How would you prepare a one month projection of a newly opened Ikea store for the company CEO?
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Assumption:
This is the only Ikea store in the city and within 100km radius of the store
Bangalore. Population of the city is 1.2 Cr
We are estimating total furniture pieces and not categorywise. This includes buying big things like Sofa etc. as well as small items like Curtain etc.
If needed the categorywise estimation could also be made
Households are the main buyers. Office supplies is supporting category. Buyers from closeby cities.
Excluding bachelors buying for themselves as the volume might be negligible
Entire demand can be met by a single store
Approach:
No. of households --> Types of the households who could buy --> Buying frequency --> Total furniture pieces that could be bought in the city in a year --> Early adopters (Because this is a new store, most people may not know the brand). This is the TAM --> Penetration that Ikea can hope to have --> Size that could be achieved in a year --> Size that could be achieved in a month --> Add the addtional category of buyers
Estimation:
Bangalore has a population of 1.2 Cr. Avg. of 4 members per house --> 300mn households
Types of households: (a) Owning a big house (10% = 30mn), (b) Owning a small/medium house (20% = 60mn), (c) Renting a house (40%=120mn), (d) renting / owning small houses that cant have furnishing (30%, this category is excluded).
Frequency of buying: (a) 3 pieces/yr --> 90mn (b) 2 pieces/yr --> 120mn (c) 1 piece/yr --> 120mn = Total 330mn
Innovators ~ 10%. TAM = 33mn
Total penetration that Ikea can hope to have: 20% in 5 years ~ 6.6mn. In one year ~ 1.2 mn
Total buying from households in Bangalore = 100 thousand pieces
Auxiliary users:
Office Supplies
Roughly for every 20 households there is one office space. Applying the same proportion, Total buying for office supplies = 20 thousand pieces
Customers from nearby cities
Bangalore has smaller 5 cities in the 100km radius. Buyers from those cities would be around 10% of the households of the city = 10 thousand
Total target sales for the first month = 100 + 20 + 10 = 130 Furniture/Furnishing pieces
Possible areas of significant error:
No. of Households that can't afford furnishing is underestimated.
Frequency of buying: Maybe significantly different from the real numbers.
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