Please NO COPY AND PASTE !!!! YOUR OWN IDEAS!!!!

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT .... NO COPYING AND PASTING PLEASEEEE !!!!!!!!

Assignment 1: Company Description and SWOT Analysis

Due Week 3 and worth 100 points

In this assignment, you will conduct a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) analysis for the type of beverage you have selected, and for your company overall. As you work on the assignment, consider why you have chosen one type of non-alcoholic beverage over another and the reasons for that choice. As you complete your SWOT analysis, be sure to include external factors such as industry / market trends and competition, and internal factors such as your capabilities or abilities to reach certain market segments.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper, in which you:

1. Create your revised NAB company name and explain its significance.
2. Develop your revised company’s Mission Statement and provide a rationale for its components.

• Hints: Use the Statement of Mission template on pp. 72-73 on the course textbook: Successful Business Plan to aid your development. Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.
• Extracting appropriate information from the NAB company portfolio, where applicable. You should fill in other required items in the template using your personal preferences.

• Hints: Research and outline beverage industry trends. Consider the size and growth rate of the industry overall and the specific beverage type you have chosen. Use the worksheet in the course text (p. 88 | Past and Future Growth of Your Industry) to help you project the future growth rate. Consider the use of industry associations and search engines to find reliable, recent data.

1. Choose one (1) strategic position from the course text (pp. 142–143) that you believe is the best strategic position for your company. Explain the approach you will use to implement this strategic position in order to distinguish your beverage from other non-alcoholic beverages.

1. Provide an overview of your company’s distribution channels. Explain the manner in which your product will reach end users. Provide a rationale for your chosen method.

• Hints: For example, will you sell your beverage in grocery stores, restaurants, or sports venues? If so, describe the types of resellers and distributors who will sell to resellers and fulfill their orders. If you are attempting to sell direct-to-consumers, such as online via a monthly subscription, how will you manage warehousing / fulfillment / shipping?

1. Outline at least three (3) types of risks (including any regulatory risks) that your business faces. Describe your company’s plan to mitigate such risk.

• Hints: You may refer to the types of risk listed in the course text (pp. 148–149) as well as any risks not listed in the text. Regulation weighs more heavily on beverage and food businesses than many other types of companies, so be certain to consider any regulatory risks your type of beverage faces. For example, what kind of regulation and / or risks are you likely to face if you make health claims about your beverage?

1. Develop a SWOT analysis for your NAB company using the SWOT matrix worksheet in the course text (p. 153 | SWOT: Strengths / Weaknesses / Opportunities / Threats)

• Hints: What are your company’s likely strengths? Have you chosen a beverage segment that is growing and lacks an entrenched competitor? Are you in a niche market that has great potential? What are the strengths that you and other team members bring to your company? Do you or other team members have previous experience in the food and beverage industry?
• Hints: What are your company’s likely weaknesses? Is the competition in your industry segment entrenched? Is your own management team inexperienced? Will it be challenging to actually produce your product and maintain quality?
• Hints: What are your company’s opportunities? Does your segment have more demand than supply? Have larger corporations stopped serving smaller or niche markets that you could enter? Is a new market emerging because of demographics, immigration, changing tastes?
• Hints: What are your company’s threats? Is there a clear market leader that will be hard and expensive to displace? Are downward-pricing pressures in the segment making profit margins slim? Are there little or no barriers-to-entry for new competitors; if you have a novel idea that succeeds, can the competition easily enter your market? If you have a global aspect to your company, do factors such as currency fluctuations, political instability, offshoring or outsourcing pose threats?

1. Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:
   1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
   3. Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.

THIS IS MY COMPANY NAME ,, SO YOUR IDEAS!!  KEEP THE COMPANY NAME BUT YOU CAN CHANGE THE MISSION STATEMENT AND ANYTHING ELSE.. MAKE IT SOUND GOOD,, YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING TO MAKE IT SOUND GOOD!! ITS MY COMPANY,,, A COMPANY I CAME UP WITH… MY LITTLE GIRL NAME KYLAH,, THAT’S WHY I NAMED IT KYLAH’S TEA…

This portion below is MY first discussion when I came up with my company: 

There are a lot of products that consume so much that we should not have, so something that I will think about is Tea. I am not a soda person, don't consume too much sugar in my beverages, mainly just water and tea. So my decision was "KYLAH TEA" is a rich grain of fiber and nice energy booster. Kylah tea is something you can have cold or warm, it’s very refreshing. While some tea can make you sluggish as well as drinks, when you drink Kylah's Tea watch the magic. It can help with so many problems; just try it!

My mission statement:

Kylah's Tea is very refreshing and healthy, once you taste you can never go back to any other! Of course I picked this mission statement because there is no other tea that will give you so much energy and make you feel like you untouchable. Its great for diabetics, people with anxiety, depression, lack of hunger, and much more. It gives you life! I am a tea fanatic, so if it doesn't gives me what I need I find something better, so thats when Kylah's Tea came. 

YOU CAN CHANGE THE MISSION STATEMENT.. I WAS JUST PUTTING THAT FOR THE FIRST DISCUSSION, SO THAT WAS A BRAINSTORM!!

 NO COPYING AND PASTING PLEASEEEE !!!!!!!!

DUE TONIGHT!!!!