48th Waikato Management School Case Competition

B Trimester 2020 - Company: Boating and Outdoors

Company Name

Boating & Outdoors, Supplies for the Kiwi Lifestyle logo

Case Synopsis

Boating and Outdoors formed as a buying group in the early 1990s from a group of small marine equipment retailers for the purpose of getting better deals on products they sold. By 2020 Boating and Outdoors had added marketing and website functions with contract staff providing co-ordination across the 24 stores within the group. However, the group had increasingly experienced issues as their ever increasing scale and complexity outgrew the relatively informal approach to co-ordination. Competition had intensified and the business landscape had evolved to create an opportune moment to step back and decide on the future of Boating and Outdoors.

Case Authors

Stephen Bowden

Judges

Mark McCabe (PwC)
Ross Christensen (Boating and Outdoors)
Brock Terry (Boating and Outdoors)

Date of Event

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Time and Venue

6.30pm: Presentations begin
Venue: PWC lecture theatre, Waikato Management School, Hillcrest Road, Hamilton

MCs

Olivia Bennett and Mia Milne

Finalist Teams

Eureka Consulting

    • Lydia Burnett
    • Liam Hills
    • Brad Neal
    • Blake Phillips

MJ3B

    • Ella Bethel
    • MacAyla Brdanovic
    • Christie Burborough
    • Grace Jones
    • Hannah McFarlane

Triple L Consulting

    • Shekinah Blaikie
    • Cathan Bowler
    • Liam Coley
    • Doria Kao

Eleven Eleven Consulting

    • Hannah Black
    • Barak Gardner
    • Shivani Rao
    • Michael Torrance

Winning Team

Triple L Consulting

    • Shekinah Blaikie
    • Cathan Bowler
    • Liam Coley
    • Doria Kao

Video's of Presentations

Eureka Consulting

MJ3B

Triple L Consulting

Eleven Eleven Consulting

Sponsor

PWC logo.