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Date of Submission A Case analysis of Strategic Retail Management at Lenovo: Introduction: Strategic retail management provides an opportunity for a company to develop its market approaches both locally and internationally. It presents the company with an opportunity to develop its market abilities and achieve its objective through building a brand that fits into all markets that it ventures in during its lifetime. Strategic approaches to the retail market provides an organization with an opportunity

Lenovo, being one of the world's top five smart phone makers has a zero market share in the US markets which is one of the largest markets for smart phones. Motorola on the other hand, has been in the US markets for 85 years while it has a poor distribution in other markets. Lenovo’s biggest business is PCs and it is the world’s number 1 PC maker. But the sales of PCs isn’t growing which makes it imperative for Lenovo to focus on its mobile phone segment in order to be a tech leader. Having the

the industry is extremely competitive or volatile. Industry evolution brings change in sources and nature of competition (Porter 1979). This essay will analyse the external competitive environment and critically evaluate the strategies employed by Lenovo, a Chinese technological corporation, in dealing with the overall declining trend of the PC (personal computer) market. Case study overview Recent years saw the worldwide PC market growth rate undergoing a drastic plummet (Arthur 2013). The latest

Strategic positioning of Lenovo Strategic positioning of Lenovo focus on three main factors such as: high-end, middle and high-end combination of market positioning methods. Middle and high-end cannot only guarantee the Lenovo position in the market but also continue bring the image and status in consumer’s mind. Hence, nowadays all of computer manufacture face to the decrease of profit lead to Lenovo decides to choose for high-end positioning, It’s will allow Lenovo company gain competitive advantage

Assignment # 1: Case Study 1: Acer Case Strayer University Course Title: International Marketing (MKT505) Acer’s strategy has been described as “divide and conquer.” Compare and contrast this to Lenovo’s strategy Acer is a global corporation headquartered in Taiwan. The company’s products include desktop PC’s, laptop PC’s, tablets, monitors, and smartphones. Acer is a brand of the Acer Group which also owns Gateway, eMachines, and Packard Bell. The Acer Group’s long-term mission is to break

problem, causes and negative effects Strategic problem definition: • Acquisition of IBM – PC division as part of the expansion strategy. Causes: • Lenovo was number 9 on PC market and had 2.2% market share worldwide and therefore it wanted to increase its market share position. • Lenovo became a market leader in China with 27% market share and wanted to expand. • They first tried to diversify into non-PC areas but they failed and consequently they decided

In a company, it is usually considered as the key engine of how and where it should invest its resources. It is well known that Lenovo is the world’s second-largest PC vendor ,as well as the China’s second-largest smartphone company, manufacturing desktops, smartphones, tablets and smart TVs and own accessories (Lenovo website, n.d.). Having changed its name to “Lenovo” since 2003, the company has decided to expand its market outside China by carrying out a series of effective management strategies

previous year. Lenovo has a product line that includes everything from servers and storage devices to printers, printer supplies, projectors, digital products, computing accessories, computing services and mobile handsets, all in addition to its primary PC business, which made up 96 percent of the company’s turnover as of the second quarter of 2007. Since its acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division in May 2005, Lenovo has been accelerating

use the foreign mobile phones. Face this serious situation; few advanced Chinese try to set up Chinese brands of smartphones. Then, they just do it with their intelligence. The most famous of Chinese brands of smartphones are MI, Meizu, Huawei, and Lenovo. MI is the most succeed smartphone brand in the china. MI was set up by Lei Jun in 2010. When it comes to Lei Jun, he is also a legend. This guy was regarded as a definite looser. He used to set up many little companies, which closed down in a

Causes: • Lenovo was number 9 on PC market and had 2.2% market share worldwide and therefore it wanted to increase its market share position. • Lenovo became a market leader in China with 27% market share and wanted to expand. • They first tried to diversify into non-PC areas but they failed and consequently they decided to concentrate