Value Analysis Of Nestle

The “Nestlé way” is to dominate its markets. Its overall strategy can be summarized in four points:

Solvency refers to a company’s ability to meet its financial commitments in the long-term. Based upon the debts-to-assets ratios of the two companies, we can determine that Kraft Heinz is more well-equipped to meet their long-term financial obligations than General Mills is because the total liabilities of Kraft Heinz are a smaller percentage of their total assets than General Mills’s total liabilities are. In regards to liquidity, Kraft Heinz has a current ratio of 0.92, whereas General Mills has a current ratio of 0.79. Liquidity refers to a company’s ability to meet its financial commitments in the short-term.

The whole aim of production is to dispose in profitable sales as fast as possible inventory; to avoid stockpiling. The inventory turnover ratio measures this efficiency in cycling inventory. By dividing costs of goods sold (COGS) by the average amount of inventory the company held during the period, this would determine how quick the company has to replenish its shelves. Generally, a high inventory turnover ratio indicates that the firm is selling inventory (thereby having to spend money to make new inventory) relatively quickly. Nestle in 2016 had an inventory turnover ratio of 5.34.

The current ratio indicates the company’s ability to cover its short-term debt using short-term assets. Nestlé’s current ratios were 0.88 and 0.85 in 2015 and 2016 respectively. That means both years, Nestle had negative working capital. Nestlé’s currents assets do not exceed its liabilities in current ratio is not always good for the company because it could mean that the company has too much inventory or excess in cash that is not invested.

To measure this ability, the current total assets divided by the total current liabilities. Mondelez’s ratio resulted to .82, lower than one, which suggests that the company would be unable to pay off its obligations when it’s due. Also, shows Mondelez is not in good financial health, however it does not necessarily mean that they will go bankrupt. There are many ways to access financing, but it is definitely not a good sign. Moreover, it’s preferable to have a current ratio greater than 1.0; this will indicates ability to pay in a timely

The short-term solvency ratio is a measurement used to measure how well a company is able to meet debt obligations.

Here are some the common challenges which all the organizations face around the world and Nestle Bangladesh Ltd is also facing all of these challenges more or less.

It shows this power by competitive pricing in tough markets. For example, in Europe 2013 there were tough times for major companies like Danone to meet shareholder standards. But Nestle stated in an article featured by Reuter “competitive pricing helped to lift sales growth in spite of tough conditions in emerging markets and Europe” (Reuter). The ability to play with their price gave them the upper hand as well as reevaluating investments within the company. The Chef Executive Paul Bulcke said “Investing in its strongest brands while divesting underperforming businesses, improving capital allocation and structural efficiency should help to drive growth and preserve margins” (Reuter). It ultimately helped because they ended the quarter with a slight increase in sales across the board while competitors were not so lucky. Ultimately when a product is profitable the price rises and when a product is no doing as well the price will drop. Nestle seems to always sell at an average price, never too high or too low from its nearest competitor in its prospective market. For lower income families in emerging markets Nestle also has a strategy called PPP or also known as Poplar position products. Nestle described it as “PPPs offer these consumers the opportunity to consume high-quality food products that provide nutritional value at an affordable cost and

Resources are the source of the firm’s capabilities. Resources are bundled to create organisational capabilities. Some of a firm’s resources are tangible and intangible. Tangible resources are assets that can be seen and quantified. Intangible resources include assets that typically are rooted deeply in the firm’s history and have accumulated over time. Intangible resources are relatively difficult for competitors to analyse and imitate. The four types of tangible resources are financial, organisational, physical and technological. And the three types of intangible resources are human, innovation and reputational (Hanson, D., Hitt, M., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E., 2011, pp. 75-78).

Nestle is a swiss multinational food and beverages company. Its headquarters is located at vevey, Switzerland. In terms of revenue it is largest food company in world. Nestle produces the portified products such as baby food ,bottled water ,breakfast cereals ,coffee ,tea ,dairy products ,ice cream ,frozen food ,pet foods ,and snacks .Nestle provided 167 billion servings of fortified products .Among them 29 brands of Nestle are getting turnover of $US1.1 billions. Nestle is one of main shareholders of L’OREAL company, the worlds largest cosmetic company.

Nestle was established in 1866 at Vevey, Switzerland. Nestle is one of the largest food industry and has many locations in the United States included other countries as well. Nestle is labeled as focusing on nutrition, health and wellness, which have been the world’s most controversial corporations. In the past decade, Nestlé’s name was expanding due to boycott, over the marketing of infant formula that they created in the poor countries, which causes infants to get sick. Recently, Nestle is one of the major targets of the global movement against water industry. Again, Nestlé’s labors relation’s practice in poor countries has been target for international union movement. Not many companies are successful but they are still operating their

R&D capabilities. Nestlé invested more than $2 billion in R&D in 2011. It’s introducing new and redesigned products every year, strengthening firm’s competitive advantage.

Nestle S.A, originating from Vevey, Switzerland is a well-known company for the creation of popular brands such as; Allen’s, Maggie, Uncle Tobies and Milo just to name a few. Nestle S.A covers the product market of baby foods, bottled water, cereals, chocolate and confectionery, coffee, culinary, chilled and frozen foods, dairy products, drinks, food service, healthcare nutrition products, ice creams, pet care products, and weight management service. (MarketLine Company Profile, Nestle S. A, October 2015). Nestle sells products in 197 countries around the world including Australasia/ Oceania, Europe, America and Africa. The company also employs around 339 000 people over 442 factories located in 86 different countries. (December, 2014). Nestle was established in1866 as a baby food company with alternatives for babies that cannot be breastfed. Their first product was called ‘Farine Lactee Henri Nestle’ this was followed by chocolate manufacturing, bringing the product ‘Milo’ to the markets. Afterwards they moved to instant coffee with the brand name ‘Nescafe’ then followed by ‘Nestea’ and from there they moved into foods such as Maggi ‘2 minute noodles’ and canned soup. They continued to build from there as health conscious foods became more popular the ‘Jenny Craig weight loss business’ was initiated. Nestle has also invented such things as instant coffee machines and sports drinks. There latest initiative was the Ice Cream brands based around popular confectionary such as

The purpose of this report is to evaluate Nestle Company industry based on the case study and comprehend how the company develop strategic intent for their business organisations following the analysis of external and internal business environments. I will analyse the strategic management process as firm used to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns. I will discuss the strategy formulation that includes business-level strategy and corporate-level strategy.

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