Case Study #7: GE Question 1: Discuss the importance of B-to-B marketing and a strong B-to-B brand to GE. Needless to say it is very important to GE that they do well in B-to-B marketing and maintain a strong B-to-B brand. One of the obvious reasons is that a lot of GE’s product and service are business-oriented instead of consumer oriented‚ such as oil & gas‚ jet engines and industrial appliances. Many times‚ businesses need to be treated just like a human consumer‚ principles of basic marketing
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The Antidote Emerald Article: Relationship marketing - but why? Gould‚ B Article information: To cite this document: Gould‚ B‚ (1998)‚"Relationship marketing - but why?"‚ The Antidote‚ Vol. 3 Iss: 5 pp. 22 - 24 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006568 Downloaded on: 14-10-2012 To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded 3946 times since 2005. * Users who downloaded this Article also downloaded: * Jagadish N. Sheth
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Marketing Case Study: Coke 1) The Coca-Cola company is being very strategic as to who it markets each of its products. For the most part‚ they do not overlap on who they market each product to; instead they are trying to create a brand that can be easily identifiable with one market. The first product primarily uses gender segmentation‚ Diet Coke is for the most part marketed to women who are trying to watch or lose weight. The next product‚ Coke Zero also uses gender segmentation as it is marketed
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Marketing Case let – Positioning Case study prepared by Harikumar Mecheri – Xavier Institute of Management and Entrpreneurship. Vijay Bansal is a very bright engineer / MBA from a premier Institute and joined XYZ Corporation a multinational consultant company with a huge operations base in India. He joined their Mumbai office in 1997. After one year he was posted in various overseas locations like Singapore‚ Australia and the US. He was promoted as Vice president Marketing in the E6 grade and was
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IKEA – CASE STUDY Is IKEA’s success sustainable? 1. List IKEA’s external and internal challenges. Looking at IKEA’s challenges‚ which do you think pose the greatest threats? Why? How would you address the challenges? External challenges Opening new stores to drive future growth Finding new sources of supply to support more store openings Find suppliers to be a strategic fit with its highly efficient operations Given the issue of deforestation and the link to global warming‚ IKEA would need to
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Text: Marketing Managment Chapter 4: Conducting Marketing Research Topic: Market Research; Measuring Market Productivity; Return on Investment Learning Objectives: 1. What constitutes good marketing research? 2. What are the best metrics for measuring marketing productivity? 3. How can marketers assess their return on investment of marketing expenditures? Video Title: Dunkin’ Donuts Link: http://windowsmedia.pearsoncmg.com/ph/bp/bp_video_library/dunkin.wvx Synopsis This
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is using. Customers markets is the Lane Crawford more focus on. Customers markets are the most important of the six markets models. Customers must important; at the same the firms also focus on marketing activity. However‚ marketing activities need to decrease direct at transactional marketing. The marketing activities are focus on acquiring a new customer and building long term customer relations. Lane Crawford has some events in each month‚ only VIP and magazine reporters can get the invitation.
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Obsession with the customers should not be the most vital factor in business success the main priority of any business must be to win and keep customers as failure to do so results in no profit no growth no jobs therefore bad. Discuss. DEFINATION CUSTOMER An individual or business that purchases the goods or services produced by a business. The customer is the end goal of businesses‚ since it is the customer who pays for supply and creates demand. Businesses will often compete through advertisements
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What was the source of IKEA’s success in Sweden early on (50s and 60s)? In 1943‚ IKEA was founded by Ingvar Kamprad at his home town‚ selling mainly pencils‚ postcards and other merchandise. From late 40s to early 50s‚ manufacturing furniture was introduced as a complement to general merchandise. This enabled Kamprad to step in the furniture business and exploring situation and finding new opportunities. The business had gain massive success in the domestic market for the since opening and the key
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Introduction IKEA states in their business idea: "We shall offer a wide range of home furnishing items of good design and function‚ at prices so low‚ that the majority of people can afford to buy them"(IKEA 2005). IKEA manage to keep costs low by their superior relationship with their suppliers were they buy low-cost components in huge quantities. Together with efficient warehousing and customer selling service it passes on to customers resulting in lower prices‚ anywhere from 25 - 50 % lower than
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