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Analyzing the External Environment with PESTEL This week we are studying the External Environment as a critical part of developing strategy. A PESTEL Analysis is one of the major tools you use in studying the external environment STEP 1 Please perform a quick PESTEL Analysis and determine what the biggest risk is to each company. Your task is to determine the biggest PESTEL risk to each company -and not necessarily a comprehensive analysiS STEP 2 You have $1 million to invest in these companies. You can invest in one, two or even all of them. Which ones would you invest in? How much of the $1,000,000 would you invest? You must hold the investment(s) for five years Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a publicly traded Hangzhou-based group of Internet-based e- commerce businesses, including business-to-business online web portals, online retail and payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. In 2012, two of Alibaba's portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales. The company primarily operates in China, and at closing time, on the date of its historic IPO, 19 September 2014, Alibaba's market value was measured as US$231 billion. The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to- business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers Alibaba's consumer-to-consumer portal Taobao, similar to eBay, features nearly a billion products and is one of the 20 most-visited websites globally. The Group's websites accounted for over 60% of the parcels delivered in China by March 2013, and 80% of the nation's online sales by September 2014, Alipay, an online payment escrow service, accounts for roughly half of all online payment transactions within China. Conagra Brands Inc. is an American packaged foods company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois ConAgra makes and sells products under various brand names that are available in supermarkets, restaurants, and food service establishments. ConAgra was founded in 1919 and in 1940, the company began producing flour at its own mill. It created the Duncan Hines brand of cake mixes in 1951 as a way to market more flour. It is currently the third largest flour miller in the U.S. ConAgra produces a wide array of food products including cooking oil, frozen dinners, hot cocoa, hot dogs, peanut butter and many others. Some of ConAgra's major brands include Hunt's, Healthy Choice, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, Slim Jim, Egg Beaters, Hebrew National, P.F. Chang's Home Menu and Bertolli Cumulus Media Networks is an American radio network owned and operated by Cumulus Media. It controls many of the radio assets formerly belonging to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) which was broken up in 2007; Cumulus owns the portion of the network that was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting that year. The network adopted its current name in September 2011, following Cumulus's acquisition of Citadel; prior to this, it had been known as Citadel Media Networks since April 2009, after licensing the "ABC Radio Networks" name from The Walt Disney Company for nearly two years. The company is helmed by two radio executives from Atlanta. Prominent hosts carried by Cumulus Media Networks include Don Imus, Geraldo Rivera, Mike Huckabee, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Jim Brickman, Adam Bomb, Kix Brooks (American Country Countdown), and Tom Kent

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