International Marketing Channels True / False Questions 1. The distribution process includes promotion of goods and services by sellers and resellers. True False 2. The behavior of channel members in the distribution process is the result of the interactions between the cultural environment and the marketing process. True False 3. In an import-oriented distribution structure‚ supply often exceeds demand. True False 4. Traditional channels in developing countries
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Introduction Ford Motor Company is the second largest industrial corporation in the world‚ employing 370‚000 people in 200 countries across the world with revenue over $144 billion. The auto industry has become very competitive on a global level‚ forcing automobile companies to cut costs and stay competitive. In trying to remain competitive‚ Ford introduced a plan called Ford 2000. This was done to cut costs‚ streamline the organization and processes globally‚ and increase economies of scale
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DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT CH1: MARKETING CHANNEL CONCEPTS Growing Importance of Marketing Channels: 1. Explosion of IT and E-commerce 2. Harder to gain sustainable competitive advantage through other P’s 3. Growing power of distributors (esp. retailers who act as gatekeepers of consumer markets – agents of consumers not producers) 4. Need to reduce distribution costs MC Definition: The external contactual organisation that management operates to achieve its distribution
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$221.4 million in 2005. (Greenwald) These numbers are incredibly high‚ and where is all this money being used? We have been asking these questions for years now‚ and our government doesn’t seem to give us a set answer. In Robert Greenwald’s “Iraq for Sale‚” he brings some of the things this money is being spent on into plain sight. Special interest groups stationed in Iraq include private contractors from TITAN‚ C.A.C.I‚ Halliburton‚ and KBR. Greenwald shows us the corruption and dishonesty of these
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of hospitality related products and services to end-user customers on behalf of third party travel suppliers. Travel agencies are without their own product‚ and tailor the packages offered by producers to the needs of the consumer. They are arguably more impartial to offer something to suit the traveler as they are independent agencies. They retail to consumers on an individual basis. Thus‚ they are considered intermediaries in the hospitality distribution channel and are responsible for bringing customers
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head: DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS Distribution Channels and Their Impact on Marketing Strategies Name: Institution: DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS Abstract This paper discusses the importance of choosing appropriate channel members and also identifies and discusses criteria that should be used by the car compact disc player manufacturer when evaluating potential intermediaries for the firm’s distribution channel. This is important for this firm since it’s only through these marketing channels that their
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Introduction An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transporting passengers; which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads‚ to have . seating for one to eight people‚ to typically have four wheels‚ and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. Automobile comes via the French language‚ from the Greek auto [self] and mobiles [moving]; meaning a vehicle that
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1 Context of the company 1.1 History & General Ford Motor Company is one of the oldest and well-known automakers in the world. Its precursor can go back to last century. The automotive pioneer‚ Henry Ford established Ford Motor Company in 1903‚ and firstly adopting large-scale manufacturing and assembly line guaranteed Ford owned the higher efficiency and more competitive advantages than its competitors. Later‚ the invention of FORD Model T was another milestone. All these innovation stimulated
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CHAPTER 8: MARKETING CHANNELS CHAPTER 8: MARKETING CHANNELS Its Nature & Functions * Marketing channels are conduits used by the firm to distribute its products. * Marketing channels are human creations and they may be designed and structured to serve the needs of the user. * A marketing channel may be defined as a set of interdependent organization and individuals that facilitate the movement and transfer Functions of the Marketing Channels 1. They routinize
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Table of Contents Executive Summary General Motors (GM) is one of the big three auto makers of the world (GM‚ Ford‚ and Chrysler) and has historically been the largest and most successful. They have built some of the most famous and classic vehicles on the road which have portrayed messages of both modesty and display of class for a market of consumers who range from working class to music superstar; as Alfred P. Sloan‚ CEO of the 1920s put it‚ GM makes “a car for every purse and
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