Has Its Retrenchment Strategy Benefitted Shareholders?
1. What is Sara Lee’s corporate strategy? How has its retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup?
2. What is your assessment of the long-term attractiveness of the industries represented in Sara Lee Corp.’s business portfolio?
3. What is your assessment of the competitive strength of Sara Lee Corp.’s different business units?
4. What does a 9-cell industry attractiveness/business strength matrix displaying Sara Lee’s business units look like?
5. Does Sara Lee’s portfolio exhibit good strategic fit? What value-chain match-ups do you see? What opportunities for skills transfer, cost sharing, or brand sharing do you see?
6. What is your assessment of Sara Lee’s financial and operating performance in fiscal years 2008-2010, the period following the divestitures that were the core of Sara Lee’s retrenchment strategy?
7. What actions do you recommend that Sara Lee management take to improve the company’s performance and boost shareholder value? Your recommended actions must be supported with convincing, analysis-based arguments
1. What is Sara Lee’s corporate strategy? How has its retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup?
2. What is your assessment of the long-term attractiveness of the industries represented in Sara Lee Corp.’s business portfolio?
3. What is your assessment of the competitive strength of Sara Lee Corp.’s different business units?
4. What does a 9-cell industry attractiveness/business strength matrix displaying Sara Lee’s business units look like?
5. Does Sara Lee’s portfolio exhibit good strategic fit? What value-chain match-ups do you see? What opportunities for skills transfer, cost sharing, or brand sharing do you see?
6. What is your assessment of Sara Lee’s financial and operating performance in fiscal years 2008-2010, the period following the divestitures that were the core of Sara Lee’s retrenchment strategy?
7. What actions do you recommend that Sara Lee management take to improve the company’s performance and boost shareholder value? Your recommended actions must be supported with convincing, analysis-based arguments.