Nokia's Chinese Operations
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Case Details:
Case Code : OPER070
Case Length : 21 Pages
Period : 2000-2008
Organization : Nokia Corporation
Pub Date : 2009
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : China
Industry : Mobile phones
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Introduction Contd...
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Nokia sold 70.7 mobile phones in the country in 2007 7, accounting for a market
share of 35%.
Internationally too, Nokia performed well in 2007, and announced record sales
and market share for the year. By the end of the year, its market share had
crossed 40%. Sales during the year8 were at € 51,058 million against € 41,121
million in 2006, a growth of 24%9.
The sales of mobile phones were at € 25,083
million. Analysts were of the view that Nokia's leading position in the low-cost
handset market and its formidable position in emerging markets like China and
India were the reasons behind its success.
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China had been Nokia's largest market since 2005 and continued to be so in 2007 with sales of € 5,898 million.10
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Nokia entered China way back in 1985, and when the
Chinese market started opening up, it established itself as a formidable
player, becoming one of the top two mobile handset companies11 in the
country by the late 1990s.
However, the fortunes of the company took a turn for the worse later,
when the Chinese government came out with a licensing system in order to
encourage domestic players.
The Chinese manufacturers flooded the market
with low priced handsets, and also targeted the emerging rural markets,
to which the foreign players had not till then catered... |
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