Kroger Pest Analysis

Kroger Supermarkets were started in 1883 by Barney Kroger in downtown Cincinnati. Mr. Kroger started his business with the motto: “Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself.” Through the years Kroger has strived to uphold this motto to its customers and to provide great service, the freshest products and expansion to meet the needs of their customer base making it one of the world’s largest retailers. Kroger now has over 2,600 stores in 34 states with $108.5 billion in annual sales. Kroger operates 37 food processing facilities and Kroger was the first grocery retailer to use the electronic scanner.

Kroger’s corporate strategy consists of continuously innovating and creating new ways of bring value to the customer. They were pioneers for many of the things that we now consider norms in grocery stores. In the past, Kroger had rapidly expanded to many store locations to gain market share. This expansion strategy caused them to lose profits in

The PEST analysis helps to explain the critical factors in the organization's external environment. The factors include political, economic, social and technological. For Myer, these forces combine with the internal factors, and other external factors like competition. The Australian consumer goods retail market is worth $121 billion (IBISWorld, 2012) but is heavily fragmented. Myer is the third-largest company in the industry behind David Jones and Harvey Norman, but with $3.158 billion in sales holds just 2.6% market share (Myer 2011 Annual Report). This implies that competition is only one of many factors that can contribute to the company's results. This PEST analysis will help to identify the other major factors.

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In the fast food industry are external aspects that can influences to the fast food industry, such as manager’s influence as creation of strategies to be a good competitor and to be successful in the industry of fast food. Competitive environment is a critical ingredient of a successful strategy (Grant, 2010). The following PESTLE Analysis is done with the objective to analyse the macro environmental in the fast food industry.

With Kroger ranging from a variety of goods, it gives Kroger a wide diversity of strengths for the external environment. Some of the strengths are the fact that Kroger has an online market. Customers can order jewelry, deli and bakery products, floral, and more with the click of a button. This puts them higher up on the competition list for the advanced technology and convenience provided to gain loyal customers. Another strength is that Kroger has stores spanning across thirty five states, which is more than half the nation. This gives the company a wide geographical range in order to compete with surrounding stores. A threat into the external environment would be the competition between supermarkets. The trick is to offer something that large corporations cannot compete with. Kroger is known for its organic line of groceries, called Simple Truth, and its naturally fresh foods and produce. While companies such as Walmart or Costco can offer fresh foods, they are not as focused on the pure organic part. They are more about selling in bulk, and offering discounts, low prices, packaging, and quality. Kroger, on the other hand, can focus more on promoting their organic brands of groceries to attract customers. The natural and organic brand of Simple Truth can factor in Kroger’s opportunities, as Simple Truth is growing, now with over 15,000 organic food items. This allows Kroger to provide a huge variety of food and healthy choices to its customers.

Since it first began in the late 1800’s, Kroger had been a store motivated to expand itsrole in the community. After first starting out by selling grocery items to customers, it began toalso sell bakery items and opened bakeries within the grocery store itself. This was a bigconvenience for the consumer to be able to shop for most of their grocery items within the samestore. The company then set its sights on the meat industry by purchasing several meat marketsand packing plants. This allowed them to provide cuts of meat to their customers so that theydidn’t have to go to another store to purchase meats. Once again, they found a needed serviceand expanded their role to capitalize on it. Over the years, Kroger’s expansion has followed

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Bed Bath and Beyond is struggling in the current market. This PEST analysis is aimed at determining what the major Political, Economic, Social, and Technological are in current business environment, and how these factors are affecting the Home Goods Retail industry. The modern polarized political sphere, especially in the United States, can mean that elections result in a massive change in policy, especially regulatory reforms on businesses. With an increasingly global and fluctuating economy, modern businesses need to be aware of everything from regional tax rates to international tariffs. Social norms are changing rapidly and are different from region to region, meaning that modern business’ needs to be aware of the social landscape they are operating in. Finally, the rate of technological growth is the highest it has been in the history of the Earth. All of these rapidly changing and nuanced factors need to be studied and well understood in order to run an efficient and effective modern business. All of these four factors are imperative in understanding why Bed Bath and Beyond is in its current financial situation.

Table of Contents1.0 Executive Summary32.0 Situation Analysis42.1 Environment42.1.1 Demographic environment42.1.2 Economic Conditions and trends42.1.3 Social-Cultural environment42.1.4 Technological environment52.1.5 Political Legal environment52.1.6 Natural environment52.1.8 Environmental Opportunities52.1.9 Environmental Threats62.2 Industry62.2.1. Suppliers62.2.2 Consumers62.2.3 New Entrants72.2.4 Competitors72.2.5 Substitute Products (Threat of Substitute products)82.2.6 Industry Opportunities82.2.7 Industry Threats82.3 Organization82.3.1 Strengths82.3.2 Weakness92.4 Marketing Strategy92.4.1 Objectives92.4.2 Analysis of Sales, Profit and Market Share92.4. 3 Analysis of target market(s)102.4.4 Analysis of Marketing Mix Variables112.4.5

The Kroger Company is an American retailer established by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Ohio USA. It’s the country 's biggest supermarket chain and second biggest general retailer (after Wal-Mart). Kroger is also the fifth biggest retailer in the world as of 2013. Kroger operates 2,625 stores across the USA with its headquarters in downtown Cincinnati Kroger. It operates 40 plants for manufacturing, mostly bakeries and dairies. Additionally they are operating 777 convenience stores and 374 jewelry stores through various subsidiaries. Kroger also oversees 87 convenience stores, which were operates through franchise agreements. It operates in the markets of 31 states.

The Kroger Company grew in 128 years from one store to over 3,500 stores of various banners and products. The Kroger Company is the largest food and drug retailer in the United States and is growing constantly with diversity in the retail market, dealing in food, pharmacies, apparel, jewelry and fuel. Kroger is governed by a 14 member Board of Directors including a Chief Executive Officer. Kroger is a leader in Corporate Social responsibility by maintaining environmental consciousness, social awareness and energy conservation awareness. Kroger is committed to customers, builds diversity and focuses on growth. The company operates a large part of it’s own manufacturing and distribution to increase profit

Identifying influencing factors of a company’s macro-environment helps in the strategic development and management within a company. The macro-environment outlines an industry and the competitive environment as seen in figure 3.1, (Gamble, Peteraf, Thompson, 39). Within the macro-environment there are the political factors, economic conditions, sociocultural forces, technological factors, environment forces, and legal/regulatory factors. All of these factors blanket the habitat an industry and its competition thrive in. Inside the industry and competitive environment there are five factors that influence an individual company. The five factors are suppliers, rival firms, new entrants, buyers, and substitute products. The biggest impact on a company are these five factors. For example, Under Armour focuses on their industry and competitive environment to survive and grow. Their strategy to win over the market share from Nike and Adidas consists of expanding a stable and original brand within record time, taking an innovative approach to their product line-up and brand-name appeal where the market seemed to be barren, and lastly, the company enters in the foreign market early on to establish its brand and influence markets outside of the US.

This paper is a company analysis on Giant Hypermarket Malaysia in general, but specifically focusing on Giant Hypermarket Sabah. Giant Hypermarket is a major supermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia. It is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings (DFI) and is headquartered in Shah Alam, Selagor. In this paper, firstly we focus our analysis in identifying the Strength-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) of Giant; in addition, we constructed a SWOT Matrix for Giant where we identified the SO, ST, WO and WT strategies, which we think Giant should apply to improve their competitiveness. Next we focus our analysis on the external as well as the internal analysis on Giant. In the external analysis, we center our

With this in mind, the PESTEL model was developed to give researchers and practitioners a framework in which to consider the broader business environment. PESTEL stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal. Furthermore, a PESTEL analysis is a technique that evaluates the potential impact of political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal factors on an organization. This set of factors represents a broad set of industry and environmental considerations that any organization should make when designing strategic goals