Strategic Marketing Essays and Term Papers
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Forms of Industrial Organization, Market Structure, and Pricing
Forms of Industrial Organization, Market Structure, and Pricing Karl University MBA 501 Abstract The team will identify the four market structures, Pure Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopolist Competition and Pure Competition in the forms of industrial organization. Pure Monopoly is one firm or company that controls the whole market whether there may not or may be substitutes. Oligopoly is a market dominated by a few large producers of a “homogeneous” or differentiated product. Monopolistic Competition consists of
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Keywords Have Become Gamble for Marketers May 9, 2005
Keywords Have become Gamble for Marketers May 9, 2005 Felix Hofer and Douglas J. Wood’s article “Keywords Have Become Gamble for Marketers” explains the controversy over the used of keywords. Google has recently been accused of trademark infringement and dilution and unfair competition. Trademark infringement is when a company uses a competitor’s trademark in a way that may be confusing to consumers. An example of trademark infringement is when a company used a phrase or
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Market Segmentation
Market segmentation is one of the steps that goes into defining and targeting specific markets. It is the process of dividing a market into a distinct group of buyers that require different products or marketing mixes. A key factor to success in today's market place is finding subtle differences to give a business the marketing edge. Businesses that target specialty markets will promote its products and services more effectively than a business aiming at the
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The Village of Skokie Marketing Plan
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Village of Skokie is entering a new era as it begins to offer new ways of providing services to its constituents, its businesses, its vendors and other parties who transact with the Village whether frequently or infrequently. These offerings are based on desires expressed by the Village’s Board of Trustees, the managerial and supporting staff members and the public as a whole. Our recent public survey shows a desire by many to
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A Strategic Management Paper on Wal-Mart
A strategic management paper on Wal-mart Abstract Sam Walton, a leader with an innovative vision, started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. Through his savvy, and sometimes unusual, business practices, he and his associates led the company forward for thirty years. Today, four years after his death, the company is still growing steadily. Wal-Mart executives continue to rely on many of the traditional goals and
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A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration University of Virginia Working Paper No. 01-02 A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management R. Edward Freeman John McVea This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=263511 A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management R. Edward Freeman And John McVea The Darden School University of Virginia Forthcoming in M. Hitt, E. Freeman, and J. Harrison (eds.) Handbook of Strategic Management, Oxford:
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Marketing Ethics
Ethics are a set of beliefs which influence how individuals, groups and society behave. Ethics need to be taken into account when marketing a business. Businesses have a social responsibility. The impact of their product and activities on society must be ethical. Ethical responsibilities refer to the moral basis for business activity and whether what the business does is ‘right’. Advertising and promotion are important marketing tools that, when implemented, must be ethical. For example,
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Ethics in Marketing Communication
Ethical Challenges in Marketing Communication Ethics play an integral role in the development and sustenance of any personal or business relationship. Ethics determine the acceptable behaviors within a society and the overall behaviors of a business. Marketers must understand the impact ethics have on marketing communications and develop Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) strategies accordingly. This paper will discuss various ethical challenges facing marketers today, identify internal and external factors on IMC, and formulate two ethical
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Dipro Marketing Management Audit
Executive Summary Dipro has become the most successful launch in terms of sales in the history of DC Pharmaceuticals, toping $110M in only six full months! • Dipro is already considered the Gold Standard for advanced disease therapy. • Dipro has quickly moved into the fourth position, among the eight most prescribed Interlobular Lung Disease (ILD) treatments in terms of audited sales when comparing their 12 months of data to our 61/2 months. • The
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Marketing Consulting
Marketing Departments in mid-sized businesses face lots of challenges such as how to target customers more efficiently, how to increase market share, how to compete in the market-place and be ahead of competition, and how to increase one-to-one communications with customers. The unsteady economy has pressured businesses to become as streamlined as possible, leaving marketing departments short on budget and staff. Today, our role as Marketing Consultants is to help companies not only retain current
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Krispy Kreme Marketing Plan
1.0 Executive Summary Krispy Kreme Doughnuts owns and franchises stores that produce and sell over 20 different types of specialty doughnuts. Since the company’s founding in 1937, Krispy Kreme has grown into a leading specialty retailer producing over 1.8 billion doughnuts a year. With the acquisition of Digital Java in 2002, Krispy Kreme expanded its product line to include gourmet coffee. Retail stores now brew and sell our own line of coffee, which puts us
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Policy Analysis Market
Introduction The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was born in the uncertain days after the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1958. Its mission was to become an engine of technological change that would bridge the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use (Bray, 2003). Over the last five decades, the Agency has efficiently gone about its business in relative obscurity, in many cases not getting as much credit as it deserved. The Agency first
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Benetton Marketing Strategies
Marketing Strategies Product Development and Promotion Benetton had a unique product basket with brighter, fashionable yet casual clothes. The market was clustered on the basis age and products were retailed under different labels and product names. The company's product list consisted of more than 2000 different item-label combinations. The major product lines of Benetton were 012 Benetton, Jeans West, My Market, Sisley, Tomato and Mercerie For each trade name, appropriate style of furniture and equipment,
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Reebok Strategic Audit
Joseph William Foster in England formed Reebok in the 1890’s. The company was founded based on the need to increase the long-distance track runner’s performance. In 1979, Paul Fireman bought the rights to market and distribute the products in the US and Reebok USA was formed. Reebok USA eventually merged with Reebok International and today Reebok International is a very diversified operation with distribution worldwide. Through the acquisition of several footwear and apparel makers, the
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Marketing
Marketing is a large range of activities that ensure the company is meeting the needs of their customers and receiving appropriate value in return (Free Management Library, 2007). Marketing is researching and implementing a plan to ensure that the products are distributed to the correct people and to ensure the products are successful. Marketing has many different types of strategies involved and depending on the type of business being run has different techniques involved. Business
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Phase I, Ii, III and IV Marketing Plan
Marketing Plan: Phase I, II, III, and IV Lora, Jina, Tina, and Josie MKT 421 Jon Smith 1/25/2008 Executive Summary Petsmart would like to introduce a new product called CuddleSmart. This product has been developed in order to aid desired pet owners to control allergies caused by cats and dogs. A four-phased plan has been developed to market the new product. Phase 1 – Development of CuddleSmart • Development of product – 63% of 112.9
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Marketing Mix
Marketing Mix David Shirazyan Marketing MKT 421 University of Phoenix Doug Bottomley January 10, 2007 Marketing Mix Marketing is a vital part of any business and is an integral component of selling any product. Whether the business is a small mom and pop operation or a world leader, marketing is a part of the business. Because there are many ways to fulfill the needs of the customer, a straight-forward approach is to consider the
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Marketing Plan
When putting together a marketing plan, using the four P’s are essential in properly executing the plan. When referring to the four P’s I mean product, price, promotion, and place. Global Premier Development is a condo development company here in Orange County. G.P.D. has an extensive background in developing apartments and condos all throughout California. G.P.D’s products are condos that will cater to families all throughout California. Considering the extremely inflated real estate values
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Marketing Audit Approach
Marketing Audit Approach Sushil Kumar July 17, 2006 Marketing Audit Approach “A marketing audit is a comprehensive, systematic examination of a company’s marketing organization, strategies, tactics, objectives, and activities. A marketing audit enables senior management to discover the organization’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to opportunities and threats it faces in the marketplace, and pinpoint more effective uses for the available marketing resources” (Willson, 2003). “Half the money you spend on marketing is wasted. The
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Marketing Case Studies
Chapter 3: Cola Wars Question #1: In the new Coke fiasco, how could Coca-Cola’s marketing research have been improved? To determine how the marketing research could have been improved, let us first define the end result. Ultimately, consumers felt almost betrayed that Coca-Cola scratched their flagship product, Coke, for a newer, updated flavor. Coca-Cola’s marketing research showed that over half of the people who taste-tested the new flavor preferred it over Pepsi and the nearly
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Heineken in the Market
The main issue that comes to surface when dealing with globalization is “being able to adapt”. One could never globalize operations if the ability to adapt to other cultures is not present. That means that there is a necessity of a corporate culture which enables a organization to adapt and integrate into the culture in which there will be operated. It is clear that Heineken has such a culture. Heineken sees itself as an integral
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Marketing and Promotion
MARKETING AND PROMOTION Promotion is part of marketing which can be considered as one of the youngest disciplines in the business world and is driven by innovation (Sutheralnd and Canwell, 2004). Within it, marketing communications, or promotion, is a management process through which an organization engages with its various audiences. Through understanding and audience’s communications environment, organizations seek to develop and present messages for their identified stakeholder groups, before evaluating and acting upon the responses
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The State and Free Market
Kiesha Webb 02-09-06 History 435 Dr. Roberto The State and Free Market 1) The weaknesses Keynes found in Laissez-Faire were that it failed to account of the ways savings and investments could fall out of sync and disrupt the economy both at the bottom and the top of the range of economic performance. It doesn’t take into account the cost of bringing the most successful profit makers to the top by bankrupting the less successful;
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Marketing in Vietnamese Banks
CONTENT Abstract Content Abbreviation...........................................................................................................1 1 Introduction...........................................................................................................2 2 Introduction about BIDV.....................................................................................2 2.1 Overall Vietnam banking market.....................................................................2 2.2 Introduction about BIDV.................................................................................3 2.3 The marketing activities of BIDV....................................................................4 3 PEST analysis........................................................................................................5 3.1. Political-legal environment..............................................................................5 3.2. Economic environment....................................................................................5 3.3 Socialcultural environment..............................................................................6 3.4. Technological environment.............................................................................7 4 Marketing challenges of BIDV............................................................................7 4.1 How to improve and develop new products....................................................7 4.1.1 How to improve and develop new credit products.....................................7 4.1.2 How to improve and innovate banking services........................................8 4.2 How to increase financial
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Tesco Marketing
Page4: Introduction, Objectives INTRODUCTION Tesco is one of the best known names in the high street. It is a large public limited company (plc) with approximately 165 000 shareholders. By 1995, Tesco had become the largest food retailer in the UK, overtaking Sainsbury's. The company operates over 800 stores throughout Europe. BUSINESS OBJECTIVES Tesco sets objectives for the four main areas of its business: customers operations people (ie employees) shareholders. Figure 1: The Tesco Steering
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