Contents
Executive Summary 3
Introduction 4
About the Company 5
Current position 6
Global Competition 7
Value chain analysis 8
The strategy of International Business 9
Joint venture 9
Horizontal expansion 10
Transnational strategy 10
Foreign direct investment 10
Mergers and Acquisition 11
International Trade Theory 12
Foreign Exchange Rates 13
Recommendation 14
Conclusions 15
Bibliography 17
Description
The following report is based on the spirits giant Diageo plc, which was founded in 1997 as a merger and is headquartered at London, United Kingdom. The purpose of the report is to analyze their business strategies and to suggest international trade strategies to help them in entering different regional markets, improve market penetration, improve their product line and thereby helping the company gain more profitability and sales figures.