0Lecture 3: Marketing Environment Scanning of the Marketing Environment – Opportunities or threats? Environmental Forces—Firms must monitor six major forces in the broad environment: Demographic Political-Legal Economic Technological Socio-Cultural Natural 1. Demographic Environment The main demographic force that marketers monitor is population because people make up markets. Marketers are keenly interested in the: Size and growth rate of populations in cities‚ regions‚ and nations. Age distribution
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changeable marketing environment (Lovelock‚ 2002). The marketing environment can be assumed as a flexible system. Just like the human body which may die if it fails to adjust to environmental modifications‚ so the business also may lose if it does not adapt to external and internal changes (Sowell‚ 2011). Sargeant and Jay (2004) stated SWOT analysis contains specific indicators as to the key determinants of success in the company whereas most authors defined the marketing environment comprising
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Contents I) INTRODUCTION 3 1. General Introduction 3 2. Market 3 II) MARKETING ENVIRONMENT 4 1. Micro – Environment 4 2. Macro – environment 4 2.1 The Economic Environment 4 2.2 The Cultural Environment 5 2.3 The Natural Environment 6 2.4 The Demographic Environment 7 III) MARKETING MIX 7 1. Target Market 7 2. Price 8 3. Product 8 4. Distribution 9 5. Promotion 10 IV) LESSON 13 I) INTRODUCTION 1. General Introduction Type: Public (NYSE: DIS) Year of establishment: 16/10/1923 Industry: Media and
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Introduction The following report evaluates the marketing environment for the coffeehouse business‚ specifically Starbucks. The report will cover a brief background of the company and reasons to why Starbucks has been selected as a center group to display a marketing report. A macro environmental study will demonstrate important possible threats and opportunities for Starbucks. It will also look into further segmentation research‚ characteristics‚ views and behaviors within the consumer groups
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Take Home Test – 9982396 A. The external marketing environment (1000 words) Choose two environments within the external environment to analyse - demographic‚ socio-cultural‚ economic‚ technological‚ natural‚ competitive and political and legal (500 words per environment) Provide a definition of each chosen environment and justify in relation to your product (4 marks) Explain how each chosen environment impacts your product‚ using evidence from your research (business sources) to justify (20
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Scanning the Marketing Environment Who are the primary competitors? How to ascertain their strategies‚ objectives‚ strengths and weaknesses‚ and reaction patterns? What are the key methods for tracking and identifying opportunities in the macro-environment? What are the key demographic‚ economic‚ natural‚ technological‚ political‚ and cultural developments? The Marketing plan Market survey Segmentation Identifying needs and wants Targeting Choosing a target market(s) Developping a market
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International Marketing: Exam 2 Notes Chapter 6: The Political Environment * Sovereignty of Nations * Sovereign state is independent & free from external control * Enjoys a full legal equality with other states * Governs own territory * Selects its own political‚ economic‚ and social systems * Has power to enter into agreements with other nations * Sovereignty refers to powers exercised by a state in relation to other countries and the
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AN OVERVIEW OF MARKETING AND THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT AFFECTING MARKETING APPROACHES. 1. When going about developing a marketing approach‚ an organisation needs to look at several factors‚ these factors can affect an organisation directly and sometimes even indirectly‚ The external factors that Woolworths and Topshop would need to take into consideration would be firstly‚ the macro environment: like the political stability of the country‚ the socio-cultural‚ technical‚ legal‚ environmental
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a- Define Marketing environment. The marketing environment represent a complex array of threats opportunities for the organization‚ and can sometimes seem difficult to categories. Generally speaking the marketing environment can be divided into two areas: the external environment and the internal environment. The external environment is concerned with everything that happens outside the organization‚ And the internal environment is concerned with those marketing factors that happen within the organization
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Lecture-Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Marketing Environment Now that we understand what the general approach is to pulling together a marketing plan‚ there are a number of elements that stand out as essential to look at in order to meld it into a workable strategy. One of these things is the nature of the competition…that is‚ the competitive environment. Competitive analysis is one vital consideration to preparation of the marketing plan‚ because it interrelates so closely with such
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