...1.0 Background SWOT Analysis STRENGTHS 13 stores available (Phuc Long 2013) Variety of tea and coffee options for different customer groups Price is lower (25,000-45,000VND) compared to Starbucks and Coffee Bean WEAKNESSES Low marketing to promote their coffee: tea sales (80%) and coffee sales (20%) (VnExpress 2014) Low store capacity OPPORTUNITIES Tea has become a lifestyle of young people, not just only a drink. (Vietnam Online n.d) Foreigners are eager to try out dosmetic brands rather than international tastes such as Starbucks and Coffee Bean => Tourists recommend Phuc Long to their friends (Hoang Phuong & Thanh Ha 2014) THREATS Phuc Long’s location is high at cost (Dst.1 and Dst.7) and they price their product medium => Hard to make high profit....
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...such a fast pace. Therefore, coffee has become one of the most favorite kinds of drinks. Many people drink coffee to be able to work or study more effectively. When they feel so tired, some employees or students will need a five or ten minutes break just to drink a cup of coffee. Moreover, someone even have drinking coffee as one of their hobbies. Therefore, in these days, it is quite easy for consumers to buy a cup of coffee at one coffee shop, a can of coffee from the vending machine, or just get some instant coffee sachets at the supermarket. When people think about coffee, they will think of some popular brands, such as, Nescafe, Starbucks, Gloria Jeans, etc. However, it is the fact that, according to the BBC News in 2012, Vietnam has just surpassed Brazil to be the world’s largest coffee exporter. (BBC , 2012). Furthermore, G7 Coffee– the major product from Trung Nguyen Group – the greatest coffee company in Vietnam – also has high quality like the coffee of those brands. And thus, there are some questions arising from this fact, “Why doesn’t the G7 Coffee from Vietnam become as famous as the coffee from those popular brands, in all over the world?”, “Can it be?” and “How can it?” Background Trung Nguyen Group was established in June 16th, 1996. At that time, it was just a small company in Buon Me Thuot, which is one of the three main highlands for growing coffee in Vietnam. Nowadays, according to Trung Nguyen’s home page, Trung Nguyen Coffee has been available in over 50...
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...Strength 1. Trung Nguyen has great raw material to produce coffee because Trung Nguyen has production plant located in the coffee capital of the Buon Ma Thuoc where soil and and weather are supportive of coffee growing. Besides, Viet Nam, which is the home of Trung Nguyen brand, is the largest coffee exporter in the world. This advantage helps Trung Nguyen not to depend very much on suppliers. This location is also convenient for transportation. 2. Trung Nguyen is an old brand in Viet Nam, they have got the fame spread out the nation. This is considered “home advantage” when Trung Nguyen understands culture and life style of Vietnamese people. The product quality meets customers’ need because Trung Nguyen provide unique Vietnamese coffee taste which matches the interest of Vietnamese people. Therefore they get advantage in gaining the trust and support of Vietnamese customers. 3. Trung Nguyen is a pioneer enterprise in the form of control and franchising in Viet Nam. Trung Nguyen has eight shop in foreign countries such as US, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, China, Cambodia, Poland and Ukraine. 4. Trung Nguyen has solid infrastructure. They has three factories producing coffee with modern technology in the world. Their headquarters and distribution activities are located in Ho Chi Minh city which is the big commercial center of Viet Nam and many stores is placed throughout the country. 5. Young and professional management team contributes greatly in Trung Nguyen’s advantages...
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...Nhóm: Luck star Cà phê Trung Nguyên Lời mở đầu: Nhóm Lucky star xin chào Cô! T hưa Cô! sau quá trình tìm hiểu trên internet, ở các đại lý, qua nhiều nguồn tài liệu mà nhóm đã thu thập được và những kiến thức nhóm chúng em đã được học trên lớp, nhóm Lucky star đă tổng hợp lại thành bài tiểu luận môn marketing căn bản với chủ đề “Nghiên cứu Marketing của công ty cổ phần cà phê Trung Nguyên” 1 Nhóm: Luck star Cà phê Trung Nguyên PHẦN 1: TÔNG QUAN CÔNG TY A. Giới thiệu công ty. Công ty cổ phần cà phê Trung Nguyên Trụ sở chính tại 82 – 84 Bùi Thị Xuân, phường Bến Thành, quận 1, Tp.Hồ Chí Minh Trung tâm phân phối tại 168 Phan Văn Trị, quận Gò Vấp, Tp. HCM, hàng hóa được tập trung tại đây trước khi đưa đến các nhà phân phối Trung Nguyên có 2 nhà máy: -Nhà máy Bình Dương: khu công nghiệp Tân Đông Hiệp A, Huyện Dĩ An, Bình Dương với diện tích 30.000m2. Đây là nhà máy sản xuất cà phê hòa tan nhãn hiệu G7 với công suất 3.000 tấn/năm. -Nhà máy Buôn Ma Thuột: Khu tiểu thủ công nghiệp Tân An, phường Tân An, Tp.Buôn Ma Thuột, tỉnh Daklak với diện tích 50.000m2. Đây là nhà máy chế biến cà phê rang xay có công suất 10.000 tấn/năm.Với mức đầu tư trên 40 triệu USD vừa khởi công nhằm phục vụ cho một giai đoạn phát triển mới. Trung Nguyên có 5 chi nhánh: 1, Chi nhánh Hà Nội: Hiệu sách Trung tâm Từ Liêm, Khu Liên Cơ Quan, xã Mỹ Đình, huyện Từ Liêm, Hà Nội. 2, Chi nhánh Đà Nẵng: 138 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Q.Hải Châu, Tp.Đà Nẵng. 3, Chi nhánh Cần Thơ: 78 Đường 3/2,...
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...SWOT Analysis Toni Dominguez BUS/210 August 10, 2014 Melanie Wright SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis is used to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a business. Hill (n.d.) " SWOT analysis is a process where the management team identifies the internal and external factors that will affect the company’s future performance" (para. 1). A SWOT analysis is typically used at the beginning stages of the business, after a business plan has been completed, to determine any potential risks or assets. However, an analysis can be completed anytime a change is made internally or externally that can impact the business and is recommended for review of your business every 6 months (Shouldis, 2012).. The Java Culture coffee has completed their business plan for a new coffee shop in a prime location near University of Oregon. They are looking to provide a comfortable and relaxing shop for customers to enjoy coffee with friends while providing excellent customer service. The owners have secured their financing, determined their budget for employees and the day to day needs of the business, lease, and forecasted sales based off the market for the first year. Now the owners will need to complete a SWOT analysis to determine any unseen risks or assets to their business that might be impacting to their success. A SWOT analysis will start with the strengths in the business. In reviewing the business plan for the Java Culture coffee shop they have many...
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...the SWOT analysis which pinpoints the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of an organization. This paper will present a SWOT analysis of three companies from three different industries, Starbucks Coffee, southwest Airlines and Wendy’s Old Fashion Hamburgers. In addition to the SWOT analysis there will be information regarding the company’s competitive advantage, strategies used, how value is created by each company along with the measurements guidelines used to verify strategic measurements SWOT Analysis: Starbucks Coffee, Southwest Airlines & Wendy’s Starbucks Coffee, Southwest Airlines, and Wendy’s operate in three different industries, something each company has in common is utilizing as a tool the internal and external environments based on the SWOT analysis. Starbucks Coffee began as a single store in Seattle; now, the number one coffee chain in the world located in over 62 countries with 18,000 stores. In order for Starbucks to have its current success and continued success a SWOT analysis breaks down the favorable and unfavorable factors to determine the appropriate strategy to stay on top in the premiere coffee industry. The Strengths of Starbucks Coffee to name a few are the experience the customers have with Starbucks, a brand widely recognized valued over $4 billion along with being the largest coffee chain globally. Starbucks Weaknesses are expensive pricing of its products in addition to the company’s profits is dependent on coffee beans...
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...PURPOSE OF A SWOT ANALYSIS 1 The Purpose of a SWOT Analysis Charles Anderson Joyner III Grantham University PURPOSE OF A SWOT ANALYSIS 2 Abstract Every business to include the largest ones that control their areas of industry--has a limited supply of manpower, production capacity and capital. Evaluating the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats helps it determine how to allocate these resources in a manner that will result in the highest possible potential for revenue growth and profitability. The management team examines where the company can compete most effectively. The company more times than not discovers competitive strengths that have not been fully utilized in the past in addition to critical areas that needs to be improved in order for the business to more effectively compete. A realistic assessment also prevents strategic blunders like entering a market with products that are clearly inferior to what well-entrenched competitors are offering. Continuous improvement in all areas of a company’s operations is an important aspect of staying ahead of competitors. Weaknesses and opportunities can--and must--be turned into future strengths. PURPOSE OF A SWOT ANALYSIS ...
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...External and Internal Environmental Analysis Jeanette McCullough STR 581 March 24, 2014 Christopher Romano External and Internal Environmental Analysis Dunkin’ Donuts began serving its loyal customers in 1950. Five years later in 1955, they began to spread their wings and open franchises. Dunkin’ Donuts has over 10,000 stores in 33 different countries. The company is now one of the largest baked goods and coffee chains in the world. According to a survey in 2013, the company sells more than 4 million doughnuts and about 2.7 million coffee cups every day ("Prezi," 2013). Performing an internal and external analysis on Dunkin’ Donuts showed where the company can improve in areas and where the threats are at with other competitors. SWOT Analysis Strengths – Dunkin’ Donuts has a strong brand name. DD has brand loyalty among customers. The company has over 100 varieties of doughnuts, and its stores are an ideal place for having breakfast and coffee. Popular for a number of bakery products like pastries, bagels, muffins, biscuits, etc. and hot beverages like coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Innovative ways to retain customers by issuing coupons and discounts. One of the most experienced in the coffee industry. They have affiliations with sports teams like the Red Sox. They have worldwide franchisees, totaling to more than 10,000 locations across 33 countries ("Swot Analysis On Dunkin' Donuts," 2010). Weakness- Competition from other international snacking places...
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...Word count: 1679 words (-10/+10) 1: INTRODUCTION Starbucks Corporation, an American organization established in 1971 in Seattle, WA, is a head roaster, advertiser and retailer espresso (coffee) around world. Starbucks has around 182,000 representatives across over 19,767 organization worked and authorized stores in 62 nations. Their item blend incorporates roasted and carefully assembled high quality/premium valued espressos (coffee), an assortment of new nourishment things and different beverages. They likewise offer a variety of espresso (coffee) and tea items and permit their trademarks through different channels, for example, authorized stores, basic supply and national foodservice accounts. Starbucks additionally showcases its items blend with other brand names within its portfolio of organizations, which incorporate Teavana, Tazo, Seattle's Best Coffee, Starbucks VIA, Starbucks Refreshers, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange and Verismo. Starbucks had all out income of $14.89 billion as of September 29th, 2013.2. (Starbucks annual report, 2013). This report will analyse on this business organisation (Starbucks) stating its PESTELE, SWOT analysis, customer analysis and proving recommendation according to the marketing analysis provided in this report. 2: MARKETING ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS PESTEL is a strategic device and the acronym stands for political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal components. Starbucks PESTEL examination includes an investigation...
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...Starbucks Business Analysis . Abstract Starbucks went from just a hole in a wall shop to a world known company and culture. One would wonder how it occurred, if it was over night, and most importantly the business aspect sustaining a successful international business. At the end of the day Starbucks Co. is well known for their market in gourmet coffee. On the other hand, the market has plenty of competitors in coffee, but what makes Starbucks the number one specialty coffee retailer? The answer lies in every compartment that makes Starbucks Co. what it is. From the 87,000 possible drink combinations, to the provided healthcare insurance offered to employees including part-time. Starbucks is a force to be reckoned with, business aspect of their strengths, weaknesses and all in between is worth analyzing. Starbucks Corporation Business Description Starbucks is currently operating in 65 countries specializing in high quality coffee, tea, fresh food, and branded items. In whole the Starbucks Coffee brand is sold with a license and trademarks through other channels such as licensed stores, grocery, and national foodservice accounts (Starbucks SWOT analysis 2015, 2015). Starbucks Coffee brand sell goods and services under the following brands” Teavana, Tazo, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange and Ethos (Starbucks SWOT analysis 2015, 2015). Starbucks business objective is to thrive to be a recognized respected brand in the world. Brief History The...
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...Executive summary: Coffee-Mate is the market leader for coffee creamer in the UK market; it holds 55% of the market share. However, a high market penetration and a recent increase of Coffee-Mate’s competitors’ market share have led to a questioning on the brand’s future. Several tools are used to describe and precise the competitive environment of the brand. The BCG analysis of the brand’s product portfolio highlights two issues: • the uncertain future position of the current Star product: Coffee-Mate, and • an interesting opportunity for the Coffee-Mate Lite product. This Question Mark product is present in a high growth market and could be shifted to a star position. The environmental analysis, through the use of the SWOT tool, led to a clearer vision of Coffee Mate’s areas of competence and the areas that have to be improved. Coffee-Mate’s is a strong brand with a large advertising budget providing quality (and healthy with Coffee-Mate Lite) products. These strengths appear to be useful for breaking Coffee-Mate’s bad image of distress and poor taste product. An analysis of the customer’s market segmentation, which divides the market in 5 consumers sections leads to a distinction between two different buying behaviours: • cost constrained consumers who base their buying decision on prices; and • a group of customers called “premium”, who are prepared to pay a premium price for quality products. These BCG, SWOT and customer segmentation tools provide information about...
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...Week Four Starbuck’s SWOT Analysis Karen Mueller Upper Iowa University Chris Worley 11/12/2014 A SWOT Analysis of Starbuck’s Organizational Introduction Starbucks got its start in 1971 by three academic teaching professionals. English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel, and writer Gordon Bowker, all three love coffee and decided to open Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice in Pikes Place Market, Seattle Washington. The three partners shared a common love for fine coffees and exotic teas. They believed they could build a customer base in Seattle that would appreciate the best coffees. With this being the case, they borrowed the money and Starbucks’ was born. Since the first stores grand opening, Starbucks has made the fortune 500 list, they had a goal of opening 30,000 stores by 2013 and half of those are going to be outside the U.S. (Starbucks, 2014) Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse chain in the world with presence in 50 countries and about 15000 stores (Starbucks, 2014). The Seattle based company sells espresso based hot drinks; drip brewed coffee, coffee beans, snacks, Panini and pastry (Starbucks, 2014). The company also sells items such as tumblers and has an entertainment division which markets music, books and films. The company has diversified on its product range in order to gain a competitive advantage over other similar companies. According to Starbucks, (2014). Starbucks Corporation is a dealer in coffee retailing, its product is known as specialty...
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...SWOT Analysis: Starbucks Coffee Company Ravineel Chand MGT 450: Strategic Planning for Organizations (BII1607A) Professor John Bruning February 27th, 2016 Introduction SWOT Analysis is a useful technique utilized by organizations to understand the strength and weaknesses of the organization. Furthermore, it is also utilized to understand the opportunities which may be open to the organization and the potential threats that it may face. “Once a company has a firm understanding of where it stands financially, the next part of the internal assessment is conducting a SWOT analysis, which stands for a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.” (Abraham. S.C, 2012) Using a SWOT analysis allows organizations to carefully pinpoint where they stand against competition, where their weaknesses and strengths lie, and how to gain more opportunities within their respective markets. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a SWOT analysis of the Starbucks (SBUX) corporation This paper will also describe the history of the organization, its products and major competitors. History Starbucks Corporation, founded in 1971, is a retailer of specialty coffee. Starbucks retails a variety of drip brewed coffee, espresso-based hot drinks, other hot and cold beverages, complementary food items, coffee-related accessories and equipment, teas, ice cream, and items such as mugs, coffee beans, and music and other non-food products through retail stores in approximately 39 countries...
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...TO: Prof.XY FROM: XY DATE: March 23, 2014 SUBJECT: SWOT Analysis Business Brief The following assignment requires Custom Coffee & Chocolates Company analyzes of the internal and external environment, identifying its strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats and develop strategies for the matches. Coffee drinking is one of the most world spread and consume habits of all time. Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, equivalent to 146 billion cups of coffee per year, making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world. The Huffington Post (February 11, 2011). These consumed routine and behavior led many people to start up their own occupational in the coffee business. One such sample is close friends and ex roommates Bonnie Brewer and Stacy Kim, who decided to open a café which will offer coffee and fine chocolates. Holding a cafeteria is certainly an occupational who offers plenty of possibilities; on the other hand it is a business with an exceptional high competition. Necessary strategies, for successful story In the modern competitive business if you want to be the best you should be the first among all, offering customers something new, something different or you should be competitive by offering low-priced services. Although sounds that simple, those are the basic rules. Logically, you could not become the greatest overnight because it needs many years of time and resources. However, in imperative of more successful business...
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...Quest 2006 A SWOT analysis address the components of the organization’s environment which is internal strengths and weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats. Strength we capitalize on them and Weaknesses we shore up. As for opportunities we invest in, and threats we identify. Data that are used for Internal components are customer feedback , employee information , Capabilities, Resources, Processes. Data that are used for external components are secondary data, environment, industry , competitive ,customer feedback primary. The reason behind achieving these organizational components are to achieve ideas which result in organizational goal statement. Goal statement are derived by (Opportunities +threats), strengths-weaknesses, Strength vs opportunities. One great example of a mega organization that we can use the SWOT analysis on is “Starbucks Global Quest 2006”. Starbucks was established in 1971 in Seattle, Washington. This company is famous for its quality fresh roasted coffee and friendly atmosphere. The company sits on over 9,000 stores worldwide. It’s product lines include beverages (coffee, Tazo tea, soda, juices),pastries, whole coffee beans, coffee-related hardware and equipment, merchandise (mug, CDs) In 1971 Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice store (coffee bean roasting) opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. 1982 A man called Howard Schultz joined Starbucks. 1986 Howard Schultz established “Il Giornale Coffee Company”. 1987...
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