Paul Harvey is a traditionally organized company which is narrowly specialized. The company is not risk accepting and reluctant to change in accordance with market changes. It is regionally organized and centralized. 90 % of operations in terms of turnover are in UK, while 10 % are in joint-ventures with a French company in Spain, Holland, Australia and the US.
Paul Harvey is not market oriented, does not try to take over new segments of market and it is not sensitive to market changes.
Company is by type of work divided into 9 divisions which have following shares in turnover in 2002:
In EU building and Engineering Division which is in terms of turnover and profits largest division of the company with 30
Paul Harvey does not use enough funds for advertising and it does it very conservatively. Company must use modern ways of advertising and increase funds for that purpose.
Due to recession in recent years company increased number of smaller projects with smaller profit margin.
- poor flexibility - corporate identity
As it can be seen in tables shown in case study that company has big profit margin in some market segments such are Medical and Repair and Maintenance but small share in terms of turnover. This can be identified as niche market and company must increase its market share in this sectors.
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