ABSTRACT
Recently, there has
been growing concern about the frequent collapse and poor performance of
industries in our country. Business organisations are becoming more complex due
to rapid changes in the environment. It is increasingly becoming difficult to
predict the environment accurately. In such an environment characterized by
high level competition, developing competitive edge for business survival and
growth becomes imperative. This calls for the adopting a corporate strategy
that can ensure profitability. The aim of the study was to find out the extent
to which different corporate strategies contribute to the profitability of our
manufacturing industry, in particular the brewery industry. The methodology
adopted in carrying out the research work was the survey method. Both the
primary and secondary sources of data were utilised. The population for the
study was drawn from three manufacturing organisations in the brewery indusrty
in the south-western part of Nigeria. The sampling technique adopted was simple
random sampling. The study made use of a sample size of 250 respondents.The
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the data
collected. The yardsticks used in assessing the level of performance include,
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) Return on Investment (ROI), Return on Total
Assets (ROTA), Return on Shareholders’ Capital (ROSC), Profitability Index,
Earning per Share etc. Thus, the result of the survey confirmed that corporate
strategy has impact on profitability in any organization.The folowing were the
outcome: growth strategies such as mergers and acquisitions result in a brewery
industry having an increased market share; joint venture as a growth strategy
positively impacts strongly on return on investment; reconstructing and
retrenchment has a positive effect on returns on capital employed; brewery
industry will experience a higher return on capital employed when they employ
any of the exit strategies i.e. divestment, harvest and liquidation; and
lastly, the study reveals that adopting corporate strategy and successful
implementation of an appropriate, feasible, desirable and timely strategy will
create competitive advantage and also increase the profitability base.The study
recommends that government should encourage declining or distressed companies
to engage in merger and acquisition by providing incentives such as tax
holidays, loss relief, and capital allowances. Corporate organizations should
concentrate more of their resources on growth strategies; exit strategies should
be applied on subsidiaries that are not too profitable; defensive strategy
should be employed if it is established that the firm’s profitability problem
is due to its workforce’s inability to catch up with the changing trends in the
industry. These will be particularly helpful in the manufacturing industry,
which is characterized by distress syndrome. Above all, government should
ensure that basic infrastructure provision like electricity,
telecommunications, transport, etc are provided as the provision of these by
firms constitutes a huge outlay which eats deep into their profits.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE:
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the study
1.2 Statement of the Problem
1.3 Objectives of the Study
1.4 Research Questions
1.5 Research Hypotheses
1.6 Significance of the Study
1.7 Scope of the Study
1.8 Limitations of the Study
1.9 Profile of Consolidated breweries Plc
1.10 Reference
CHAPTER TWO:
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 The Evolution of the Concept of Strategy
2.2 Definitions of Strategy
2.3 Theoretical Framework
2.4 Corporate Strategy
2.5 Growth Strategy
2.6 Acquisition
2.7 Joint Ventures
2.8 Merger
2.9 Defensive Strategy
2.10 Retrenchment Strategy
2.11 Restructuring
2.12 Exist Strategy
2.13 BCG Matrix
2.14 Profitability Index
2.15 Summary of Related Literature Review
References
CHAPTER THRE:
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Area of Study
3.3 Population of the Study
3.4 Sample Size Determination
3.5 Sources of Data
3.6 Primary Sources of Data
3.7 Secondary Sources of Data
3.8 Questionnaire Design
3.9 Validation and Reliability
3.10 Data Processing
3.11 Operationalisation of Variables
References
CHAPTER FOUR:
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA
4.1 Presentation and Analysis of Data
4.2 Test of Hypotheses
4.3 Discussion of Result
References
CHAPTER FIVE:
SUMMARY, CONCLUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary of Findings
5.2 Recommendations
5.3 Conclusion
5.4 Contribution to Knowledge
5.5 Suggested Area for Further Study
Bibliography
Appendix
Questionnaire
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
A cursory look at business
organisations would reveal that some are very successful, others only
moderately or even marginally, while still others fail altogether. The answer
lies in an organizational equivalent of the biological concept of the “survival
of the fittest.” Charles & Dan, 2002; 1 have observed that “over the long
run, organizations that survive are those that serve the needs of their
societies effectively and efficiently; that is, that provide the benefits
demanded by society at prices sufficient to cover the costs incurred in
producing them.” (Charles & Dan, 2002). Organizations reflect this truism
very clearly and they survive only so long as they produce goods and services
that generate revenues exceeding the costs incurred in producing them, that is,
only so long as they make a profit.
Unlike living things, however, organisations,
including businesses, can plan and implement fundamental or structural changes
although it is clear that not all do so. Such changes can be of two types: (1)
those that affect the relationship between the organisation and its
environment, and (2) those that affect the internal structure and operating
activities of the organisation. Typically, environmentally related changes
affect the organisation’s effectiveness to a greater degree than internally
oriented changes, which usually have greater influence on its efficiency.
In
general system theory, effectiveness is defined as the degree to which the
actual output of the system correspond to its desired output, while efficiency
is defined as the ratio of actual output to actual inputs. In most organisations,
much of management’s time and attention is placed on internal efforts designed
to make day-to-day operations as efficient as possible. One of the principal
reasons for this is that inefficiency can seriously retard the overall
performance of the organisation.
However, organisation depend
much more for their long-run success and survival on improvements in their
effectiveness (that is, on how well they relate to their environments) than on
improvements in their efficiency. Peter Drucker stated this most eloquently
when he suggested that it is more importantly to do the right things (improve
effectiveness) than to do things right (improve efficiency). Thus, if an
organisation is doing the right things wrong (that is, is effective but not
efficient), it can outperform organisations that are doing the wrong things
right (that is, are efficient but not effective)
A classic example of these
ideas is Consolidated and Crown breweries of the 1980s and early 1990s in Ogun
state of Nigeria. At that time Crown breweries was by far the most efficient
brewery producer in Ogun state and some part of Oyo and Ondo state. However,
the two did not see the changes occurring in the marketplace that Nigeria
Breweries, and Guinness Nigeria Plc did. Consequently, in spite of their
superior efficiency in the local market, they lost the battle for supremacy in
their locality to Nigeria Breweries, and Guinness Nigeria Plc.
In Crown-products’ case it lack
thezability to adapt to new technology of the industry. Thus, even though the
total demand for breweries products increased, the demand for Crown-Product ltd
decreased as a result of change in taste. Consolidated survived, however,
because it eventually responded appropriately to the change, while Crown-products
failed as entity because it could not, or at least did not, respond effectively
to the changes in its environment. We have called such changes strategic
changes because they altered the conditions for effectiveness.
Profitability is a must for any
organisation through which it generates surplus for its continuity of
operations (Sukul & Mishra, 2003). Companies which are strategically
managed usually have profitability as one of their objectives as it is through
profits alone that they can survive. Higher profit also means efficient and
effective working of an organisation. Companies, which cannot....
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