Manzi Natural Valley Limited is a company with a main business line of mineral water production to service the Zambian market. The company operates a plant in Chongwe area of Lusaka and operates a number of sales depots in the country. One sales depot was located in Nkana East of Kitwe which closed down a couple of months ago.
Perform a SWOT analysis to predict why the company closed the Kitwe sales office.
SWOT analysis to know why the company might have closed the Kitwe sales office due to following reasons:
Strength (Internal factors, it means the company can control these factors):
Weakness (Internal Factors, it means the company can control these factors):
Opportunities ( External Factors, it means the company cannot control these factors):
Threats ( External Factors, it means the company cannot control these factors):
To sum up, after conducting the above SWOT analysis the company might be incurring losses & to gain profits in short-run the company might have violated few rules & regulations due to which the government might have cancelled the licence to operate mineral water business in Kitwe.
Manzi Natural Valley Limited is a company with a main business line of mineral water production...
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