...and Law International Business Strategy Analysis Group Assignment (35%) INB70012 Global Business Strategy Semester 1, 2015 Strategy Analysis of AirAsia Convenor : Dr Aron Perenyi & Lecturer Students : Natalia Knets Emma Dalton Gautham Raju Markus Arian Shakoor (1704583) * Executive Summary * Content page Executive Summary II Content III Figures IV 1 Introduction 1 2 Mission, Vision and Core Values 1 3 External Environment Analysis 2 4 Internal Environment Analysis 4 5 Current Strategy Analysis 7 5.1 Corporate and International Strategy 7 5.2 Business Strategy 9 6 Strategy Fit 9 6.1 Financial Performance Analysis 9 6.2 SWOT Analysis 11 7 Strategy Recommendations 14 References 15 * Figures page Figure 1: Structure of AirAsia 8 Introduction AirAsia is a Malaysian low-cost carrier (LCC) and has been established in 1994 by DRB-Hicom. In 2001 Tony Fernandes took over the company and remains the CEO of the AirAsia Group. Fernandes turned the company from a small airline with two aircrafts operating to one destination with 250 staff (AirAsia 2015a) into the number one LCC operating in Asia. Today it operates on 132 routes, connecting 65 destinations in 18 countries with over 8,000 staff (AirAsia 2015b). The group services almost 12 million passengers per year with 171 aircrafts (AirAsia 2015c). This report provides a comprehensive strategy analysis of Air Asia. First the mission, vision and core values...
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...GROUP PROJECT Case Study: Initial Public Offering of Ordinary Shares of AirAsia X Berhad Memo COURSE CODE : GSM 5421 COURSE NAME : INVESTMENT ANALYSIS TRIMESTER : 2012/2013 LECTURER : DR. CHEN CHAW MIN DATE OF SUBMISSION : 20 JULY 2013 FOREIGN INVESTORS GROUP MEMBERS: Memo To: Joe Campos, VP of Sales From: Kate Chaplain, Senior Sales Associate Date: April 5, 2013 Subject: Quarterly Review Mr. Campos, Purpose: Air Asia X Berhad Initial Public Offerings (IPO) of Ordinary Shares Road Show was held on the 29th of June 2013. The purpose of this memo is to determine whether we, as large foreign institutional investors should buy or not to buy Air Asia X Berhad IPO shares with fundamental analysis and findings. Besides deciding whether to buy or not to buy, we will justify the reasons underlying our decision that we have come across that we are not buying Air Asia X Berhad IPO shares. Background: Air Asia X is a long-haul, budget airline based in Malaysia. The airline is operated by Air Asia X Sdn. Bhd. It is claimed by the company’s management that they are a leading low-cost, Long-haul airline, operating primarily in the Asia Pacific Region. Also, they believe that they have the lowest unit cost base of any airline in the world. This in turn has enabled them to offer fares that are targeted, on average, to be 30% - 50% lower than FSCs and to stimulate new market demand, whereby passenger volumes between Kuala Lumpur and other destinations they serve...
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...of Ratios 6 5. Ratio Analysis of the Performance of Air Asia and Malaysian Airlines System for the year 2011 7 6. Conclusion 11 Bibliography/Reference 13 QUESTION: Select any two listed companies of Bursa Malaysia from the Trading/Services sector and evaluate the companies’ asset management and leverage ratios using their financial statements for the year 2011 ANSWER 1. INTRODUCTION Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) and Air Asia are currently the two main airlines operating in Malaysia. These two companies are competing in the airline industry which is fiercely competitive. This is a very large and continuously growing industry giving the industry players the opportunity for immense financial gains. The different categories in the airline industry usually comprise of: International Category which has airplanes with adequate seating capacity that makes it possible for passengers to travel to any destination in the world. The earnings in this category gross over a billion dollars. National Category which has a lesser seating capacity and the gross revenues are less than one billion dollars. Regional Category with planes that operate short-haul flights. Cargo Category which has planes transporting goods. The airline industry is characterized by its large capital requirements, high fares and operating costs, high tax and excise charges, and high landing, ground handling and air traffic control. Also fuel is...
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...Introduction PEST Analysis is the Political, Economic, Social culture and Technology analysis that a company does to determine the overall business environment. A PEST analysis is a look at the external environment of a company or a business that plays an important role in managing and decision making of a company. It is crucial for a company to consider its environment before relating with the public or customers. The PEST analysis examines the impact of each of the factor on the company. Thus, political factor considers the impact of legislatives changes, stability of the economy and event that related with the government and politics that may affect the business. Influence of economy, such as interest rate, stability of economy, inflation levels and such helps the company make better decision on how to operate their company effectively. Besides that, the social drive is a crucial part on PEST analysis. Creating and developing a social culture takes time and effort and a new motive driven company such as Air Asia has to develop me method on how to connect with the society's lifestyle, demographics, and media. Technological point of PEST analysis relates with competing technology development with other competitors and effective information and communication between the market and the company. Political Analysis Political Analysis mainly states about the aviation acts and regulation which needed by aviation company such as Air Asia to operate their business. The political...
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...Table of Content Contents Marketing Audit 2 External analysis 2 Macroenvironment 2 Microenvironment 5 Internal analysis 9 AirAsia Marketing Mix (4ps) 9 SWOT Analysis 11 Marketing Objectives 17 Marketing strategy 17 Action Programs 25 Financial Budgeting 26 Implementation Control 27 References 31 Marketing Audit External analysis * Macroenvironment Political Environment Government regulates Airline industry heavily as in other country. In Government regulations of the Malaysian domestic and international aviation industry significantly affect financial performance of Air Asia. All aspect of Air Asia’s domestic airline operations in Malaysia, including slots allocation granting of rights under Malaysia’s air service agreements (“ASAs”) and insurance of AOCs, are subject to regulation by DCA. Aviation activity is managed by the organization within the MOT called DCA. The objective of DCA is to ensure direct service provider operates the air transportation (aviation) system is always safe for passenger. The growth of the AirAsia’s strategy is obtained by increase the flight’s frequencies to the market that is currently serves and expanding market’s number that is serves. The growth strategy can be success depends on additional traffic right that is obtained to suitable airports located in targeted geographic markets of AirAsia. Ministry of Transport and Malaysia Airports (MAHB) decided to increase the airport tax by RM7 and RM14 with the approval...
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...• A strategic analysis report relating to Jetstar Airlines o A competitive analysis of the market/s including: A brief description of the history of the company and a history of the main competitors. Include joint venture alliances where applicable. History of the company Jetstar’s mission is to offer all day, every day low fares to enable more people to fly to more places, more often. The Jetstar Group is a value based, low fares network of airlines operating in the leisure and value based markets. The Group consists of: Jetstar Airways in Australia and New Zealand (wholly owned by the Qantas Group). Jetstar Asia based in Singapore. The company is managed by Newstar Holdings, majority owned by Singapore company Westbrook Investments (51 per cent), with the Qantas Group holding the remaining 49 per cent. Jetstar Pacific based in Vietnam (majority owned by Vietnam Airlines with the Qantas Group holding 30 per cent). Jetstar Japan, a partnership between the Qantas Group Japan Airlines, Mitsubishi Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation. Jetstar Hong Kong, a partnership between China Eastern Airlines and the Qantas Group (subject to regulatory approval). The Jetstar Group is the largest low cost carrier in the Asia Pacific by revenue and has flown over 100 million passengers since it launched in 2004. In the past financial year ended June 2012, the Jetstar Group carried more than 20 million customers. The Jetstar Group has grown from providing...
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...Company – Air Asia Air Asia vision: To become a biggest low cost airline in Asia & serving the three billion of people who are presently underserved with poor connectivity and high fares. A vision is virtually comprises thinking strategically about the direction of the company in the future. After an assessment has been made on Air Asia original vision statement, there are some suggestion and improvement that needed. The new vision can be revised as: ‘To spearhead airlines industry and become most famous low-cost airline that provides the great flying experience in Asia’. Based on the revise vision statement, it showed that the formed is still within its scope as Air Asia is highlighting that they wanted to be the biggest low-cost airline in Asia. When the company expands larger, the more people will know more about Air Asia. And this will improve the strong brand identity to the consumers. Apart from that, the new vision statement shows that Air Asia wants to provide the great flying experience to the consumer or passenger. Other than that, Air Asia also can take noted that as consumers nowadays are more concern about the services quality rather than the facilities for an Airlines company. A vision statement is important to direct a company to be surviving in the future. If a company have a unreliable vision statement, it might lead a company to the wrong direction. The vision that created by Air Asia are achieving the expectations for its business. At the same time, Air Asia...
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...Executive summary Air Asia Airline is one of the companies that once facing a critical financial crisis situation within the organisation. However Air Asia has successfully overcome this problem and expand this nearly bankrupt organisation to become million valued company within a short period of time. Air Asia only used 4 years times to change from a heavily debt organisation and become a high profit company that earn a net profit of RM112 million during 2004 (Air Asia 2005). This has illustrate that Air Asia has undergo a radically change within the organisation. Hence this report will mainly discuss and analyze on what has been done and how was the changes has been done to Air Asia so that the company could manage these changes properly as well as creates positive profit in this financial report. Table of content |Executive Summary |1 | |Table of Content |2 | |1.0 Introduction |3 | |2.0 Company Background |3 | |3.0 Drivers of Change ...
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...to improve performance and productivity. Some areas addressed by management control systems may include accounting methods, employee incentive programs and performance measurement. Accounting methods are often implemented and evaluated as part of a management control system. To control financial activities within a company, the area may be broken down into financial and managerial accounting. Financial accounting generally focuses on internal issues, such as reporting sales costs, while managerial accounting may focus on methods for determining product costs. While both areas cover business accounting issues, their methods of application generally differ, and separate systems implemented by a management control system may aid in ensuring reports remain accurate and impartial. Managerial accounting is typically responsible for providing management with information on controlling costs and improving the production process. Managerial accountants may also provide cost information on new products, make pricing decisions and monitor actual and budgetary costs. General financial accounting within management control systems aims to focus on a company's internal accounting issues. Financial accounting typically handles payroll and human resource issues affecting employees within the company. Accounts in this area may also manage employee costs and reimbursements under a control system. Management control and management accounting Management accounting and management control...
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...Evaluation of air asias response to tourism Executive summary Air Asia, the market leader of low cost carriers in Asia, shown on the good record of bringing about innovative idea into the industry. The industry itself, especially in the Asian region, is observing a higher growth rate of passenger and profitability. The report examines the organization’s key business structure and operation, products and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy. The analysis looks at the impact of external and internal factors on the organization, and evaluate it responses. Essentially SWOT and PESTLE analysis provide a simple framework through which strategic options can be identified in which Air Asia operate. The SWOT process will start by examining the strengths of the Air Asia of today. One of the most dominant strengths possessed by Air Asia is the adding of new Airbus A320 aircraft to its fleet. Airbus A320 gives Air Asia the largest, youngest and most modern fleet in the region. Another strength of Air Asia is the upgrading of the online booking system, in which will offer the ability to passenger to check in online and printing out boarding passes. An opportunity available to Air Asia is fastest growing market in China and India. Both countries give a huge opportunity for Air Asia to expand its business in the region. In the threat part of the analysis is concerned with identifying parts of the Air Asia that might affect its business performance. In recent years...
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...AirAsia BERHAD MARKETING PLAN No. | CONTENTS | PAGE | 1.0 | Executive Summary | 1-2 | 2.0 | Introduction | 3 | | 2.1 Background and History of AirAsia | 3-4 | | 2.2 Vision Statement | 5 | | 2.3 Mission Statement | 5 | | 2.4 Objectives | 5 | 3.0 | Environmental Analysis | 6 | | 3.1 PESTEL Analysis | 6 | | 3.1.1 Political Factors | 7-8 | | 3.1.2 Economic Factors | 8-9 | | 3.1.3 Social Factors | 9-11 | | 3.1.4 Technological Factors | 11 | | 3.1.5 Environmental Factors | 11-12 | | 3.2 PORTER's 5 Forces Model Analysis | 12 | | 3.2.1 Threats of New Entrants | 12-13 | | 3.2.2 Threats of Substitute | 13-14 | | 3.2.3 Bargaining Power of Buyers | 14-15 | | 3.2.4 Bargaining Power of Supplier | 15 | | 3.2.5 Competitive Rivalry | 16 | 4.0 | SWOT Analysis | 17-18 | | 4.1 Strengths | 19-27 | | 4.2 Weaknesses | 28-31 | | 4.3 Opportunities | 31-34 | | 4.4 Threats | 34-36 | 5.0 | Marketing Objectives | 37-46 | 6.0 | Marketing Strategy | 47 | | 6.1 Target Market | 48 | | 6.1.1 Behavioral Factors | 48 | | 6.1.2 Demographic Factors | 49-50 | | 6.1.3 Psychographic Factors | 50-51 | | 6.2 Marketing Mix | 52 | | 6.2.1 Product | 52-54 | | 6.2.2 Price | 54-55 | | 6.2.3 Place | 55-57 | | 6.2.4 Promotion | 57 | | 6.2.5 People | 58 | | 6.2.6 Performance | 58 | ...
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...Executive Summary Malaysian Airlines System Berhad is the holding company for Malaysia’s national airline carrier, one of the fastest growing airlines in Asia. Malaysia Airlines has three airline subsidiaries, which is Firefly, MAS wings and MAS cargo. Although MAS had provide an excellent services and won many award, they still facing financial problem since year 2002. Situation become worse in year 2014 due to the MH370 and MH17 tragedies occurred. MAS are facing three main problems. First will be financial turbulence. In recent years, MAS has struggled financially. In 2013, the company reported a loss of 1.17 billion ringgit, its third consecutive year in the red. The airline had already been suffering from years of poor performance. The company’s stock price has dropped since MH370 missing and MH17 crashed occurred. A double tragedy of this nature after such a short period is unheard of in the industry, which could deal a crippling reputational and financial blow to Malaysia Airlines Malaysian Airline System Bhd. The second problem is lost confidence of passengers toward the Malaysia Airlines. Due to the disasters of MH370 and MH17, the airlines passengers lost confidence to the Malaysia Airlines which bring the feeling of fear and afraid toward MAS. Those passengers may switch to other airlines such as Air Asia and Singapore Third problem is reputation of Malaysia Airlines be damaged. At the beginning, Malaysia Airlines have a very high reputation and images in airlines...
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...G902- Professional Profiling [pic] Travelling Cheap, With JetStar Asia Competitive Analysis Of JetStar Asia In The Low-Cost Carrier Industry |Content Pages | |1. INTRODUCTION | |1.1 What is JetStar Asia? | |1.2 Low-Cost Carrier? | |1.3 JetStar’s Mission | |1.4 JetStar’s Objective | | | |2. SWOT Analysis | |2.1 Strength | |2.1.1 Demographic | |2.1.2 Finance ...
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...environmental analysis model. Discuss what aspects and why did their collaboration take place? INTRODUCTION Various industries, specifically in airline business are attempting to improve their services to draw new passengers and travellers and to retain old passengers and travellers, and this objective is part of their business as well as their marketing model. In order to adjust with the stiff competition in the airlines business, airlines industries tend to come up with various businesses models and model to be competitive. Additionally, because of increasing competition among substitute industries, firms like AIRASIA, AIRASIA X and MAS. Airlines adopt strategic model to marketing and expend their market reach as well give better and satisfying service delivery to their target market. To sustain the market position as well as advantage business market model to management and marketing are being developed and utilized. MAS, AirAsia share swap not a win-win deal From its inception, it has not been plain sailing for the planned share swap between two of the country's most bitter airline rivals — Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and AirAsia — given the many issues involved. "The collaboration between MAS, AirAsia and AirAsia X was flawed from day one because it cannot bring in a rival. From the start, the share swap had been marked by controversy, suspicion and infighting so much so that it distracts from the real issues in MAS. External and Internal MAS Analysis 1.0...
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...Company Background and analysis of AirAsia This report conducts an analysis of AirAsia, the world’s Lowest Cost Airline. AirAsia is a Malaysian low cost airline. AirAsia was found in 1993 and it started its operations from 18 Nov 1996. It was established initially by DRB-Hicom, a government owned- conglomerate. On 2 December 2001, the heavily- indebted airline was purchased Tony Fernandes former Time Warner Executive. Tony was inspired by the Low-Cost Carrier business model of Southwest Airlines and proposed to start a Low-Cost Carrier but the government refused to issue a new license and requested Tony to buy an existing airline. Hence Tune Air set up by Tony and his investors bought Air Asia for a token sum of RM1. Before 2001. AirAsia failed to attract enough passengers from Malaysia Airline to establish its own stand in the market. The turning point for AirAsia was in 2001 subsequent to its purchase by Tony Fernandes. Tony Fernandes enrolled low-cost airline experts to restructure the business model of AirAsia. He invited Connor McCarthy, formerly the director of the group operation Ryanair, to join his executive team. In the late 2001, AirAsia airline was re-launched in Malaysia as trendy, no-frills operation with three B737 aircraft as a lowfare, low-cost domestic airline. AirAsia’s simple slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly” has won the heart of customer’s. AirAsia’s profit for the second quarter (i.e.,ending 31 december 2004) was reported RM 44.4 million, which is a 323 %...
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