Online Assignment Submission Birmingham Business School Student ID Number: 1439623 Programme Of Study: Msc International Business Module: International Marketing Assignment Title: Case study analysis Date and Time of Submission: 20/10/2014 09:30 Please ensure that you complete and attach this Submission Form to the front of all work that is submitted online. Before submission‚ please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work‚ only your Student ID number. By
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Strategic Planning Business Unit Strategic Planning • SWOT Analysis – External Environment Analysis (Opportunity and Threat Analysis) • Marketing Opportunity – Buying opportunity more convenient or efficient – Meet the need for more information and advice – Customize an offering that was previously only available in standard form Business Unit Strategic Planning – Marketing Opportunity Analysis (MOA) • Can the benefits be articulated to a target market? • Can the target market be reached with cost-effective
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Marketing Case Study RIMOWA Marketing Strategies RIMOWA is a medium-sized German company that manufactures mainly exclusive aluminium suitcases with an identifying brand-feature of groove pattern on which they hold a patent. The cases get assembled manually in numerous production steps and offer a high-end product in an upper price segment. RIMOWA therefore pursues a benefit-oriented differentiation strategy. As this enterprise is known for its high quality products and has been quite successful
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“Strategic marketing focuses on choosing the right products for the right growth markets at the right time” (Jain & Haley‚ 2009‚ p. 26). When Lipitor hit the market in 1997 that is just what it achieved – the right product‚ the right growth market‚ and the right time. Lipitor quickly gained the No. 2 spot with 18% of the market share within the first year that led the way to gain the top spot as the market share leader. Warner-Lambert developed the drug initially but needed to catch up in
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Converse Case Study Creating a marketing strategy isn’t always about taking a hands-on approach and facilitating how consumers should think of a certain brand. Converse All Stars took an alternative route‚ a “stand-back approach” giving its customers control over marketing its shoe brand. As a result‚ Converse delivered a customer-brand relationship where the needs‚ wants and demands of its customers were met by a pair of All Star Chucks. The needs‚ wants and demand of customers is a major customer
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Target Market and Segmentation The core of market segmentation is satisfying the customer’s needs and wants. However‚ that is hard to achieve because all buyers have different perspectives and needs as well as customer’s needs and preferences easily change in terms of various industries which offer similar goods and services. Imperial Leather Soap aims at effective segmentation in order to make profits by analysing four types of segmentation which need to be identified (Alan & Tracy‚ 2002). These
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Case Study VI: Marketing in Schools Amy L. Walker Columbia Southern University BBA 4751 – Business Ethics Prof. M. Friske Case Study VI: Marketing in Schools Introduction Marketing in schools should be regulated because this is a place of education with impressionable young minds; these establishments are there to teach young people about social interaction‚ healthy eating‚ and the pros and cons of materialism. Because of government budget cuts in school systems today‚ marketers see this
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To be successful in the automobile industry marketing has to be focused on in cooperation with service and sales features of the industry. The test is that marketing cars varies as of marketing service station for those similar cars‚ and service station posture with different marketing challenges. Marketing a car contains of both marketing the main item for consumption and the car that counters to the buyers’ mainly want and involves transference of ownership. Lovelock has explain that the additional
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Analyse the following case and answer the questions: SYD COMPANY The market for women’s hair shampoos has become highly specialized and segmented. In recent years a large number of special purpose shampoos have appeared on the market‚ each promising to provide various hair care benefits to the potential user. The Syd Company is diversified manufacturer of consumer packaged goods. At this time the firm has no women’s shampoo in its product line. The company’s marketing research personnel
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Define mental and physical availability and discuss them in relation to the toothpaste brands mentioned in this case study Mental availability as stated by Sharp‚ 2013 refers to the ability of buyers to notice and/or bring the brand to mind in buying situations. The tendency of the consumer to link the specific brand by memory through various cues such as color‚ style or the size of the packaging or product among others‚ allows marketers to increase the amount of people who think of their brand
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