abhishreshthaa

New member
Qualcomm is an American wireless telecommunications research and development company, as well as the largest fabless chip supplier in the world, based in San Diego, California


Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by UC San Diego Professor Irwin Jacobs, MIT Alumni Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder.

In 1990, Qualcomm began the design of the first CDMA-based cellular base station, based upon calculations derived from the CDMA-based OmniTRACS satellite system. This work began as a study contract from AirTouch which was facing a shortage of cellular capacity in Los Angeles. Two years later Qualcomm began to manufacture CDMA cell phones, base stations, and chips. The initial base stations were not reliable and the technology was licensed wholly to Nortel in return for their work in improving the base station switching. The first CDMA technology was standardized as IS-95. Qualcomm has since helped to establish the CDMA-2000, WCDMA, and LTE cellular standards.


Strengths

* Dominant position in Colombia
* Limited competition. There are few acquisition targets as the food retail sector in Colombia is highly informal (60% mom & pops)
* Diversification in formats and target customer
* Strong brand and format recognition - top of mind
* Geographical coverage
* Corporate governance
* Strategic alliance with foreign partner (Casino)provides exchanges of best practices
* Strong client base in loyalty program

Weaknesses

* Manageability with too many formats and brands
* Duplicated administrative structure with the acquisition of Carulla- Vivero
* Outdated stores in need of remodeling

Opportunities

* Strong economic environment in Colombia boosting the consumer sector
* Increasing purchasing power from families and easier access to credit should increase consumption of higher value-added non-food items
* Population is expected to migrate from shopping in informal to formal retail
* Small portion of the population with access to banking and credit services
* JV with Bancolombia to boost traffic to stores, ticket as well as increase ROE with the introduction of additional products such as insurance and personal
loans.
* Follow-on providing funds to accelerate further
expansion and store remodelings

Threats

* Improving consumer stance in Colombia is attracting
new entrants to the retail sector (Carrefour and Falabella from Chile)
* Brand repositioning could exclude some loyal customers
* Downturn in Colombia's economic stance could limit potential growth of the retail sector
* Diversification of business could divert focus
 

jiten005

Banned
Qualcomm is an American wireless telecommunications research and development company, as well as the largest fabless chip supplier in the world, based in San Diego, California


Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by UC San Diego Professor Irwin Jacobs, MIT Alumni Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder.

In 1990, Qualcomm began the design of the first CDMA-based cellular base station, based upon calculations derived from the CDMA-based OmniTRACS satellite system. This work began as a study contract from AirTouch which was facing a shortage of cellular capacity in Los Angeles. Two years later Qualcomm began to manufacture CDMA cell phones, base stations, and chips. The initial base stations were not reliable and the technology was licensed wholly to Nortel in return for their work in improving the base station switching. The first CDMA technology was standardized as IS-95. Qualcomm has since helped to establish the CDMA-2000, WCDMA, and LTE cellular standards.


Strengths

* Dominant position in Colombia
* Limited competition. There are few acquisition targets as the food retail sector in Colombia is highly informal (60% mom & pops)
* Diversification in formats and target customer
* Strong brand and format recognition - top of mind
* Geographical coverage
* Corporate governance
* Strategic alliance with foreign partner (Casino)provides exchanges of best practices
* Strong client base in loyalty program

Weaknesses

* Manageability with too many formats and brands
* Duplicated administrative structure with the acquisition of Carulla- Vivero
* Outdated stores in need of remodeling

Opportunities

* Strong economic environment in Colombia boosting the consumer sector
* Increasing purchasing power from families and easier access to credit should increase consumption of higher value-added non-food items
* Population is expected to migrate from shopping in informal to formal retail
* Small portion of the population with access to banking and credit services
* JV with Bancolombia to boost traffic to stores, ticket as well as increase ROE with the introduction of additional products such as insurance and personal
loans.
* Follow-on providing funds to accelerate further
expansion and store remodelings

Threats

* Improving consumer stance in Colombia is attracting
new entrants to the retail sector (Carrefour and Falabella from Chile)
* Brand repositioning could exclude some loyal customers
* Downturn in Colombia's economic stance could limit potential growth of the retail sector
* Diversification of business could divert focus

Well, many many thanks for your help and providing the information on Qualcomm. BTW, i am also going to upload a document where you can find some useful information and can also included in your report..
 
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