Analysis of SubCom and Alcatel Submarine Networks in the Submarine Cable Industry

Requirement

The client wants to conduct a study in order to to estimate the cost distribution across various components and services within the submarine cable industry. The client would like TBRC to conduct a study to analyze the following:
• Annual Sales, Gross Profit, and Operating Income for past 5 years
• Sales, cost of sales, SGA breakdown and R&D investment price by product for the past 3 years
• Sales performance by product/service type for the past 3 years
• Employee count by product/service type for past 3 years
• Partner companies by product/service type as of 2023
• Annual business volume for major supplier and customer, as of 2023
• Company Strengths and Future Strategy

Solution

Research findings were delivered as a custom report including:
• Employee count by product/service type for past 3 years
• Partner companies by product/service type as of 2023
• Annual business volume for major supplier and customer, as of 2023
• Company Strengths and Future Strategy
• Future Projects, announced publicly
• Cost for cable layer ship (Investment value, depreciation expense, annual number of working days, maintenance cost)
• Break-even point of submarine cable business
• Insights on company costs and expenses

Methodology

• We mined the data through secondary sources such as company annual reports, press releases, investor/business presentations, business magazines, summaries, presentations, and reports from major industry conferences and events
• We will conduct interviews with industry experts to gather relevant data such as;
• Sales And Business Development Heads
• Procurement Managers
• HR Managers
• Department Heads
• Other Senior Executives

Client Benefits And Feedback

• This study aided the client to understand the annual sales, operating income and gross profit to identify business opportunities.
• The insights from the report helped the client to gain insights on sales performance by product/service type, future projects, etc of target companies