MARKET SEGMENTATION: ORGANISATIONAL ARCHETYPES AND RESEARCH AGENDAS* Mark Jenkins & Professor Malcolm McDonald Cranfield School of Management Address for correspondence: Mark Jenkins‚ Cranfield School of Management‚ Cranfield University‚ Bedford‚ MK43 0AL‚ UK. Tel: +44 (0) 234 751122; Fax: +44 (0) 234 750070 EMail: m.jenkins@cranfield.ac.uk Paper submitted to the European Journal of Marketing‚ February 1995. The authors acknowledge the invaluable comments of Professor Martin Christopher and the
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Overview Part 1A: You will be responsible for reading the corresponding case and submitting your individual work as an assignment and in your team discussion forum by the specified due date (see course schedule/ for details). Be reminded that there are two parts to Case 1:Part 1A Questions and Part 1B‚ which is the corresponding excel spreadsheet with the financial analysis. A word of advice‚ read the case carefully‚ including the exhibits and the footnotes. The information in the fine print
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Marketing TARGET MARKETING: Market Segmentation‚ Targeting and Positioning Introduction 1. To succeed in today’s competitive marketplace‚ companies must be customer-centered‚ wining customers from competitors and keeping them by delivering greater value. a. Sound marketing requires a careful‚ deliberate analysis of consumers. b. Since companies cannot satisfy all consumers in a given market‚ they must divide up the total market (market segmentation)‚ choose the best segments (market
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study The use‚ acceptance‚ adoption and application of internet technology to businesses to boast their performances are not something new. Saffu et al.‚ (2008)‚ states that there has been a significant increase in the use and application of e-commerce in businesses in the past decade. E-commerce has benefits such as reduction in costs‚ increased business opportunities‚ reduced lead time and providing more personalized service to the customers (Turban et
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after Nike. The company’s clothing and shoe designs typically feature three parallel bars. The company revenue for 2009 was listed at €10.38 billion. The market segmentation; targeting and position play an important role in this company. This essay will use the three factors to analyze this company. Market segmentation Market segmentation was to dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers with different needs‚ charactistics or behaviour who might require separate products or marketing mixes
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concept of the case is based on the non-demographic segmentation‚ by which he meant the classification of consumers according to criteria other than age‚ residence‚ income‚ and such. In order to serve as a basis for marketing strategy the predictive power of marketing studies based on demographics was no longer strong enough . There are other factors for example buying patterns had become far better guides to consumers’ future purchases. Effectively incorporated non-demographic segmentations could serve
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“ Basic marketing strategies consisting of market penetration‚ market development‚ product development‚ or diversification. Market development is a strategy involving the search for and exploitation of new markets for a product. Diversification is the process in which a company begins to engage in a new and different type of business. Market penetration is the percentage of a total market which the sales of a company cover. Product development is the process of improving an existing product line
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1. What are some of the reasons why GMCC was required to carry out market research into the RBG segment? Make sure you outline a market research problem. 2. How did GMCC gather its market research? Describe the research design. 3. Evaluate GMCC’s research design. What might you have done differently if you were on the Consumer Insights (CI) team? 4. What are some of the marketing strategy implications for the market research obtained (hint: refer to the 4Ps)? What consumers should
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populations or a particular sector of a population. Most of the marketers nowadays believed that the demographic segmentation bases are the most popular and practical segmentation bases. Kotler(1984‚ p. 255) states that “demographic variables are the most popular bases for distinguishing customer groups”‚ possibly because the ease with which this kind of data can be collected. Demographic segmentation divided the market into groups of basis variables which consists of age‚ sex‚ income‚ and social class.
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BCG MATRIX OF HINDUSTAN UNILIVER LIMITED • • • • Cash cows :are units with high market share in a slow-growing industry. These units typically generate cash in excess of the amount of cash needed to maintain the business. They are regarded as staid and boring‚ in a "mature" market‚ and every corporation would be thrilled to own as many as possible. They are to be "milked" continuously with as little investment as possible‚ since such investment would be wasted in an industry with
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