AJNRR Consulting Virgin Blue Holdings A Strategic Analysis Prepared by: Andy Ley Joachim Brastein Nathan Westgarth Rishi Dave Ron Stanley * * Contents 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Virgin Blue Now 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Virgin Blue Overview 3 2.3 Virgin Blue’s Current Strategy 3 3. Outside Virgin Blue 4 3.1 Macroenvironment 4 3.2 Industry Analysis 4 4. Inside Virgin Blue 6 4.1 Resources 6 4.1 Capabilities‚ Distinct Competencies
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The four concepts which organizations use to design their marketing strategies (product concept‚ production concept‚ selling concept‚ and societal marketing concept) are important because they serve as a guide for businesses to plan and carry out their marketing and selling efforts. The production concept is the oldest of the concepts in business. It proposes that customers prefer products that are cheap and widely available. organizations that focus on this concept are likely to concentrate on
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CRUCIGRAMA #1 de Mercadotecnia de Servicios DEFINICIONES: HORIZONTAL: 1 When customers have had service problems in the past‚ when they are in a hurry or when they have an emergency‚ are examples of: _____ service intensifiers. 4 Personal factors that are stable over time and increase a customer’s sensitivity to how the service should be provided‚ are known as _____ service intensifiers. 5 In this type of trade‚ companies are mostly small and employing fewer than 50 workers‚ which 2/3
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THE THREE MOST POWERFUL MARKETING CONCEPTS Rachel Pechacek Tarleton State University Marketing Management MKTG 508 April 10‚ 2010 The Three Most Powerful Marketing Concepts The three most powerful marketing concepts are customer focus‚ marketing imagination‚ and market segmentation. Each of the three concepts when used alone establishes an intimate customer following (further described individually below); as they are aimed at satisfying a customer’s needs rather than persuading a customer
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Executive Summary This research report provides an analysis of two popular airlines in Australia; Jetstar and Virgin Blue‚ both whom are competing in the airline business. Jetstar and Virgin Blue can both compete and be highly profitable within the business‚ leisure and family market but however‚ it will ultimately be the service companies‚ and their associated marketing strategies and techniques which‚ will establish the difference between the market ‘leader’ and the market ‘loser’. This analysis
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Chevrolet currently sit in the minds of the 18-25 age group? • What are the connotations of the Chevrolet brand? • What is the potential to be a ‘cool’ and ‘must-have’ brand? Instrument 1 – Focus Group We have decided to conduct a focus group as one of our research instruments because it will collect qualitative data which is relevant for our objectives because we need to find out opinions and ideas which may be difficult to group into close-ended questions. It will consist of 6 participants
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THE VIRGIN GROUP CASE STUDY QUESTION 1: What examples does the case give of links between Branson’s strategy for Virgin and the environment in which it operates? The Virgin Group Ltd is a group of separately run British companies with the Virgin brand under the leadership of English celebrity business tycoon Sir Richard Branson. The core business areas are travel‚ entertainment and lifestyle‚ among others. Richard Branson’s strategy comes from his deepest inner beliefs;
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Marketing may be defined as a societal process by which individual and groups obtain what they need and want through creating‚ offering and freely exchanging products and services of value with others. There are four competing concepts under which organizations conduct marketing activities. They are: 1] Production concept: this concept holds that consumers will prefer products that are widely available and inexpensive. For example‚ • Companies involved in the manufacture of candies like
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customers in Co-op deal’ addresses the marketing concept of targeting highlighted in the ever-changing technological area of the macro-environment. In this article the marketing concept of targeting a segment is present. This major marketing concept involves dividing the marketing mix into segments. These distinct sub groups (target segments) comprise of buyers that react differently to various marketing techniques (Sharp‚ 2013‚ p.221). This particular marketing concept acknowledges that the needs and
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of the Virgin Group‚ is a leading company and pioneer in Suborbital Travel Industry. By offering the lowest price in the market and making the dreams of space travelling come closer‚ VG attracts the attention from the general public. With the successful launch of Spaceship One‚ VG once again determines that space travelling is possible. With Spaceship Two being tested‚ it promises that our dreams of seeing the Earth from space are not that far from the future. In this report‚ as a marketing advisor
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