Burton

Burton

By: Jens De Roover

For: Anne De Clercq

Group: MK2A

Date:

Motivation

There are many different reasons why I have chosen Burton as my subject. First of all this brands is an international brand, wich makes it easy to find english information on the internet.

But also becaus I am sportsmanlike, and this brand have an sportsman image.

I am a huge snowboard fan and one of the main products that Burton provides are snowboards.

We prefer Burton above the other providing companies, becaus Burton

was the first official snowboard producer in 1977.

The marketing part of this brand is very extensive:

they sponsor a few of the best riders of the world and 4 snowparks

situated in the USA and Austria.

?

Identification Burton

? Business/industry: Retail business/industry

? Burton works in Business- to-Business as well as in Business-to-consumer market, knowing that the B2C part only counts 10 shops yet.

? It's a private sector organization.

? It's a product-focused organization, they produce snowboards, helmets, backpacks and lots more snowboard equipment.

? activities involved in: Burton has his own competitive snowboard team, with the a few of the best rides of the world.

? Customers/clients: Businesses all over the world.

? Route to market: When the new products are launched, they are available in the stores selling the brand.

? Plans for the future:

?

Competitors

Burton makes equipment that riders need.

Riders is term for people who ride a snowboard.

The products of Burton are not only used by riders, for example: a new upcoming trend are the backpacks, wich now are used as a normal school bag.

This will result in alot of competitors for burton.

The main product of Burton are still the snowboards, so competitors that take part in this branch are the most important ones.

These companies can also produce other goods that compete with Burton.

Competitors in snowboards

Academy

Artec

Ambient

Abor

Atomic

Artec

Forum Novelties

Fresh

Flow

K2 Sports

Lamar

Lib Tech

LTD

Nitro

Ride

Rossignol

Roxy

Rome

Salomon

Technine

Voile

24/7

Bataleon

Santa Cruz

Competitors in other goods ( this includes: Clothing, gloves, backpacks, Protection Equipment)

686

Academy

Airblaster

Analog

5150

Agency

anon

Arcteryx