Michael Porter has provided a model which identifies the most powerful driving forces within industries or company to run it well. It was created as the framework to analyses the company and then develops strategies for the development of company by these five forces the overall image or position of the company is analyzed economically and physically by profitability and consumers or customers remarks or feedback.
It includes:
• Threat of new Entrants
• Supplier’s Bargaining power
• Threat of Substitute products and services
• Buyer’s Bargaining Power
• Rivalry among existing competitors
So Porter’s Five Forces will be applied for the evaluation of NIKE to check the company’s overall position and charm in future.
Introduction of Nike
The Nike is analyzed by Porter’s Model when it move towards Asia and introduced itself . It was based on two factors according to the Porter’s Model. The company can become the leader by managing its financial cost and operational. By this strategy companies can low their cost. And company can maximize its profit and Nike planned well its strategy to position itself there in ASIA by implementing master cost leadership strategy. By this NIKE earned so much profit by lowering labor cost, direct access to the suppliers and by its low tariff rates.
This strategy is implemented by some value ad-ones to the consumer or the buyer. It contains more than one attributes to value the customer or buyer by offering it. According to the Porter the companies require extra cost for advertisement to maintain itself.
Nike implemented differentiation strategy in ASIA also the marketing activities to compete with its competitors .By this company became able to produce high quality products at low cost, innovation and awareness of products also increased by this.
PORTER’S FIVE FORCES FRAMEWORK
BARGAINING POWER OF SUPPLIERS
If suppliers are powerful then they can influence or impact the company too much. Strong buyers require
• Significant cost
• Supplier’s power to meet buyer’s power
• Brand should be powerful
• Desire and devotion of suppliers
• Customers need and targeted customers
Nike is strong at all and has potential suppliers All over the world .In 2000 NIKE has
Distribution and sub-contractors mastery, cheap labor and raw materials, low Tariff and duties of a country, Nike had 565 contract factories in 46 countries. The bargaining power of suppliers was comparatively very low.
BARGAINING POWER OF CUSTOMER OR BUYER
[large]Bargaining power largely depends over the customer’s consumption capacity and it plays vital role in making company’s position better in the market. Nike has several brands and product lines to attract a lot of customers having affordability and reliability in their products. Nike at one time started producing high quality expensive products for its customers but at that time customers went against them and media also portrayed a wrong image. At that time Nike image was badly affected. Several clients sent their recycled Nike shoes to the CEO of the company to display their displeasure towards Nike’s activities in Asia. The largest menace business had been that its products were exciting at very great price which could have activated the customer’s need to alter to the low price brands. So when buyers carry such huge bargaining power company has to modify its operations and products according to the needs of the customers.