Toys R Us Japan Case Analysis.

SITUATION AND CENTRAL ISSUES. This case has a generally positive slant in that there it does not describe many weaknesses and problems present in many others with which students would be familiar. Toys R Us (TRU) has followed a path of international expansion from the US via more than 13 countries, starting from Canada in 1984 and entering Japan in 1991. By any standard this is a rapid expansion of markets. This case illustrates several elements of developing …

…environments are more similar but used less direct forms such as franchises in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Joint ventures in Singapore and Hong Kong which are psychically and geographically more distant. Competitive advantage TRU has developed and relied on the following key success factors (KSF) that is at the heart of its market analysis and subsequent strategy development: the one stop shop concept, the ability to source products in sufficiently large quantities such that ________________________________________