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How they boost income: 22-August-08

Apple, converging technology company which launched its 3G iPhone this year: 1. It boosted its production plans when initial sales proved stronger than the company expected. It will build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the 12 months through August 2009 instead of the initial plan for 30 million...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 08-22-2008
How they control cost: 22-August-08

Fresenius, the health-care company best known for its kidney dialysis products and services: It exploited the exchange rate (strong euro, weak dollar) to make a major acquisition - U.S. drugmaker APP Pharmaceuticals - for $3.7 billion. [Click here for full story at Businessweek.com] Purchases in weak...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 08-22-2008
How they boost income: 15-August-08

Dell, computer maker: 1. It is trying to create a potent alliance among Apple's many rivals, from cell-phone makers and record labels to online music sites to persuade consumers to try new devices and services than Apple's iPod which is tied only to its iTunes. 2. It will create a broad standard...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 08-15-2008
How they boost income: 14-August-08

Strauss Group, an Israeli coffee outfit: 1. It has boosted income in the past through cooperation (with Danone in yogurt; with Unilever in ice cream). 2. It ventured into the larger and fragmented wholesale roast and ground coffee market instead of the instant coffee market dominated by Nestle and Kraft...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 08-14-2008
How they boost income: 09-August-08

McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant company: 1. It introduced a discount menu selling double cheeseburgers for $1. It is promoting $1 sweet tea and sodas. It is offering snack-sized sandwiches. It coupled lower-priced foods with healthier salads and chicken sandwiches. 2. It introduced...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 08-10-2008
How they boost income: 24-July-08

Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest Internet retailer, which sells products in more than three dozen categories, ranging from power tools to musical instruments. 1. It added electronics and digital-book downloads. It expanded digital sales, introducing the Kindle electronic-reading device last year...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 07-24-2008
How they boost income: 22-July-08

Big Pharmaceutical Companies, facing fewer prescriptions filled, patent expirations, and FDA rejections of new drugs: 1. They are continuing to consoldate (Roche has bid $44 billion for Genentech, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has bid $7 billion for rival Barr Pharmaceuticals). 2. They are trying desperately...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 07-23-2008
How they control cost: 22-July-08

Barry Callebaut AG, the world's biggest contract manufacturer and supplier of bulk chocolate, fighting a 40 percent jump in cocoa prices: 1. It uses its scale of operations to make products almost 20 percent cheaper than smaller companies 2. It has trimmed consumer businesses over the last year....

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 07-23-2008
How they boost income: 15-July-08

General Electric, giant engineering company: 1. It is unveiling a retro engine design for the business air travel market promoting a less glitzy technology, a propeller-driven engine as the turboprop market is enjoying a resurgence as an efficient alternative to fuel-thirsty jet engines. 2. It will modernize...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 07-15-2008
How they boost income: 11-July-08

Apple, converging technology company, seeking to catch up with Research In Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry: 1. It will turn the iPhone into Apple's third major business alongside the Macintosh computer and iPod media player. 2. It wants to sell 10 million iPhones this year. 3. It is quadrupling the...

Posted to Strategy Muse (Weblog) Posted by Sourav Mitra on 07-11-2008

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