Positioning Strategies in Business Markets An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article Positioning strategies in business markets Stavros P. Kalafatis Markos H. Tsogas Charles Blankson Professor of Business Marketing‚ Kingston Business School‚ Kingston-upon-Thames‚ Surrey‚ UK Senior Lecturer‚ Kingston Business School‚ Kingston-upon-Thames‚ Surrey‚ UK Assistant Professor‚ Grand Valley State University‚ Allendale‚ Michigan‚ USA Keywords
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Euromonitor‚ (2014) Sports Nutrition Trends and Developments. Available at: http://0-www.portal.euromonitor.com.emu.londonmet.ac.uk/portal/analysis/tab (Accessed: 15 November 2014). Hooley‚ G.‚ Saunders‚ J. and Piercy‚ N. (2012) Marketing strategy and competitive positioning‚ 5th ed Hughner‚ R.‚ McDonagh‚ P.‚ Prothero‚ A.‚ Shultz‚ C. and Stanton‚ J. (2007) ’Who are organic food consumers? A compilation and review of why people purchase organic food ’‚ Journal of Consumer Behaviour‚ 6(2-3)‚ pp. 94-110
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CASE 4 Giordano: Positioning for International Expansion Company Background Giordano was founded in Hong Kong by Jimmy Lai in 1980. In 1981‚ it opened its first retail store in Hong Kong and began to expand its market by distributing Giordano merchandise in Taiwan through a joint venture. In 1985‚ it opened its first retail outlet in Singapore. Responding to slow sales‚ in 1987 Giordano changed its positioning strategy. Until 1987‚ it had sold exclusively men’s casual apparel. When Lai and his
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APPLE MACBOOK MARKET POSITIONING Zainabid Munir Akber INTRODUCTION This report will identify the positioning of Apple’s notebook product line ‘MacBook’ to its relative competition by the use of marketing concepts such as; segmentation marketing‚ target marketing‚ buyer behaviour‚ product strategy and how the company has enhanced the product over the years. INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING & POSITIONING The birth of ‘Marketing’ happened centuries ago where vendors in ancient times tried to seduce the oncoming
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The E-Myth Mastery Program Module 2: E-Myth Marketing Fundamentals Business Development Process: MK-0040 Positioning and Differentiating Your Business Positioning Strategy Worksheet The E-Myth Mastery Program Module 2: E-Myth Marketing Fundamentals Business Development Process: MK-0040 I I Target Market: Part 1 – Developing the Components of Your Positioning Strategy The first step in writing your Positioning Strategy is to select the six general components by checking
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review the situation and positioning of Special K breakfast cereals within the UK. In order to undertake this analysis a variety of observations have been carried out within supermarkets‚ these observations are accompanied by a number of assumptions which were developed following the earlier observations to determine target markets and marketing approach. The marketing concepts discussed have been sourced from Kotler et al (2009). Discussion will centre on the marketing mix 4P’s of product‚ price
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BRAND AND BRAND POSITIONING INDONESIAN BRANDS 2 II TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Approach 1 Brand.......................................................................................................................................................... 5 2 Brand positioning ................................................................................................................................. 6 3 The Brand Steering Wheel..........................................
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The role of Positioning for a business organization Nowdays‚ in the business world it is important to know of every aspect that an organization is going to be into. Market positioning is one of the important roles for advertising and promotion and so do in marketing. It is where an organization needs to be aware of‚ whether they should position themselves in other related perhaps a more challenging market. According to Belch & Belch (2009‚ p.56)‚ positioning is defined as “the art and science
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SEGMENTATION – TARGETING – POSITIONING Fragmentation of mass markets segments Consumers: variety of needs & preferences Marketers: offer variety of choices via multitude of marketing offerings Marketing segmentation: Needs Action Linking market needs to an org’s marketing program Market needs Segmentation/Targeting MM A market segment: Group of consumers with homogenous profile & common needs will similarly respond to a marketing program Segmentation – targeting – positioning 1 Using market-product
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INTRODUCTION Marketing is an organizational function and a set of process to creating‚ communicating‚ and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationship in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholder. To delivery its value‚ the company needs a marketing plan and strategy. The objectives of a marketing strategy are to identify a target market and develop a marketing mix that will appeal to those potential customers. Decisions regarding the ideal marketing mix can be
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