Competitive advantage is when a firm sustains profits that exceed the average for its industry‚ the firm is said to possess a competitive advantage over its rivals. The goal of much of business strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. There are two main types of competitive advantage. Cost advantage and differentiation advantage. A competitive advantage exists when the firm is able to deliver the same benefits as competitors but at a lower cost(cost advantage)‚ or deliver benefits
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Marketing Management 1.8 Summary Let us recapitulate the important concepts discussed in this unit: Marketing is a social activity directed towards satisfying customer needs and wants through an exchange process. The five core concepts of marketing are: Needs‚ wants‚ and demand‚ Product and services‚ Exchange process‚ Customer value and satisfaction‚ and Markets. The main functions of marketing are advertising‚ sales promotion‚ market research‚ and sales planning. Marketing
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UNDERSTANDING MARKETS AND CONCUMERS BY JIANGWENYAN FACULTY OF BUSINESS‚ ACCOUNTANCY AND MANAGEMENT COURSEWORK COVER SHEET COURSE: _____BAC ________INTAKE: ____May_____________ STUDENT PARTICULARS Name:______Jiangwenyan__________________________ IC / Passport No:________________E22556871___________________________________ Student No:________SCM-025581___________________________________________ Subject: Understanding_markerting and consumers______________________________ Mode of Study:□
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Part 1: Defining Marketing and the Marketing Process (Chapters 1–2) Part 2: Understanding the Marketplace and Consumers (Chapters 3–6) Part 3: Designing a Customer-Driven Strategy and Mix (Chapters 7–17) Part 4: Extending Marketing (Chapters 18–20) 8 Products‚ Services‚ Building and Brands Customer Value After examining customerdriven marketing strategy‚ we now take a deeper look at the marketing mix: the tactical tools that marketers use to implement their strategies and deliver
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JBR-07662; No of Pages 7 Journal of Business Research xxx (2012) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Business Research Green marketing ’ functions in building corporate image in the retail setting☆ Eunju Ko a‚ Yoo Kyung Hwang a‚ Eun Young Kim b‚⁎ a b Yonsei University‚ Department of Clothing & Textiles‚ Yonsei University‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea Chungbuk National University‚ Department of Fashion Design Information‚ 410 SungBong Ro‚ Cheongju‚ Chungbuk
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Strength is basically what a company or a firm is good at or does better in order to be more efficient. And it might not necessarily be a competitive advantage but it becomes a basis to develop sustainable competitive advantages. Firms can assess which strengths have potential to be sustainable competitive advantage. A competitive advantage is what enables a business organization to thrive and to offer a superior service over and above its competitors. It is the objective of strategy and it is also
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Maraniara Davy C. Villarama MM1-Marketing Management BCG Matrix of KFC The need for strategy‚ in order to expand its existing product in very promising markets for KFC is very essential. KFC‚ along with McDonalds‚ and other major fast food chains have dominated the American continent as well as elsewhere. Since the1950’s when the founder of KFC had a dream‚ of building an empire in the fast foodmarket‚ the company has undergone lots of changes. The company has changedownership; it has taken
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to attain a competitive advantage over other competitors. So what is a competitive advantage? And how company can be able to have a competitive advantage over other competitors? This essay would now discuss what a competitive advantage is and how a company can build a competitive advantage over other competitors in the same industry by using two furnishing stores‚ Ikea and Courts as examples. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Definition A company is said have competitive advantage over its competitors when
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Advantages and Disadvantages on Globalization The advantages and disadvantages of customizing products can be summarized as following points. Advantages: 1. Innovation ideas‚ which are suitable to adapt changeable customers’ preferences. With the development of technology‚ customers preferences are always updated due to global information transmit. Global Managers are capable to create more inventive products to keep and expand global markets. 2. Localization‚ which can avoid cultural conflict
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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ a. b. c. d. e. 1. The concept of exchange is important to marketing because: if all the conditions for an exchange are in place‚ then the exchange will be completed exchange provides money to marketers marketing activities help to create exchange marketing activities are a requirement for exchange to take place money is the only medium of exchange for business marketers ____ 2. A company that sets
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