ollowing the Apple Press Event this morning the question I’ve been asked the most is “why do I need the Apple iPad?”. Apple’s head honcho Steve Jobs firmly believes the iPad will fill the third segment which stands square in the middle of the iPhone and MacBook. To help understand the target audience for the iPad I found it most helpful to begin by looking at the competition. Currently you have an eReader market heavily dominated by Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle is a solid performer and everyone
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Blue Ocean Strategy : Ipad and Kindle Fire This analyzes why Ipad and Kindle Fire are Blue Ocean products as oppose to Red Ocean products. Apple achieved a value innovation with Ipad‚ which led to the creation of a new market space. Apple drew the boundaries of the space by educating the customers on its usability. Amazon with its recently launched Kindle Fire targeted non-Ipad users and defined its own space by designing Kindle Fire as a media consumption device with salient features empowered
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BETWEEN IPAD 3 AND GALAXY TAB 2 Tablets are portable‚ slim‚ internet-connected computers. They are bigger than smart phones but operate in a similar way with touch screens and downloadable apps. They generally differ from laptops and net-books by having no built-in keyboard‚ and being thinner and lighter. Tablets are primarily designed for interactive entertainment‚ whether that’s listening to music‚ watching movies‚ reading e-books‚ playing games or surfing the web. If we compare the iPad 3 and
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4.1 Market Segmentation NESCAFE’s customer’s bases are comprised of following target groups. • Local residents • Local business people • Students • Travelers passing through These groups are potentially strong customer segments. The benefit of this customer segmentation is that it helps to maintain consistentency in business throughout the year. The customer segments provide a consistent foundation of all years long. Also by appealing several market segments‚ NESCAFE does not become overly
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“CARIB WEAK” Problem- Poor Market Segmentation Carib Brewery Ltd (CBL) is the major brewery of alcoholic beverages in Trinidad and Tobago. The organization has been in existence for over sixty five years. In 1985‚ CBL had a product portfolio consisting of ten (10) beverages. However like any organization in today’s environment CBL wanted to increase its revenue and market share to ensure its survival and growth. There are a number of ways in which this can be done in an organization
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Introduction “Present day marketing strategy can be summed up in the following three words- segmentation‚ targeting and positioning (STP)” Kotler.P‚ pg278-279. Therefore for the purpose of this paper‚ market segmentation‚ targeting and position will be defined. Following this will be brief explanations on differentiated and concentrated STP strategies. This will then be followed by the case study‚ which being the Accor SA’s internet site. The site will be analysed on how it caters for the different
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Marketing Segmentation‚ Targeting Strategy and Positioning of Greggs Plc Marketing segmentation‚ targeting strategy and positioning of Greggs PLC * Table of Contents * Introduction 1 Segmentation analysis 1 Benefits Sought - Healthy food 1 Lifestyle 1 Demographic and Geodemographic 1 Target marketing strategy analysis 2 Price 2 Promotion 2 Positioning Analysis 2 Competitiveness 2 Clarity 3 * Conclusion 3 * References 4 * Appendices 5 Introduction : In these days the business environment
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DEMOGRAPHICS OF UNITED KINGDOM: It is the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the 22nd-largest in the world. Population: The estimated population of the United Kingdom in the 2011 census was 63.182 million of whom • 31.029m were men & • 32.153m women. Population Density: Its overall population density is one of the highest in the world at 256 people per square kilometer‚ due to the particularly high population density in England. Literacy Rate: The United
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Guidelines Topics Market Introduction of market segmentation (NOT FROM THE NOTES) Basis of market segmentation – Consumer characteristic approach - Demographic‚ Geographic‚ Psychographic‚ and Behavioral Segments. (There are many subdivisions under each base.) Consumer response approach – benefit‚ loyalty‚ usage and occasion Marketing Strategies – undifferentiated‚ differentiated and concentrated marketing strategies. Why segmentation the market Facilitates the right choice of target market
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The segmentation will be based on the company objective to obtain profitable sales by providing a specialized product – the “Active1” – in the sneaker industry. Also‚ the company objective considers the SWOT analysis that determines our firm’s current situation in the market. The strength of the company lies in our expertise knowledge from creating an unprecedented sneaker. For that reason‚ it can match the opportunity of reaching a new segment of the sneaker market that has no direct competition
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