Task 1 What is marketing? What does the term marketing mean? Many people think of marketing only as selling and advertising. And no wonder‚ for every day we are bombarded with television commercials ‚newspaper ads‚ direct mail campaigns‚ Internet pitches and sales calls. Although they are important‚ they are only two of many marketing functions and are often not the most important ones. Today‚ marketing must be understood not in the old sense of making a sale – ‘telling and selling’ – but
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Case study marketing ‘Yet another poor year’ reflected the senior executive of Mephisto Products.’ P r o f i t s d o w n b y 1 5 p e r c e nt ‚ s a l e s a nd t u r no v e r s t a t i c i n a m a r k e t w h i c h w a s recko ned to be growing at a rate of some 20 per cent per annum. It can’t go on.’ These were the thoughts of Jim Bullins‚ and he contended that the company would-be out of business if the next year turned out to be as bad. Jim Bullins had been senior executive at Mephisto for the
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Principles of Marketing‚ Junfeng Pan 1. Market segmentation Midea has considered several segmentation variables (mainly including city size‚ generation‚ and occupation) to segment the Chinese microwave oven market. Midea divided the market into two broader segment: householders in primary cities‚ and tertiary cities. The primary city markets has already been saturated‚ while there were a considerable number of potential customers in tertiary cities. On the other hand‚ in China‚ those people
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Question 1 Describe the 7 Ps of marketing and provide examples with which you are familiar. Question 2 Discuss the importance of the ‘marketing mix’ to the success of a firm. 7Ps of marketing: Philip Kotler elaborated McCarthy’s (1960) traditional marketing mix; according to him it consists of 4Ps namely Product‚ Price‚ Place and Promotion. These 4Ps of marketing mix were considered as the main areas where marketing managers try to use limited business resources to achieve their objectives
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information for the use of making marketing decision in business. Therefore‚ it is an essential component of understanding the market. It can be used for solving problems‚ identifying future opportunities and threats‚ generating ideas and to determine how to create‚ communicate‚ deliver and exchange offerings for stakeholders of a business. There are five steps in the market research that could be adopted by the Malaysian marketers. The first step is to define the research problem or the objective of the
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Electric which isworld biggest electronics British company. It’s what you’ve to do with BCG Matrix. GE Matrix Explanation Invest: It is used to strengthened and build thesekinds of SBUs (Strategic Business Units). Bold andwell financial marketing efforts are needed here. It’s basically use when you start a new business as thename suggests. Protect: It’s used to protect your current SBUs. LikePEPSI is protecting its product. Because Coke is thecompetitor of PEPSI and they’re allocating
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Principle of marketing extra credit case study Aeroflot - A Dogfight for International Passengers In stark contrast to British Airways‚ Aeroflot-Russian Airlines is new to the skies of international commercial airlines. Aeroflot’s 114 planes transported 3.8 million passengers in 1996 compared to British Airlines’ 25.35 million passengers. Aeroflot’s figures are down considerably from 1991‚ the year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union‚ when its 5‚400 planes carried 138 million passengers
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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The shoe industry of Marikina is a cottage industry that traces its roots to more than a century ago. The shoe industry in Marikina was started by Laureano Guevarra‚ popularly known as Kapitan Moy in the 1887. What then seems to be a very small livelihood business had become a municipal industry allowing the local families of Marikina earn their livelihood. Over the years‚ the Marikina shoes has been only concentrated on the local market‚ centrally it is distributed
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1 Marketing Background After undergoing a strategic analysis of its product portfolio‚ the Co-operative bank identified the tertiary sector as a promising market segment from which it could build an exciting new product offering specifically aimed full time tertiary students. Some demographic characteristics of this targeted segment include: males and females aged between 18 and 28 who have decided to further their education in a tertiary institution. Typically consumers in this segment have relatively
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Competitors Analysis Table (Dettol‚ Life Buoy and Kirei Kirei)………………………….Page 8 5) SWOT and PEST Analysis - SWOT…………………………...…………………………………………………………….Page 9 - PEST…………………………...……………………………………………………Page 10 & 11 6) Marketing Objective……………………………………………………………………….Page 12 7) Marketing Strategy - Four Ps and their strategy - Product…………………………...………………………………………………………….Page 12 - Price and Promotion…………………………...…………………………………….Page 12 & 13 - Place………………………...……………………………………………………….Page 14 & 15
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