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Course: International Environments and Business Operations.

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Module: 3

Assignment: 4 / What makes a global company admirable

Date: April/ 04/ 2015

Bibliography:

Universidad TecMilenio (SF) Module 3, Assignment 4, What makes a global company admirable? April,04, 2015. Web Site: https://miscursos.tecmilenio.mx/webapps/blackboard/execute/content/file?cmd=view&content_id=_536697_1&course_id=_19600_1&framesetWrapped=true

Global Retail Development Index (2014) Full steam ahead for Global retailers. Web Site: https://miscursos.tecmilenio.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-573197-dt-content-rid-1819593_1/courses/QR.NI13307P.401.16400/Global%20Retail%20Index.pdf

Fortune (-) World's most admired companies Web Site: http://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/

Grupo Bimbo (2015) Our group, Mission and Vision.. Web site: http://www.grupobimbo.com/en/our-group/mission-vision-and-values.html

Objective.

* Analysis: What makes a global company admirable?

Guidelines.

Part 1. The firm A.T. Kearney publishes an annual study to help retailers prioritize their global development strategies by ranking the retail expansion attractiveness of emerging countries, based on a particular set of criteria. Find the latest version of this Global Retail Development Index attached to this assignment, and answer these questions:

What criteria are used to identify the attractiveness of the retail environment in emerging countries? List them and add a short description. Which one do you think is the most important? Would you add any other criterion?

Categorize the top 5 countries by world region, and compare them to Mexico (page 8). What do you find? What can you say about Mexico regarding the retail industry? What ideas and actions would you recommend to the Mexican authorities in order to improve and move up in the ranking?

Part 2. Fortune magazine conducts an annual survey and publishes the rankings of the world's most admired companies. Read the latest ranking available, and answer the following questions:

What factors are used and considered to determine which companies are most admired? List them.

Write a summary of these strategic and organizational success factors, and apply them to a Mexican company of your choice. In addition, do some research and describe the corporate/organizational culture of that company.

Results:

What criteria are used to identify the attractiveness of the retail environment in emerging countries?

* Population wealth: When a population can afford certain product and the country have more demand than offer.

* The logistic improving: The company search for new markets and new ways for improve their logistic or now they have better transportation, inventory or production thanks to the logistic improve.

* Friendly regulations for international firms: A country that open the opportunities for foreign countries or give more accessibility to the raw materials, importation, land, etc.

* Economic, political and social risks in acceptable levels: Stability of a country, new reforms in certain industry, open markets.

Which one do you think is the most important? Would you add any other criterion?

The economic, political and social risks in acceptable levels, because you can have a stability