Vodafone and Airtel- A study of the brand positioning of two brands from the same product category. VODAFONE Vodafone Essar‚ formerly known as Hutchison Essar is a cellular operator in India that covers 23 telecom circles in India based in Mumbai.Vodafone Essar is owned by Vodafone 67% and Essar Group 33%. It is the second largest mobile phone operator in terms of revenue behind Bharti Airtel‚ and third largest in terms of customers. Segmentation Vodafone segments its target users by Income
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elsevier.com/locate/bushor How far can luxury brands travel? Avoiding the pitfalls of luxury brand extension Mergen Reddy a‚ Nic Terblanche b‚ Leyland Pitt c‚*‚ Michael Parent c a Capgemini Consulting‚ P.O. Box 785827‚ Sandton‚ 2146‚ South Africa Stellenbosch University‚ Private Bag X1‚ Matieland‚ 7602‚ South Africa c Segal Graduate School of Business‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 500 Granville Street‚ Vancouver‚ BC V6C 1W6‚ Canada b KEYWORDS Luxury brands; Brand extensions; Degree of adjacency; Premium
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Brand Positioning and Market Segmentation Brand positioning is an important strategy for achieving differential advantage. Essentially‚ positioning reflects “the place” a product occupies in a market or segments. GAP has a wide range of products that are reflected in multi-segments. Initially‚ as a specialty clothing retailer‚ GAP segmented the market using price as the sole criterion. GAP strategically decided to serve three major segments‚ which can be seen from price differences among GAP’s
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Clean Edge Razor Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning 1 Index 1. Synopsis ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 2. Situation Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………. 3 3. Alternative Evaluation………………………………………………………………………….. 4 4. Position Strategy‚ with explanation……………………………………………………… 5 5. Marketing mix………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 6. Expected Outcomes……………………………………………………………………………… 8 7. Appendices…………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 - 22 2 Synopsis: Based
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16 Key Luxury Brand Distributors A round up of sixteen of the most prominent luxury goods distributors‚ including Bosco di Ciliegi‚ Bluebell‚ Swiss Prestige and Chalhoub Group. Despite their inherant focus on brand control‚ luxury manufacturers have commonly relied on local distributors to introduce products to new markets‚ acknowledging that whilst they might know what is best for their brand communications‚ design and development‚ they may not necessarily understand local cultures‚ retail climates
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Strategic Management: YUM! Brands/KFC Changes in KFC Global Positioning Over Past 5 Years: 2008: 2012: Countries to which KFC has expanded from 2008-2012: Turkey‚ Costa Rica‚ Guatemala‚ Kenya‚ Croatia‚ Nigeria‚ and Iraq. Source: “KFC.” Wikipedia: NP. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfc> (Accessed 12 April 2012) For a number of years‚ KFC has based its brand strategy on the functional
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in the world in the year 2008 until 2010. Apple has manufactured few products which are Mac line of computers‚ iPad tablet computer‚ iPod music player‚ iPhone smartphone‚ Apple TV and Software. Based on our assignment‚ we are choosing Apple as our brand and specific to the iPhone 5 product which compare another brand’s product. Apple has manufactured 6 generations of iPhone product which is iPhone 1st‚ iPhone 3G‚ iPhone 3GS and iPhone 5. iPhone 5 is the latest smart phone that produced by Apple. On
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Chapter Crafting the Brand Positioning This chapter illustrates how a firm can choose an effective positioning in the market and differentiate its brand. It describes the various strategies a firm can employ at each stage of a products life cycle and finally shows the implications of Market evolution for marketing Positioning: Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image to occupy strategies. Developing and Communicating a Positioning Strategy Category Membership:
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this scenario‚ a company has to market itself well. Among those marketing strategy applied by the companies‚ one is STP (segmentation‚ targeting‚ positioning) ANALYSIS. Here‚ STP analysis is done for a company which has got the highest market share in the watch market of India and it is TITAN. As the world’s sixth largest manufacturer brand of watches‚ the company’s products attract the classes and masses both. The 960-crore Titan Industries Ltd (TIL) is a conglomerate between the Tamil Nadu industrial
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analog electronic watches with a choice of over 150 designs. The company was promoted jointly by Questar Investments‚ Ltd.‚ a Tata Company with its associates Tata Sons‚ Ltd.‚ and Tata Press‚ Ltd.‚ and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation‚ Ltd. (TIDCO). The main objective of the company is to manufacture analog electronic watches with a choice of over 150 designs. - The Company undertook to set up a plant for the manufacture of quartz analog electronic watches in the State
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