Art Supply Store Porter's
Five Forces Analysis

Download instantly and edit every section-wording, examples, and force ratings-to match your local market, product mix, or workshop offering. The template is structured for fast swaps: change category names, adjust numeric ratings, or swap examples without reformatting.

Immediate digital download after purchase

Fully editable Word and Excel files

Swap product categories in minutes

Localize language for regional customers

The template covers all five forces: industry rivalry, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, and threat of new entrants, each with structured prompts, evidence slots, and strategic responses specific to art retail.

Rivalry: pricing, niche curation

Buyers: students, pros, educators power

Suppliers: niche brands and exclusivity

Substitutes: online, big-box, secondhand

Content is tuned to art retail: curated inventory, workshop revenue, educator bulk buying, and tactile shopping advantages. Examples and metrics reflect paint, brushes, canvas, and kit economics so the analysis is immediately market-relevant.

Focuses on professional-grade product segments

Includes workshop and kit revenue angles

Addresses tactile shopping advantages explicitly

Considers educator and student bulk demand

The design is clean and presentation-ready: headings, evidence fields, and visual force labels make slides or reports tidy. Use the Word doc for narrative and the Excel file for charts and quick summaries.

Slide-ready narrative sections included

Evidence fields for quick sourcing

Consistent headings for investor decks

Readable sections for client presentations

Use this template in investor decks and business plans to demonstrate you've quantified competitive pressures and chosen clear mitigations-pricing strategy, exclusive sourcing, and community programming are supported with strategic language.

Investor-ready language and summaries

Linked mitigation actions per force

Supports revenue mix and LTV talk

Includes credibility-building supplier notes

The Excel sheet mirrors narrative findings with visual force ratings, color-coded pressure bars, and a radar chart for quick stakeholder readouts; it opens in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets without layout loss.

Color-coded force pressure bars

Radar chart for quick comparisons

Works in Excel and Sheets seamlessly

Editable numeric force ratings

This comes pre-written for art retail so you save hours on research and drafting; fill evidence fields with your store's data and you're ready to present. It's a fast-start, not a blank page-defintely cut prep time.

Hours saved on drafting analysis

Pre-filled retail-specific examples included

Just replace placeholders with local data

Speeds up workshop and investor prep

Consultants and analysts can reuse the template across local retail clients, tweaking force scores and recommendations per site; it's structured for repeatable audits and client-ready delivery.

Reusable for multiple retail clients

Fast client-ready audit workflow

Standardized scoring for comparisons

Templates for follow-up action plans

Perfect for case studies, classroom projects, and MBA assignments-this template demonstrates Porter's framework applied to a real retail vertical and includes discussion prompts and grading-ready structure.

Case-study friendly with prompts

Good for class presentations and reports

Teaches applied Porter's framework clearly

Includes discussion and grading cues