A NEW DRINK "SLOW COW"‚ OFFERS CALMNESS AND RELAXATION‚ CAN IT FIND A SUCCESS AS A NICHE ALTERNATIVE TO ENERGY DRINKS LIKE RED BULL IN UK? Module Code: MG 3123 (Final Project) Student Number: 0837185 Department: Brunel Business School Degree: Business and Management (Marketing) Supervisor: Dr May Seitanidi Submission date: 9th March 2010 Word Count: 9200 1 Acknowledgments First and most importantly I would like to thank all the participants who took part in my data collection
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1. What segmentation base has Red Bull adopted to target customers? How should Red Bull further segment the market in the future? The concepts of market segmentation are fundamental to the success of firms’ marketing efforts. Kotler and Armstrong (2004) provide a useful definition: “Dividing a market into distinct groups with distinct needs‚ characteristics‚ or behavior who might require separate products or marketing mixes” (239). Segmentation is important because firms cannot appeal to all
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Red Bull is the most popular energy drink in the world‚ selling over three billion cans annually. Started in 1987 by Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz‚ Red Bull pursued an aggressive yet different marketing strategy to grow their brand globally. Red Bull met an untapped need within the beverage consumer market and the strength of their carefully cultivated brand provided them leverage to market themselves in a non-traditional manner. What were the key Brand elements for Red Bull? A brand
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1. Red Bull was founded in 1985 by Dietruch Mateschitz and launched in Austria in 1987. After establishing strong sales in their home market‚ Red Bull gradually expanded into other markets. The brand started with just one SKU which is their signature 250mL silver and blue can. Red Bull’s target audience was defined as people who are mentally or physically fatigued‚ or both. Therefore they had no specific demographic or psychographic segment. The consumer categories were students‚ drivers‚ clubbers
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Target market Red Bull was one of the first Energy Drink. It gave energy to people who want to be physically and mentally fit from 1982. As the company reported‚ in 2011 red bull had sold 4.631 billion cans over the world with 11.4 per cent increase of 2011. In selling‚ profits and productivity the data illustrated were the highest one of the company. (www.redbull.com) Moreover‚ as figure1 illustrated‚ Red Bull is the most popular energy drink brand all over the world from 2006 to 2012. Clearly
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Red Bull’s marketing intent is to become a representative of the best energy drink and also the sports drink. Target Markets As Red Bull’s representative image‚ Red Bull targets young generation (men and women aged 16-29). Red Bull is especially for athletes‚ students‚ workers‚ and alcohol consumers who need to improve their reaction speed and physical strength‚ and also concentration. Not only with these effects‚ but also with Red Bulls’ unique flavor‚ alcohol consumers also find Red Bull
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Red Bull 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this assignment is to select an organisation and discuss how the macro environment has influenced its marketing decision making‚ for the at least 12 months‚ and how it is likely to influence its future decision making in the first part. In the second part this study will also need to use the same organisation and discuss how the marketing mix is used by the strategic to gain competitive advantage in its chosen sector against their major competitors. The main
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about Red Bull Red Bull is an energy drink. Red Bull is an adaptation of the Thai energy drink Krating Daeng‚ which translates as "Red Bull". Based on market share‚ it is the most popular energy drink in the world. The company was founded by Thai national Chaleo Yoovidhya and Austrian national Dietrich Mateschitz. Red Bull ’s slogan is "it gives you wings" and the product is aggressively marketed through advertising‚ tournament sponsorship sports team ownerships (Red Bull Racing‚ Red Bull Salzburg
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What is their field of operation? Red Bull operate within the energy drinks sector of the soft drinks market. The product is an example of a ’functional ’ drink. Functional foods respond to consumer interest in well-being and performance. The major multinational soft drinks companies are investing in the area of functional drinks‚ developing their own brands and buying up existing ones. This is seen as being important‚ given that their traditional soft drinks markets are at the maturity stage in
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Dietrich Mateschitz created Red Bull in the mid 1980 ’s. He produced the recipe of Red Bull Energy Drink and established the distinctive marketing idea of Red Bull. Red Bull Energy Drink was sold for the first time on 1st April 1987‚ in its home market Austria. This was not only the introduction of an entirely fresh and different product‚ in fact it was the birth of a completely new product type. Today Red Bull exists in more than 166 countries and about 40 billion cans of Red Bull have been consumed so
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