Environmental Analysis
Contemporary Issues in Leadership and Management
Introduction
"Diageo PLC is a British multinational alcohol company, selling alcohol in 180 countries, with a substantial presence in 30 countries. The company was created in 1997 by the merger of Guinness PLC with Grand Metropolitan PLC (GrandMet)" (diageo. com). At that stage, it was a large multinational with interests in food as well as drink. Today, the company has shed most of its food interests to concentrate on alcohol, acquiring new spirit brands. Diageo engages in the manufacture and distribution of spirits, wines, and beer worldwide. With a collection of outstanding brands, Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business. The company manufactures its products under names of Smirnoff vodka, Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskeys, Guinness stout, Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, J&B Scotch whiskey, Captain Morgan rum, and Tanqueray gin. "Diageo PLC operates in more than 180 markets across the world with over 20,000 employees, a market capitalization of 1.5 billion and turnover of 8 billion" (diageo. com).
Diageo projects an image of itself as a clean, friendly and ethically oriented company with a commitment to corporate social responsibility. This includes both a professed concern with the harm alcohol can cause, and statements about what a great service the company is providing by producing such well-loved brands.
We have selected Diageo to conduct an environmental scan of the industry and remote environments to identify potential opportunities and threats that may arise in the near term. We will describe and evaluate our findings and provide recommendations for responding to the issues and opportunities that we have found in the environmental scan. Our assessment includes the following:
Availability of substitute products and threats of new entrants and competition
Diageo has long been the front-runner in the premium drinks business. Its brands include Guinness, Smirnoff, Bailey's, Johnnie Walker, and Cuervo complimented by broad range of local and specialty brands from around the world. In 2002, Diageo held a 15% (United States-Spirits, 2002) market share and was by far the leading manufacturer of spirits in the United States followed by Pernod, and Fortune Brands, Inc. The market is expected to have 9.8% (Huddleston, 2005) growth in the next three to four years, so new entrants may find the going hard unless they have capital to sustain themselves.
The ready to drink (RTD) market is an industry sector that has good growth potential and room for competition because it has not been saturated with products.
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From our research, Anheuser-Busch is content with being the number one beer company in the world, increasing sales each year in operation. We found that Anheuser-Busch met many views associated with the world, business, and behavioral dimensions. The company also displayed its stability as we reviewed one of its most successful products Budweiser, owned by Anheuser-Busch, under the marketing view and the financial view. Not only do they hold almost half of the market share in the industry but their stock prices, sales volume, and net sales have all increased from 2002 to 2003. We also looked at Budweiser in terms of geography and culture. We found due to the fact that the "western" countries consume the majority of beer, it only makes sense that Anheuser-Busch concentrates on that market. Along these lines, another key goal that is also important to Anheuser-Busch is to boost other beer markets that are located in other cultures, where at the time beer is not a major consumption.
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Using consumer survey information, we devised a metric for calculating and projecting Coors market share. While only 300 customers were surveyed (Research Study G), we made an assumption that this sample sufficiently represents the preferences of the greater population in the two-county market area. We also assumed that attitudes toward Coors were equally distributed amongst consumer weekly beer consumption levels. Then, we forecasted Coors market share by multiplying the percentage of people with a certain preference by the Coors purchase percentage for that preference. We projected an anticipated market share range, between 13.7% and 21.5%, illustrated in Exhibit 2. Calculations relied upon customers’ “Attitude Toward Coors” because we felt this measure was more indicative of regular purchasing frequency than simply an “Intention to Buy Coors”.
How are we doing? D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. is now the #1 beer producer in America. Our market only consists of 14 states whose demand exceeds that of Boston Beer Co. who previously held the #1 spot and serves all 50 states.
Now days, AB has a domestic market share of 45 percent and 94 percent of its total production is being consumed domestically. Forced by decreasing demand in the domestic market, major competition by small breweries, imported beers and the increasingly scrutiny of the regulatory agencies, AB started to look abroad. Looking towards the international markets for expansion in the new century. AB faced a trademark problem in some Europeans countries, where it couldn’t market its beer under the Budweiser name and it had to use the Bud brand name instead.
Significant market growth for quality branded products seemed possible in Diageo’s core markets, given the size of the informal market and the fact that formal beer and spirits consumption was substantially lower than in developed markets. For example, formal beer consumption per capita was 4 liters per year in Ethiopia, compared to 78 liters in the U.S. and 72 liters in the U.K. Ethiopian spirits consumption per capita was 0.4 liters per annum, compared to 7.4 liters in the U.S. and 5.4 liters in the U.K.
Diversificationthey have recently entered into other industries to achieve more growth such as the Philip Morris Capital Corporation. This is an investment company whose portfolio consists of leveraged and direct finance lease investments and other tax-oriented and third party financing. Altria also has 28.6 percent interest in SABMiller, which is the world's second largest brewer (Altria, 2008).
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