), 2017) with 406 stores (Lululemon, 2016), their large market capital of $8.33 billion (Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU), 2017), shows the total value of Lululemons shares of stock. Lululemon having $581.1 million in net revenue, this is an increase of 13% while their gross profit increased by 17% rising to $297.4 million. (Lululemon Athletica Inc. Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2017 Results, 2017). This shows a steady increase in profit for Lululemon for 2017 which is a strength for them.

In the movie, Fresh and Chuckie are two young boys that are still in school. They are best friends. These two are different, but they are alike in some ways. Fresh is a little black kid. He runs drugs for drug dealers in his area.

“Bluebeard” and “The Robber Bride Groom” are both chilling stories that appear to shed light on the fears of marrying someone you don’t know or the horrors of discovering that your new significant other is truly evil. Despite these similarities, the characters in these stories are as different as day and night. Perrault’s character Bluebeard possesses so much wealth that he becomes so bored with life that he can no longer find pleasure in the most natural things in life, so he relies on torment and torture to please his own happiness. Despite his ugliness, he had already married several women, so he didn’t have any problems finding a woman. His money gave him the power to choose the woman he wanted, and his power was the fuel for his dominance.

Moving ahead,in order to get the idea about company’s internal environment and its capacity to survive and prosper in the market(Strategic capability), I analysed the resources and competencies(Appendix 3) ,the value chain (Appendix 3),the Cultural Web(Appendix 5). To find out the influence of stakeholders on the company I applied Power/Interest to the company and finally analysis of strengths,weaknesses ,opportunities and threats to the company(SWOT Analysis-Appendix 7) provide with clear idea about the strategic position of M&S.

The purpose of this essay is to analyse the current competitiveness and marketing strategy of Superdry/Supergroup PLC. Then investigate positive future avenues the company could take to increase growth, market share and sustainability in the retail clothing market. Currently Superdry have seen a huge increase in growth since they were listed on the stock exchange in 2010. Sales have increased by 329%, profit before tax has increased by 173% and amongst other increases they have seen a massive surge in e-commerce net revenue growing exponentially by 1586% (Supergroup, 2016). In a SWOT analysis carried out by Marketline (2016), they highlight how successful the company’s strengths and opportunities are with their multi-channel business, strong financial performance and global penetration all leading them in the right direction. In addition to the continued performance success Superdry have three principle goals set in place. Firstly, they want to build a lifestyle brand, secondly, drive awareness and breadth of the Superdry range, and thirdly, build a broader cross channel relationship with their customers (SuperGroup, 2016). It’s these three goals that will be used to formulate this essays future recommendations for the company, aiming to help keep the business moving in the same direction as it already is, increase its competitive advantage, and build on its solid brand platform by assessing the potential of entering into a new market.

This report contains the analysis of value and culture of reputable apparel retailer H&M, as well as three analysis method, which is PETEL, Porter’s five forces, and VRIO framework, to analyse the external influence factors, competitors, and competitive advantages of H&M.