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Providing employees with adequate healthcare is one of the challenges of any responsible American corporation, given that healthcare is largely employer-provided. For many years, the FedEx Corporation offered…

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is one of the world's leading providers of wireless and wireline-based communication services including broadband, data, network access and global internet protocol (IP) Services. In their latest full fiscal year the company reported revenues of $110, 875 million with an operating profit of $12,880 million during FY2011 (Verizon Investor Relations, 2012). At present the company has 192,000 employees and operates in 150 nations both in a franchised and direct selling model (Verizon Investor Relations, 2012). The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of Verizon are the basis of this analysis. Strengths Verizon continues to have a commanding market presence globally with one of the most profitable brands in the telecommunications industry (Brown, 2010). The strength of their brand has given the company the ability to manage customer churn more effectively than competitors, reducing the relative churn rate of customers by 56% over the last three years while competitors have seen churn rates increase by over 67% (Verizon Investor Relations, 2012). The combination of the Verizon brand stability and customer loyalty has given the company a unique level of stability in a very turbulent global telecommunications market (Zoakos, 2002). Another significant strength of Verizon is their ability to orchestrate and complete alliances, mergers and questions quickly. They have also been one of the few telecommunications companies to pioneer the development of effective shared-risk mergers that drastically reduce the downside risk of being an industry consolidator, a role they continue to take on globally (Peaks, Arbogast, O'Keefe, 2009). The well orchestrated acquisition of Alltel by AT&T that Verizon played a central role in is a case in point (Seidenberg, 2002). Verizon also is moving aggressively into new markets including cloud computing using their core strengths in mergers and acquisitions. An example of this strength is the company's recent $1.4B acquisition of Terremark (Ya, 2011). Verizon continues to aggressively and successfully pursue an inorganic growth strategy by concentrating on mergers and acquisitions to bring greater cloud-based innovations to their customers (Gorski, 2005). Verizon continues to also seek out opportunities to define advanced e-commerce encryption standards globally, looking to become the global e-commerce platform at the infrastructure level for enterprises (Everett, 2012).

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This paper explores the external environments, using a PEST analysis, of Starbucks, Apple and FedEx. The strategies that these companies use to address the challenges in their external environment are also covered in this paper. The match between strategy and external environmental conditions is high for all of these firms.

FedEx is a global organization that specializes in four business segments such as FedEx Express, FedEx Freight, FedEx Ground, and FedEx Kinko's. The company builds its distinct competitive advantages by building a strong brand to enhance customer experience. The company also relies on the combination of customer intimacy, value proposition, customer intimacy,product leadership and operational excellence to achieve success in the market place.

¶ … FedEx 2009 Annual Report, the Management Discussion and Analysis discusses the impairment of the Kinko's trade name and the financial repercussions thereof. Recall that with significant fanfare FedEx announced in…