The Marketing Review‚ 2003‚ 3‚ 289-309 www.themarketingreview.com Demetris Vrontis1 and Iain Sharp2 Manchester Metropolitan University Business School and Legal and General The Strategic Positioning of Coca-Cola in their Global Marketing Operation Examines how Coca-Cola has strategically positioned it self within the world’s soft drinks market. Given that they operate in over 200 countries‚ they are faced with a clear choice of whether to standardise their product offerings globally
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A marketing strategy is essential for the development‚ growth and sustenance of a business as well as ensuring that the business maintains its competitive advantage. The best example of a Marketing Plan is one that is not dependent on just one or two forms of Marketing. "Your plan should be to test many different forms of Marketing on a small scale. This can include Internet Marketing‚ E-Marketing‚ Direct Mail‚ Telephone Marketing‚ Advertising‚ Referrals‚ Direct Sales‚ Guarantees‚ Pricing Strategies
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essence of the marketing concept is the idea of placing customer needs at the centre of the organization’s decision-making. The need to adopt this approach stems from a number of factors‚ including increased competition‚ better-informed and well-educated customers and‚ perhaps most importantly‚ changing patterns of demand. Primarily it is the change in patterns of demand that has given rise to the need to segment markets. Market segmentation is one of the central pillars of modern marketing and is found
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MATTER OF THE TOPIC: Marketing strategy is a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its resources on the optimal opportunities with the goals of increasing sales and achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. Marketing strategy includes all basic and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic initial situation of a company and the formulation‚ evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies and therefore contribute to
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service. Airtel‚ Vodafone and Idea have deep rooted presence in the Indian telecom sector through their wide product offerings and excellent distribution networks. The real aim of this project is to study the effectiveness and responses towards marketing strategies adopted by Airtel‚ Vodafone and Idea. But many sub objectives are also included under this project so as to make it comprehensive one. The internal study of companies- history‚ vision‚ business areas etc. to analyse how well poised the company
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0975-5853 Marketing Strategies of Retail Stores: An Evaluation of Grocery Shops of Dhaka City By S. S. M Sadrul Huda‚ Mahmud Zubayer‚ Omar Faruq East West University Abstracts - The marketing strategy and behaviors of the retailers vary due to the differences in locations. There is a general assumption that people of different income levels live in different areas. Based on this assumption this study was conducted to identify the differences in the grocery shop owners’ marketing strategy due to
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Marketing is a procedure of attracting prospective customers and consumers in your products and services. However the crucial word in the above sentence is “procedure "‚ hence marketing incorporates researching‚ advertising‚ selling‚ and distributing your products or services. Hence we planned to focus on one of the best known brands worldwide‚ McDonald’s Corporation. The following executive summary presents the key marketing aspects of McDonald’s Corporation and should be read
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Technological Educational Institute of Athens essay for Tourism Marketing to prof. Katsoni “Marketing strategy in the tourism industry” by Yulia Shmakova spring semester 2014 The word "strategy" occurred from the Greek strategos‚ "art of the general". The military origin of this term shouldn’t be surprising. strategos allowed Alexander of Macedon to win the world. Value of the strategic behavior allowing firm to survive in competitive
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MARKETIN STRATEGY IN E-COMMERCE Marketing Strategy and E-Commerce Introduction With the rapidly advancing technologies that are occurring in modern business‚ organisations are required to be ready‚ and able to adapt within their ever-changing environment. It is true across all diverse industries that in order to stay competitive‚ organisations must be able to utilise the various tools that technology has to offer. Technological factors have been of growing importance‚ particularly in recent years
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contributes three times as much to profits. Latin America‚ Southeast Asia‚ and Japan account for about 35% of Coke ’s volume and none of these markets are performing to expectation (Mclean‚ 1998). Opportunities: Brand recognition is the significant factor affecting Coke ’s competitive position. Coca-Cola ’s brand name is known well throughout 90% of the world today. The primary concern over the past few years has been to get this name brand to be
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