March 14, 2012

Effects of a customs union on the global economy.

Customs Union is a form of regional economic integration. In a custom union, member countries trade freely among themselves, but agree on a common form of trade barriers with nonmember countries (Sloman, Hinde & Garatt, 2010). The main impact of the customs union is that it creates a single large market among the member countries with common trade laws but protected by non-member competition. Thus within the customs union, there will be a improved business climate for businesses to exploit new opportunities and make better use of...
Posted by Vaishak V. Suvarna on Wednesday, March 14, 2012

March 5, 2012

CASE STUDY: SABMMiller Acquisition Strategy

Up until1990s, SAB was a regional player in South Africa. With the ending of apartheid a range of new growth opportunities opened up for SAB. The 1990's saw SAB's strategic focus shift from pursuing purely regional growth to towards globalization. It began expanding and growing internationally by acquisition. SABMiller's acquisition strategy was based on three key trends ; Growth in emerging markets Increasing popularity of premium brands Industry consolidation SABMiller 's strategic logic behind acquisitions can be viewed from its...
Posted by Vaishak V. Suvarna on Monday, March 05, 2012

March 2, 2012

CASE STUDY: SABMiller, STRATEGY ANALYSIS - 2006

As of 2006, SABMiller had presence in both developing countries as well as developed countries. After the lifting of the international sanction against South Africa in 1990s, SAB was able to capture new growth by expanding into developing countries, whilst at the same time consolidating its existing regional market of South Africa and in 2002 entered developed market of US with the acquisition of Miller. External Analysis SABMiller's business strategies are influenced by the forces in its external environment. PESTEL and Porter's...
Posted by Vaishak V. Suvarna on Friday, March 02, 2012