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Kraft Foods Analysis

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Advanced Finance Intervenant/ Lecturer : Michael PAYTE MSc Audit & Management Control Academic Year 2012-2013 Gaelle VANHERPE Maxime ROZIER Yao LIU Marion DOMANSKI TABLE OF CONTENTS GAELLE’S PART PORTER’S 5 + 1 FORCES Competitive Rivalry within an Industry Very high – Kraft Foods has to face a lot of competition  International: Nestlé and Danone are the two main competitors. There are present worldwide and exploit the same segments as Kraft Foods.  National: Companies which are present in only one country but which propose products such as biscuits, dairy products… Example: Michel & Augustin, St Michel, la Mère Poulard (France)  Regional: Smaller companies which are present in only few regions and propose …show more content…

In fact regulations are different in every country in which the company is present. Moreover, the sector of human consumption’s products involves lots of regulations regarding the composition of the food, production, marketing, trade, tax and environmental matters. For example, the use of hydrogenated fats or palm oil is no longer accepted in Switzerland, Canada, Denmark and New York. In France these ingredients are not forbidden but all the products which are made with them have to be clearly indicated. These hydrogenated fats were used by Kraft Foods in some of its biscuits and thus the company had to remove and replace them by other ingredient less risky for customers’ health. All these new regulations could increase company’s costs and affect its profitability. In fact company’s need to comply with new or revised regulations or their interpretation and application, including proposed requirements designed to enhance food safety or to regulate imported ingredients, could materially and adversely affect the company’s product sales, financial condition and results of operations. Threat of New Entrants Low – The threat of new international entrants is very low because the probability that tomorrow a new company arrives and becomes one of the main competitors of Kraft Foods is very low, even non-existent. In fact, barriers at the entrance for a new company are too important because the market is totally saturated. The threat of new entrants, national

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