Swot: Strategic Management and David Jones Limited

David Jones Ltd (DJS), one of Australia’s oldest and most recognised department stores was founded in Sydney in 1838 and is a retailer of diversified products ranging from clothes to daily home products. This report’s purpose is to provide the David Jones’ Board and Senior Management advice through the assessment of SWOT, resources, capabilities and strategies with a Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map as the measurement of the strategies.

David Jones’ position in the retail industry and the availability of numerous suppliers in the market reduces the threat of forward integration. Suppliers also want to be associated with David Jones due to its strong brand position in Australia. In 2008, 50 new iconic brands were introduced to David Jones portfolio (Annual report, 2008), which reflects the willingness of suppliers to add their products in David Jones’ product offerings.

ASOS is an international fashion retailer, which offers an extensive line of products, varying from high street to

15. How has the company’s stock been performing in the last 5 years? Steadily rising since 1/2009. Declining from 2007 – 2009 as expected due to the recession and the change in demand for construction.

The CanGo Company had experienced many obstacles and conflicts during the development of the proposed online gaming services. It is imperative for CanGo to review or to identify any problems that could threaten the company’s future goal. First of all, All team management of the company need to have a clear vision about the company’s long term planning, and analyze very carefully what audience would be targeted for the online gaming services. Also CanGo needs to perform a reliable analysis about their financial status, and making sure that they have the equipment is fully functional and available necessary before they start on new online gaming project. CanGo should also consider that each staff is fully aware about the CanGo’s mission, and this would be a positive way for the company to successfully achieve its goal.

The retail industry is saturated with substitutes, in part to low entry barriers. Online shopping and small boutiques stocking similar lines, brand names and designs provide David Jones potential customers with many substitutes. It is the David Jones experience that cannot be substituted; shopping in a large, upmarket department store. For the sector, substitutes are low.

David Jones Limited is a foreign-owned public company. It is owned by South African Woolworths Holding Limited. The company operates department store in Australia. There are 39 department stores existing across all states and territories in Australia. David Jones department store has a wide range of product to select, from ladies fashion, shoes and accessories, menswear, children’s wear, cosmetics, home decors, school supplies, office supply and many more. The company also offers financial services in alliance with American Express. Furthermore, the company also offers other products and services that include insurance cards, gift cards, online shopping, gift registry, hampers, flowers, food hall, The Rose Clinic health screening and interior decorating, (IBIS World, 2013)

For this capability, strong financial support and effective saving processes as fundamental resources enable Woolworths Ltd to provide products at relatively lower prices. The effective saving processes include the global sourcing process and direct store deliveries also play an important role to achieve competitive prices by reducing inventory costs and operating costs. Besides, the long term and good relationships with suppliers makes Woolworths get this capability to get lower cost products. Then combining the online network and existing delivery system makes customers purchase more conveniently. Last, Woolworths Ltd is also engaging in product expansion in different industries.

This report intends to analysis the macro and internal environments and financial position of the Travis Perkins plc by conducting the PESTLE and SWOT analysis. In the beginning of this report, it introduces the mission of Travis Perkins plc. After that, this report presents the PESTLE analysis to show the company’s external environment. Then, it depicts the SWOT analysis of Travis Perkins plc to show the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of this company. It follows by the financial strategy analysis and results of Travis Perkins. The balance sheet analysis will be presented in the appendix. In conclusion, the comprehensive environments are favorable to Travis

Debenhams plc is a general retailer which operates its business in the UK market and is also seeking to realise a further global market expansion. This report will mainly focus on the performance, financial position and the liquidity of Debenhams plc in 2014 and will compare with that of the previous year. A competitor in the same industry, Marks& Spencer, is chosen to make a comparison as well. The report in mainly focused on how Debenhams operated in the UK sector which includes sales from Debenhams stores in UK and online sales delivered to UK addresses. Debenhams faced challenges in 2014; the outcome for the first half was disappointing due to inappropriate sales target was set and the external factors such as market environment, as the whole retail industry has still influenced by the recession. Marks & Spencer is the competitor company which has been chosen to compare and measure Debenhams outcome in 2014.

Even though this report agrees with the current restructure and rescue plan of David Jones, which were divided main three parts including eleven subparts that are renovating store policies, focusing its core strengths, and transferring from traditional business to technologically oriented business, I want to add two main parts that are sustainable training and focused marketing strategy.

Other retailers have like products and same brands in their stores. Also, its prices are relatively high compared with some supermarkets and online stores.

Darden takes its suppliers very seriously, prior to doing business, the supplier must be qualified and a Total Quality Management Team assigned to that vendor. Product tracking occurs with inspection teams that identify the lot ID, atmospheric packaging, and the ability to track the order from origin to receipt of goods. For their many restaurants, Darden structures its supplies from 5 continents and thousands of suppliers, but insists on independent and accurate assessments in order to maintain relationships. Everything must be JIT inventory except smallware.

Globalization changes have impacted Burger King in the following ways; since the company began in 1953 with its first restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida and opened several locations across the United States, the company began its international expansion in 1969 with its first international franchise location in Canada, followed by Australia in 1971, and Europe in 1975. The setting up of franchises outside the United States was as a result of fast food opportunities arising outside the United States. So as to fully integrate in the international market, Burger King had to adopt and embrace

This report examines the strategic management of the international iconic fashion company- Prada. In this report we conduct an analysis of the external and internal environments and identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the Prada. The key issues identified in the environment analysis is the Prada’s future market especially China. The report reviews the financial and non-financial objectives of the company’s strategies and their affects for the stakeholders. Prada is engaging in their attempts to achieve their objectives. The strategic