...and Value through Marketing UNIQLO: UNIQUe cLOtheS, UNIQUe ShOppING eXperIeNce A hugge Japanese adult consumer preferred luxury brands, whereas the teenage crowd tended to frequent niche fashion shops to stay current with the latest trends. At the time, casual clothing in Japan was thought of as being either affordable but poorly made or of high quality but expensive. The market for casual clothing was also fairly limited, with people in general perceiving such informal wear to be trendy and impractical, and to cater mostly to younger people. Tadashi Yanai, the founder and chairman of Fast Retailing—the parent company of UNIQLO— set out to change all that, aiming to provide consumers with casual clothes that were affordable and yet of good quality, and to expand the market for casual clothes to the entire population. In 1998, UNIQLO began a revolution in the Japanese fashion industry with a now-legendary line of fleece garments that came in a gradient of colors and were sold at an affordable price of ¥1,900 each. It proved to be UNIQLO’s best selling item and is still one of its most popular products today. Suddenly, fleece garments—and UNIQLO— were “cool” and hip, and the demand for UNIQLO’s affordable, casual wear exploded. LearNING OBJectIVeS After reading this chapter you should be able to: Define marketing and identify the requirements for marketing to occur. Explain how marketing discovers and satisfies consumer needs. Distinguish between marketing mix elements and...
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