...MAR11 – Marketing Theory and Practice Assignment 1: Analysing Marketing Opportunities Clare Perry Student ID NO. 23636173 Tutor: Johnathon Pura Due Date: 29th June 2011 Word Count: 2191 ‘YUM YUM GRAINS’ AND THE MARKETING MIX Introduction ‘Yum Yum Grain’s was established in 1998, founded in rural Victoria and is a leading manufacturer of breakfast cereals, specialising in kids breakfast cereals and snacks. Their main focus is their values, being Healthy, substantial, tasty and economical. Aware of the increase in child obesity and diabetes in Australia, ‘Yum Yum Grains’ provides parents the confidence their child is going to school with a healthy balanced breakfast. For the purpose of this assignment I am basing it on the marketing analysis of their new product “Kaleidoscope’s”. Each product has its own target market. A market is ‘the set of all actual and potential buyers of a product’ (Kotler P; Brown L; Adam S; Burton S; Armstrong G . 2007 pg 11, Marketing 7th ed. Pearsons Education Australia). The breakfast Cereal market consists of all the actual and potential buyers of a breakfast cereal. The purpose of this assignment is to identify the trends within the six macro-environments and how they could impact upon “Yum Yum Grains” target market. Analysis of Macro-environments The marketing environment consists of the actors and forces that affect the marketing management’s ability to develop and maintain successful transactions with its target customers....
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...company. The head office and factory are located in Sydney, New South Wales and it is manufactured and distributed from this location. Main Cereal Company offers organic cereals, which consists of Australian grown whole grains, fruits and nuts. Main Cereal Company has developed a new breakfast cereal range called Bran Flakes. The range offers ‘Bran Flakes Original’ (only flakes), ‘Bran Flakes Mixed Fruits’ and ‘Bran Flakes and Nut’. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the six forces that operate and within the macroenvironment, the six influences are: demographic, economic, natural, technological, cultural, and political (Kotler, Brown, Burton, Deans and Armstrong, 2010). All six forces play a significant role in marketing Main Cereal Company’s new range. Demographic As explained by Kotler, et al. (2010) demographic environment is “the study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, sex, race, occupation and other statistics” (p.137). Statistics indicate Australia has lower fertility rates and people are living for longer. This has increased Australia’s median age, evidently resulting in Australian have an ageing population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). In the year 2007 Australian’s population for people over the age of 60 was sitting at 18%, however by the year 2050 they predict over a quarter of Australian’s population will be over the age of 60 (Kotler et al., 2010, pp.140). With this is mind, nearly one fifth of...
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...Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Triple bottom line analysis 3 1. Profit 3 2. Planet 3 2.1 Environmental stewardship 3 2.2 Financial contribution to the planet safeguard. 3 3. People 4 3.1 Employee benefits 4 3.2 Empowering African women (gender balancing) 4 3.3 A new perspective on aids 4 III. Stakeholders analysis 5 1. Company analysis 5 1.1 Strengths 5 1.2 Weaknesses 5 1.3 Oliberte’s key internal stakeholders 5 2. Community analysis 6 2.1 The government of Ethiopia 6 2.2 Certifying bodies 6 3.1 Main customers 7 3.2 Mint footwear san Diego 7 4. Competitor analysis 7 4.1 Some competitors 7 4.2 TOMS 7 IV. Conclusion 7 V. References notes and Bibliography 8 ANALYZING OLIBERTE LIMITED’S SUSTAINABLE MARKETING I. Introduction Oliberte Limited is a Canada based B-corporation specialized in leather shoes manufacturing. The particularity of this company is that its shoes are entirely crafted in Africa with hormones free livestock material. The following essay is an analysis of Oliberte’s 3BL and stakeholders. II. Triple bottom line analysis 1. Profit Oliberte started its business in 2009 with a sales figure as high as 200 pairs of shoes. The sales increased up to 10,000 pairs in 2011 and 15,000 in 2012 with the launching of its own new factory in Addis Ababa. Though the company claims on its official website to have exceeded its sales projection, Mr Dehtiar the founder and president of Oliberte was expecting the 2012 sales to be between...
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...ONLINE TOURISM AND TRAVEL- ANALYSING TRENDS FROM MARKETING PERSPECTIVE Dr. Manoj Dixit Reader Department of Public Administration University of Lucknow Email: manojdixit23@gmail.com Dr. Rakesh Belwal Assistant Professor Department of Management Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Email: rakesh_belwal@yahoo.com Dr. Gurmeet Singh Senior Lecturer Department of Management & Public Administration University of South Pacific Fiji islands Email: drgurmeetsingh@yahoo.com 1 ONLINE TOURISM AND TRAVEL- ANALYSING TRENDS FROM MARKETING PERSPECTIVE ABSTRACT Tourism is the world's largest civilian industry whose growth, economic significance and potential are phenomenal across the globe. Online tourism is rapidly becoming a growing topic of research and its importance as future mode of acquiring information and purchase of tourism products and services is growing day by day. The present paper has been written with the extensive research on contemporaneous data, websites and conference proceedings on tourism related aspects. Web survey, focused interviews have been used to elicit specific information for such qualitative analysis.The domain of Internet is increasing day by day. Tourism products, in particular, have yet to realize its complete advantage. Still, Internet has significantly benefited the bottom line of tourism organizations in terms of cost of converting as well as losing customers with pluses and minuses respectively. Keeping this in view, online tourism...
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...[pic] |Aotearoa Tertiary Institute | | | |NZ Diploma in Business (NZDipBus) | | | |648 Marketing Planning & Control | | | |2015 Trimester Three | | | |Assignment One | This assignment is to be completed and handed at Reception no later than 4.00 pm Tuesday of Week 6. This is an individual assignment. This assignment covers the topic Situation Analysis. You are encouraged to work with classmates in your study group however you must write and express your own ideas. A...
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...Difference between Fashion Marketing and Normal Marketing? Marketing is the process of anticipating a consumer need and then making or offering a product which satisfies the customer and also feedback is important to improve the product. Therefore, it is communicating the value of a product or service to the final customer. It involves the 4 P’s of marketing which are Product, Place, Price, and Promotion. While Fashion marketing is the profession that takes the latest trends and designs in clothing and communicates them to a target market in such a way that the consumer is not only aware of the product, but wants to and ultimately does buy the product. It is the process of analysing, developing and marketing current fashion trends and determining and segmenting the customers. The goal of fashion marketing is to move clothing out of designer’s showrooms and into customer closets. Fashion marketing has increased competition as fashion gains exposure and has wider appeals. In this marketing, the fashion comes and goes according to the trends and the season. In fashion marketing, the customer’s needs depend upon the lifestyle of a person, for example a 22 year married girl will have different needs from a 22 year college going girl. In these types of market demand of product arises frequently and it get fulfilled very quickly. While in normal marketing the competition factor is less as there are no new innovations frequently because people prefer the same product more which they...
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...marketer is their skills in analysing, eye for details, research abilities & many more attributes. Marketers spend a lot of time analysing not only their own brand but the competition. This allows them to compare brands to see who is leading the product race and the differences others have that are giving them a leading edge. Once data is collected it is the marketers’ job to analyse the results, from the results the marketer will come up with a sales campaign that will would either form a way to further promote or re-invent the product. Within Byron Sharp’s publication Marketing: Theory, Evidence & Practice he states “While success or failure depends a great deal on luck, marketing strategy has a huge influence on a brand’s success or decline. There is much marketing knowledge that (if used wisely) can help grow brands.” An example of this is the Apple product the iPod. The iPod was hugely successful due not only to Apple’s marketing campaign but the way they saw the future within computer storing software of music formally known as iTunes. The iPod wasn’t the first portable music player but outsold the original Sony Walkman 5 to 1 in the first 10 years of sale as shown in figure 1. figure 1. Marketing has developed the concept ‘Marketing Mix’, the way it works is with the four P’s (Price, Product, Promotion & Place). This concept by Neil Borden of Harvard Business School allowed this strategy to produce longer marketing campaigns some of which based...
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...Question2 2.1)The marketing concept is a marketing philosophy that sees the customers’ needs as the central focus of the company’s activities and planning whilst following its corporate social responsibility. It consists of creating a system that will provide the customer with his/her needs and at the same time having the company make a profit, which therefore creates customer value. It consists of satisfying the needs of the customer whilst still reaching the company’s goals. The four principles contained in the marketing concept are profitability, customer orientation, social responsibility and organisational integration. It encourages focus on the needs and wants of the consumers by teamwork and working as a unit. (Strydom, 2004, p.299) 2.2) Profit is not just there to make the shareholders happy. Profit can benefit the company in many ways, helping it to grow, and reach the desired goals of the company. Without profit, the company can not create quality advertising in order to give it the edge over its competitors. It can not afford advertising, sales promotion, and publicity, which are essential in giving the company the competitive edge over its competitors. Quality market research will not be able to take place as the company will not have the capital to fund market research. Without profit, the product/service will not be able to stay at the desired quality. It will not be able to create a happy environment for staff (staff functions, raises etc...)...
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...Ch1 What is Marketing Marketing has been defined by the AMA as an organisational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers, and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organisation and its stakeholders. What is Marketing Strategy? A Marketing Strategy consists of selecting a segment of the market as the company’s target market and designing the proper “mix” of the product/service, price, promotion, and distribution system to meet the wants and needs of the consumers within the target market. What is Marketing Research Marketing research is the process of designing, gathering, analysing, and reporting information that may be used to solve a specific marketing problem，the function that links the consumer, customer, and public to the marketer through information – information used to identify and define marketing opportunities and problems What are the uses of Marketing Research • Identify marketing opportunities and problems • Generate, refine, and evaluate potential marketing actions • Monitor marketing performance • Improve marketing as a process Ch2 Marketing Research Process Step 1: Establish the Need Research takes time and costs money Step 2: Define the Problem • If the problem is incorrectly defined, all else is wasted effort. • Problems may be either specific or general. Step 3: Establish Objectives Research objectives, when achieved, provide the information...
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...Relevant Legislation 7 Introduction In this report, it will be discussed and reported about garden supply and nursery business, café business, and current development, also future development of the business. Marketing research as a first step is suggested to establish what the problem is, which it will be broken down briefly below. Background of Business David and his wife, Alison, have been in the garden supply and nursery business for the last 13 years. The business has prospered over the years. In the last 5 years, a small café has been opened inside the nursery, where about 3 years ago, the café operations was extended, includes trading hours extension, adding new menu, and extra tables and chairs, as well take-away food and sit-in dining are offered. Preliminary project scope Project name : Marketing research for garden and nursery business Project client/owner : David/Alison Project sponsor : David/Alison Project manager : Obed Project stakeholders : David, Alison, David’s daughter, staff members Objective the objective of this market research project is to maintain and increase the sales of this business product and services in the market in between the competitors of its business. The scope of the market research project includes: * Analysing target market by reviewing internal product sales...
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..."Marketing ideas have made singularly little penetration into the centres of influence of the construction industry. To some extent this follows from the character of the industry as an agglomeration of service organisations, not without structural relationship to one another, but serving a clientele from which individuals seek service very infrequently." (Jepson & Nicholson, 1972: p.1) Although times have and are changing the above statement despite being written over twenty five years ago is still to some extent very true. The subject of this assignment is a construction firm that has recently designed and implemented a marketing management strategy. The objective of this assignment is fourfold, firstly the company’s approach to marketing management will be documented this will then be related to marketing management theory Then by analysing data collected through research the effectiveness of the strategy will be discussed. Finally using marketing management theory as a foundation recommendations will be made to identify where the initial strategy could be improved in order to promote future business development and success, in line with the strategic mission of the company. The organisation in question has strong foundations, since it’s incorporation in the mid fifties turnover has grown in line with inflation. In 1984 the Company was purchased by the son of the original managing director, he took up the role of new managing director. By the beginning of the 1990’s it became...
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...Task 1 1.1 Review the changing perspective in the marketing planning Marketing planning is a blueprint of the organization that describes the organization marketing efforts and its future destination. The more the company can make the marketing planning, the more the company will be succeeding in the market. Marketing planning is significant to utilize the company’s available resources and to achieve the specific goal of the organization. Business environment is changing in everyday now. The operational manager faces problem with changing environment in the business. The changing perspective in the marketing planning is that the marketing planning changes in different business environment. The marketing planning must be flexible. In the changing the marketing planning of the business, the organisation got better position in the market to capture opportunities and can easily handle risks. The organisation can use the marketing resources more effectively. By the changing marketing planning, the organisation can improve the sales and profit. 1.2 Evaluating organization capability for planning its future marketing activity Capability is the power that specifies the ability of the work force of the business organization. The company should make its marketing planning based on its capability. If the organization does not consider the organization’s core ability to make its marketing planning, the organization will no able to implement those planning. There are many theories to...
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...The notion of marketing developed from product-focused to consumer-focused is long standing, and the influence of consumers in the process of brand development can not be underestimated nowadays (Linehan, M and Cadogan, T. 2000). This article explores and examines the co-creation process, affirming the importance of co-creation in the entrepreneurial development of designer fashion enterprises particularly. By analysing the three essential stages through grounded theory and in-depth interviews, respectively, presentation, interpretation and reaction, the author holds the belief that the continuous cooperation between stakeholders and enterprises can help brand development effectively, and can obtain distinctive brand recognition in which condition...
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... | |Max 500 words per individual evaluation. Evaluations longer than 500 words will receive a 15% mark deduction. | |Submission due: Monday 30th November 2015, 11:55pm (ACST), via learnonline course website | |Individual evaluations can only be submitted as .doc or .docx files | |MARK 5025 – Marketing Management | | | |Name of student reviewing group poster: _______________Anh Khoa VO__________________________________________________________________ | |...
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...Evaluate the Tesco marketing (distribution) channels Marketing-channel decisions are one of the most critical decisions that Tesco needs to make because the chosen channel could profoundly affect all other marketing decisions. Intensive market research would need to be performed by analysing customer needs, establishing channel objectives and identifying and evaluating the major alternatives to be able to decide which type of channel is suitable. Tesco uses their Club Card to retrieve customer buying habits to tailor their marketing channels more effectively. For example to get customers into the store, Tesco gives out vouchers to targeted individuals and their product interests. Three of the most important trends are the growth of vertical marketing systems, horizontal marketing systems and multichannel marketing systems. All marketing channels have the potential for conflict and competition resulting from such sources as goal incompatibility, poorly defined roles and rights, perceptual differences and interdependent relationships. Horizontal Conflict: Occurs among firms at the same level of the channel. For instance, some Toyota dealers might complain the other dealers in the same city steal sales from them by pricing too low or by selling outside their assigned territories. Or one hotel franchise might complain about other operators overcharging guests or giving poor service, hurting the overall franchise image. Vertical Conflict: Conflicts between different...
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