Marketing: Foundations and applications Course code: BMAN-20390 Marketing analysis of IBM 1.0 Thesis statement “Evaluate the marketing strategy of a blue-chip company you are familiar with. Your evaluation should critically discuss the concept of the marketing mix as applied to your chosen organisation and at least one other academic marketing theory.” 2.0 Limitations IBM is a very large organization so the planning process
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Running Head: The Marketing Mix: Distribution Channels What might the inventors of new “flying cars” need to consider to develop a distribution strategy for their proposed products? Customers are more sophisticated than ever before and they have access to high quality information from the internet‚ so they make decisions based off excess information. The first step that should be considered to sale Flying Cars is a centralized location. Once a location is established then what would
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KFC at Malaysia The first KFC restaurant was opened in 1973 on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman. Today there are more than 500 KFC Restaurants nationwide and still counting. In fact‚ KFC Malaysia has developed a distinctive Malaysian personality of its own. Especially for Malaysians KFC’s an establishment that is run by Malaysians and managed by Malaysians. When KFC took it upon to create a selection of food that would make Malaysia proud on the international scene. Kentucky Nuggets‚ for example‚ was
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The Body Shop International Case Study The Creator- When one read the words The Body Shop one would think of working on cars. Not for Mrs. Anita Roddick‚ she thought of The Body Shop as a way to give women what they had been looking for in cosmetics. Mrs. Anita Roddick was born in England in 1942‚ to Italian immigrants. She was a human rights activist and an environmental campaigner; she was also the founder The Body Shop. The Body Shop was a cosmetics company that produces and sold beauty products
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Decisions 11 Course of Action and Implementation 11 Executive Summary | Richard Paul is about to graduate from his M.B.A program and planning to start running his own store. While scanning through job advertisement‚ he comes across of The Body Shop Canada. The notice stated that the company has number of operating stores available for franchise. Knowing the enormous success of the company‚ Mr. Paul decides to purchase the franchise. Cost to start a new franchise is estimated to reach approximately
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Introduction Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and values with others (Kotler‚ Brown‚ Adam‚ and Amstrong‚ 2001: 6). Marketing is about connecting with customers‚ serving the needs of society‚ and accomplishing the goals of the organization. Through customer satisfaction marketing creates the customer loyalty necessary to reach an organization’s objectives. Marketing works by creating
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Marketing Mix There are four parts to the marketing mix: product‚ place‚ promotion‚ and price. These are the key factors to the success of any business‚ they should all compile to your business mission statement or your overall goal. Each has to work for itself and work with the other; you have to make sure you know what you want your salon to be associated with and how you want customers to see you as a professional. What is your Unique Selling Point (USP) - the thing that makes you different
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iPhone 4S Marketing Mix Torrence C. Jones AIU Abstract The product which I have chosen for this assignment is the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S has new features which includes a newer camera‚ a larger memory capacity‚ a personal talking assistant‚ and the ability to distinguish different text messages with different ringtones as well as a new no wire sync. iPhone 4S Marketing Mix The iPhone 4S is one of the first to have a talking assistant to help you out with your everyday needs. It supports
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The Body Shop was one of the fastest growing manufacturer- retailers in the late 1990s. However‚ throughout the years‚ they failed to maintain its brand image by becoming something of a mass-market line. Anita Roddick‚ the shops founder and Patrick Gournay‚ CEO are looking for assistance in short and long-term planning for The Body Shop. The goal is to yield practical insights while being straightforward. To get started‚ we assumed the growth rate for sales is 13%; the cost of goods sold percent
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Critical Evaluation of the Marketing Mix “The Marketing Mix is a combination of Product‚ Price‚ Place and Promotion (The four P’s) that helps increase sales to the target market” (McCarthy‚ 1960 cited in Combe 2006 p126) This systematic tool is more commonly used once a business has decided on its overall competitive marketing strategy. This includes analysing marketing opportunities and selecting a target market. The development of the four P’s to the advantage of a specific business can be
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