...7-ELEVEN HOW TO TRUN THE SITUATION AROUND In April, 2011. Allen Zhang, the 7-eleven’s Chief Operator of Eastern Market in China, was standing in front of the window of his office. He was called into deep thought by the dilemma facing the company. On the video conferencing just held, headquarter in Taiwan was very dissatisfied with the poor performance of the branch office in Shanghai, which runs counter to its expectations. Allen looked at the crowded street. He found that the only 7-eleven convenience store on the street was besieged by two FamilyMart stores that were filled with customers. He couldn’t help wondering: What’s wrong with the company’s strategy that was so successful in such overseas markets as Japan, Taiwan, and US, but failed the competition in Shanghai? What contributes to the competitor’s success? Is it because the voluntary chain style that FmailyMart adopts is superior than the regular chain style that 7-eleven adopts in Shanghai? If 7-eleven were to open its market by changing the regular chain style to voluntary chain style, would it turn the situation around or would it evoke new problems? Obsessed with all of these questions, Allen realized that it is time for some changes for the company to achieve its initial goals and as the big market share as possible in this promising market. CONTEXT THE CVS (CONVENIENT STORE) INDUSTRY The prosperity of the convenient stores is because supermarkets are almost all of large scales and in the suburbs...
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...Abhinay Madidi Patrick Guillaume Hannah Yue Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. 4 a) Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 4 b) Summary .................................................................................................................................. 5 2. Strategic Focus and Plan ...................................................................................................................... 5 a) Mission Statement .................................................................................................................... 5 b) Goals ….................................................................................................................................... 5 c) Core Competencies and Strategic Advantages ......................................................................... 6 3. Target Market …................................................................................................................................... 6 a) Who is our target market? ….................................................................................................... 6 b) Market Segments …....................................................................................................................
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...7-Eleven in Taiwan Yuko Matsumuro National Chengchi University Abstract Nowadays, convenience stores have become more and more common in Taiwan. If you just look around everywhere, you will soon find there are a lot of convenience stores surrounding your town. Among several convenience store chains, 7-Eleven, or the President Chain Store Corporation, is the most popular one now. The paper focuses on why 7-Eleven is so successful in Taiwan and pursuits what is behind it. At the beginning, to understand the position of 7-Eleven’s parent company Uni-President Enterprise Corporation (UPEC) in Taiwan, and investigate how it influence the success of 7-Eleven. Also, based on the data which showed the consumers’ satisfaction towards 7-Eleven’s service, to consider how 7-Eleven’s service performances are evaluated by consumers and what kinds of management manuals they have. In last, the paper will discuss the influences of 7-Eleven’s special marketing geographical strategy and their advertisement effects on consumers. These information will help us know why 7-Eleven can continue to improve. Why 7-Eleven succeed in Taiwan? Introduction According to the article “Taiwan Convenience Stores 2010”, “In 2009, Taiwan’s four major convenience store chains such as 7-Eleven, Family Mart, Hi-life, and OK operated a total of 9,184 stores around the country, a density of one store per 2,500 people, making Taiwan the densest market in the world in terms of convenience stores.” Among several...
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...Cornela Maria Rampengan 7- Eleven in Taiwan 7-Eleven Inc. was the world’s largest operator, franchisor and licensor of convenience stores, with annual sales of more than $ 62 billion. Its company become a pioneer the concept of convenience stores in the US, where it had 7.200 stores. This concept was also expanded to several countries, which are North America, Europe, and Asia and the largest store located in Asia. 7- Eleven was founded in 1927 as the Southland Ice Company in Dallas, Texas. It started by selling ice blocks and the first stores were known as “ Tote’m stores because customers “ toted” away the ice blocks. Tote’m changed its name to 7-Eleven in 1946, when the stores were open from 7 A.M. to 11 P.M. daily and during 1950s, 7-Eleven started moving beyond the Dallas market into other regions of Texas and also into Florida and Washington DC. By time being, they stay open 24 hours started by accident in 1962, at a store in Austin, Texas located close to the university campus. Mission of 7-Eleven : “ Meeting the needs of convenience-oriented customers by providing a broad selection of fresh, high quality products and services at everyday prices, speedy transactions and a clean, friendly shopping environment.” The concept of convenience stores that developed by 7-eleven was shaping the way American shopped, which is Americans shopped at big box stores and supermarkets for all their weekly or monthly supplies. Basically, three distinctive features of the American...
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...7 – Eleven | | External analysisTeam members: Number of characters (including spaces, footnotes, end notes and text boxes): _22,999_Signatures of all the participating group/team members:_____________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ ____________________________ | | Project no.: 1 Class and group number: Table of Contents Introduction 2 INTRODUCING 7-ELEVEN 3 Marketing mix 3 Product 3 Place 4 Price & Promotion 4 People 4 Process 4 Physical environment 4 Mission 5 Vision 5 Values 5 Objectives 6 Macro environment – PESTLE analysis 6 Political 7 Economical 7 Socio cultural 7 Technological 7 Environmental 8 Legal 8 Porters five forces analysis 8 Competitive analysis 11 Conclusion 12 List of sources: 13 Introduction The retail industry in Denmark had a very good performance in 2012, after continued stagnation over the review period. In general, the retail industry is sensitive to any economic fluctuations and therefore it was very much affected by the financial crisis which occurred 3 years ago. The crisis “shattered consumer confidence dragging out through 2009-2010.” Last year, in 2012, the reduction in unemployment, growth in incomes and prospects of economic recovery all “contributed to growing value sales in the majority of retail channels. “ Despite the growth...
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...daily life with works and has no time to go to supermarket everyday and that triggers them to approach the convenient store. With many outlets and easy to access 24/7, 7-Eleven welcomes every customer to get their daily needs. We are providing groceries, snack foods, candies, instant foods, drinks, reading materials, and also services such as prepaid reload and ATM service where customers can fulfill their daily needs even though they don’t have time to shop. All of our 1,497 stores are open 24 hours everyday out of 7 days in a week to assure that customers can get anything they need anytime and anywhere. We create a simple and convenient as an adjustment toward people’s lifestyle, which is very mobile and active. With our motto, 7-Eleven will Always There For You. Company Description History Founded in 1927, 7-Eleven is known as The Southland Ice Company in Dallas, Texas whom the founder is J. C. Thompson. It was started as an ice vendor which eventually began offering milk, bread and eggs on Sundays and evenings when grocery stores were closed. The idea managed to satisfy the customer and also increased sales of the company. (7-Eleven Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., 2010) The first company’s convenient outlets were known as Tote’m stores which named since customers ‘toted’ away their purchases. It became 7-Eleven when the stores extended its business hours from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. and open seven days a week. The company’s corporate name was changed from The Southland Corporation...
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...With so many beverages and fresh food options at 7-Eleven stores, it's a wonder how 7-Eleven can keep up with it all. That is why we have gathered these fun facts because seeing is believing. 7-Eleven, Inc. 7-Eleven, Inc. is the world’s largest convenience store chain with more than 50,900 stores in 16 countries, of which nearly 10,200 are in North America, and the company has more outlets than any other retailer or food service provider. July 11 (7/11) is the official birthday of the 7-Eleven® convenience store chain. The company celebrates its 86th birthday this year. In 1927, convenience retailing began simply enough when an employee of Southland Ice Company in Dallas started selling milk, eggs and bread from the ice dock. Soon, the convenience store was born and became known as 7-Eleven to reflect the 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. hours of operation. For more than 15 years, 7-Eleven has been listed among Hispanic Magazine’s Corporate 100, the top companies providing the most opportunities to Hispanics. 7-Eleven adds another store to its worldwide operations every 2 hours. Industry Firsts 7-Eleven was the first to … operate 24 hours a day … sell fresh-brewed coffee in to-go cups ... have a self-serve soda fountain … and offer super-size fountain drinks. 7-Eleven aired the first television advertising by any convenience store; the animated commercial featuring a singing owl and rooster ran in 1949. 7-Eleven was the first retailer to offer fresh-brewed coffee in to-go cups...
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...1. Describe the type of supply chain used by 7-Eleven. For example are they agile, adaptable, aligned? 7-Eleven is the largest operator and franchisor of convenience stores in the world, with more than 46,000 outlets and currently selling 500 million litres of petrol, $500 million of merchandise and serving almost 80 million customers worldwide. With figures like this, you have to wonder how they did it? Aside from the fact that the store operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and hence adhere to the ‘convenience store’ label, 7-Eleven addressed some key aspects that often other organisations overlook. “We must be open to change to remain successful,” said7-Eleven CEO Joe DePinto (and recent “Undercover Boss”) at the conclusion of his Tuesday morning keynote address at the IFA 2011 Annual Convention. Noticing a need to change, 7-Eleven turned their whole outlook around, focusing on the franchisees instead of focusing on the headquarters of the organisation. After all, the franchisees are the ones that work at ground level with customers on a day to day basis, establishing relationships and recognising customer needs. 7-Elevens response to a changing marketplace yielded significant benefits and further more allowed the implementation of technology and supply chain integration to increase functionality. An efficient supply chain maximises planning, organising and helps distribute a flow of the organisations product to end customers. This is done through implementing innovative...
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...2013 Ocean’s Eleven Ocean’s Eleven is the classic casino heist movie on which all other robbery movies are put up against. It stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and many other well-known actors. At the beginning of the movie Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is released from prison and starts to plan the big job. With the help of Rusty (Brad Pitt), he and Danny assemble a team of nine more people making the famous eleven. They spend most of the movie preparing for the robbery and coming across small problems leading up to the night of the heist. You find out that Danny is robbing the man who is now dating his ex-wife, Tess (Julia Roberts). During the robbery they use multiple different cons to make there way to the vault. They pull a final trick on the security and prerecord the vault robbery and play it so they can escape safely. Finally, Danny gets Tess back to fulfill the Hollywood version of the movie. I chose this movie because is magnifies many of the economic terms that we have been talking about like opportunity cost and unemployment. It is also one of my favorite because it is the original heist movie, while Ocean’s twelve and thirteen aren’t up to par as the first it is still an amazing trilogy. This movie also has one of my favorite actors, Brad Pitt. I mainly liked him Troy but he still did a great. This is also one of the first movies Matt Damon was in, Matt didn’t have one of the major roles of the film but he was one of the eleven. One economic concept...
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...Seven-Eleven Japan1 Established in 1973, Seven-Eleven Japan set up its first store in Koto-ku, Tokyo, in May 1974. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. In 2004 it was owned by the Ito-Yokado group, which also managed a chain of supermarkets in Japan and owned a majority share in Southland, the company managing 7-Eleven in the United States. On September 1, 2005, Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd., was established as the holding company for Seven-Eleven Japan, Ito-Yokado, and Denny’s Japan. Seven-Eleven Japan realized a phenomenal growth between the years of 1985 and 2007. During that period, the number of stores increased from 2,299 to 12,034, annual sales increased from 386 billion to 2,574 billion yen; and net income increased from 9 billion to 91.5 billion yen. Additionally, the company’s return on equity (ROE) averaged around 14 percent between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, Seven-Eleven Japan represented Japan’s largest retailer in terms of operating income and number of stores. Customer visits to Seven-Eleven outlets totaled 4.1 billion in 2007, averaging almost 35 visits to a Seven-Eleven annually for every person in Japan. Company History and Profile Both Ito-Yokado and Seven-Eleven Japan were founded by Masatoshi Ito. He started his retail empire after World War II, when he joined his mother and elder brother and began to work in a small clothing store in Tokyo. By 1960 he was in sole control, and the single store had grown into a $3 million company...
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...7-Eleven Inc is the operator, franchisor and licensor of convenience stores. As an American company, it expanded the global market quickly and successfully, especially in Taiwan. Marketing is key to 7- Eleven’s success. In learning its global corporation’s marketing mix, I will mainly focus on following four parts. First, the company’s marketing strategy in the united state will be discussed. And then 7- Eleven’s market entry strategy in Taiwan will be focused on. Thirdly, marketing mix about 7-Eleven Taiwan will be analyzed deeply and critically. Last, some minor suggestion will be given to make 7-Elevendeveloped better in the further. The marketing strategy in the United States is innovative and unique. A tits initial stage, the decisive factors for this company’s success are that7-Eleven launched an innovative store and service in the United States and then entered into this “Blue Ocean”. As we can see, in 1940s, the concept of convenience store was challenging because shopping in convenience store is new and unfamiliar consumer behaviour for American people. As a store, it sells convenient service more than its product. So this is an innovative marketing segmentation. Moreover, the convenience store can meet the unsatisfied demand in American market. At the second stage, when the store expanded over its original market into other districts in America, the company took the standardization of business format, including the logo, location, store’s layout and merchandising...
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...7-Eleven in Taiwan: Adaptation of convenient stores to new market environments – CASE – 1. How has the convenience-store concept evolved in the United States? The convenience store concept began when an enterprising employee of one of Tote’ms stores (now 7-Eleven), began offering milk, bread and eggs on Sundays. Customers found the service very convenient, thus the stores started opening for extended hours (from 7 am to 11pm) and therefore the name changed to 7-Eleven. In 1962, the stores started opening 24 hours 7 days a week, and this became increasingly popular due to the new working schedules of Americans. More than 10 million people in the U.S. were awake at 3 am, 7 million of whom were employed in some kind of work. This new American work style needed exactly what 7-Eleven was offering: a convenient store open at all times, offering fresh-high quality products and services at everyday fair prices, speedy transactions and a clean environment. 2. Is the concept universal across countries, including Taiwan? The concept of convenience stores follows similar lines in different countries outside the United States. In 1969, 7-Eleven opened its first international store and from them on, the company followed a successful global expansion that seemed to follow positive trends despite the local competition. Wherever a franchisee opened a 7-Eleven store, they had to follow some norms that the Americans found to be very important in representing its brand like the logo...
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...SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN CO. CASE ANALYSIS What is the future outlook for Seven Eleven Stores in USA? Seven-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenient stores. 7-Eleven, primarily operating as a franchise, is the world's largest operator, franchisor and licensor of convenience stores, with more than 46,000 outlets. The Seven-Eleven business model consists of five key elements: * A differentiated merchandising strategy; * Utilization of 7-Eleven’s retail information system & Managed distribution; * Providing a convenient shopping environment; and * A unique franchise model. Let us have a brief look over 7-Eleven stores in US and Japan: Seven-Eleven Japan: * High density market presence with 50-60 stores supported by distribution centre. * Limited geographical presence * Emphasized regional merchandizing * Processed and fast foods contributed to most of its sales * Products like food and beverages, magazines and consumer items such as soaps and detergents * Services offered like payment of electricity bills, telephone, gas bills, meal delivery services, 7 dream e-commerce, electronic money offering and many * Advanced information technology helped store to analyse store data every day morning and helps in having valuable shelf life * Information system installed in every outlet and linked to HQ, Suppliers and 7-eleven distribution centres. Uses ISDN to collect, process and feedback POS data quickly * Delivery frequency...
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...1 i CASE STUDY ~ SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN CO. Established in 1973, Seven-Eleven Japan set up its first store in Koto-ku, Tokyo, in May 1974. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. In 2004 it was owned by the Ito-Yokado group, which also managed a chain of supermarkets in Japan and owned a majority share in Southland, the company managing SevenEleven in the United States. Seven-Eleven Japan realized a phenomenal growth between the years of 1985 and 2003. During that period, the number of stores increased from 2,299 to 10,303; annual sales increased from 386 billion to 2,343 billion yen; and net income increased from 9 billion to 91.5 billion yen. Additionally, the company's return on equity (ROE) averaged around 14 percent between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, Seven-Eleven Japan represented Japan's largest retailer in terms of operating income and number of stores. Customer visits to Seven-Eleven outlets totaled 3.6 billion that year, averaging almost 30 visits to a SevenEleven annually for every person in Japan. COMPANY HISTORY AND PROFILE Both Ito-Yokado and Seven-Eleven Japan were founded by Masatoshi Ito. He started his retail empire after World . War II, when he joined his mother and elder brother and began to work in a small clothing store in Tokyo. By 1960 he was in sole control, and the single store had grown into a $3 million company. After a trip to the United States in 1961, Ito became convinced that superstores...
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...CASE: SEVEN ELEVEN JAPAN Executive Summary I Executive Summary The goal of this case is to analyze how a firm can be successful by structuring its supply chain to support its supply chain strategy. Once Seven-Eleven Japan decided to provide responsiveness by rapid replenishment, it then structured its facilities, inventory, information, and distribution to support this choice. The case also brings up the question of whether the same approach can work in the United States, especially given the greater distances and lower store density. Table of Contents II I Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. I II List of Abbreviations......................................................................................................... III 1 Seven-Eleven Japan Co........................................................................................................ 1 1.1 History and Profile ........................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Framework of further discussions .................................................................................... 1 2 Discussion ............................................................................................................................ 1 2.1 Supply Chain Responsiveness ..................................................................
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