External Analysis (Micro Environment) Micro environment normally are controllable by management. But it needs to be closely analysed and monitored in order to adapt rapid changes and to stay competitive. The micro environmetal factors that need to be considered are Competitors: The competitors of wesfarmers Ltd are Woolworth , Aldi , BigW , Caltex. They are the threat to the wesfarmers and as well as the opportunity provider to innovate something new and to make more new marketing strategy better then the competitors market. The main rivalry here is between Woolworth, Aldi and the Coles as they are similar type of market. The cut off on the price as we see when we go to Coles or wool worth are the example of competitors market.. Examples …show more content…
The survival or existence of business is possible only because of Customers. Wesfarmer Ltd is huge company with many divisions of retail shopping centre from house hold to office product, clothes, fashion and technology, Coal mine industries, insurance company and many more where million of customer consumes different products. For the growth and existence of the company it is necessary to understand the customers needs and wants and build good relationship with customers. Wesfarmers is committed to provide better value to the Customer by delivering safe and sustainable products and services, booming sales force performance, improving their delivery performance, broadening the products and services ranges and offering solutions, focusing more on small customers through online(wesfarmers annual report, 2015).Coles is their largest consumer business (wesfarmers annual report, …show more content…
Kmart , Target , Bunnings, Coles, Coal industries, resources and chemical industries are its different division and its main aim is to provide the satisfactory return to their sharholder, ensuring safety of worker and working ethically for the society and environment and contributing to the social development where its operate engaging with different social working group. There are different external and internal factor that effect the Wesfarmer. Macro environment like Social and legal, political, economical and Technological are the uncontrollable factor changes in this factors directly hamper the shares price, sell and profit of the Company.But as Australian macro environment have not been much effected by recession and instability and Wesfarmers doing their business following all the legal obligation and ethically the Wesfarmers profit is enhancing yearly .The other factor that need to be monitored is the micro environment. The Weframer tracks their competitor's strategy, provide safe and diversified workplace to employees provide satisfactory return to their stockholders and supplies the source ethically which is the main reason of long sustainability of
Q1 : (Philip,2011) “Marketing environment is consists of the actors and forces outside the marketing department that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers” . The marketing environment consists of micro and macro environment . Macro environment have larger societal forces that effect the microenvironment , it includes : demographic , economic , cultural and other forces. The demographic is the study of human populations like : gender , age, location , density and other statistics . The demographic trends have impacted the marketing includes : changing age , population growth and so on , for example , this changing will affect the united airlines decision because demographic
In order to analyse what extent Tesco U.K’s performance is attributa-ble towards industry characteristics, Porter’s five forces are broken up into competition, potential of new entrants, power of suppliers, power of customers and the threat of sub-stitute products. Below is an image of Porters 5-forces in relation to the U.K supermarket industry. 1. Rivalry amongst competitors The intensive rivalry in the U.K’s grocery sector is remarkably high.
Although the Loblaw has majority market share holds, the company faces intense competition from many types of grocers such as Sobeys Inc., Metro Inc., Walmart; and many types of non-traditional competitors, such as drug stores, warehouse clubs and specialty stores (organics & ethnics). High rivalry intensity makes an industry more competitive and potentially decrease profit margins. Entry Barriers: As there are fierce rivalry between competitors, the barriers to entry in the Canadian grocery market is high. The large food retailers account for the majority of the market revenue in Canada. Thus, smaller interdependent retailers can’t really compete with such-alike Loblaw or Sobeys or Walmart.
These stores offer a wide array of products and services. Sears' domestic sales have been consistently declining because its low-end competitors (e.g. Walmart and Target) and mid-tier competitors (e.g. J.C. Penny and Macy's) have been increasingly capturing more department store market share through wider selection and steeper discounts, thereby squeezing the company's sales and margins. (IbisWorld, 2012). JC Penney has many risks that could impact their sales and profitability. Highly competitive retail industry is one among them.
Market growth An increase of consumers purchasing an electrical appliance and furniture, this might attract other’s company enter into the market and seek some market share Direct competitors like Harvey Norman, Challenger, Gain City, Best Denki and indirect competitors like online shopping. All these competitors are competing with one another and are affecting the industry. There is a potential growth of the market. Therefore, many SME are opening shop in the neighbour area to cater to specific
POLITICAL - Sainsbury’s performance will be greatly affected by the political factors of United Kingdom. As the government and consumer debts being very high presently there, as a result it impacts greatly on attitudes of customers due to which business conditions experience very high pressure. It has not only to operate in these market conditions but also has to continually develop its business. In general, it can also have negative impact because of ongoing price fixing investigation among the big four UK retailers as Sainsbury is one of these and being at the forefront of this assertion. Allegation can hamper its image among public in market as public feel that they are cheated.
Wal-Mart has been experimenting in smaller places rather than usual big cities. Wal-Mart proclaimed that they are planning to open %40 of their store openings over next years with small store formats. The SWOT analysis indicates us relevant information about the current threats of Trader Joe’s. The threat analysis indicates that there is huge rivalry in the market, having no technology and substitute companies creates big threat. The substitute threat and brand name items are concern for Trader Joe’s and competitive advantage.
ALDI specializes on its own labeled products brand, creates high quality products with fair features, designs and packaging, ALDI also focuses on the variety of products that are mostly needed in each and every household, so ALDI does not only offer food but also offers electronic products, clothes, household goods, health and beauty products. By creating ALDI’s exclusive own brands, ALDI can minimize the costs on the products itself, therefore listing low prices for customers; Also ALDI is fortunate enough for its high purchasing power from suppliers, therefore ALDI can bargain the best prices so it can keep low costs and low prices; Another several ways ALDI is minimizing costs is for example: cart renting, as well as ALDI’s re-usable bags to reduce costs and insure low prices and saving for customers. ALDI took into consideration the importance of locating its stores in places convenient for people and also accessible, also taking into consideration public transportation links and parking spaces available, creating online channels for customers to locate their nearest ALDI store; Yet unlike other supermarket ALDI is not opened for 24H, ALDI’s opening hours are at the times where people are most likely to go shopping to minimize cost. As mentioned before prices aren’t something ALDI can compromise on and one of ALDI’s strategies is minimizing costs for competitive
In the ever changing business environment, there are both internal and external influences which affect the operations and management of a business. It is up to the business on how they deal with the effects of each influence and this will ultimately determine the success of the company. The internal influences are factors which the business has direct control over, one of these being the location. The location refers to the geographical situation of the business and has a high level of impact over how the business will function. It can become a make or break factor, depending on how well the business utilises and addresses the visibility, cost and their proximity to suppliers, customers and to support services.
Executive Summary This report complies of an extensive study of Nando’s South Africa. A brief background of Nando’s is provided. A SWOT analysis is used to scan the micro environment of Nando’s to identify the businesses strengths, which should be exploited to gain a competitive advantage, weaknesses, where strategies need to be implemented so not to lose customers , opportunities, where strategies to exploit these ideas to gain a competitive advantage need to be identified and implemented and threats, where strategies need to be implemented so the business is not negatively affected. The Porters Six Forces model is used to scan the challenges Nando’s faces in the market environment by looking at level of rivalry in the market, the threat
Customer satisfaction is at the core of their actions in every step of their supply chain. The company offers different products in their stores, letting the customers decide whether to consume them
Customers will be a loyal customer if their opinions and needs are met by a company. I believe this is the most important building block. I have worked as a manager of a retail card and gift store in Wantagh for the past five years. Throughout my five years, I take great pride in the customers that shop with us. If there is something that I can do to help my customers or order them a certain product, I don’t hesitate.
Porter’s five forces model To analyse the microenvironment facing United Biscuits in China, Porter’s five forces model is selected to provide an understanding of the competitive forces, to determine the competitive position of the company and profitability within the biscuit industry whilst offering a framework for predicting and influencing competition over time (Porter, 2008, p.80). The findings are explained below: Threat of new entrants • The high capital cost required for investing in developing distribution, sales network and acquiring production equipment could deter new entrants. The barriers are high when capital is necessary for unrecoverable expenditures such as marketing and product development capability which is difficult for new entrants to succeed in the short-term (Euromonitor, 2014; Porter, 2008, p.81).
Executive Summary Throughout this assignment, the company activities, structure, management accounting functions and contributions to modern management accounting of Unilever Plc has been stated clearly. Unilever Plc is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of transnational consumer and founded in the year 1929 after the combination of two companies. It is a multi brands company which having more than 400 brands and involving in producing food, beverages, personal care and home care products. There are totally 14 committees in Board of Directors of Unilever Plc.
Secondly, Porter’s Five Forces Model is used to analyse the level of rivalry in the market, the attractiveness for potential new entrants, the power of suppliers, the power of buyers and the threat of substitution. This will allow us to see a holistic view of the industry in the market environment. Thirdly, the PESTLE framework is used to analyse the factors within the macro environment that are influencing