2.1 McDonald’s mission:
Brand mission is to become customers' favourite place and way to eat and drink.
2.2 McDonald’s Objective:
To serve good food in a friendly and fun environment, provide cheap value meals at quick service, be a socially responsible company, and provide good returns to shareholders.
2.3 Core competencies and sustainable competitive advantage.
A core competency is connecting to the customers. Eg, Mcdonald’s created an application known as the ‘surprise alarm’ that can be downloaded on mobile phones. Users will get special surprises from Mcdonald’s whenever the alarm is set. Upon receiving a surprise, they can claim their free food or drinks from any Mcdonald’s outlets. Another is McDonald’s ability to attract customers by offering free gifts. (Eg. Selling of Hello Kitty plush toys.)
3. Market Situation Analysis
3.1 Industry Analysis
3.11 Market Size:
The market size of McDonald’s is shrinking in the recent year. According to the annual report of McDonald’s Corporation (refer to figure 1), there is an increase of Net income from 2010 to 2011. But in year 2012 the Net income decreased. Afterwards, from year 2012 to 2013,the net
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As most Singaporeans are educated, this results in a higher average income in Singapore compared to other countries. This puts McDonald’s in a good position as most Singaporeans can afford McDonald’s. This causes an increase in demand for McDonald’s which will lead to an increase in sales.
3. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT –(natural resources affecting the marketing activities)
McDonald’s recognises its responsibility to protect and preserve the environment for future generations by using the planet’s resources efficiently. They are continuously looking for ways to reduce the amount of material used for packaging. Eg.Reduced the size tray liners, resized the Big Mac boxes and replaced plastic bags with recycled paper bag.
4. TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT- (create technology to create new
Selfridges, also known as Selfridge & Co., is located in the United Kingdom and well-known and unique because of its history and how it currently operates. Selfridges was established by Harry Gordon Selfridge on 15 March 1909. It is a chain of high-end department stores whose flagship store on London’s Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK. Since 2003, Selfridges has been under the ownership of Galen Weston and has its stores at Oxford Street in London, in Birmingham and at Trafford and Exchange Square in Manchester. Selfridges won the Best Department Store in the World at the Global Department Store Summits in 2010, 2012 and 2014 (Selfridges, 2015a,b).
Company Overview Publix Corporation is consider to be a leading grocery store in the industry. Publix Corporation ranks on the top list of Fortune 500 best companies to work for. Our company currently operates throughout the United States, and is currently seeking to explore business opportunities internationally. Publix Corporation currently prides itself on being a family oriented, and a great place to buy fresh food, while sampling simple ready to eat meals.
Today we live in a glоbal econоmy in which the time taken for peоple to mоve between continents has been significantly rеduced and in which Internet and other connections make instant connections possible. So to be succеssful these days, even small businesses must plan their marketing strategies to attract cоnsumer interest outside of their local markets. Although there are risks involved, there also are plenty of аdvantages to expanding a business worldwide. If you don’t offer a product on the world market, a competitor probably will. Some types of businesses are more аppropriate than others for global market expаnsion.
1.INTRODUCTION OF COMPANY My PESTEL analysis for this piece of writing is based on the famous international lingerie company, Victoria Secret. Victoria Secret was founded in 1977 by Roy Raymond, and his wife. Roy Raymond’s interest in a lingerie line was sparked by his embarrassment when purchasing lingerie for his wife. It was then that he studied the market before deciding to go into business, opening their very first store in Palo Alto, California. His vision then, was to have a store that would make everyone, especially men, comfortable shopping for lingerie.
Introduction Rolls Royce Group Private Limited Company outlines, creates, fabricates and administrates engine for use on Air, Land & Sea. Of which, air is its major business division. The Aerospace division comprises of civil aerospace and defense aerospace while Land & Sea divisions involved of marine, nuclear and power systems (Reuters, 2015). Rolls-Royce was once an electrical and mechanical business that established by Sir Frederick Henry Royce in 1884.
Mobile application payment option generates barcode to be usable in targeted stores. Mobile marketing strategy is used by Schultz has establish it as an important channel to reach and interact with consumers and give rise to a higher level of emphasis placed on the marketing mixed used in mobile devices. Starbucks enables customers to receive rewards in free coffee after usage of the mobile application in a certain amount of purchases via the card. This also serves as a positive reinforcement for users of the mobile reward card (Alreck & Settle, 1999).
The planning involves the mission and vision statement. McDonalds mission statement is ‘to be our customers favorite place and way to eat’ (Referenceweb).McDonalds vision statement which is also their aim is ‘serving quality food that our customers can trust(reference). From this we know that McDonalds aims to be trusted for delivering quality food. Organizing, the formal structure at McDonalds divides the organization in the departments and every individual knows his/her task well at which he/she needs to be specialized. The organization structure chosen supports performance and is aligned with the strategy of the restaurant of providing consistent quality and great service experience.
Introduction Forever 21 is a clothing brand that is based in many countries. Most people would be very familiar with the brand as it caters to them in terms of a fashion retailer. The country that will be in this report would be in Singapore and the purpose of the report is to perform an environmental analysis on a company. The structure would be an introduction, followed by company background, country background, PESTEL analysis, porter’s 5 forces, strategic recommendations and conclusion.
2. MARKETING ENVIRONMENT that affect APPLE Co.’s service to customers. 2.1 DEMOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT Focusing
McDonald’s is the largest fast food restaurant chain in the United States and represent the largest restaurant company in the world, both in terms of customer served and revenue generated. In 2014 IBISWorld market research estimated MCD held an 18.6 % of market share of the entire global fast food industry; Burger King in at just 4.6%. Under franchising visionary Ray Kroc, McDonald 's became the world 's premier food brand by selling the rights to operate a McDonald 's store. With this model, MCD keeps overhead costs down and lets local owners deal with individual units, while food costs remain low and service remains fast for a culture increasingly on the go.
The diagram above shown the CPM of McDonald’s and its competitor, KFC and Burger King; indicates McDonald’s is in a strong strategic position than its competitor. Some of the reasons McDonald’s is successful and has high market is due to it strong brand name recognition, a strong customer loyalty, and its global expansion. Furthermore, McDonald’s is also invested a large sum of money in advertising and very well known toward it charity program through Ronald McDonald’s House. Nevertheless, there are areas in which the organization can improve.
The age factor used by the target market of McDonalds is a family with dual income that does not have the time to prepare their food for their children, the workers who are having lunch and teens. Besides that, according to Schroder and McEachern (2005), global target market fast-food industry account for 79 percent is at age 17-25. The income factor used by McDonald target customers are upper-middle and lower income consumers. The Mac value offered by McDonalds will attract lower class customers to upper-middle customers. McDonald 's lunch meal RM5.95 has improved the product as it is attractive to upper-middle and even lower customers.
Section 4 Findings and recommendations (a) Evaluate the effectiveness of the revenue cycle McDonald’s is apparently one of the biggest giants in the fast food industry, and this role simply proves that they did really well in their internal management. Therefore, we are going to evaluate the effectiveness of McDonald’s in term of revenue cycle. Initially, there is a lists of complaints available online about McDonald’s, as the accuracy of ordering process should be improve due to employees often process incorrect orders or even misplace the customer orders.
4.0 Implementation 4.1 Broader perspective Globalization is affected by various factors that drive towards its existence and formation in the society and a set of these macroeconomic factors. As per this analysis we can get an overview of the current economy of the country that helps the researcher to make relevant suggestions and recommendations that can benefit the economy as well as society to make them believe and trust that the globalization enhances their behaviour and life style. PEST Analysis: Source: Visual.ly website PEST Analysis of Saudi Arabia Political environment Giddens and Griffiths (2006, p. 59) states that mainly there are three reasons why politics has become one of the main drivers of globalization.
Moreover, although the sales turnover of Unilever Plc has decreased, the operating profit and net profit still remain increased. The most highlighted part of this assignment is Unilever