Porters Five Forces of the Retail Industry I. Supplier Power The bargaining power of Suppliers is relatively low. There is a high competition between suppliers which means that their ability to raise prices or reduce quantity is very low. Suppliers include both domestic and international manufacturers and because many retail products are standardized‚ retailers have low switching costs which make the supplier power low. Larger retailers have power over their suppliers because they can threaten
Premium Retailing Supermarket Shopping mall
Barriers to Entry & Exist: A case study on Singapore Power. Singapore Power was first created to take over the electricity and gas business of the state provider‚ the Public Utilities Board in 1995 and was once considered as the only electricity company in Singapore. However‚ in 2001‚ Singapore Government took further steps in industry reform: separation of the natural monopolies (i.e. grid) from the competitive domain (i.e. generation and retail) in order to encourage competition and drive firms
Premium Barriers to entry Monopoly Electricity distribution
Q4 - OE_Strengths What do you see as Flowers’ particular strengths? "Barriers to entry to their business. Their moats are wide." Q5 - OE_Weaknesses What do you see as Flowers’ particular weaknesses? "To me it’s a hard thing to understand. It’s difficult for investors to understand the value of the company. Maybe it’s confusing for investors. It seems like it would be pretty straightforward but if there’s more volatility in the business than you’d expect‚ or maybe that investors don’t understand
Premium Investment Coca-Cola Finance
Strategic Management Analyse Home Retail industry using PESTEL‚ scenarios‚ 5 forces and strategic groups. October 11 of 2012 London‚ UK Introduction Retail stores‚ are one of the biggest and largest businesses around the world. They produce thousands of hundreds in revenues and they are some of the biggest employers industries. WALL-MART‚ IKEA‚ TESCO‚ ARGOS‚ MACYS‚ WALLGREENS and OFICCE DEPOT are some of the well-known retail stores that supply us every day with different kind of goods
Premium Retailing Strategic management
Electronic Data Interchange within the Food Retail Industry Report assessing the impacts of EDI on a company operating within the food retail industry. 1 Introduction to EDI Electronic Data Interchange can be defined as: “The transfer of electronic data from one organisations computer system to another’s‚ the data being structured in a commonly agreed format…” (Curtis and Cobham 2007) The purpose of EDI is to enable a company to directly exchange business documents‚ such as purchase orders
Premium Electronic Data Interchange
Five forces Model 1) Suppliers power 2) Buyers Bargaining Power 3) New Potential Entrants 4) Threat of Substitutes 5) Industry Competitors STRENGTHS 1) Suppliers power A segment is unattractive if the company’s suppliers are able to raise prices or reduce quantity supplied Ss in apparels section have major brands like‚ Arrow‚ Levis‚ lee‚ Provogue‚ Pepe‚ loues Philip‚ Zodiac Weakness 2) Customer Buying Power The bargaining power of customer at
Premium Retailing Sales Customer service
MARKET ANALYSIS FOR THE RETAIL INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA Contents Page Executive Summary 2 1. Introduction 3 2. Retail industry in South Africa 5 3. Macro and Micro environment analysis 6 3.1 Macro environment of Retail market in South Africa 6 3.1.1. Political Environment 6 3.1.2. Economic environment 8 3.1.3 Technological Environment 10 3.2 Micro environments analysis 11 3.2.1. Suppliers’
Premium Africa Economics South Africa
Porter’s Five Forces Analysis on Indian Retail Industry An analysis of the structure of the industry should be undertaken in order to find effective sources of competitive advantage (Porter‚ 1985). Therefore‚ in order to analyse the competitive environment of Tesco‚ Porter’s five forces analysis has been used by the researcher as follows: Threat of substitute products and services The threat of substitutes in the grocery retail market is considerably low for food items and medium to high for
Premium Supermarket Wal-Mart Retailing
Industry Analysis The US retail consumer electronics (CE) market had reported revenues of $180 billion in 2010. The different revenue streams that make up the reported annual revenue in 2010 for the CE market can be divided into five key areas: Consumer Electronics (CE)‚ which consist of video and audio products; Home Office which consist of PC’s‚ notebooks‚ netbooks‚ tablets‚ and mobile phones; Appliances; Entertainment Hardware and Software; and Services (see Figure 1). Total sales from the
Premium Retailing Online shopping
Five-forces diagram for analysis of the retail car industry in the greater Johannesburg area 1. Competitive Rivalry Competitive rivalry exists between companies with the same or similar products/services and similar markets. Factors to be considered include: • The number and size of competitors • The rate of industry growth • Differentiation and switching costs • Fixed costs or perishable products • Expansion • High exit barriers • Diverse strategies Companies have
Premium Lexus Competitor analysis Marketing