Huawei is a globally recognized telecommunications, equipment and service company majorly dealing in the design, manufacture and marketing of processors, smartphones and tablets. This report mainly examines the smartphone market, one of the most prominent global oligopolies over the last 5-6 years with both high end (Apple and Samsung) and low-end market players (Huawei and Xiaomi). In the smartphone market, Huawei is a low-cost producer, the most fiercely competitive hence it faces extreme competition from especially fellow low cost Chinese rivals including Xiaomi, OPPO, Lenovo, ZTE among others who produce similar products. This report analyzes how industry competition has affected Huawei and examines the various opportunities through which Huawei can grow and develop its brand name amidst challenges. Nevertheless, Huawei still faces major threats such as major competitors who have greatly hindered its growth and development. This analysis concludes by showing major points (factors) where competition is intense and some strategies Huawei can use to overcome them.
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This report examines Nike through the lens of Porters five forces to assess how the five forces affect Nike and the sports clothing retail industry.
Nike is an American company that is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of apparel, footwear, equipment, services and accessories. The global clothing apparel market is oligopolistic with for players Nike, adidas, H&M and Zara having a combined market share of 7.0%. Considering the US footwear market, Nike accounts for 21.1% market share with major competitor adidas having 4.7% according to Statista (Statista 2018d). Various external factors have affected the growth of Nike, by using a pestle we analyze how political factors such as the US-China trade war and president Trump’s order to pull the US out of the Trans-pacific partnership trade deal has affected its growth, economic factors like low employment rate in the US can boost growth and social trends affect Nike’s growth while realizing major threats and opportunities. Using a porters five forces analysis, we identify points at which competitions has severely affected Nike’s growth.
