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Grolsch; Growing Globally

Grolsch; Growing Globally

Answer-1

Grolsch's Standing In The Local Market

Grolsch was already termed as a brand that had a fine brewing accreditation and was termed as a plausible brand. He believed that that Grolsch had a huge potential as it was amidst 25 top worlds brand at a non domestic level catering to volumes only. It was ranked at 21 with 1.4 Millions of HL. Grolsch is a two tier company with its 2 wholly owned subsidiaries namely Grolsche Bierbrouwerij and Grolsch International. Both the subsidiaries were effectively managing the production, logistics and its facilities and Grolsch International which is responsible for the sales that is taking place at a worldwide level which includes operations beyond Netherlands, Ireland and UK. United Kingdom and Ireland sale and marketing had a joint venture with Coors called Grolsch (UK) which aided in licensed brewing at a local level. Initially at a local level Grolsch was flourishing as its financial as well as the operating history had an increasing trend. In the year of 2007 Grolsch total volume increased from 2.1 percent to a total of 3.3 million hectoliters. Grolsch brands decreased from a 3.4 percent to a 2.8 million Hectoliter. The revenues of Grolsch increased by a 4.8 percent constituting of €317.6m to €332.9m and net profits of €19.2m to €20m in the same period. Grolsch was growing and exceeding in the beer industry than its competitors and its key markets and was able to achieve a Return of Investment (ROI) that was beyond its Average cost of capital (ACC) which was 7.5 percent. Grolsch had a increasing growth rate with respect to dividends per share value and its earnings and was able to sustain the growth rate. Grolsch was able to focus on the non-financial oriented stakeholders with respect to employees and the local community it was operating in. The payrolls of the employee were a total of 15 percent of the revenue which was €60,000 for individual employee (www.news.bbc.co.uk).

Reason of Globalization

Later there came a time when the local market underwent stagnation and resulted in stagnated growth for not just Grolsch but other rivals as well. Grolsch had to come up with a contingency plan. It decided to hit the international markets by Glocalization. Glocalization is referred to as being acting locally and thinking globally. Grolsch also noticed that its rival Heineken was stepping at an international level and was inducing its presence in various countries. Grolsch was suffering if it were to operate at a domestic or local level solely so Grolsch decided to utilize the opportunity of global expansion. It aimed for continuity of its sale and so in the 3rd quarter of 1970, Grolsch initiated its personal import organization in the United States of America as well as the United Kingdom. It initiated its distribution contracts with New Zealand, Canada and Australia in the 1980's.

Post Globalization

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