Case Study #1 W.L. Gore and Associates
Introduction
W.L. Gore and Associates is a company started in 1958 by Bill and Vieve Gore. Bill Gore was a prior employee of Du Pont who saw innovative ways to work with a substance known as PTFE (Teflon). When Du Pont was not interested in exploring his ideas, he started his own business.
W.L. Gore and Associates has diverse, high-tech product lines that range from electronic products, to vascular grafts, to apparel, and also to dental floss. The range of products shown by the company can be credited in part to an unconventional management style, which they term "lattice" structure, under which the company is organized. In this structure, there is no hierarchy and little organized direction, so employees are free to explore their own projects and create their own goals.
This case study will first perform a SWOT analysis of the W.L. Gore company, then identify how certain key issues in marketing are handled within the......
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