Rural shop audit – A study on FMCG brands sold in rural shops in Tamil Nadu K Arul Rajan Gone were the days when a rural consumer went to a nearby city to buy “Branded” products and services. The impact of globalization has made significant change in the rural markets and is felt as much as in urban. Trends indicate that the rural markets are coming up in a big way and growing twice as fast as the urban‚ witnessing a rise in sales. Today‚ rural markets are critical for every marketer
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on a scale of 0 to 25. The assignment should be submitted on Blackboard. No late assignment will be accepted. Enjoy the problems! Assignment Instructions: For this homework you will have to predict the future financial statements of the Body Shop. There is a template provided. Use the figures for 2011 and the forecasting assumptions on the template to forecast the income statement and balance sheet for the next three years. For some variables there are no assumptions provided since they should
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Product Positioning "Product positioning" is a marketing technique intended to present products in the best possible light to different target audiences. The method is related to "market segmentation" in that an early step in major marketing campaigns is to discover the core market most likely to buy a product—or the bulk of the product. Once segmentation has defined this group ("active seniors‚" "affluent professional working women‚" "teens") the positioning of the product consists of creating
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technology to make some of the best shoes (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). The issue that is discussed later in this paper would be of how Adidas had positioned its product in the market. 2.0 Segmentation‚ Targeting and Positioning The process of segmentation‚ targeting and positioning is shown figure 1 below. Segmentation is defined as dividing the market into distinct group of buyers that possess different needs‚ characteristics or behaviour that might need separate products or marketing mixes to
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The body Shop Case study Question 1: Base Case Assumptions In order to derive this forecast‚ ‘percent-of-sales’ forecasting was used‚ which involves initially forecasting sales and then forecasting other financial statement accounts based on their direct relationship with sales. This method of forecasting was used due to the lack of information available (only the last three years of financial statements). As a result‚ every account in the pro forma financial statements are based on one or more
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Positioning and repositioning Before positioning companies has to do segmentation and targeting. Segmentation is dividing the market into segments upon some set of criteria and evaluating the profitability of each segment Targeting is selecting one or more segments and going after them Positioning is how do you want your brand to be considered by consumers when compared to other competing brands. Positioning is based on product features such as color‚ price‚ fluffiness‚ quality of service
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The Body Shop International PLC 2001: An Introduction to Financial Modeling The following graph presents the forecast for the Body Shop’s income statement and balance sheet in 2002 to 2004: How did you derive your forecast? Why did you choose the “base case” assumptions that you did? The forecast takes into considerations the stated business objectives of the Body Shop as well as trends or patterns in the historical financial statement in exhibit 8. Further information on the calculations and
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What is positioning? How has the organisation that you have selected positioned their product? As we all know that‚ there are three steps in target marketing which are market segmentation‚ market targeting and market positioning. According to Kotler (2010)‚ the definition of product position is “the way the product is defined by consumer on important attributes – the place the product occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing product” (P280). Furthermore‚ in principle‚ a brand must have
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economy is a hotspot for MNCs like Mattel and Hasbro which have now become household names with Barbie and Monopoly respectively. Big retailers of the world which exclusively cater to this segment include Toys R Us and Hamleys‚ which house the best brands of the world and add a service dimension to toys. This document discusses the various classes of toys‚ the current global scenario for toys‚ how China has affected the global toy industry‚ India’s market and its growth prospects. 1.
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campaign to encourage us to save our planet‚ how can people be aware and know theirs obligation to save the world. This paper will explain the meaning of corporate social responsibility‚ advantages and disadvantages of CSR through the example of The Body Shop. In addition‚ it will discuss why it is important to modern businesses. The meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility has changed since the early 20th century and it has never been a straightforward. The importance of CSR arose with the role
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