Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Post Graduate Programme Sales and Distribution Management PGP (Term 4) 2014-15 Prof. Avinash Mulky 1. Introduction The quality of sales and distribution management is an important determinant of success in customer acquisition and revenue growth for companies across business sectors. Although some businesses sell directly to their customers using a client acquisition team or company sales force‚ many sales organizations utilize a channel for
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British Airways Plc Annual Report and Accounts Year ended 31 December 2012 Company registration number: 1777777 This page has been intentionally left blank Contents Officers and professional advisers 1 Business review and Directors’ report Business review Management review Financial review Internal controls and risk management Directors’ report 2 5 8 12 Directors’ responsibilities statement in relation to the financial statements 14 Independent auditors’ report 15
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Unilever has experienced quite a rollercoaster of marketing success and failure over the last 5 years. Originally its new 5-year strategic plan entitled Path to Growth’ had special promise and forecast for success. The primary objective of this plan was to cull Unilever’s tail’ brands and place extra emphasis on those which were market leaders. Niail Fitzgerald believes that too many brands often confuse the customer and thus lead to poor purchasing decisions. The paradox of choice between Unilevers’
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Bargain Brand vs. Brand Name Introduction In this lab the main purpose was to research for a company that made bargain brand products to see if college students equally like bargain bands to name brands. The experiment that was preformed was based solely on the taste of the products. To be sure the only thing that affect the experiment was taste‚ the experiment was made a single blind experiment‚ which is simply the administer knows which product is which but the test subject does not. To start
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STRATEGY 2 SPECTRUM BRANDS 3 MANAGEMENT 3 STRATEGY 3 RELATED DIVERSIFICATION 3 UNRELATED DIVERSIFICATION 4 MARKETING 5 MANUFACTURING‚ RAW MATERIALS‚ DISTRIBUTION‚ AND SUPPLIERS 10 CONSOLIDATION EFFORTS 10 RAW MATERIALS 11 DISTRIBUTION AND SUPPLIERS 12 SPECTRUM BRANDS FINANCES 12 SALES 12 INCOME 13 PROFITABILITY RATIOS 13 LIQUIDITY RATIOS 14 LEVERAGE RATIOS 15 ACTIVITY RATIO 16 SHARE PRICE 17 RECOMMENDATIONS 18 REFERENCES 19 INTRODUCTION Spectrum Brands (SPC) is a global branded
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reproduced without written permission from the author. Brand awareness and brand image Chuck Chakrapani Building brand equity To build brand equity‚ we need to start with the building blocks of brand equity. They include brand awareness‚ and brand image or the associations that a brand evokes. Brand awareness Brand awareness has two components: breadth and depth. Let us first consider depth . While a consumer may be aware of many brands‚ all brands are not equal in terms of awareness. The depth of
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Brand Extensions Brand extension is a marketing strategy according to which a company marketing a product or a service launches a new offering (product or service) that is related to the one of the existing brands of the company‚ but offers different benefits and/or targets a different segment. Organizations use this strategy to increase and leverage upon their brand equity. When a firm is introducing a new product‚ it has the following 3 choices on branding: 1. Developing a new brand for the
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Building brand identity in competitive markets: a conceptual model Bhimrao M. Ghodeswar School of Management‚ Asian Institute of Technology‚ Klong Luang‚ Pathumthani‚ Thailand Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to identify important elements of brand building based on a literature review and case studies of successful brands in India. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a review of the literature and takes a case study approach. The paper suggests the framework
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Brand Equity A brand represents a “name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol‚ or design‚ or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.” Without a recognizable brand‚ a product is but a mere commodity. It’s more than just a name‚ term‚ symbol‚ etc. – a brand is everything that one company’s particular offering stands for in comparison to other brands in a cate-gory of competitive products. As the value
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Introduction Indomie is one famous brand of instant noodle in Indonesia is produced by PT. Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk.‚ The first time Indomie hits the market was on 1970‚ people doubted that selling instant noodle as one of the staple food in Indonesia‚ but the company proved the people’s judgements were wrong (www.indomie.com). Indomie accounted for approximately 37% of net sales and 39% of income from operations in 1999. The Company produces a wide range of instant noodle products with prices
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