"Brand positioning is an attempt to create and maintain a unique representation of the brand in customer’s mind‚ a representation that is expected to stimulate choice of that brand" (Rossiter‚ 2005‚ p.42). Positioning‚ in fact‚ refers to how customers think about different brands in a market. Through brand positioning a company attempts to build a sustainable competitive advantage on product attributes in the consumer’s mind. Nevertheless‚ developing a successful positioning strategy is not easy
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MARUTI SUZUKI – BRAND POSITIONING By: Shweta Amin [ Market Research Analyst ] on February 13‚ 2011 1 Comment What comes to your mind first when u come across the term ‘MARUTI SUZUKI’‚ it always absolutely has to be Maruti 800‚ best known as ‘The Middle class car of India’. BRAND IMAGE:- MARUTI from as a brand itself is seldom looked at‚ as a luxury brand. Maruti as a brand is more linked with the SEC B rather than A. And over past many years Maruti Has maintained and up till certain extent
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Vodafone and Airtel- A study of the brand positioning of two brands from the same product category. VODAFONE Vodafone Essar‚ formerly known as Hutchison Essar is a cellular operator in India that covers 23 telecom circles in India based in Mumbai.Vodafone Essar is owned by Vodafone 67% and Essar Group 33%. It is the second largest mobile phone operator in terms of revenue behind Bharti Airtel‚ and third largest in terms of customers. Segmentation Vodafone segments its target users by Income
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marketing pillars - segmentation‚ targeting‚ positioning and differentiation While there may be theoretically ’ideal ’ market segments‚ in reality every organization engaged in a market will develop different ways of imagining market segments‚ and create product differentiation strategies to exploit these segments. The market segmentation and corresponding product differentiation strategy can give a firm a temporary commercial advantage. Criteria for Segmenting An ideal market segment meets
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Brand Positioning and Market Segmentation Brand positioning is an important strategy for achieving differential advantage. Essentially‚ positioning reflects “the place” a product occupies in a market or segments. GAP has a wide range of products that are reflected in multi-segments. Initially‚ as a specialty clothing retailer‚ GAP segmented the market using price as the sole criterion. GAP strategically decided to serve three major segments‚ which can be seen from price differences among GAP’s
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fashion. Some distinct factors which divide the market are as follows:- 1. Age a. 20-35 years b. 35-50 years c. 50 yr and above 2. Sex a. Male b. Female c. Unisex 3. Attitude/Orientation a. Sporty b. Jewelry c. Technology 4. Brands a. Omega b. Rolex c. Tag Heuer d. Breitling e. Cartier f. Gucci 5. Price a. 10-40k b. 40-100k c. 100k + 6. Display a. Analog b. Digital c. Dual 7. Strap a. Leather b. Metal c. Synthetic i)
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Brand Postioning: brand positioning means emphasizing on distinctive characteristic of a product that makes it different from competitor’s product and it appeals to the public. It is the sum of total that differentiates one brand from another. Root Strength: It is the original product‚ value or belief that made a brand great and on its basis brand is now growing. Brand root strength may be a format of a product‚ distinctive features in a product. For example Sony’s first commercial product was
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income adults Benefit Everyone seeks for having pleasure from the icecream Direct Sets of Competition Brand with similar target market and segmentation Panda Magic Golf Bravo Indirect Sets of Competition All other ice creams brands can be seen as indirect competitor of Magnum Even Algida’s Cornetto can be indirect competitor Positioning Map Perceived Quality x Magnum x Cornetto x Bravo x Panda Perceived Price Free Associations Research
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Strategic Management: YUM! Brands/KFC Changes in KFC Global Positioning Over Past 5 Years: 2008: 2012: Countries to which KFC has expanded from 2008-2012: Turkey‚ Costa Rica‚ Guatemala‚ Kenya‚ Croatia‚ Nigeria‚ and Iraq. Source: “KFC.” Wikipedia: NP. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfc> (Accessed 12 April 2012) For a number of years‚ KFC has based its brand strategy on the functional
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Chapter Crafting the Brand Positioning This chapter illustrates how a firm can choose an effective positioning in the market and differentiate its brand. It describes the various strategies a firm can employ at each stage of a products life cycle and finally shows the implications of Market evolution for marketing Positioning: Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image to occupy strategies. Developing and Communicating a Positioning Strategy Category Membership:
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