1. Executive Summary
Over the years, H&M have built up a strong image and have proven their success through its reputation. H&M have always work forward to their business concept of fashion and quality at a low price. Even with competitive competitors, H&M managed to outstand them with luxury brand designers collaboration at an affordable price. The analysis of PESTEL has shown advantages and disadvantages of H&M. With the precise choice of segmentation targeting in females, the company have then position themselves at a low price with fashionable design. H&M has differentiate itself in terms of profitable, affordable and superiority, and have successfully applied the marketing mix of 4ps producing and selling female clothing with value-based price through their own factories and stores. H&M have well-planned promotion in
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Singapore with its geographical location, close to the equator, experiencing summer whole year round. Therefore, Singapore is ideal choice for vacation. According to a research, in 2010-2013, the tourism of Singapore is increasing. But due to the haze causes by forest fires in Indonesia, air pollution level in Singapore rose to an unhealthy level. As statistics display, in 2014, the tourism rate in Singapore have decrease because of the air pollution (Singapore Tourist Arrivals, n.d.). This will affect the business of H&M.
4.6 Legal
According to Singapore law labor, the ratio of employee between local people and foreigner for the service industry is 2.5 : 1 (HOW TO CALCULATE YOUR QUOTA AND LEVY BILL, 2014). H&M retail stores in Singapore is considered service industry, so the ratio of employee between local people and foreigner must correspond 2.5 : 1. This will mean that H&M could not hire a lot of foreign workers with lower pay, so the cost the production of H&M to be higher, resulting in higher priced products or less profits. This is a disadvantage to H&M. 5. SWOT
Strength
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They company has already established itself strongly as an American company, through building credibility and supporting national identity. It is clearly the apparel brand of all of America, and therefore must be a trustworthy source to listen to and buy from. Additionally, its “vertical integration” page furthers the idea that this a trustworthy company that should be bought from. The company prides itself on the combination of factors of production such as manufacturing, design, marketing, accounting, retail and distribution. This page states that this strategy is “not only smart for our company, but for our community, our local and regional economy, our environment, and, in turn, our customers”.
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H&M’s number of stores has increased under its brand (such as Cheap Monday, Weekday H&M and much more) due to their current expansion. H&M are pursuing licensing and wholly owned subsidiary as a mode of entry. Wholly Owned Subsidiary is one of the modes of entry that H&M are currently pursuing and the reason why H&M are pursuing wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore and Malaysia is, because those countries are politically stable. H&M gained competitive advantage of low risk and constant profit margin in Singapore and Malaysia, because it is politically stable. The reason why H&M pursues wholly owned subsidiary in countries such as in America and Canada is, because H&M can have a control (full) over their stores.
They also proved to their competitors, they are the top brand in the fashion
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The report also provides in depth analysis on how H&M has used its capabilities to grow its operations through the practices of market development, product development as well as market penetration. The Threat of New Entrants within the Apparel