INTRODUCTION Nike‚ Inc .is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon‚ near Beaverton. It is the world’s leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (Ending May 2012).Nike and Precision Cast parts are the only Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the state of Oregon. The
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WHAT IS IT? Target marketing is simply the practice of identifying and selling to your ideal customers. Many small business owners believe their offerings appeal to “everyone”‚ but the reality is any product or service only has a concentrated appeal to certain types of people. Even mass market products‚ like mobile phones‚ are each designed to target a certain segment of the market‚ whether it is social networking teenagers or busy businesspeople. A business’s market segments can be differentiated
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Good Grades in Marketing (Satire) Segmentation‚ Targeting‚ and Positioning Segmentation‚ targeting‚ and positioning together comprise a three stage process. We first (1) determine which kinds of customers exist‚ then (2) select which ones we are best off trying to serve and‚ finally‚ (3) implement our segmentation by optimizing our products/services for that segment andcommunicating that we have made the choice to distinguish ourselves that way. Segmentation involves finding out what kinds of
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Market segmentation in hospitality research: no longer a sequential process John T. Bowen William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration‚ University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas‚ USA Explores development in market segmentation relating to hospitality and tourism research published between 1990 and 1998. The literature is divided into three sections: segmenting a market; market targeting and marketing positioning. Identifies new areas for research‚ deeper examination of segments‚ identification of difference
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Emtel’s Market Segmentation Emtel divides its segments into three categorical parts: * For You * For your Business * For your Home For You By the term For You emtel targets individuals of mostly all age groups. For this particular segments or simply the biggest segment‚ emtel offers a wide range of services and promotions. For the For You segment emtel offers both the prepaid and postpaid option: Prepaid: Where one recharge his/her account and talk or text for only the amount
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Essentials of Marketing Mini-Project #1 Which segment you believe you would fall in to and why? The Sustainability Passion Index (SPI) is a segmentation model from The SHIFT Report‚ which is made up of five unique SPI segments based on people’s level of environmental consciousness. After a careful analysis of the five SPI segments‚ I believe I’d fall into the category of The Casual Spectator. Although it’s important to note that not all characteristics of The Casual Spectator express what I personally
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Table of Contents Market Segmentation and Product Positioning 2 1.1. Introduction 2 1.2. Product the company will offer 2 1.2.1. Motorcycle industry an overview 2 1.2.2.Motorcycle industry in US an overview 3 1.3.Marketing Objectives of the Motorcycle Company: 4 1.4.Primary Characteristics of the Motorcycle 4 1.5.Branding Strategy 5 1.6.Product Positioning: 6 1.6.1.Short-run Strategy: 6 1.6.2.Longer-Run Strategies 6
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MARKETING RESEARCH AND MARKET SEGMENTATION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Objectives: Market research‚ product research‚ price research‚ sales promotion research and distribution research A wide variety of procedures used in marketing research The requirements for and benefits of market segmentation Geographic‚ demographic and psychographics segmentation The value of marketing information system 1 MARKETING RESEARCH AND MARKET SEGMENTATION • Marketing research is defined as the investigation of factors related
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(a) Segmentation bases in industrial product markets Segmenting an industrial product market introduces a number of additional bases‚ uses similar bases and also precludes some of the ones more frequently used for consumer product markets. Such bases are: • Type of application/end use e.g. adhesives for home‚ office and industrial use. 3 • Geographical e.g. Scotland‚ Wales‚ North West‚ North East‚ South East‚ East Anglia or by country/region. • Benefits sought: Closely related to the above
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Having taken look at the segmentation of the automobile market in the last post‚ we shall now take a look at the segmentation of the computer market; which is one of the fastest growing markets globally. · Geographic segmentation In the segmentation of computers‚ geographical segmentation yet again plays a very important role. This is because the demands of people would vary according to their regions. A very good example of this is the computer market in India. Few years ago‚ laptops
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