One of IMD’s long-time bestselling cases, Reinventing Nespresso? The Challenges of a Market Leader Under Attack, has once again made the Case Centre’s top selling case list – 11th in the Marketing category.
By accomplished case writers Dominique Turpin, currently the Dentsu-chaired Professor and past-President of IMD, and Emeritus Professor Kamran Kashani, the case is a close examination of Nespresso at a time when it had already achieved phenomenal success in 2011.
But despite annual revenues of CHF3.5 billion, cracks were starting to appear. The 1,700 patents protecting Nespresso’s system were expiring and more and more copycat capsules compatible with Nespresso machines were hitting the market. Nespresso began to experience declining growth rate and market share loss. The case delves deeper into this new competitive landscape, Nespresso’s reaction to these challenges, and the tough choices it had to make in order to sustain its success.
The case provides a thought-provoking account of how companies at the top of their game still have to be alert, and then react to, fresh competition in their market.
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5 February 2020 is #WorldCaseTeachingDay
