Threat Of Five Pest Analysis Of Levi's Strauss

(P2.2) It is important that Nordstrom knows in what environment they work in when launching a new store therefore, an environmental audit gives an idea and figure in which the company operates or work. This can be done by a PESTLE analysis. Political Factors Political factors play a significant role in determining the factors that can impact Nordstrom 's long term profitability in a certain country or market. Nordstrom is operating in apparel stores in more than dozen countries and exposes itself to different types of political environment and political system risks.

Selfridges, also known as Selfridge & Co., is located in the United Kingdom and well-known and unique because of its history and how it currently operates. Selfridges was established by Harry Gordon Selfridge on 15 March 1909. It is a chain of high-end department stores whose flagship store on London’s Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK. Since 2003, Selfridges has been under the ownership of Galen Weston and has its stores at Oxford Street in London, in Birmingham and at Trafford and Exchange Square in Manchester. Selfridges won the Best Department Store in the World at the Global Department Store Summits in 2010, 2012 and 2014 (Selfridges, 2015a,b).

PESTLE analysis : Is a shortcut of six words which is political , Economic , Social , Technological , Legal and Environmental .Usually this concept used in marketing .Also it used as a tool by organization to track the environment they are operating in or are planning to new project or service .Moreover it used to assess the four external factors with regard to the situation of the organization's business ,and how it will effect in the business over long term. Political factors: This factor looks at how government regulations and legal issues affect a business's chance to be profitable and successful.

• Customer segment needs to be targeted appropriately. Usually for fashion it is the middle/high income customers • Customer shopping experience needs to be high • Quality of products needs to be high Threat of Substitute The threat of substitutes for LVMH is moderate due to the below • Fashion and leather goods have very high product differentiation. Companies need to focus on customer demand • Customers are loyal and have also realized that there is no substitute brands when it comes to fashion • Local market fashion brands can tend to “copycat” the industry giants who have just entered the respective market • Substantial product

This can be easily searched via Internet *Threat of substitutes: Web internet is a threat to Lululemon as their potential customers can look up the price of other yoga clothing brand and prefer them over Lululemon. In order to combat this threat, price needs to be very competitive and high quality. *Rivalry among existing firms: As stated, Nike and Gap also have athletic clothing similar to Lululemon and these companies are multinational and known around the globe. Even if their prices are little higher compared to Lululemon, people will stay prefer buying from them due to the brand image and reputation they possess in the market.

Making jeans are like putting a huge puzzle together, there are thousands of threads and thousands of pieces. Levi Strauss was the first person to create jeans or “waist overalls”. Strauss is very successful in being able to make the first pair of jeans with his brother in law Jacob Davis. Levi Strauss was a very talented man, he managed a business at the age of 15, then he went West and started his own business. For instance, he traveled to New York after his father died to aid his brothers, Jonas and Lewis, he was around 15 when he managed the company, “Jonas and Lewis has established a dry goods company there and Levi went to work for them (Levi Strauss).”J Strauss Brother and Co. is the business Strauss worked for before he aimed West,

We will now be doing a more detailed analysis on these six PESTEL factors. PESTEL refers to the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal forces,

Introduction Rolls Royce Group Private Limited Company outlines, creates, fabricates and administrates engine for use on Air, Land & Sea. Of which, air is its major business division. The Aerospace division comprises of civil aerospace and defense aerospace while Land & Sea divisions involved of marine, nuclear and power systems (Reuters, 2015). Rolls-Royce was once an electrical and mechanical business that established by Sir Frederick Henry Royce in 1884.

Unilever is one of the largest FMCG companies of the world, represented in 150 countries with over 200,000 employees. In Pakistan, Unilever made its debut in 1948, and today it is one of the most prominent multinationals in the country operating though two affiliated companies viz. Unilever Pakistan and Unilever Pakistan Foods. The two public listed limited companies have 5 wholly owned and 7 third party manufacturing sites across Pakistan and employees around 1,500 people on their payroll and many thousands indirectly.

PESTEL analysis is a tool that is used to analyse an organisation’s macro-environment. Political Environment The incident of 9/11 has affected the airline industry adversely. The number of tourists to different countries has immensely decreased due to the fear of safety and security issues. On the other hand countries have put measures in place such as strict visa policies and border controls in an effort to combat terrorism attacks.

Introduction Forever 21 is a clothing brand that is based in many countries. Most people would be very familiar with the brand as it caters to them in terms of a fashion retailer. The country that will be in this report would be in Singapore and the purpose of the report is to perform an environmental analysis on a company. The structure would be an introduction, followed by company background, country background, PESTEL analysis, porter’s 5 forces, strategic recommendations and conclusion.

To analysis the microenvironment of the business PESTEL framework is used PESTEL FRAMEWORK 1. Political factor Political system related automobile industry is very complicated. The western world is less concern for leading cars because leading car manufactures are from western world. The political issue is more complicated in emerging countries (Bossink and bluaw, 2002).Taxation is also a political factor that affects automobile industries. There are different tax system and import duty in different countries.

Francis Aguilar (1967) is the first known reference to the origin of the PESTEL analysis. In his study known as Scanning the Business Environment, he studied the environmental factors that affect business environment and come up with the first acronym ‘ETPS’ which meant the Economic, Technical, Political and social factors (Aguilar, 1967). Later Arnold Brown (1967) focused on the study and came up with a new perspective towards the study of social-technical, economic, political, and ecological (STEPE) factors. In 1980, Porter among other authors scanned the business environment and came up with the current acronym PESTEL meaning political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors (FME, 2013). According to Collins (1997),

PESTLE analysis is include of political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors. PESTLE is a business tool that used by companies to track and analyse the macro environment in which the company operate. This tool is very useful which help in overall growth and development of organization after learning from the past mistake and working for future. The first factor is political factor which include such as law of land, taxation policies, rules and regulation, trade restriction and so on.

2.0 PESTEL ANALYSIS
A PESTEL Analysis is a marketing framework to analyse how an organisation is being impacted by a wide range of external imperatives. 2.1 Political Local political factor has a less significant impact on Starbucks Singapore due to strong political stability in Singapore. Singapore is consistently ranked as the lowest political risk country in Asia since 2002 (Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, 2015). However, the political stability in the global market is highly important as Starbucks coffee is certified as an ethically traded coffee.