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In early of Taiwan, 1979, Uni-President Enterprises Corporation (UPEC) has introduced convenient store to Taiwan. The case company which the led sub-corporation of UPEC has grown over several years and development the highest density of convenience stores in Taiwan.
With competitors join, the density of the convenient store tends to be saturated and retail market to be a fully competitive market gradually, and the case company′s growth rely on convenient store expand strategy began to be challenged. Since 2007, turnover growth rate of convenient store gradually decline, the company′s revenue during the period also touched the bottleneck.
In the face of the impact from retail market environmental change, start from 2010, the case company start to make transformation through not only innovate convenient store operation and develop private own brand, but also return electronic commerce (EC) business to the case company.
The case company not only extend bricks and mortar store sales function, but also provide discount prices. With the e-commerce business rising and convenient store the virtual sales channel increasing, to expand sales and investment mode of operation can bring the actual revenue to bricks and mortar store.
In comparison with other EC business model, Due to the customers demand change the case company’s EC emphasize at providing the innovative and rapid customize service of bricks and mortar store through the high-density shop distribution and 24-hour non-stop service. The case company is to hope that the bricks and mortar store can enhance the consumer experience, and to show the O2O effect to support “the last mile” in EC business.
In this paper, we describe the case company’s EC strategy and market role by the case company’s EC evolution and business support system development. Also figure out the value proposition by using business model canvas. With SWOT analysis, we also find out the advantage of the case company. | en_US |