Subject category:
Strategy and General Management
Published by:
Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersrand
Length: 21 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
It was February 2005 and in the past six years kalahari.net''s customer base had grown from 9,000 to just under 250,000. As such it was one of South Africa''s largest ''e-tailers''. Since 2001 the company had diversified out of selling only books and music, to include films, gaming, travel, wine, magazine subscriptions, electronics and other products. Now, Hein Pretorius, Chief Executive Officer of kalahari.net, and his team of 49 employees faced the challenge of the declining prices of CDs and DVDs, which was having a markedly negative impact on the financials of the company. In reality this meant that, while keeping prices competitive with the broader retail market, kalahari.net needed to up its sales considerably to compensate for the lower prices and reach its former gross profit margins. Pretorius believed that retail, whether it be on- or off-line, was purely a volumes game. So, what could kalahari.net do to up its sales volumes?
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Abstract
It was February 2005 and in the past six years kalahari.net''s customer base had grown from 9,000 to just under 250,000. As such it was one of South Africa''s largest ''e-tailers''. Since 2001 the company had diversified out of selling only books and music, to include films, gaming, travel, wine, magazine subscriptions, electronics and other products. Now, Hein Pretorius, Chief Executive Officer of kalahari.net, and his team of 49 employees faced the challenge of the declining prices of CDs and DVDs, which was having a markedly negative impact on the financials of the company. In reality this meant that, while keeping prices competitive with the broader retail market, kalahari.net needed to up its sales considerably to compensate for the lower prices and reach its former gross profit margins. Pretorius believed that retail, whether it be on- or off-line, was purely a volumes game. So, what could kalahari.net do to up its sales volumes?