...3/14/2013 JITESH ANAND 10IB-033 CASE STUDY: LOUIS VUITTON IN INDIA Louis Vuitton in India | Jitesh Anand 1. INTRODUCTION: Luxury Brands in India If it was few decades ago, there was a very limited scenario one could see with respect to the luxury market in India. Those days luxury market was associated with the rich class and with very few upper-middle class people. However, with the involvement of number of international luxury brands in the country, the shape of the luxury market in India has undergone a dramatic transformation. When it comes to the word luxury it is mostly misunderstood with the meaning beyond the reach of common man. With every year passing by, the so called beyond the reach of common man is proving to be a false fact. Luxury products are becoming the necessities not only for the rich class or upper middle class but also for the middle class people. Luxury market in India is build up on basic four elements which are quality, value for money, customer satisfaction and the most important creativity. In order to be successful in Indian market luxury brands should be able to sustain and fulfill these criteria on a long term basis. The Indian luxury market is growing at a rate of 25% which simply implies the consumption of luxury products has been increasing at a fast pace. India is becoming the new destination for luxury brands across the globe and Indian government opening Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail has resulted in many global...
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...Table of Contents 1.0 CASE SUMMARY 1 2.0 PROBLEM STATEMENT 2 3.0 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 3 3.1 Market Segmentation3 3.2 Target Audience3 3.3 Market Positioning4 3.4 Competitor Analysis5 4.0 COMPANY ANALYSIS 6 4.1 4P Analysis6 4.2 POD and POP Analysis10 4.3 Market Analysis10 4.4 SWOT Analysis12 4.5 PESTEL Analysis14 5.0 STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVES20 6.0 RECOMMENDATION23 7.0 ACTION PLAN24 8.0 CONTIGENCY PLAN28 9.0 REFERENCES28 1.0 CASE SUMMARY In recent years, modern customers are no longer acquiring shopping only for their goods and services. Nowadays, these customers are buying for different reasons such as to show off their personality, to boost self esteem or to satisfy physiological needs. Shopping good brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Channel and other luxury brands is like a form of self expression and gives people a sense of accomplishment. Louis Vuitton or famously known by its acronym LV, is known for world’s most valuable luxury brand. It was founded by Louis Vuitton Moet Hennesy (LVMH) in 1854 on Rue Neuve des Capuccines in Paris, France. The historical journey began when Vuitton found out traveller trunk were easily stacked. He was made famous for crafting the luggage for Napoleon. This company is famous for its luxury products such as trunks and leather goods to ready to wear, footwear, watches, jewellery, accessories, sunglasses and books. Louis Vuitton stands out more among other brands through their relentless focus on product quality...
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...Louis Vuitton in India Executive Summary Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, the world’s leading luxury brand, made the decision to formally enter India in 1999. India was a familiar market for Louis Vuitton as the company had filled custom orders from maharajahs since the late 19th century. However, the Indian market was unlike any in which the company was currently operating. The changing socio-economic conditions of the developing nation opened up opportunities for the brand but also posed unique challenges such as changing customer profiles and concepts of luxury. In the West, luxury goods are often sold through company-owned stores in a luxury retail cluster spread over several blocks, usually in a city’s downtown core. In cities that did not have luxury retail clusters, Louis Vuitton operated in luxury malls. Previous attempts to develop premium retail space in India had not been successful. Nevertheless, several real-estate entrepreneurs had plans to open an estimated 300 luxury malls in India by 2010. In India, Louis Vuitton’s first two stores were introduced in luxury malls in New Delhi and Mumbai targeting customers who had shopped abroad and were familiar with the brand. The company was now looking to increase its reach and teamed up with other global brands to develop luxury malls in five Indian metros. Does a high-end brand have a market in a low income country? According to the National Council of Applied Economic Research, in 2001-02 there were 20,000 families...
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...Unit Four Case Study Analysis Kaplan University School of Business MT460 Management Policy and Strategy Author: Jessica Rushing Professor: Dr. Andryce Zurick Date: May 18, 2015 Louis Vuitton in Japan Company Name: Louis Vuitton Topic of the Week: External and Global Environment Synopsis of the Situation As of 2009, the Japanese market accounted for 45 percent of all luxury goods sold globally (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p 14-11). Louis Vuitton preemptively identified Japan as a location that would help boost sales and brand loyalty, opening its first store in Japan in 1977 (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p 14-14). The brand is facing some challenges as it attempts to continue seeing growth in the Japanese market. These challenges include competition, reduced location product availability, and counterfeit products to name a few. Due to the fact this country currently accounts for a large percentage of luxury goods being sold, the competition is at an all time high. Louis Vuitton faces challenges while battling rivals such as Bulgari, Gucci, Coach, and similar companies. Competition in the marketplace is a strong component of any company’s external environment. According to our text, an external environment includes, “the factors beyond the control of the firm that influence its choice of direction and action, organizational structure, and internal processes (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p 87). In addition, Louis Vuitton has limited its targeted...
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...Introduction: We The A-Team are going to explain how Louis Vuitton, the world renounded luxury brand with a long history of producing luxury goods has left its mark on the world. Louis Vuitton started out as a single product brand of making leather bags which were all handmade. As Shin-Fen Chen states, “Louis Vuitton combined the artistic creativity of its designers with a rigorous management of resources to produce brands that were the most profitable in the world in the luxury genre.” Since the company’s creation, time has shown people will spend the extra money for the extra benefits that the handmade luxury leather bags provide them. Louis Vuitton has gained success due to communication and expertise between managers and designers. They currently have four business segments which include an array of goods. These goods consist of wines and spirits, watches and jeweler, perfumes and cosmetics, and fashion and leather goods. (Chen, 2008) Also, the brand has expanded into new markets, the two largest being the United States and Europe. We are going to dig deeper and see how this well-oiled machine we call Louis Vuitton functions. Question: 1. Why do people buy luxury goods? In analyzing why people buy luxury goods we can break down the people’s reasoning for doing so into several different categories. First we look at what a luxury good entails. A luxury good is not a good necessary to live, but it is viewed as a desired item by the society that the people live...
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...Case Study Competitive advantage at Louis Vuitton and Gucci MEMO The market of high fashion luxury goods presents US$165 billion of annual sales and gross profit margins of over 50 per cent. The leader company seems to be LVMH fashion house, with US$12billion of sales, followed by Richemont with US$3.6 billion and Gucci Group with US$2.4 billion. According to the text, the key activity of those companies is the preparation and display of new collection for their bi-annual fashion show. Analysing each activity which constitutes the value chain, I can say that: * Suppliers – the co-ordinating company has a relatively important function, since it works closely with the designer in determinant aspects (such as colours, patterns among others) of the collection’s design. The Chinese and Italy co-ordinating associated company’s which supplies and dye, spin and weave the silk, respectively,are not so important, because is the designer’s work at fashion house that creates the main value – final collection design instead of components supplied. BALANCE=LOW/MEDIUM VALUE ADDED * Inbound Logistics – there are many imports and the goods arrive at the fashion house not using an exclusive method. BALANCE=LOW VALUE ADDED * Operations – is about working on final product, which is design and manufacture of each haute couture dress. Here, the name of the designer is a crucial element, since the fact she or he is famous add a large value, but specialized seamstresses who cuts and sews...
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...Louis Vuitton is the world’s biggest luxury brand for bags and accessories. It was established in France, Europe in year 1854. Louis Vuitton brand and company is an international well-established firm named after the founder and designer Louis Vuitton. Following the death of Louis Vuitton in 1892, his son, Georges Vuitton took over the leadership of the firm. He was ambitious about taking Louis Vuitton to the next step — building a global brand and setting up a multinational corporation. In year 1885, LV opened its first oversees store in London. In 1936, Gaston-Louis Vuitton took over the direction of the company when his father, Georges Vuitton, passed away. He guided the brand into its modern age. The company expanded its product line by applying the craftwork and design of its leather to small leather goods. In the mid 1970s, Louis Vuitton had become the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of market share. Louis Vuitton entered Japanese market in year 1968, and it came the most popular luxury brand in Japan. In year 1970, LV opened its first stores in Japan, which had revenue of $1 Million on its first day. By 1977, the company owned two stores in Japan with annual profits of US$10 million Until Louis Vuitton, the strategy for business in Japan for multinational companies was to send their products through Japanese distributors. LV was the first company that took different approach and strategy of opening its own store in Japan. LV also hired Japan’s top designer...
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...Overall strategy of LVMH LVMH’s website states the following as their missiom statement, “The mission of the LVHM group is to represent the most refined qualities of Western ‘Art de Vivre’ around the world. LVMH must continue to be synonymous with both elegance and creativity.Our products, and the cultural values they embody, blend tradition and innovation, and kindle dream and fantasy. “ In 1987, Racamier agreed to a merger with Moët Hennessy, a company that was much more larger than LV, to form the Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton group. Bernanrd Arnault, ranked as the fourth richest man in the world ( by Forbes, 2007) , was invited to invest in LVMH by the company’s chairman, Henri Racamier. Investing through a joint venture, Arnault ousted Racamier in 1990 and started to sweep a slew of fashion companies into the LVMH fold. Arnault is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lvhm since 1989. Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton (LVHM) ; a world leader in high-quality products, possesses a unique portfolio of over 60 prestigious brands. The Group is active in five differentsectors: -Wines & Spirits -Fashion & Leather Goods -Perfumes & Cosmetics -Watches & Jewlery -Selective retailing First of all, the target audience is comprised of well to do individuals with high disposable incomes. Demographics of this target audience have some variability based on cultural differences in different geographical locations. The target audience is relatively focused...
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...Positioning of Louis Vuitton Company on the Digital World Students Name Institute Affiliation Date ABSTRACT 1. The study utilizes an investigative approach to finding out the positioning of the luxury brand in the digital world; a case of Louis Vuitton Company. Louis Vuitton is one of the best luxury brands in the market with a worth estimate of $24.7 billion. Many luxury brands have not bought the idea of going online and utilizing the digital platform in marketing their products. Nowadays it is very crucial and as well relevant for any luxury brand to go digital. With the world’s economic changes, people have revised their spending and diverted to a rather more relevant daily survival practices. In such a scenario, Luxury brands need to do an aggressive marketing and making their presence be felt all over the world. The technological advancements in the business sector are playing a bigger role rather. The digital platform has been in use for decades now with many business sectors going online. It is noted that as many business sectors would like to venture in the e-commerce, many luxury brands haven’t bought the same idea. Luxury brand companies have the notion that the digital marketing is made for small and middle-level range of commodities. In the year 2014, only three luxury brands gained their strength in the market with Louis Vuitton taking the lead. Therefore, we ask this question, what makes Louis Vuitton take the lead in the market in this transforming technological...
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...Interact with Society: An investigation into the performance of Louis Vuitton Founded in 1854, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) had become the world's largest luxury fashion house brand group and manage to gain sales revenue of 20,320 million euros in 2010 to 23, 659 million Euro in 2011 and 28, 103 million Euro in 2012 (Jin, 2012). Nowadays in business world, the survivability of business depends on how it interact with the society. The way of a company behave toward the society and environment is the key for a company to achieve profitability and maintain good reputation as small action give a big impact (Hartman, 2005). In this case, a company good intention will frequently shadowed by it bad steps in damaging society even it is unintentionally done. In contrast for that, Louis Vuitton had practiced their good intention by launching environmental department in 1992 in order to preserve the nature thus helping Louis Vuitton to produce high quality product (LVMH launches its own Green Week, 2012). Behind the scene, Louis Vuitton also increases their carbon emission by 25% in 2012 while manage to increases their revenue by 19% in 2012 (LVMH, 2012). In the same time, Louis Vuitton keep telling the society about their policy of not allowing child labor (LVMH: Supplier’s Code Of conduct, 2014) but unfortunately, it just another spin doctoring to hide another mistake they had done. This would remark that Louis Vuitton secretly brings the negative impact to environment and to the...
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...CASE SYNOPSIS This case study deals with the opportunities and challenges of Louis Vuitton, the leading European luxury sector multinational firm, in Japan, the second largest economy in the world. The case illustrates the business strategy of Louis Vuitton in an important market, taking into account the unique features of brand management, and integrating culture and consumer behaviour in Japan. In the last decade, Japan has been Louis Vuitton’s most profitable market, representing almost half of its profits, but it seems that the global economic crisis has resulted in a decline in sales. Other European brands in the luxury and fashion sectors have also been generating one third of their profits from Japan. Facing a weak economy and a shift in consumer preferences, Louis Vuitton has been adapting its unique strategy in the Japanese market, taking into account consumer behaviour patterns. The days of relying on a logo and charging a high price seem to be gone as there is more interest in craftsmanship and value for money. To promote sales, the company has had to launch less expensive collections made with cheaper materials. The brand has also been opening stores in smaller cities, where the lure of the logo still works. Louis Vuitton may be French, but Japan has become a land full of Louis Vuitton lovers. Over the years, Japanese consumers have demonstrated fascination with and passion for...
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...WASEDA BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STUDIES 2009 NO.45 Luxury Brand Strategy of Louis Vuitton - Details of Marketing Principles by Shin'ya Nagasawa* Abstract: By systematicallybreaking down the strategy of the single Louis Vuitton luxury brand into the four Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion), our aim in this paper is to extract the rules or principles of its brand marketing that differ from that of general consumer goods. In other words, the object is to distill the rules and principles of success strategies for luxury brands as well as to derive a business model for success. Showing that the current rise of Louis Vuitton is not a coincidence but rather something achieved through strategy will surely be of interest to firms struggling with lack of brand power or those looking to boost brand power. 1. Introduction Consumers like brand items, while researchers like brand theory. Although scholars also use the word "brand" to refer to the likes of Coca-Cola and McDonald's, there is a vast gulf between these brands and the luxury brands we explored in the previous book. In researchers' brand management theories, one rarely finds mention of representative luxury brands like Louis Vuitton or Dior, or of LVMH. Based on this awareness, we carefully scrutinized the ecology of the unique LVMH firm, considering the nature of the brand as distinct from commodity markets, although * Shin'ya Nagasawa is a professor of MOT (Management of Technology) at...
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...Zhengyi Fang Marketing 350 Prof. Eguchi Aug 8th 2013 Marketing Analysis of Louis Vuitton Classic Handbags Louis Vuitton handbags and luggages are known and recognized throughout the world as the symbol of extreme quality, prestige and luxury. It is one of the biggest and most profitable luxury brands in the world right now. Mr. Vuitton established the company in 1854, and he designed and introduced flat-bottom luggage trunks made with trianon canvas. The flat-bottom luggage became the favorite of Empress Eugenie, and it has become the luggage choice for the wealthy. In 1867, the company won an award at the World Exposition in Paris and its influence spread out in France. In the following year, Louis Vuitton opened its first overseas store in London. In 1892, Louis Vuitton passed away, and his son George Vuitton took over the company and build the company into a worldwide corporation. In 1893, it entered the U.S market. In 1896, it launched its signature Monogram Canvas print, and secured worldwide patents for it. In this essay, I shall analyze the micro and macro environment of the Louis Vuitton classic handbags, and discuss the its marketing mix. Microenvironment It consists six actors, which are the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitor, and public, these factors are close to the company and can affect the company’s ability to serve its customers. * The company The company itself is the first force in the company’s microenvironment...
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...INTRODUCTION Louis Vuitton (LV) is known for its manufacturing of fashion and leather goods. One of the company’s early successes occurred when a French craftsman invented a flat-topped trunk. This new trunk was different from its predecessors, the dome-shaped trunk, in that it was easier to stack and transport. For seven decades Louis Vuitton solely produced leather handmade bags. In 1987, the company merged with Moet Hennessy and diversified into leather accessories. In the mid/late 90’s the company received increasing pressure from Wall Street to sustain a double digit growth rate. In response Louis Vuitton began to look for opportunities to expand globally. Its focus quickly turned to infiltrating the Indian market. By 2008 Louis Vuitton had opened two other stores located in luxury hotels in India. These hotels provided easy access to LV’s targeted market, which was the “super rich”. Now the company was faced with another decision, to continue operation in luxury hotels or to expand into luxury malls. Up to this point, luxury malls were new to Indian consumers, creating a level of uncertainty for Louis Vuitton. In this case evaluation, we will discuss the impact of a high-end company entering a low income country. HIGH-END BRANDS IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES A high-end brand, such as Louis Vuitton, can often find a market in a low income country. Sometimes the market is too small or too fragmented to pursue, but this is not always the case. Many low income...
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...http://hwcampus.com/shop/busn620-weeks-assignments-latest-2016/ BUSN620 Week 1 Assignment Title: Week 1 Due Date: End of Week 1 1. Read weekly announcement 2. Participate in the weekly forum. 3. Review weekly assignments in the syllabus. 4. Please complete the following for your week 1 written assignment: Read Case #16- BMW of North America and answer the following questions (each question a subsection): 1. What is fueling BMW's Growth? 2. How is BMW Doing in the U.S? Compare the following 3 years (2012, 2013, & 2014) in terms of annual revenue, car sales, gross margins and end year stock sales (outside research required). 3. Is the "Dream It. Build It" program a sustainable advantage in the long term? Do you see any room for further improvement? (link to other companies to add depth; i.e. Ikea, etc.) 4. Do you think customers really need "millions of combinations" for their car? Can they be happy with available standard options? What are the downsides of mass customization? 5. How does this case study link to the topics presented in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 & Chapter 3? 6. submit your responses to the Weekly Assignment Folder: Additional resources for Case Study: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ddq6O_QAz0 • http://www.anthonymonahan.com/BMW-Dream-It-Build-It-Drive-It Post/submit homework to the assignment folder for grading. Make sure you provide substantive graduate level answers. Review examples in resource section, grading rubric and APA guide prior to final...
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