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The Success And Potential Problems Of The Company

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Introduction
With the rapid globalization of the market, innovation tends to be increasingly important in service industry and service management literature. In order to attract more attention, many enterprise start to operate the business in some new strategies. Club Mediterranee, as known as Club Med, is a specific example in the service industry. Case ‘Club Med’ is an evaluation case. This essay aims to critically analyze the success and potential problems of the company by using SWOT analysis.

Background Information
Club Med, started by Gerard Blitz and oriented as a nonprofit sports association in Europe in 1950, is a global hotel company that directly and indirectly sells the low-price vacation package to customers through travel agency and reservation center. Due to the rapid growth of the association, Blitz invited his friend Gilbert Trigano, a tent supplier, to be the managing director of the company, which helped Club Med transform to a commercial company. In 1972, Club Med. Inc., a U.S. subsidiary, was formed by Trigano’s son Serge and later the stock were sold on New York Stock Exchange. Serge moved back to Paris until Jacques Giraud took over the CEO and president of Club Med Inc. At the same time, the company published that it had been traded on the Paris Stock Exchange. Until now, Club Med has expanded to ninth-largest hotel company in the world, which only faced few competitors around the world. The services covered ‘American Zone’, Europe, Asia, and South

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