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Canada, Harley Davidson Canada is issued for effectively being in Canada for 100 years. Therefore, this case study will focus on Harley Davidson’s alternatives aspects such as product mix, core brand value, and product life cycle based on motorcycle industry in Canada. This is because these are helpful and useful to make decisions to extend Harley’s lifetime and to suggest ideal recommendation be part of living life in target market. Harley-Davidson, Inc. is the parent company of Harley-Davidson

and yet remain strong within the private market because motorcycles can be an expensive hobby. The company is currently, and must continue to support all makes and models of motorcycles, and continue to concentrate its growth on the popular brand, Harley Davidson (HD), as well as other foreign made motorcycles. If the company directs its resources to a single product, such as HD customization and repair, with a continuous improvement where the managers will remain proactive with improvements in all

statics of Harley-Davidson’s is; revenue, growth rate, and number of units that are sold. The manufacturer of the United States heavyweight motorcycle division has obtained, arrested, and achieved approximately fifty-four percent of the broad United States motorcycle exchange. Harley-Davidson has fifty-two percent share of the broad motorcycle exchange in which IBISWorld INC. has estimated that it will generate six point nine billion dollars in revenue this year, (Forbes, (2014). The Harley-Davidson

was painfully made. Nevertheless, to compensate for being without a “toy” for Vince, we bought a sporty Harley-Davidson motorcycle to occupy his free time. Riding a motorcycle was a more cost effective sport, plus it was much easier to jump on a bike for a few hours of riding than prepare the boat for a few hours of sailing. Not quite the same, but even so, a great alternative way to have fun. Eventually, Vince found lucrative work as a Salesperson at Artistic Tile and Stone; a high quality

Harley-Davidson Inc. Internal Analysis Group Members Janneke Kanis Christopher Klaesener Jeroen Kwint Annemiek Rensing Hanqing Zhou Foreword As this was the first assignment we had to complete for the SMA class, we felt the need to put some additional information on top of the Internal Analysis. The purpose of this report is to give an insight on the internal factors that influence the performance of Harley-Davidson. In the first chapter our group decided to include a company history

Harley-Davidson/Indian Rivalry Did Indian sue Harley-Davidson in the mid 1900’s and why or was it just a rumor? Indian did sue Harley-Davidson in the mid 1900’s because Indian saw that on Harleys new model was a carburetor of his design and Indian accused Harley of plagiarizing their design of a the carburetor so Indian sued them for steeling their carburetor design. In court Harley won because Indian did not have any contract our paper work that would secure their design. A century ago, Harley-Davidson

ANALYSIS: HARLEY DAVIDSON: PREPARING FOR THE NEXT CENTURY ANSWERED BY: VIGNESH KARUNAMOORTHY A0133072U QUESTION 1: Historically, how did Harley Davidson manage to dominate the US market? How did it do so and what were its sources of competitive advantage? • Harley Davidson had a good reputation as its motorbikes won races in 1908. • It had innovations like the V-twin engine, clutch, internal expanding rear brake, and three speed transmission. • Despite a sagging economy Harley Davidson invested

In the 1900’s there were four Davidson brothers named Arthur, Walter and William and William Harley. Their goal was to create something that could help them travel from place to place in a timely manner. They started working in the back of their home garage, gathering supplies and brainstorming. It took them over three years to come up with a design for a motorcycle. The first carburetor was made from a tomato can, and the spark plugs were the size of a doorknob. By 1903, they had created a bicycle

William S. Harley, the co-founder and first chief engineer of

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D), or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1903. It was formed by William S. Harley and his childhood friend Arthur Davidson. In 1901, 20-year-old William S. Harley had plans to manufacture a motorcycle and he designed a small engine that could be easily get fitted into the paddle bicycle. But the drawback of that was it couldn’t climb up the hill in Milwaukee. So they thought to come up with a bigger engine and this lead to