Marketing SEGMENTATION, Targeting and positioning of BURGER KING
Background
The following is the analysis the segmentation, targeting positioning of Burger King. Burger King Corporation is founded by James McLamore and David Edgerton, beginning the legacy of flame-broiled beef and commitment to quality ingredients and friendly service. BURGER KING is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. Nowadays, more than 11 million guests visit BURGER KING Restaurants around the world. When back to early 2004, their sales profit starting to slump. Burger King’s CEO had change their advertising agency CPB and amend their marking strategy to gain their revenue.
Market Segmentation
Markets consist of buyers, and buyers differ in one or more respects. They can be divided by demographic factors, geographic factors, and behavioral factors or by psychographic factors. Any of these variables can be used to segment a market. Seller can design a separate product or marketing program potential customer.
Burger King have dividing their market into demographic factors, geographic factors, psychographic factors and behavioral factors. As geographic factors, Burger King are dividing the customer by region , they located in USA since 1954.On June 30, 2004, Burger King had 7,976 store all around in USA, the local people can just came by their neighborhood to enjoy their meal. As demographic factors, they dividing the customer by young male, kids and family. Burger King Start to use a logo which is a man sitting on a hamburger and holding a soft drink to represent their company in 1955.In 1960, Burger King transformed their logo from a man into an animated cartoon character that a kid wearing a crown in their television advertisements, introducing children to BURGER KING with the famous slogan, "BURGER KING®, Where Kids Are King!" In order to take the kids as potential customer, Burger King had to including