~ IiItlEI Harvard Business School 9-289-049 Rev. August 5.1994 Avon Products‚ Inc. On June 1‚ 1988‚ Hicks B. Waldron‚ chairman and chief executive officer of Avon Products‚ Inc.‚ was reviewing a package of proposals that he and his financial advisors were to present to the Avon board of directors for final approval the following day. These proposals included (1) a public announcement that Avon would explore plans to divest two of its businesses‚ probably at a considerable book loss;
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5-5 Harrison Products Harrison Products Inc. (HPI) is a global manufacturer of molded plastic products and metal products that are used in the auto industry‚ food and beverage industry (containers)‚ and in a variety of other products and packaging materials. HPI has several manufacturing plant located world-wide‚ generally in locations convenient to the company’s most significant customers. The present case considers one of HPI’s products‚ a one gallon metal can container used for paint
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Levels of Product and Service Product Name: Itel Mobile Phone (Model: IT 6700). Introduction: Product planners need to think about products and services on three levels. Each level adds more customer value. The most basic level is core benefit. At the second level‚ product planners must turn the core benefit into actual product. Finally‚ product planners must build an augmented product around the core benefit and actual product by offering additional consumer services and benefits. Now I discuss
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you switch on the TV and you will see some products being pushed on you with some assurance. This is advertising. Your mind is being sold to these advertisers. Advertising is the promotion of product or services. This gives companies a way to expose their products to people and hence maximize their sales. With out advertisement not a single farm or company can grow in this world of competition. Every time you switch on the TV and you will see some products being pushed on you with some assurance. This
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understand by the term market planning and its role in marketing of good and services? (b) Discuss the various elements of marketing mix both in case of product and services and their complementary role in effectively marketing the firms offerings. 2. (a) What is STP strategy? The success of product/service largely depends on the effectiveness of proper segmentation by the marketer. Justify by taking two examples of your choice. (b) What is Marketing Research
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Product differentiation is one of the strategic elements of products marketing. In order to understand that process‚ I chose to focus on skin care products and more particularly on Chanel ’s products. "Gabriele Chanel was born in 1883 in Saumur‚ France. She adopted the name of "Coco" while she briefly worked as a cafe and concert singer from 1905 to 1908. First a mistress of a wealthy military officer then of an English industrialist‚ she drew on the resources of these patrons in setting up a
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design approaches for a selected product and service. Pick one service with which you are familiar. Complete three to five line items such as production line‚ self-service‚ or personal attention approach‚ on the Process Design Matrix. Pick one product with which you are familiar. Complete three to five line items such as Job shop‚ batch‚ assembly line‚ or continuous flow approach‚ on the Process Design Matrix. Process Design Aspect Service Product Design focal point Strategy
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Aloha Products Evaluation of the current management control syste Aloha Products maintains a centralized control system. This includes the purchase of raw materials‚ marketing and sales. This management control structure does not give the plant managers control on any of the major activities of a production facility. According the case information‚ the plant manager does not control the green beans purchase‚ production schedule or the production mix‚ nor do they have control over sales or marketing
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PRODUCT MIX A product mix is the set of all products and items that a particular seller offers for sale to buyers. Product mix has a certain width‚ length‚ depth‚ and consistency. Width: No. of different product lines e.g. P& G carries width of five lines- Detergents‚ Bath soaps‚ Toothpaste‚ Disposable Diapers‚ Paper Tissues. Length: Total no. of items in its product mix. Depth: No. of variants of each product in the line. Consistency: refers to how closely related the various product
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Socket | Product Line Product line refers to a group of products that are closely related because they function in a similar manner‚ are sold to the same customer groups‚ are marketed through the same types of outlets‚ or fall within given price ranges. ACI Limited Produces 5 lines of products. 1. Product Line of Household Insecticides: Household Insecticides contains 3 types of products. 2. Product line of Antiseptic & Personal care: Antiseptic & Personal care product
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