Marketing Case Study: Coke 1) The Coca-Cola company is being very strategic as to who it markets each of its products. For the most part‚ they do not overlap on who they market each product to; instead they are trying to create a brand that can be easily identifiable with one market. The first product primarily uses gender segmentation‚ Diet Coke is for the most part marketed to women who are trying to watch or lose weight. The next product‚ Coke Zero also uses gender segmentation as it is marketed
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I Software industry overview of global marketing channels 1. Overview of the software industry The software industry is the most important and one of the most rapidly growing segment of the information and communication technology (ICT) industries. According to DataMonitor‚ the size of the worldwide software industry in 2008 was US$ 303.8 billion‚ an increase of 6.5% compared to 2007. The United States is estimated to have approximately 50% of the global software market ’s value. U.S. software
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Case Study #7: GE Question 1: Discuss the importance of B-to-B marketing and a strong B-to-B brand to GE. Needless to say it is very important to GE that they do well in B-to-B marketing and maintain a strong B-to-B brand. One of the obvious reasons is that a lot of GE’s product and service are business-oriented instead of consumer oriented‚ such as oil & gas‚ jet engines and industrial appliances. Many times‚ businesses need to be treated just like a human consumer‚ principles of basic marketing
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Union Tank Car Company Firm and Industry background: Union Tank Car Company (UTC) is one of the leader companies in the manufacturing and leasing of railway tank cars in north America‚ having the second largest fleet of privately owned tank cars in the world (55‚920 cars). Throughout the years UTC was strong financially with high Revenues and profits as shown in the company’s financial statements. The tank cars industry is too specialized‚ requires high capital investments and a special
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The Reverse Marketing Framework: Case Malston Bakery Inc. Summary of the case: John Thomas is the Director of Purchasing of the Malston Bakery‚ a major bread producer. He feels really concerned by the augmentation of the costs generated mainly by important increases in flour prices‚ which represent 55% of the total cost of bread production. John Thomas has no results by negotiating purchasing prices with the six main flour mill suppliers‚ despite some repeated attempts. So he decides to conduct researches
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Dove Case Questions: 1. What is a brand? Why does Unilever want fewer of them? 2. What was Dove’s positioning in the 1950s? What is its positioning in 2007? 3. How did Unilever organize to do product category management and brand management in Unilever before 2000? What was the corresponding structure after 2000? How was brand meaning controlled before 2000 and how is it controlled at the time of the case? 4. Spend a little time searching blogs‚ using Google Blog Search‚ BlogRunner‚ Technocratic
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What do you understand by the term "the social construction of childhood"? To understand the term ’the social construction of childhood’ we must look at how society sees children through the different era’s‚ and how race‚ culture and class can produce different outcomes to how children are portrayed and developed in society. Social construction refers to ’a social mechanism‚ phenomenon‚ or category created and developed by society; a perception of an individual‚ group‚ or idea that is ’constructed’
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| |Article Type: |Case study | |Geographic Code: |4EUUK | |Date: |May 1‚ 2005 | |Words: |5794 | |Publication: |Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies |
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Street Smart versus Book Smart In his article "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff criticizes those that do not put value into "street smarts." Graff says that knowledge goes far beyond academic learning and continues into our everyday living. He states‚ "The need to prove I was smart and the fear of a beating if I proved it too well." Meaning that if the subjects he enjoyed the most became his main interest he would soon have to face ridicule for wanting to be himself (Graff). Graff’s theory
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Why had Volvo lost its way in the years leading up to the takeover? Volvo started to manufacture and export cars to foreign countries since the mid-1950s. The company set up plants in Torslanda‚ Sweden‚ in 1964‚ followed by plants in Belgium and the Netherlands. Before Volvo was sold to Ford Motor Company in 1999‚ they had a joint-venture partnership with Pininfarina SpA of Italy. (Volvo Car: 2007 company profile edition 2‚ 2007‚ pp. 9-11) Volvo is a premium brand; with market shares of 1.5% and
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