Analyzing the Marketing Environment
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Analyzing the Marketing Environment
Topic Outline
• The Company’s Microenvironment • The Company’s Macroenvironemnt • Responding to the Marketing Environment
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The Marketing Environment
The marketing environment includes the actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers
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The Marketing Environment
Microenvironment consists of the actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers -- the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics
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The Company’s Microenvironment
The Company
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Top management Finance R&D Purchasing Operations Accounting
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Suppliers
• Provide the resources to produce goods and services • Treated as partners to provide customer value
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries
• Help the company to promote, sell and distribute its products to final buyers
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Types of Marketing Intermediaries
Resellers
Physical distribution firms Financial intermediaries
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Marketing services agencies
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