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COVID-19 impact on Heathrow Airport
Your client is the CEO of Heathrow airport (London), the busiest airport in Europe in terms of commercial traffic.Due to COVID-19, the airport's operations and hence, revenue streams, have been severely affected.The CEO asks for your help with the preparation of the upcoming Steerco, focused on:“How to secure Heathrow's revenue streams during April-June 2020, mitigating the effects of COVID-19”.
Espresso, Whatelse?
Espresso Whatelse is an Italian company that produces coffee and espresso machines since 1908. It is the Italian market leader and has a strong presence overall in Europe. In 2019, Espresso Whatelse has increased its revenues but it has seen declining profit margin.Your client wants to understand the root causes of this 2019 trend and how to increase its profit margin again.
Double trouble
Our client is RedBus, one of several operators of iconic double-decker public transport buses in London. Over the past three years RedBus have experienced declining profitability, as a result of reduced demand for buses due to growth in affordable taxi services, such as Uber.The client is looking to understand the root cause of the issue and discuss ways to improve profitability.
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BCG Case Style - Online Groceries [NEW]
Our client is a supermarket chain that is considering whether they should enter the emerging online grocery delivery business where consumers order their groceries online and have them delivered to their homes. Currently, two competitors have entered the online market in the client's area in San Francisco. Both competitors are quickly gaining market share. Our client hired you to determine if they should enter the online market.
Overseas Market Growth - 1st Round BCG Type
The client is an Indonesian producer of paper boards which can be further processed into paper boxes, shopping bags, etc. They sell in both their domestic market i.e. Indonesia, and in the export market i.e. the US. Revenue last year was $5 billion, with 80% from Indonesia and 20% from the US. Overall they have been growing at 3% annually. The client wants to achieve a 5% growth rate in the next 1-2 years. With the resource constraint they have, they want to focus on one of the two markets. They want to know which market they should go after to achieve that increase in growth rate, and how.
Smart Meters
The municipal utility Hamburg Energized is a local energy retail (power and gas) and distribution grid company active in the city of Hamburg. The majority of shares of Hamburg Energized is held by the city itself. As the distribution system operator of Hamburg, Hamburg Energized is responsible for the operations and maintenance of the gas and electricity grid on customer level.In the course of the energy transition in Germany, the responsible board member for the technical grid operations, Jan Bremer, thinks about deploying Smart Meters in the gas and electricity grid. He approaches you with the request to conduct a feasibility analysis and to give a clear recommendation whether or not Hamburg Energized should use Smart Meters in its gas and electricity grid in the future.
Make Steakhouse Great Again!
Your client is a Franchisee of a popular Steakhouse-chain in Germany. The Franchisee currently owns 2 Steakhouse-restaurants and wants you to investigate how well these perform and if there is any way for improvement?
Bodybuilding Made Easy
Your client is a newly founded protein company. Its owners are two brothers. One of them is a chemist and the other one is a very famous fitness model and personal trainer on YouTube. They intend to enter the nutrition supplements industry where they want to focus on protein supplementation for bodybuilding. The chemist has the capabilities to produce protein products for this industry. He has used this knowledge and a substantial loan to build a factory in Germany that would allow the brothers to mass produce their protein products.The brothers have approached you to advise them on how they can use their capabilities to profitably sell their product using their factory in Germany. They request very practical advice on how to get their product from their factory into the hands of the consumer at a profit.
Sticky USB-Sticks
Du berätst den USB-Stick Produzenten "Sticky". Das bisher profitable USB-Stick Geschäft wird dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal rote Zahlen schreiben. Dein Klient würde gerne wissen, wie er wieder Gewinne erzielen kann.
Besser fliegen
Du berätst eine große europäische Fluggesellschaft. Der Vorstandsvorsitzende überlegt, eine neue Sitzklassen-Kategorie, die „Premium Economy“, zwischen der Economy und der First Class einzuführen. Er will von Dir wissen, ob dies eine gute Idee ist.
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Dein Kunde ist ein großer Automobilkonzern. Dieser erhält eine große Menge an Daten von den verkauften Autos. Er möchte von Dir wissen, welche Möglichkeiten er hat, diese Daten zu monetarisieren.
Wohin mit den Schränken?
Der Klient, OSEKA, ist ein profitabler Möbelhersteller aus Spanien. Bisher liefert er seine - in Spanien hergestellten - Möbel auch nur nach Spanien. Kürzlich melden aber einige Möbelhäuser aus Deutschland Interesse an, die Möbel auch verkaufen zu wollen. Der CEO des Unternehmens fragt dich, ob es gut wäre dann auch einen Produktionsstandort in Deutschland zu eröffnen.
From online to offline
We are thinking of establishing a door-to-door distribution of an existing online newspaper in Kolkata, India. We haven't spent much time on how the process would work in practice yet. Can you help us evaluate the feasibility of the plan?
Premium Brand Apparel Retailer
We are a premium brand apparel retailer facing a consistent decrease in market share. We would like you to figure out why this is happening and provide recommendations to reverse this trend.
Canada Bus Operator
We are a Canada bus transport service operating between major cities. We have been losing money for the past 5 years. Our new CEO thinks that we need to aggressively cut costs in order to return to profitability. We also suspect the over-operated routes as well as the new routes to be the cause of the loss. How do you suggest we should face this problem?
Superfix
Our client, Superfix, is a mid-size chain of auto-service garages that has been doing well for the past ten years with 30 stores. However, since management felt that the business was saturating, they expanded with an additional 15 stores in other geographical areas. However, the expansion came with negative effects and falling profits. You're hired to figure out why the company is losing profit despite its 15-branch growth over the past few years.
Spain Shipping
Our client is a local shipping firm in Spain where they handle local shipping of packages delivered by international shipping firms like FedEx, UPS & DHL. These firms deliver packages to the key city hubs and then our client takes it from there.They want to know how many trucks they should lease to support their operations. From a cost-savings perspective they can only lease one model-type and we need to find out how many trucks the start-up needs.
Hospital's ill finances
A firm managing hospitals has recently been experiencing growing pains. It has contacted our firm to ask for help.
Electric Mobility
Our client is a start-up company that wants to mass-produce an electric vehicle for the US market.So far it has developed a prototype all-electric vehicle.They hired us to solve the problem of swapping to mass-production.
ACR Medical Lab
Your client, ACR, is a chain of medical laboratories. They provide patients with MRI and CT scans as well as other major tests.They have expensive testing equipment in their inventory and run about 250 labs. Usually doctors refer their patients to one of the labs.Because ACR is worried about a decrease in profits, they have hired us to evaluate the market.
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