Business Strategy

Introduction
In this part of the assessment the author will define Vodafone Corporation which is based in UK and operates internationally
According to fortune 500 Vodafone ranked as 105 and before it was 92Vodafone is a British multinational telecommunication company. The headquarter is based in UK. Registered office in Newbury Berkshire. Vodafone it’s one of the largest telecommunication companies   in the world .Vodafone owns and operates networks in 21 countries and has partner networks in over 40 additional countries. Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to corporate clients in over 65 countries. According to the guardian newspaper the stock for Vodafone group   goes up and down during the business’s year
The chart below show the stock for Vodafone group in the last year

http://www.theguardian.com

according to Vodafone site   Vodafone Group Plc. is the world's leading cellular telephone operator , boasting more than 165 million subscribers and annual sales of more than £31.5 billion ($64 billion). The Berkshire-based comp any is not only the largest corporation in the United Kingdom, it is also the world's third largest generator of free cash flow, trailing only GE and Microsoft. Vodafone is also leading the battle to standardize global mobile telephone standards ahead of the expected next-generation boom in the industry, in which voice, video, data, music, games, Internet, payment and other services are expected to merge into users' handsets. Vodafone's success in the 2000s came through its aggressive acquisition strategy, which included the nearly $63 billion n purchase of Air Touch Communications in 1999 and the $183 billion n takeover of Mannesmann--the world's largest ever acquisition--in 20 00. The company is present in more than 30 countries, with a focus on the European markets, as well as Japan, where it is that market's number three mobile telephone player. In the United States, the company...