Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore

The wholesale and retail trade is an important contributor to Singapore’s GDP. Small medium enterprises (SMEs) in this industry make up 32% of the total SMEs in Singapore. However, the large number of cessations of companies in the wholesale and retail trade attests to the importance of understandin...

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Main Authors: Avni Dhanvantry Shah, Wang, Shu Li, Lim, Stefanie Qinwen
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35536
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description The wholesale and retail trade is an important contributor to Singapore’s GDP. Small medium enterprises (SMEs) in this industry make up 32% of the total SMEs in Singapore. However, the large number of cessations of companies in the wholesale and retail trade attests to the importance of understanding how SMEs can survive in this competitive industry. The case we analysed, Shah Commercial Company (SC), adopts an array of strategies, and leverages heavily on relationship marketing. Relationship marketing is an integrated effort to identify, maintain, and build up a network with individual consumers and to continuously strengthen the network for the mutual benefit of both sides, through interactive, individualized and value-added contacts over a long period of time. In light of the increasing competition in SC’s target market, Seychelles, we investigate sustainable relationship marketing as a core strategy of the company. Although relationship marketing is a useful strategy for customer retention, it needs to be complemented with other strategies.
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spelling ntu-10356/355362023-05-19T05:41:34Z Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore Avni Dhanvantry Shah Wang, Shu Li Lim, Stefanie Qinwen Nanyang Business School Shah Commercial Company Chiu Chi-Yue DRNTU::Business::Management::Strategy The wholesale and retail trade is an important contributor to Singapore’s GDP. Small medium enterprises (SMEs) in this industry make up 32% of the total SMEs in Singapore. However, the large number of cessations of companies in the wholesale and retail trade attests to the importance of understanding how SMEs can survive in this competitive industry. The case we analysed, Shah Commercial Company (SC), adopts an array of strategies, and leverages heavily on relationship marketing. Relationship marketing is an integrated effort to identify, maintain, and build up a network with individual consumers and to continuously strengthen the network for the mutual benefit of both sides, through interactive, individualized and value-added contacts over a long period of time. In light of the increasing competition in SC’s target market, Seychelles, we investigate sustainable relationship marketing as a core strategy of the company. Although relationship marketing is a useful strategy for customer retention, it needs to be complemented with other strategies. BUSINESS 2010-04-20T07:02:21Z 2010-04-20T07:02:21Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35536 en Nanyang Technological University 85 p. application/pdf
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title Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore
title_full Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore
title_fullStr Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore
title_short Strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade : the case of a small company in Singapore
title_sort strategies for sustaining business vitality in international wholesale and retail trade the case of a small company in singapore
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