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Table of Contents
1. Executive summary.............................................................................................3
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Introduction........................................................................................................3
3. External environment analysis............................................................................3
3.1. External
environment...................................................................................4
3.2. PESTEL analysis – macro environment.........................................................4
3.2.1 Political and Economic .............................................................................5
3.2.2 Social and Environmental.........................................................................5
3.2.3 Technological..........................................................................................6
3.2.4 Legal.....................................................................................................6
3.3. Porter’s Five Forces analysis – micro environment......................................5
3.3.1 Rivalry among the competition (medium)...................................................7
3.3.2 Threat of new entries (low) ......................................................................7
3.3.3 The bargaining power of suppliers (low).....................................................7
3.3.4 The bargaining power of customers (high) .................................................7
3.3.5 Threat of substitutes (medium).................................................................8
3.4. Opportunities and threats................................................................................8
4. Internal environment analysis............................................................................9
4.1. Internal environment.............................................................................9
4.2. Corporate Social Responsibility – mission, visions, values...................10
4.3 Value chain ............................................................................................9
4.3.1 Strengths and weaknesses ............................................................9
4.4 Marketing mix.......................................................................................10
4.4.1 Product......................................................................................10
4.4.2 Price..........................................................................................10
4.4.3
Place..........................................................................................10
4.4.4 Promotion ..................................................................................10
5. Key findings and recommendations .................................................................11
6. Overseas opportunities.....................................................................................11
6.1 CAGE framework ..................................................................................11
6.1.1 Culture ......................................................................................11
6.1.2Administrative..............................................................................12
6.1.3 Geographical...............................................................................12
6.1.4
Economic....................................................................................12
6.2 Overseas entry strategy and key challenges ........................................13
6.3 Marketing mix.......................................................................................13
6.4 Key overseas opportunities and threats ...............................................14
7. Conclusion .......................................................................................................14
8. References........................................................................................................14
9. Appendix...........................................................................................................20
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1. Executive summary
Swiggy is an online food delivery company that aims to expand its international platform.
This assignment has been conducted through internal as well as external analysis of the
global event so that the strengths, weakness, threats and opportunities can be easily
determined and appropriate recommendations can be given to the firm for global expansion.
It has been analysed that financial issues are a major theft for Swiggy as global economic
inflation shall lead to lower profitability after international expansion. However, if the firm
can deploy modern technologies for delivery, it can gain a brand reputation on the global
platform. Along with some strength, the organisation has faced some major issues in the
market such as failure to maintain the market laws in India and it is accused of establishing
unfair pricing in order to enhance its monopoly in the market and the lack of training for the
service operators of Swiggy has enhanced the number of dissatisfied customers. These two
impacted the revenue earnings and food delivery of the organisation in order to contribute
to sustainability the organisation has decided to increase the number of electric vehicles
which further helps the organisation to reduce the emission of carbon foot prints in the air.
A brief STP of the company has been presented in the detail that would help in assisting in
the internationalisation of the businesses. Additionally, the implementation of the Uppsala
model has also been presented in the study to show the aspects of partnership by Swiggy in
Malaysia.
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2. Introduction
The internal and external environment of a firm has a significant impact on the company's
business operations. Similarly, a detailed analysis of the environment helps in evaluating
the strengths and weaknesses which further provides the scope of expansion in foreign
countries. This assignment has used several frameworks to analyze the eternal global
environment of Swiggy and determine the potential threats that can provide a barrier to its
external expansion. Swiggy is an online platform for food ordering and delivery which was
founded in India. The platform is used by Indian citizens from different parts of the country
to order food from restaurants and also get quick supplies of groceries.
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Figure 2: Revenue earned by Swiggy
(Source: Statista, 2023)
In this study, the company Swiggy will target the market of Malaysia. With the rising
demand for the home delivery food items from local restaurants and hotels, this company
will process the business with the local people as employees of the company.
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five forces are determined to analyze the competitive environment of a global environment
that can lead to issues for Swiggy if it enters a foreign market.
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when Swiggy plans to expand internationally it needs to adopt sustainable food delivery
methods so that it can gain support from the stakeholders of national and international
platforms.
3.2.3 Technological
Technological use is encouraged by international governing bodies as it is a sustainable
mode of business which increases profitability as well as productivity. While competing on
an international platform. Swiggy shall gain opportunities of using modern technology such
as Artificial intelligence in food delivery which shall help it to gain higher profitability and
reduce its dependence on human resources for different business operations.
3.2.4 Legal
Legal factors encourage global companies to follow rules and regulations that can protect
employees from discrimination, sexual harassment and issues related to inequality in the
workplace. Moreover, as per the online food delivery industry, legal implications include
maintenance of food safety so that delivered food does not harm the customers. Swiggy has
been facing several legal issues in the Indian market due to poor food quality issues, a lack
of legal contracts with the restaurants and payment issues with its stakeholders (Singh,
2022).
Figure 4: Porter’s
five force framework
(Source: Created by the learner)
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3.3.1 Bargaining power of suppliers
Food supplies are gained by online food delivery companies for restaurants and cafes. The
global environment has thousands of restaurants in every country and Swiggy can partner
up with several companies. Therefore, bargaining power of suppliers is low (Gupta, 2019).
In the selected country for the business expansion, the company Swiggy will face
competition in Malaysia, and that can be omitted with the help network and distribution
strategies.
Opportunity
International governing bodies support globalization which will positively impact the
expansion of Swiggy. Technological advancement in global platforms can encourage Swiggy
to adapt to automatic technologies and have a positive impact on the firm. The low power of
suppliers will provide ample opportunities for Swiggy to partner with several multi-cuisine
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restaurants that serve high-quality food at a higher service charge. Low that form substitute
service will enhance the productivity of the company.
Threat
Not maintaining the legal implications can be a challenge for the firm on a global platform.
The global economic crisis will lead to lower profitability for the firm. High competition in the
global market will lower sales margins for the firm. The high competition will also lead to a
lowering of the customer base for Swiggy.
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company to understand the legal implications of the county where they are expanding and
the firm can abide by the rules and regulations of food quality and contract-making with the
restaurants as well.
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Strengths Weaknesses
● The company has partnered with ● Swiggy failed to maintain the market
15000 restaurants in India which laws in India and it is accused of
helps the firm to deliver several establishing unfair pricing in order to
cuisines to Indian customers who enhance its monopoly in the market
belong to a diverse range of cultures (Economic times, 2023).
and traditions. ● The lack of training for the service
● Swiggy uses social media marketing operators of Swiggy has enhanced
strategies such as Facebook to reach the number of dis-satisfied
out to the younger generation in customers.
order to enhance their revenue.
Opportunities Threats
● Swiggy can enhance its opportunities ● High competition for Uber eats and
by encouraging internal, local and Zomato is leading to a severe
national stakeholders to invest in challenge for Swiggy.
their firm as they have a significant ● Threats are increasing as the firm is
gross merchandise value of $1.3 selling its profitability and it's being
billion (Economic times., 2023). reported that Swiggy has lost 23%
● High financial investments from of its revenue in 2021 (Abrar, 2022).
stakeholders can enhance the ● Low financial gain from the market
opportunities for expansion as well can put barriers to international
as technological development for the expansion and the company shall fail
firm. to modify its business operations to
● Advancement of digital marketing gain competitive advantages in the
encourages Swiggy to target global market.
customer segments and attract them
to choose their food delivery
platforms over others.
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4.2. Corporate Social Responsibility – mission, visions, values Corporate social
responsibility
As the organization aims to improve the quality of life of urban people, hence the
organization follows Caroll’s Four Part model. Swiggy with the help of this mode makes its
business economic, legal and philanthropic keeping the needs and demands of the people in
view. As a part of corporate social responsibility Swig provides meals to thousands of
“underprivileged”, “standard migrant laborers” and “daily wagers”. Swiggy further provides
some comprehensive schemes to its delivery partners as per which the children can take
admission either in a government or private school from primary to secondary level.
Recently Swiggy has launched the “Hope, Not Hunger” program in which the organization
has aimed to provide 5, 00,000 meals every day to the people (Panigrahi, 2022). The
organization has also ensured that each lunch and dinner must include an adequate number
of rices, dal and vegetables to maintain nutritional value.
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Sustainability Agenda
In India, the organization has made a joint venture with Reliance BP mobility (RBML) to set
up “ecosystem and battery-swapping” stations across the nation for delivery partners. As
per some statistics it can be seen that the delivery boys of Swiggy cover 8 lakh kilometers
every day. That's why the organization has decided to increase the deployment of EVs or
Electric vehicles in the nation by the end of 2025(Jiji and Kenoth, 2022). In addition to it, an
increase in electrical vehicles will reduce the running cost of vehicles by 40%. In order to
build an EV ecosystem, the organization has made a joint venture with EV tech logistics. I
will also help the organization to reduce the emission of carbon footprints in the air.
Key strengths and weaknesses from the internal analysis and their impact on the
organization
Impact of strengths
The organization has made joint ventures with 15000 restaurants in India. Making joint
ventures with a large number of firms also increases the revenue earnings of the
organization. As per some statistics it can be seen that in the Fiscal year, 2022 sales of the
organization increased by 2 times and reached £51.25 billion which was £25.99 billion in
2021 (Prashar et al. 2022). In addition to it, making joint ventures with 15000 restaurants
is helping the organization deliver cuisines to Indian customers based on a diverse range of
cultures and traditions. It is expected that the core food and restaurant business of Swiggy
is going to rise by 40% by the end of 2023 (Khan and Priya, 2022). Presently the
organization has 128000 restaurants in 500 different cities in India which helped the
organization to get 20 million active users in the nation.
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Figure 9: Customer Base of Swiggy
(Source: Gupta, 2019)
Impact of weakness
Swiggy operates its business in India on a large scale but the organization failed to maintain
the market law in India. In 2018, the organization ended up paying 20,000 as a penalty
when it charged Rs. 4.50 on the soft drinks of a Haryana Boy (BBC.com,2022). It was
strictly a violation of the Mandatory Printing of Cost of Production and Maximum Retail Price
Act, 2006. Moreover, the incident reduces the transparency and brand image of Swiggy.
Therefore, by taking the advantage of their citation, competitors of Swiggy such as Zomato,
DoorDash, Uber and GrubHub can emerge as leading food restaurant chains in India. The
lack of transparency and accountability in Swiggy's business also created heavy cash burn
from the “quick commerce ventures”. In addition to it, the organization is lacking trained
delivery professionals as a result of it the organization faced 7, 00, 00 kgs of food waste
which is enough to feed 3000 people a year (Ayman et al. 2022). Despite this due to a poor
delivery system Swiggy receives 385278 cancellations every month which further directly
impacts the revenue earnings for the organization.
Recommendation 1
In order to ensure the fastest delivery of food, Swiggy can adopt a drone delivery system.
Despite this, the organization can use robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to
ensure faster food delivery for its customers. Along with it, the adoption of a Virtual kitchen
app and waste food collection app will allow the organization to prevent food wastage.
Recommendation 2
In order to enhance supply chain management Swiggy can adopt IoT, AI and Augmented
reality. Adoption of the technologies will increase “actual output” and improve the “quality
of foods” and “delivery process”. Along with it, the adoption of the latest technologies will
further decrease “energy consumption” and ensure “profitability” for the organization.
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Analysis of a foreign country’s market opportunities for your chosen organisation
From the above study, it needs to be stated that the expansion of Swiggy in the Malaysian
market can be considered to be quite useful. The external market analysis in the above
section has made it evident that the Malaysian market is growing and is quite appropriate
for a new business. As per an article, it has been seen that over the past 10 years, many
businesses have chosen Malaysia for business expansion (Boardroomlimited.com, 2021). As
per the recent rankings of the World Bank, it has been seen that Malaysia has been ranked
at 55th position in the aspects of continuing business. The article has stated that Swiggy
while considering Malaysia for its business expansion, gains an advantage of gaining access
to about 667 million population of the country. Thus, it needs to be mentioned that the
development of the company in the chosen country can be observed to be at a higher
advantage for the company. Moreover, the studies of Menhat et al., (2021), have stated
that most countries have a norm of double taxation which can, however, be avoided in
Malaysia. Thus, this has made Malaysia an attractive country considering the tax
environment following an international flow of investment, financial activities and trade.
Furthermore, considering Swiggy to be an online food delivery business, it can be stated
that the development of the industry in the country is quite high. As per a recent study, it
has been opined that the revenue in the Online food delivery market has been projected to
reach US$2.61bn in the year 2023 (Statista.com, 2022). The image below is a visual
representation of the same.
Figure 10: The anticipated growth of the food delivery market in Malaysia
(Source: Statista.com, 2022)
Recent data has helped in stating the fact that the Malaysian online food delivery market is
expected to grow by 19.2% over the next few years up to 2026 (Acumen Research and
Consulting, 2019). Thus, it can be stated that the choice of country is highly justifiable. The
implementation of an STP analysis helps in identifying the target and positioning of the
company. The image below is a visual representation of the STP analysis.
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Figure 11: STP analysis
(Source: Created by the author)
The STP analysis for Swiggy in the new market has been represented in the table below:
STP Analysis
Positioning ● The main positioning strategy that would help the company
in gaining customers in the market involves the inculcation
of a convenient lifestyle for the people in Malaysia.
Table 6: STP Analysis
(Source: Created by the Author)
Thus, following the advantages of the chosen country, it needs to be mentioned that the
development of the above strategies by Swiggy would prove to be highly useful for the
growth of the company.
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Figure 12: Uppsala Model
(Source: Hansson et al., 2022)
Based on the above model, it needs to be mentioned that the development of the stated
company in Malaysia should be done based on the aspects of the partnership. Following the
above model, the state of the company would be identified through market knowledge and
commitment. On the contrary, the aspects of change in the business can be identified
through the commitment decisions and current activities. As opined by Feliciano-Cestero et
al., (2023), the partnership of the firms in internationalisation helps in providing the
resources for the growth of a particular business. Thus, it is advised that Swiggy, while
opting for internationalisation, needs to opt for partnerships with well-known restaurants in
Malaysia. This would help the company in reaching a greater number of customers in the
country. In a nutshell, it can be opined that the chosen model is highly suitable for the
expansion of Swiggy into Malaysia.
Conclusion
In this assignment, a detailed external and internal market analysis has been done for
Swiggy to get two market opportunities and two potential threats in the current
international market. From the whole analysis, the threats of economic crisis all over the
world, and high competition in the market are the most crucial to overcome. Along with
that, among all the opportunities modern technological development for developing delivery
networks with the help of AI is the most potential opportunity for Swiggy. Along with that,
in this assignment, a detailed SWOT analysis has been done for Swiggy based on its
operation in its current markets. In this assignment, the internal challenges of Swiggy that
the stakeholders face in operation have been also described here.
After analyzing different markets across the globe, a bunch of opportunities has been found
in Malaysia after analyzing the economic, political, and social advantages and disadvantages
present in the market. It can be concluded that in the current market, Swiggy is
experiencing a competitive advantage due to low competition in the market. At the same
time, Swiggy is also facing troubles from its weak supply chain in India. Here some crucial
criteria have been set to enter into Malaysia for the international business of Swiggy.
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