Church’s Chicken is seeking to identify growth opportunities for its products with the use of the Ansoff Matrix to guide this venture.
The Ansoff Matrix is a market planning tool designed by H. Igor Ansoff, used to assist companies with decisions that pertain to product and market growth strategies. It highlights ways of growing the business through existing or new products and in existing or new markets. Each of these growth options draws on both internal and external influences, investigations, and analysis that are then worked into alternative strategies. It presents four alternative growth strategies in the form of a 2x2 table or matrix. One dimension of the matrix considers 'products ' (existing and new) and the other dimension considers 'markets ' (existing and new) (Free-management-ebooks.com 2015). The resultant matrix is built upon four strategies: Market Penetration
With this strategy you focus on selling your existing products or services to your existing markets to achieve growth in market share. There are four approaches you can adopt when implementing this strategy:
Retain or increase your product 's market share
Dominate growth markets
Drive out your
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