BAT Bangladesh- The Powerhouse and a Model of Dream Organization

Strategic position of the organisation & Strategic evaluation and Recommendation

1. Introduction

British American Tobacco (BAT) is a global company operates in 180 countries (www.bat.com, 2022). However, in this paper, I will discuss strategic position of the organisation and strategic recommendation and evaluation about British American Tobacco Bangladesh.

Smoking market of Bangladesh is expected to deliver USD 321.72 Mn (top-line value in retail prices) with a CAGR of 3.02% per annum for next 5 years till 2025 (www.marketresearch.com, 2022). 35.3% adults having age more than 15 use smoking products out of which 18% smoke tobacco and 20.6% use smokeless tobacco (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2019). British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) is absolutely holding the traits of consumers, controlling their need and demand which has helped them to hold 66.6% market share (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2019) beating their biggest competition in the market Japan Tobacco International (JTI). Smoking market in Bangladesh is mainly controlled by these two giants, one of them (JTI) has just started their journey in the country by acquiring Dhaka Tobacco Industries from Akij Group and gained 20.5% market share (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2019). The remaining players are few local companies named Abul Khair Leaf Tobacco, Nasir Gold Tobacco Company, Alpha Tobacco Company etc. who operate in very smaller scale (Express, 2021). One of the key drivers of the industry is taxation for which tobacco companies can play an integral part in ministry of commerce which results into creating a strong lobbying between government and tobacco companies. Bangladesh has also seen such strong influence during Covid 19 pandemic when two tobacco giants intensified interference between two ministries e.g. commerce and health to keep continue their growth momentum in the country through continuous production, retailing and distribution as regular consumption rate of smoking products is just too high in Bangladesh.

2. External Analysis

In this section, I will discuss about two most important management tools which help to perform external analysis means to assess industry attractiveness, growth opportunities and existing threats to be resolved.

2.1 PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL analysis is done to assess Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal factors of the industry which helps in identifying external factors of the industry may impact the organisation. In a nut-shell, this is a widely used management tool to identify opportunities and threat which helps organisation to make strategical decisions. In this paper, I will try to highlight PESTEL analysis (a tool of identifying strategic position) for BATB, thus we can understand the market opportunities and threats which will help to make strategic evaluation.

2.1.a Complex multi-tiered tax structure in Bangladesh (Political Factor- Opportunity)

Normally, to discourage smoking products countries keep the tax amount too high which lead smoking companies to increase their market retail price, as higher product price ensures lower consumption rate. However, Bangladesh has a very complex multi-tiered ad-valorem excise tax structure which varies depending on the product types, for example- the type of tobacco products (cigarettes, bidis, smokeless tobacco etc.), product characteristics e.g. filter, non-filter, brand tier which generally communicates quality and features e.g. low, medium, high and premium (Raising Tobacco Taxes in FY 2021-2022, 2021). This multi-tiering high tax in reality is an opportunity for the organisations to grow business as consumption rate is already high in the country which is 35.3% adults- age more than 15 years (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2019) because the highest penetrating brand is Derby with a CAGR of 13.2% of BATB which is a low tier brand and accounts for 57% ad-valorem tax percentage of retail price against 65% of any medium or high ranged tobacco products (Raising Tobacco Taxes in FY 2021-2022, 2021). It means, BATB can easily leverage this tax advantage by introducing more brands or variants with a standard quality in low tier segment with low retail price which will recruit more consumers. Besides, lobbying of BAT Bangladesh is very strong as it has been a pioneer in the industry and operating since 1910 ((BMJ, 2020).  

2.1.b Growing economy amidst pandemic (Economical Factor- Opportunity)

Bangladesh has now world’s one of the most attractive economies amidst pandemic with a GDP growth of 3.5% in 2020 and a forecast of 9.5% in 2021 and 8.15% in 2019; it is now a billion-dollar economy worth USD 323 Billion (data.worldbank.org, 2021).

Fig 1- GDP Growth Trend of Bangladesh Economy (data.worldbank.org, 2021).

Also, this graph from world bank data illustrates that, except the Covid impacted year 2020, the GDP growth trend is stepper. Inflation rate is also stable since 2016 and is in de-growing trend since 2011 which is absolutely an attractive side of the economy. Currently, inflation rate is 5.65% and is expected to go down to 5.45% within 2025 (Statista, 2020).

Fig 2- Bangladesh Inflation rate Trend (Statista, 2020).

Fig 3- Bangladesh Per Capita Income Trend from 2010 to 2020 (data.worldbank.org, 2021).

Per capita income of Bangladesh is also upward slopping with a CAGR of 9.64% from USD 781 in 2010 to USD 1961 in 2020. Henceforth, economical factor of Bangladesh in terms of GDP growth trend, inflation rate, per capita income is very attractive for BAT Bangladesh.

2.1.c Growing population and consumption rate (Social Factor- Opportunity)

Though Bangladesh is a small country, however it has large number of population 16.4 crores in 2020 (data.worldbank.org, 2021) and it is consistently growing as per world bank data.

 Fig 4- Bangladesh Population Trend (data.worldbank.org, 2021).

Large number of populations in Bangladesh account for strong affinity towards smoking industry. Being the world's eighth-largest tobacco market, the smoking industry in Bangladesh is growing at a pace of 2% each year (Express, 2021). With 37.8 million individuals aged 15 and above (35.3%), Bangladesh is one of the world's greatest tobacco users (Express, 2021). According to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2017, roughly 35.3 percent of the country's population uses tobacco products. Also, 6.9% user group (age between 13-15) use any form of tobacco, and gender ratio of the users is 46% men and 25% women means, the country is moving out of social stigma, is continuously developing as 42.7% workplace has smoking corner, 49.7% restaurants are exposed to smoking (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2019). Besides, healthy disposable income worth USD 830.5 is a great sign towards socio-economic advancement of the country which leads to higher consumption (tradingeconomics.com, 2020). Therefore, Bangladesh is ready to spend more for smoking industry considering growing income of people, higher affinity towards tobacco from very young age which is a great opportunity for British American Tobacco Bangladesh.

2.1.d Promising technological advancement (Technological Factor- Threat)

In 21st century, new format of smoking is moving at a faster pace as the world is trying to evolve to reduce carbon emission, go green keeping their business alive. However, Bangladesh is on the verge of joining the league of banning vape and e-cigarette. As a reason, government (govt.) and other specialists are highlighting the unknown usage pattern, the unknown aftermath of using electronic smoking devices and the environmental causes (Vaping360, 2021) which is somewhat flawed to me considering government (govt.) actions related to tax structure in Bangladesh which is favorable for smoking companies. To me, it is more of a govt. tactics to hold it for a while to understand the trend, then to decide how much percentage of tax the want from the companies. Hence, this is an absolute threat to BAT Bangladesh if they look for innovation considering environmental issues, seek for leveraging ideas from western part of the world and technological advancement like other countries which they will be requiring in near future for sure. 

2.1.e Anti-smoking campaign against environmental hazard (Environmental Factor- Threat)

The most difficult part of any tobacco company is promoting themselves amidst anti-smoking campaign by social organizations especially highlighting environmental hazards, pollution etc. In order to defend, tobacco companies normally do many corporate social responsibilities (CSR) like, plantation, helping poor or children etc. Now a day, govt. of Bangladesh has focused on the adverse effect of tobacco farming and hence they have formulated new control policies to limit tobacco cultivation (Express, 2021). Moreover, the policy mainly attracts to food farmers by giving them easy loan and incentives, and equipment at free of cost (Express, 2021). This policy has created an obstacle for BAT Bangladesh to easily cultivate tobacco through farmers. Also, the country's anti-smoking awareness campaigns are largely conventional, consisting of human chains, demonstrations, and webinars which is also a threat to the company to recruit consumers through any promotional activities.

2.1.f Attractive foreign investment policies (Legal Factor- Threat)

Considering Bangladesh attractive economy, govt. now offers the most liberal foreign direct investment allowing 100% ownership along with no exit policy. Also, investors are being attracted through bond facilities, export incentives, tax exemption on royalty fees (The Daily Star, 2021). Though all these are good sign for the country but not for British American Tobacco Bangladesh as giant global competitors may enter considering the attractive economy and consumption behavior of the country. Already, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has recently entered and acquired Dhaka Tobacco Industries along with 20.5% market share which is definitely a threat to British American Tobacco Bangladesh (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2019).

2.2 Porter’s Five Forces

Porter’s five forces model helps to identify attractiveness and competitiveness of the industry are shared below in this paper.

2.2.a The threat of new entrants- High

Tobacco industry is an attractive industry as the Bangladesh market is currently 8th largest market and is growing rapidly because of strong customer affinity towards smoking (tradingeconomics.com, 2020). Henceforth, new entrants especially global industry leader like Philip Morris International, ITC, Altria Group, Imperial Brands may enter considering attractive economy of the market. The second most reason is, the initiatives of govt. of Bangladesh taken for attracting foreign investment which has already led to aggressive entrance of Japan Tobacco International (JTI). Already, govt. has started offering bond facilities, export incentives, tax exemption on royalty fees etc. to foreign investors. Thirdly, raw material production means cultivation of tobacco is very cheap in Bangladesh and tax imposed on the finished good has a complex multi-tiered ad-valorem structure which helps keeping low tier product value same for years to recruit more consumers (The Daily Star, 2021). Hence, the threat of new entrants is absolutely high considering these key three facts.  

2.2.b The threat of substitutes- Low

In recent world, every smoking companies have started promoting a smoke-free world. In order to highlight so, they have launched e-cigarettes, vaping devices, snus, dissolvable etc. But, Bangladesh govt. is enforcing law of banning vaping devices, e-cigarettes etc. as they are not well aware of the products, the impact of the products in the environment (Vaping360, 2021). Therefore, govt. is already restricting the threat of substitutes because of their policies which is in one hand attractive considering the fact that BAT is market leader with a huge market share of 66.6% and would be happy not to have any substitute. On the other hand, it is not an attractive choice for BAT Bangladesh considering the technological advancement of the world and how fast consumers priorities shift now a day. Hence, every companies would like to act fast and create consumer affinity and awareness before consumer feel the need. Hence, the choice for BAT Bangladesh to serve the market remains confined within tobacco cigarette or bidi.   

2.2.c Bargaining power of buyers- Low

Buyer is someone who completes the purchase (Doyle, 2011). It means, the people who buys smoking products from the company are buyers in this case. Hence, distributor, reseller/ retailer, consumer are the buyers of tobacco market who has currently very less bargain power as the option is very limited considering mostly two key players in the market and a fixed rate policy of the companies where everyone follows footstep of BAT Bangladesh who is the market leader worth market share of 66.6% (Express, 2021).

2.2.d Bargaining power of suppliers- High

As said in the above, govt. of Bangladesh is trying to attract tobacco farmers (who are the key suppliers for any tobacco company) to cultivate more organic foods, corps, paddy, wheat etc. by incentivizing, giving easy loans for agriculture and free equipment etc. (Express, 2021). Therefore, farmers are having in better position to negotiate hard which is an absolute unattractiveness for tobacco companies that may lead to a higher supply chain and operation cost and impact product retail pricing for end consumer.

2.2.e Competitive rivalry- Low

Considering the fact of low number of competitors, it is quite evident that, competitive rivalry is low in Bangladesh market are Japan Tobacco International, Abul Khair Leaf Tobacco, Nasir Gold Tobacco Company, Alpha Tobacco Company etc. with very limited operational structure and quality of product except JTI (Express, 2021). Moreover, this has led BAT Bangladesh to an advantage of being market leader as JTI has just recently started operating in the country which is definitely an attractive situation for BATB.

2.2.f Conclusion

Clearly, we can conclude studying Porter’s five forces analysis that, three forces are low and two are high which denotes that, Bangladesh tobacco industry is very attractive for BAT.

3. Internal Analysis

Here, I will discuss about BAT Bangladesh’s unique resources, value chain and VRIO analysis to identify their core competences.

3.1 Human Resources

Building farmers network and assuring their improved lifestyle (Strength)

BAT Bangladesh does not own any tobacco farms, instead they provide strong agronomy support to their wide network of around 33,000 registered farmers (out of total 50,000 farmers) who make difference for them (www.bat.com, 2022). In addition to that, BAT Bangladesh ensures their improved quality life by supplying electricity, arranging availability of safe drinking water, arrangement of earning money through tree plantation etc. (www.bat.com, 2022).

People and Partnership (Strength)

BAT Bangladesh always becomes top employer of the country through implementing their diverse and inclusive work environment by ensuring leadership development training, cross-industry mentoring, establishing their ethos being bold, fast, empowered, diverse and responsible which helps building industry leaders and comfortable work culture and lead to employees work hard for their home (The Daily Star, 2021). Besides, BAT maintains a strong partnership with their suppliers (farmers) and customers maintaining a strong and sustainable business framework ensuring harvesting crop to harnessing customer shared here below (www.bat.com, 2022).

Fig 5- BAT Bangladesh strategic business framework (www.bat.com, 2022).  

3.2 Intangible Resources

Powerful Brands (Strength)

The company has powerful brands operating in four segments e.g. premium, high, medium and low segment in Bangladesh market. Key brands driving BAT business in Bangladesh market are B&H, John Player Gold Leaf, Star, Derby, Pilot and Hollywood where Derby, Pilot and Hollywood are low tier brands and generating highest revenue for the company (www.bat.com, 2022). In addition to that, BAT believes in continuous category expansion which always help them to extract better business and to build strong growing brand as like as Derby which started its journey on 2013 and already possess higher brand value offering taste differentiation to consumers and garnering highest throughput for the company (www.bat.com, 2022).

Strong Transformation Strategy- Selling concept of ‘A Better Tomorrow’ (Strength)

The company launched new logo and started promoting a campaign called ‘A Better Tomorrow’ from Jan, 2021 in Bangladesh market which is a strong transformational strategy offering products reducing environmental and social impacts, creating dynamic-inspiring-purposeful work environments, delivering sustainable and superior returns as it said ((The Daily Star, 2021). This strategy will ultimately be aligned to a corporate social responsibility (CSR) of BAT Bangladesh showing mass people that, BAT is solving social causes. This ultimately boosts their corporate brand image, moreover, as Bangladesh govt. does not allow any branding or promotional media to tobacco products, hence, BAT is just leveraging the benefit of using media by publishing news like organizational transformation or a social cause is resolved etc. which is definitely their strength to reach mass people in an innovative way or approach.

3.3 Physical Resources

Raw Material (Strength)

Raw material means tobacco crops is the most important factor on what BAT focuses the highest. In order to ensure that, BAT has 50,000 farmers in different geographies who are being monitored by strong and experienced 1445 production professionals whose key responsibility is to integrate the value chain towards sustainable stewardship and to empower livelihoods to execute best-in-class agronomical practices (www.bat.com, 2022).

Sourcing and Production Unit (Strength)

Though the company do not own any tobacco farms, however they have sustainable tobacco program policy that aims to execute best local and international practices in the areas of agronomy, leaf depot operations, leaf processing operations, environmental management, occupational health and safety standards encompassing their leaf operations which ensures higher retention of engineers and suppliers (www.bat.com, 2022). Also, BAT Bangladesh has improved manufacturing machineries, equipment to meet the need of agile, flexible and world class operational base (www.bat.com, 2022). All these together have surely given the employees a leap of faith to stay longer with the company and the company has got to build strong sourcing and production unit.

Strong Sales and Distribution Unit (Strength)

BAT has built expansive and well-established distribution channels in the entire market which is the key enablers of their growth strategy and allowing them to roll-out their new inventions on a mass scale. Also, this strong network helps them establishing a greater number of distributors in cities and villages who keep building relationship with wholesalers, retailers which ultimately translate to recruit more consumers (www.bat.com, 2022).

3.4 Financial Resources (Strength)

The word "financial resources" refers to the organization's total financial assets and are sometimes referred to simply as finance, with few different terminologies like business finance, personal finance, public finance etc. (Barbora Kadlecova, 2012). Below is the explanation basis calculation in Appendix part.

The financial analysis done basis company’s balance sheet and income statement illustrates that, ROCE has increased a lot in year 2020 compared to 2019 means that company should keep investing like they are doing as the return is good and growing. Next, liquidity ratio indicates that, the company is still able to meet its short-term financial activities/ obligations as there is a slight decrease. However, it is not definitely in the good position which it was a year ago in 2019. Low gearing ratio for both the year highlights that, company has lower debt vs equity means that, operating profit is stable and company is not at financial risk. Interest cover ratio is very high in 2020 means, the company is in a good position of paying its debt on-time and the company generates enough profit to service all its debts. Altogether, the company is at a good financial position and there is no chance of bankruptcy at all.

3.5 Value Chain

3.6 Using VRIO concept to identify company core competencies

Therefore, using VRIO model, we can conclude that, there are key three core competencies of BAT Bangladesh are local suppliers improved lifestyle for what they are loyal to BAT, advanced and effective machineries which are expensive and BAT keeps updating whenever it is required and finally BAT’s motivated operation, sales and marketing team who keeps updating themselves to remain the best in the industry.

Valuable

BAT Bangladesh builds a strong network with suppliers mainly farmers who are difficult to maintain now because of govt. updated policies of incentivizing farmers on cultivating foods has made the differences which has led them to registrar 30,000 farmers and 20,000 outsourced farmers (www.bat.com, 2022). Also, the company’s strong policy of improving their lifestyle by ensuring safe drinking water, increased earning through plantation program, establishment of integrating farm management component (IFMC) towards more sustainable agenda has reassured this partnership (www.bat.com, 2022). Nevertheless, BAT’s updated and advanced machineries for Bangladesh market along with company owned tobacco plant and leaf depot and well-trained, highly motivated operational and sales team is a great addition to their journey (Express, 2021).

Rare

Uplifting lifestyle of farmers is rare because it is expensive and at the same time once the basic need is maintained they become loyal to the company and BAT initiated this plan long back, hence, they got to registrar 30,000 farmers from different villages and expanding the strategy wherever it is required (www.bat.com, 2022). Also, the motivated employees are loyal to BAT’s ethos considering the fact that BAT is a consistent top employer of Bangladesh ensures great work environment and facilities (Desk, 2021). Lastly, machineries owned by BAT is technologically advanced and expensive which justifies their cost to business ratio and ROI and is sort of impossible for the competition.

Inimitable

BAT’s core business model from harvesting corps to harnessing customer has three focused bets are- uplifting farmer’s lifestyle, using technologically advanced machines and highly motivated operation and sales team is inimitable because of their fast mover advantage in the country for 110 years when the country wasn’t even born and was merged with Indian sub-continent and strong lobbying with govt. ministries (The Daily Star, 2021). Also, the company has strong focus on employee benefits, safety, security, great work culture and environment which is making them top employer of the country on regular basis.   

Organizational Support

As an organization BAT is very strong, reputed and old organization in Bangladesh market. Even as, the smoking industry was built in Bangladesh because of BAT. Hence, they have their own heritage, massive understanding of the market, strong influence in govt. agencies, and they can also influence consumer behavior through continuous research and development of new products (Express, 2021). All these are additional competences of BAT Bangladesh to uplift and maintain any of their core competence.

4. Strategic Recommendations and Evaluations

4.1 TOWS Matrix

4.2 Suitability

I have suggested 4 key strategies analyzing BAT Bangladesh’s TOWS matrix are re-inventing mid-tier and high-tier brands strategy to create a monopoly, leveraging e-com business as a media of promotion, utilizing strong financial and lobbying position to restrict global competition entrance and lastly, introducing smoke-free products leveraging western world marketing strategy and to comply with smoke-free campaign as a feed of marketing strategy. All these are suitable strategies in terms of both horizontal and vertical expansion in the existing market as both BAT global and BAT Bangladesh has all the experience and expertise as a secondary information source and BAT Bangladesh possess strong financial position and lobbying with govt. agencies. Also, another motive behind these 4 strategies were to filling up the existing gaps and connecting consumer with differentiated format of both communication and new invention strategy which I believe as a market leader is core responsibility of BAT.

4.3 Feasibility

The proposed strategy is very feasible in practice particularly for BAT only considering its strong ROCE, liquidity ratio, gearing ratio and interest cover ratio analysis from financial point of view, strong networking with govt. agencies from political and legal point of view and strong inbound logistics to service network and chain from business point of view. The company has great return of investment which is also increasing and the company has very lower debt ratio and it earns more profit to cover all the finance expenses on-time. These are the financial facts that strongly indicates the company’s strong financial position. Apart from this, the company has highest market share of 66.6% and is growing. Besides, the company has strong and highly motivated operation, sales and distribution team who can deliver the strategies from concept to execution and can build current market and industry dominance to strength. In addition to that, human resource network for the company is too strong to efficiently train and develop people, supplier to acquire required skills to embrace company’s ethos, vision and every types of strategies. Henceforth, if the company starts executing the suggested strategies would benefit them in the long run in all aspects and BAT Bangladesh can help implementing sustainable impact for the society and the economy.

4.4 Acceptability

 Risk

Though the pandemic impacted overall industry, however, BAT Bangladesh got to successfully overcome pandemic fear with a 4% volume growth (www.batbangladesh.com, 2022) which ensures better financial figure in all aspects except liquidity ratio which has slightly decreased compared to 2019. Still, the company has better operating profit and cash flow to serve all its short-term liabilities. Interest cover is also very high and increasing means, the company has capabilities to repay all its debts on-time. Another potential risk will be convincing govt. though BAT Bangladesh has greater lobbying with the govt. ministries. Because, govt. can flip any time as they have higher power in hand and may ask giant global tobacco companies to enter through their attractive foreign direct investment (FDI) policies.

 Return

The company has invested in various parts of the business and the return is very high and increasing means that, the company is focused to its operational efficiency and stringent cost control measures through which they are achieving a notable improvement on ROCE (return on capital employed). Also, profit after tax is grown is a great symbol of garnering higher dividends for the investors.

 Stakeholders analysis

Stakeholder analysis is mainly performed to identify their interest and power which helps understanding different priorities of different stakeholders and help building strategies accordingly.

Therefore, customers, suppliers and employees will have the highest interest but low power of the suggested strategies considering higher affinity of smoking products in the market, better business opportunity for the suppliers and employees will be benefited through better portfolio handling, company competitive advantage and positioning which will ultimately lead to a better compensation, company profit sharing etc. Also, company management and shareholders will have both the highest interest and highest power considering higher profit and return on investment along with all the benefit of decision-making policies. The difficult part of the execution will be handling Bangladesh govt. who holds the power but low interest. However, they are very important stakeholders for the company to execute two key strategies given as ST and WT strategies.

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Appendix

 Financial Analysis

Balance Sheet

 Income Statement