CHAPTER 1 Business Environment Contents • Introduction • Business • Objectives of business • Environmental influences on business • Environmental analysis • Characteristics of business environment • Components of business environment • The micro and macro environment • Competitive environment • Porter’s five forces model–competitive analysis Learning Objectives The present chapter aims at: • Definitions and objective of business • Examine environment analysis‚ characteristics
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Macro environments relates to the larger forces that have an impact on society as a whole and not just on one or a few organizations. A single organization cannot usually have a significant impact on these forces and therefore can only adapt its marketing mix to account for the opportunities and threats that arise. The company’s macro-environment consists of six major forces that impact on organizations. The six major forces are demographic trends‚ economic trends‚ natural trends‚ technological
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“Outline the components of any organization’s macro environment and give an example for each component of a current major operational change or industry trend”. Macro Environment: The factors outside of the industry that influence the survival of the company; these factors are not directly controllable by the organisation. (Elliot‚ Rundle-Thiele‚ Walker‚ p.48) Components of the Marco Environment: There are six (6) major components of which the macro-environment is made up of; 1. Demographic 2
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Macro environment‚ one of the three key elements of the marketing environment explains the influences of broader societal forces. These major external forces are not controllable‚ but being aware of the environmental factors and its changes will be of great advantage for growing the business (Angela‚ 2012). In the travel business‚ the operation does not depend only on the internal functioning but is also affected by external factors. Wotif is also affected by these internal and external factors.
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The Macro-environment The macro-environment includes concepts such as demography‚ economy‚ natural forces‚ technology‚ politics‚ and culture. Demography refers to studying human populations in terms of size‚ density‚ location‚ age‚ gender‚ race‚ and occupation. This helps to divide the population into market segments which can be beneficial to a marketer in deciding how to tailor their marketing plan to attract that demographic. The economic environment refers to the purchasing power of
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SPPRIMAN Kimbel’s Department Store Problem Statement Frances Patterson‚ Kimbel’s CEO a regional chain of upscale department stores based in St. Louis. Kimbel faces the same challenges faced by most deopartment stores these days‚ how to stop loosing share of overall retail sales from competing discount stores. Frances was dismayed that it is rare to find a salesperson actively enganged with a customer and even rarer to find them engaged when the customer is willing to buy. Frances
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Denver Department Stores‚ a Colorado retail store chain‚ is an entity that was suffering from the effects of decreased sales volume. Jim Barton‚ the supervisor of four departments within the main location in Denver‚ was struggling with developing a process to improve the store’s sales. Barton identified with the notion that the decrease in sales volume was a simple matter of a slowdown in the economic landscape‚ and that the downturn would effect all stores in the retail business. However‚ Barton’s
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Department Stores: Big Lots and The Retail Industry Michael Martinez Business Department Stores: Big Lots and The Retail Industry I. Problem Identification This paper seeks some of the major developments in the strategies of Big Lots Inc. in order to improve their market share. The main problem that this paper would like to investigate is the kinds of marketing strategies that the company employs in order to achieve greater market share. This paper would also assess the kind of competition
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various kinds of brands‚ and the atmosphere in the shop store attract its segment. 2. Women prefer the self-service environment of Sephora rather than the service-oriented environment in department store cosmetic areas because they can sample everything they interested in by their own. Through the organized category‚ women can explore and sample different beauty products without pressure from a salesperson when shopping in a department store. That way‚ customers can take the time and enjoy more
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Index……………………………………………………………………………..1 2.Introduction…..……………………………………………………………….. 2 3.Rhoticity and its relation to social prestige……………………………..……… 3 4. The department store study……………………………………………………… 4 4.1 New York City department stores represent different social environments. 5 4.2The internal stratification in New York City Department stores………..6 5.Sociolinguistic structure of (r)……………………………………………….8 6.Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...11 7.Bibliography…………………………………………………………………….
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