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 Reverse Marketing Framework: Case Malston Bakery Inc. Summary of the case: John Thomas is the Director of Purchasing of the Malston Bakery‚ a major bread producer. He feels really concerned by the augmentation of the costs generated mainly by important increases in flour prices‚ which represent 55% of the total cost of bread production. John Thomas has no results by negotiating purchasing prices with the six main flour mill suppliers‚ despite some repeated attempts. So he decides to conduct researches
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Dove Case Questions: 1. What is a brand? Why does Unilever want fewer of them? 2. What was Dove’s positioning in the 1950s? What is its positioning in 2007? 3. How did Unilever organize to do product category management and brand management in Unilever before 2000? What was the corresponding structure after 2000? How was brand meaning controlled before 2000 and how is it controlled at the time of the case? 4. Spend a little time searching blogs‚ using Google Blog Search‚ BlogRunner‚ Technocratic
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Module in Marketing Management Course Modules help instructors select and sequence material for use as part of a course. Each module represents the thinking of subject matter experts about the best materials to assign and how to organize them to facilitate learning. Each module recommends four to six items. Whenever possible at least one alternative item for each main recommendation is included‚ as well as suggested supplemental readings that may provide a broader conceptual context. Cases form the
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MKTG6MKTG6MKTG Chapter 1 Case Study: Girl Scout Cookies What’s Your Favorite Cookie? Almost since the foundation of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in 1912‚ cookie sales have played a major role in supporting the Girl Scouts organization at the council and troop levels. By now‚ cookie sales have grown into a major moneymaking operation‚ bringing in over $714 million per year. Recent years‚ however‚ have seen cookie sales lagging with nearly six years of year-over-year declines
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Electronic Marketing Case Study 1. What was the Audi A1’s targeted consumer group and what were the objectives of Audi´s ‘The Next Big Thing’ campaign? Part 1 What was the Audi A1’s targeted consumer group? The Audi A1’s targeted consumer group was urban and lifestyle-oriented youthful people are attracted by the A1´s (premium subcompact vehicle) by emotional design and its sporting driving experience. This target group also needed to have a relatively high income‚ since the pricing strategy
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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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factors that can be changed‚ particularly on the service side of the business. To succeed in the auto business marketing has to be concentrated on both the sales and service aspects of the business. The challenge is that marketing vehicles differs from marketing services for those same vehicles‚ and services pose distinct marketing challenges. Marketing a vehicle consists of both marketing the core product (the vehicle that responds to the customers’ primary need and involves transfer of ownership)
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Mike Johnson Pillsbury Case Beth Gallant 1) What are the challenges that Ivan Guillen faces in his role as marketing manager of the RBG business? As marketing manager of the RBG business‚ Ivan Guillen must propose a solution to repair Pillsbury refrigerated baked goods (RGB)’s business performance. Since the refrigerated-cookie product line consisted of 62% of RBG’s unit sales and over 75% of the company’s profits‚ Guillen found it appropriate to alter this segment in the market. Proposing
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Chapter 3: Cola Wars Question #1: In the new Coke fiasco‚ how could Coca-Cola ’s marketing research have been improved? To determine how the marketing research could have been improved‚ let us first define the end result. Ultimately‚ consumers felt almost betrayed that Coca-Cola scratched their flagship product‚ Coke‚ for a newer‚ updated flavor. Coca-Cola ’s marketing research showed that over half of the people who taste-tested the new flavor preferred it over Pepsi and the nearly 100 year
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