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User Generated >> Barnes & Noble SWOT Analysis:
Strengths
  • Cost advantage
  • Asset leverage
  • Effective communication
  • High R&D
  • Innovation
  • Online growth
  • Loyal customers
  • Market share leadership
  • Strong management team
  • Strong brand equity
  • Strong financial position
Weaknesses
[list]
 [*]Bad communication
 [*]Diseconomies to scale
 [*]Over leveraged fiancial position
 [*]Low R&D
 [*]Low market share
 [*]No online presence
 [*]Not innovative
 [*]Not diversified
 [*]Poor supply chain
 [*]Weak management team
 
Opportunities
  • Acquisitions
  • Asset leverage
  • Financial markets (raise money through debt, etc)
  • Emerging markets and expansion abroad
  • Innovation
  • Online
  • Product and services expansion
  • Takeovers
Threats
  • Competition
  • Cheaper technology
     []Economic slowdown
     []External changes (government, politics, taxes, etc)
     []Exchange rate fluctuations
  • Lower cost competitors or imports
  • Maturing categories, products, or services
  • Price wars
     []Product substitution
E-Books

History: Version 16 (Newest), Version 15, Version 14, Version 13, Version 12, Version 11, Version 10, Version 9, Version 8, Version 7, Version 6, Version 5, Version 4, Version 3, Version 2, Version 1 (Oldest)



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