Acquisition and Structure Strategy for Australian Supermarkets: A Case Study of Woolworths

2019

Competitive strategy 1
Executive summary
The aim of the report is to discuss one or more strategies related to the organisation that could be
applied. The strategies which can be applied to the company include Business Strategy,
Corporate Strategy, Acquisitions and Structure, International Strategy, Cooperative Strategy,
Sustainability. The purpose of the discussion is to identify the strategies that are applied to the
case study of Australian supermarkets: who will win and when?. The information for the report
has been gathered with the appropriate use of the qualitative method with the major focus on the
use of the secondary data. The report findings say that Woolworth's company emphasis on the
strategy of the Acquisition and structure.

Competitive strategy 2
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Background of case..........................................................................................................................4
Acquisition structure........................................................................................................................4
Application of Acquisition and structure.........................................................................................5
Advantages of acquisition to Woolworths...................................................................................7
Value propositions strategy of Acquisition and structure............................................................8
Low-cost strategy.....................................................................................................................8
Diversification strategy............................................................................................................9
Sales growth strategy...............................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

Competitive strategy 3
Introduction
The purpose of the report includes the strategies that are linked with the case of the Australian
supermarket which include the discussion of the different supermarkets that are present in the
market of Australia. The reason behind the research is to identify the strategies that can be
applied to the organisation. The focus is majorly on the Woolworths Company whose discussion
is done in the case study along with the Coles and Aldi supermarket in Australia. The strategy of
acquisition and structure is explained majorly in the report.