Exploring the Global Strategies of Jaguar and Land Rover: A Report

This report analyzes the global business management strategies of Jaguar and Land Rover, focusing on their challenges and opportunities in emerging markets. It discusses the influence of the TATA group, their parent company, on their market approach and brand value. The report examines how Jaguar and Land Rover leverage TATA's presence in developing countries to reduce costs and access new markets. It also highlights the potential disadvantages, such as the risk of diluting the brand's premium image due to TATA's mass-market focus. The report uses academic references to support its analysis, providing a comprehensive overview of the company's strategic positioning and future prospects.

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Question: 1
As discussed in the case study, Jaguar and Land Rovers going through rough patch in
the recent times with the decline in the sales in the emerging countries. However, they are
having rich heritage and bad value, which can be effectively leveraged in penetrating in the
new markets. Currently, the parent company of Jaguar and Land Rover is TATA group from
India (Borah, Karabag & Berggren, 2015). They are also generating competitiveness from
their current parent company. This is due to the fact that, TATA is having good market hold
and presence in their home country along with several other developing countries (Lebedev et
al., 2015). Moreover, in the recent global scenario, developing markets are growing more
rapidly compared to the developed countries. Thus, with the expertise being possessed by
TATA in the developing countries, Jaguar and Land Rover are gaining the access in these
markets more effectively.
They are using the manufacturing facilities of TATA in the developing countries for
targeting the emerging markets. Thus, it helps them in reducing the cost of entering in the
new markets along with the reduction in the associated risk (Meyer, 2015). Moreover, the
market requirement of the developing market is being effectively determined by them due to
the inputs from their parent company. However, apart from having the advantages, there may
be some disadvantages also from the above discussed approach of Jaguar and Land Rover.
One of the key demerits will be reduction in brand value among the niche market (Batra &
Khairajani, 2012). This is due to the fact that, the businesses approach of TATA is more
towards mass market, however, Jaguar and Land Rover is known for elite markets models.
Thus, following the business approach of TATA may pose challenge in maintaining the brand
value and targeting strategies of Jaguar and Land Rover in their target niche market.

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Lebedev, S., Peng, M. W., Xie, E., & Stevens, C. E. (2015). Mergers and acquisitions in and
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Meyer, K. E. (2015). What is “strategic asset seeking FDI”?. The Multinational Business
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