will compare the marketing strategies used by Mercedes Benz and BMW both of which are German car manufacturers. Mercedes-Benz will discontinue the CLK model after 2010 and replace it with a coupe and convertible based on the new E-class. In comparison BMW has been extending its product portfolio by including smaller and less profitable cars. During 2008 Mercedes-Benz USA appointed 27 dealers to open special AMG performance centers. BMW created an import/export operation which is the only U.S. manufacturing
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widely known one of the world’s largest automobile companies is BMW Group. The company is listed by the Forbes as the 9th most powerful brand‚ and included in the 100 largest companies in the world (Forbes‚ 2012). BMW Group is a leading company in the automobile industry and in the motorcycle industry. The company is also high ranked with 5/5 stars on the car models by NCAP‚ the European Union’s car safety organization (EuroNCAP‚ 2012). The BMW Group is the owner‚ in the automobile industry‚ of MINI (Morris
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TB0301 Dmitry Alenuskin Andreas Schotter BMW of North America: Dream It. Build It. Drive It. Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. Henry Ford Introduction In early January 2012‚ Joseph Wierda‚ BMW’s X3 Product Manager‚ reviewed the latest sales numbers of the popular X3 Series compact SUV. He was‚ in particular‚ interested in the effects of BMW’s customization program called “Dream It. Build It. Drive It.” on both unit sales and overall profitability
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BMW. The Ultimate Driving Machine. The slogan pretty much speaks for itself and later on in the essay‚ you will know why. “We don’t make sports cars. We don’t make S.U.V.’s. We don’t make hybrids‚ and we don’t make luxury sedans. We only make one thing‚ the ultimate driving machine.” Germany has a long history of motoring excellence‚ with their top rank as BMW; powerful‚ yet refined. Vehicles designed for people who demand the best. Luxury cars‚ high performance cars‚ well-crafted cars; these
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BMW vs. Mercedes The most intense automotive rivalry in Europe is entering a new phase: Mercedes-Benz and BMW will be testing the world’s appetite for small cars with big prices. Since BMW dumped Rover and Mercedes shed its relationship with Chrysler‚ both automakers have shunned high-volume segments of the car business and focused on premium models. Now that pressure is growing for better fuel economy‚ and there are fewer top-shelf segments to exploit‚ both are looking for additional growth
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BMW 1 Series 5-door 116i 118i 120d 125i M135i www.bmw.co.za/1 Sheer Driving Pleasure BMW 1 SERIES PRICE LIST. JULY 2012. BMW 1 SERIES SPORT HATCH 5-DOOR PRICE LIST. JULY 2012. CO2 Tax including 14% VAT 6-speed Manual 8-speed Automatic Transmission Steptronic 116i 769.50 940.50 118i 1 197.00 940.50 120d 125i 2 907.00 2 479.50 M135i 5 814.00 4 702.50 Recommended retail price including 14% VAT‚ but excludes CO2 emissions tax Standard Model 6-speed Manual 8-speed Automatic Transmission
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SWOT Analysis Strengths o BMW is not the best biggest but the best car company in the world. o BMW has strongly influenced consumers through media and film industry. o Spartanburg demonstrates that BMW is firmly committed to the US market and rededicated to the performance values that made BMW a cult here in the 1980s. o The Spartanburg plant can build 250 to 300 cars a day and production is set up to be flexible so that it can produce several models on the same line in random sequence. o
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5 Negative Reinforcement : 5 Punishment : 6 Extinction: 6 Schedules of reinforcement: 6 Continuous schedule: 7 Interval schedules: 7 Ratio schedules: 7 Fixed reinforcers: 7 Variable reinforcers: 8 CASE STUDY : 8 INTRODUCTION OF BMW AUTOMOBILE: 8 Positive Reinforcement : 9 Punishment : 9 CASE ANALYSIS: 10 CONCLUSION: 10 REFERENCE: 11 Executive summary Change is an imminent process. It is continuous and it is regenerated. It is
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CASE TEACHING NOTES Brown Bag John Cullen 1. Introduction This case study charts the development of an Irish animation company from small‚ unambitious beginnings to becoming an award-winning‚ globally recognized company with a growing list of international clients nearly ten years later. It describes how the enterprise emerged at a time of demographic and cultural change in Ireland‚ and how the withdrawal of significant investment in the animation sector created entrepreneurial opportunities
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