Market segmentation is the process of grouping buyers into different categories on the basis of their common needs‚ desires and requirements. It is the strategy of subdividing the target market into sub-groups of consumers with definable‚ distinct and homogeneous characteristics so that a different marketing programme can be set up for each group. This will result in an enhancement in the satisfaction to the consumers and profit to the marketer. According to Professor Philip Kotler‚ “Market Segmentation
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Aiman S EMERGING MARKETS With the developed world markets becoming increasing saturated‚ the multinational corporation (MNCs) have now turned to the emerging markets of the world. These countries which are on their way through modernization‚ are now a potential source of revenue for MNCs‚ countries such as Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ India and China. However for companies to enter the markets‚ there will be challenges that they will have to overcome‚ as to tap the potential revenue goldmine. This is
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FINANCIAL MARKET: Mechanism that allows people to buy and sell financial securities(such as stock and bonds) and items of value at low transaction cost. Market works by placing many interested buyer and seller in one ‘place’‚ thus making easier for them to find each other. PURPOSES: Financial market facilitate; 1. Raising of capital 2. Transfer of risk 3. International trade HOW FINANCIAL MARKET WORKS: Borrower: issue a receipt to lender promising to payback the
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546 – 560 ISSN: 2231-962X Review of Malaysian Retail Banking Market: An Industrial Organizational Perspective Nafisah Mohammed (nafisah@ukm.my) Pusat Pengajian Ekonomi Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Suhaila Abdul Jalil ( suhaila@upm.edu.my) Jabatan Ekonomi Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan Universiti Putra Malaysia ABSTRACT The attempt of this paper is to analyze the Malaysian retail banking market within structure-conductperformance paradigm framework which roots
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2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online) Vol 2‚ No 9/10‚ 2011 www.iiste.org Market Efficiency‚ Market Anomalies‚ Causes‚ Evidences‚ and Some Behavioral Aspects of Market Anomalies Madiha Latif* Shanza Arshad‚ Mariam Fatima‚ Samia Farooq Institute of Management Sciences Bahauddin Zakaria University‚ Multan‚ Pakistan Email: madihalmalik@yahoo.com Abstract Market efficiency hypothesis suggests that markets are rational and their prices fully reflect all available information. Due to
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Each market structure plays a significant role in the economy. Markets are categorized according to the structure of each industry serving the market. Three of the basic market structures include competitive markets‚ monopolies‚ and oligopolies. These differ due to the different number of strength of buyers and sellers and also the level of collusion between them. There are stages of competition and magnitude of the difference in products. When there are many buyers and sellers of a product
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SEGMENTATION AND PRESTIGE MARKETS Many American’s today think image explains everything about who a person is. Countless believe that material products‚ status‚ and ways one presents him or herself can tell someone everything they need to know about that particular individual. Numerous psychologists believe this is not good for us‚ however are paid plenty of money to seek deeper into a person‚ nevertheless marketers can have a field day with this subject. The concept of prestige is where marketers
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I. MARKET STRUCTURE We can classify firms by the roles they play in the target market: leader‚ challenger‚ follower‚ or nicher. Suppose a market is occupied by the firms shown in Figure 1.1. Forty percent of the market is in the hands of a market leader; another 30 percent is in the hands of a market challenger; another 20 percent is in the hands of a market follower‚ a firm that is willing to maintain its market share and not rock the boat. The remaining 10 percent is in the hands of market nichers
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Market segment is a subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product needs and this is also a the process of dividing a market into meaningful groups that are relatively similar and identifiable .The purpose of segmentation is to enable the marketer to tailor the marketing mixes to meet the needs of one or more specific segments. Market segmentation helps the firm to identify the customers’ needs more accurately and precisely‚ and it
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