Swot Analysis : Andrews Corporation

I am writing this memo as a member of the Andrews management team to notify you of the developments made on a preliminary business strategy that we are anticipating to be both successful and exciting. The sensor industry has experienced increasing product demand recently, as well as a universal desire for smaller and faster sensors in both the low and high tech market segments. Through the conduction of an external analysis, we have identified five major competitors within this industry, all sharing a similar control of suppliers and buyers to our company. The main goal of our strategy is to gain an advantage

Lowe’s is a hardware store that sell products from vacuum and dishwashers to wood and other hardware equipment. Lowe’s sell products for home improvement and construction. Lowe’s was originally founded in Wilkesboro, North Carolina in 1921 by Lucius Smith Lowe. His daughter Ruth inherited the store in 1940 after Lucius passed away. She then sold the franchise to her brother Jim. Jim partnered with Carl Buchan in 1949 under the management of Buchan. Jim and Carl had several disagreements as far as the expansion and diversification so in 1954 the partners split making Carl the sole owner. He successfully expanded the business to other cities in North Carolina. Then he passed away in 1960 leaving the store to his executive team of five people. They made the company public in 1961. The former headquarters for Lowe’s was originally located in Wilkesboro, now located in Mooresville, North Carolina. The once small town business has expanded to a well-known name brand is currently located in several countries.

Fluor Corporation is one of the top, major companies that deliver a variety of services, including integrated engineering, acquiring goods, fabrication, construction, and vastly reaching out to private and governmental sector clients in regards to the various maintenance and project management solutions. (Fluor Corporate Information, 2017) This company was founded by a family of Swiss immigrants who had the brilliant idea to set up a construction business in the western part of the United States. This very small, family business eventually became Fluor Construction Company before evolving to the modern-day, Fluor Corporation. Fluor prides themselves on the development and implementation of groundbreaking solutions for diverse project issues

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The primary competitor for Team Andrews (a Niche Cost Leader) during the simulation was Team Digby, a chip manufacturer with a broad differentiator strategy. Digby’s presences in all markets compared to Andrews focus on the Low End and Traditional Segments revealed a number of advantages and weaknesses to maintaining a broader strategy compared to Andrews focus on higher volume / lower overhead products. While both strategies eventually proved quite successful (Andrews and Digby were the only competitors to have cumulative profits in excess of $100 million,) the significantly different strategies of both teams points to some clear advantages for either strategy.

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Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus develop the concept for The Home Depot in 1978. The “With help from investment banker Ken Langone and merchandising guru Pat Farrah, Marcus and Blank opened the first two Home Depot stores in Atlanta the following year. The 60,000-square-foot warehouses dwarfed the competition with more items than any other hardware store.” (The Home Depot Our History) Home Depot sells a huge assortment of building substances, domestic development merchandise and lawn and garden merchandise and offers a number of services. “Today, Home Depot is the world’s largest domestic improvement retailer with almost 400,000 orange-blooded associates and it operates via approximately 2,278 stores, such as 1,977 inside the U.S.A.,

I am writing to you from sunny southern France where I am visiting Aix en Provence, the birthplace of Paul Cézanne, and the location he painted his Post-Impressionist masterpiece “Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses” – an oil painting on canvas completed in the early 1890’s. I used a substantial portion of my vacation fund this year to visit this beautiful city where “Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses” was created; pleasant weather and a rich history are an added bonus! My round trip flight from Houston to Marseille was around $1200. I left at 3:05pm on September 3rd and arrived in Marseille at 11:30am one day later. A quick 40 minute bus ride took me from the airport in Marseille to Aix, where I am staying at the Hotel Cézanne. The hotel is an additional $120 a night, however I consider this a small price to pay for such a delightful trip. It may interest you to learn that Claude Monet once owned “Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses” … he was an admirer of Cézanne as well!

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Andrews Corporation is in the industry of providing state of the art sensors that can be used in a wide variety of technology. Sensors are used in almost every piece of technology we have today, so the market for Andrews Corporation expands all over the world. A sensor is built to be able to detect changes in its environment and to tell the piece of technology it is being used in to do a certain task. This enables other companies to make their products come to life. As technology advances, so will Andrews Corporation. As time moves on, more and more industries have begun using sensors in their products. Today, sensors are used in everything from the development of simple computers to major, lifesaving advances in the medical field. As these industries become more advanced, the need for sensors becomes more prevalent. Having said this, the growth potential for Andrews Corporation is endless. With our market, Andrews Corporation expects about a 10% growth rate for the sensors. This growth will increase as technology increases over time.

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Upon implementing a Broad Differentiation strategy, Andrews Company desired to have highly demanded products in each of the market segments, hold the majority market share compared to our competitors and increase the value of our firm by the year 2021. We believed that this strategy could get us to that point and we have successfully done so. The start up of Andrews Company proved to be more difficult than anticipated due to high costs in marketing and R&D, investing in automation of sensors and due to our decision to take out most of our loans in the early stages of our product, leading to negative profits for the first two years. However, Broad Differentiation lucratively brought Andrews market share up to

Kresta Holdings Ltd has been operating for the last 40 years in manufacturing window coverings. They are one of the largest manufacturers of window coverings both in Australia and New Zealand (Kresta 2014). There have been several former names that had been used by Kresta Holdings Ltd. The first former name was Wyper Howard Holdings Ltd, which was used until January 1959. Then, they changed it to Vox Adeon Howard Holdings Ltd from January 1959 to January 1977. However, they might be not satisfied with the company name, that is why they changed it to Vox Adeon Holdings Ltd in January 1977 to December 1988. After that, the name was changed again into Vox Ltd and it lasted for approximately 6 years. The last former name before becoming Kresta Holdings Ltd was VA Holdings Ltd that was only lasted for almost 2 years and the current name has not been replaced from November 1996 until present (InvestoGain Australia 2014).

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