...Direct Energy -Brand Report Card Global Marketing 1: Marketing Fundamentals Veronica Cheong [Email] [Web address] Table of Contents I. Executive Summary ................................................................................................1 Brand Scorecard ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Top 3 Recommendations ................................................................................................................................... 1 II. Industry and Corporate Overview ......................................................................... 2 Energy Industry Overview ................................................................................................................................. 2 Direct Energy Corporate Structure ................................................................................................................... 3 Direct Energy Brand Portfolio .......................................................................................................................... 3 III. Brand Diagnosis .................................................................................................... 4 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Delivering on Customer Desires........................................................................................................... 4 Relevance .............................
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...Presented by Jeannine Komonosky Long Le James E. Salter Copyright © 2005 SalterQuest.com. All Rights Reserved. Introduction • Watch Industry • Key Brand Components • Current Brand Strategy • Image Associations • Perceptual Map • Competitive Position • Industry Analysis • Opportunities & Threats • • • • Strengths Weaknesses Brand Report Card Revised Branding Goal and Strategy • Revised Brand Messaging Copyright © 2005 SalterQuest.com. All Rights Reserved. Watch Industry • History – Industry Grew up in Geneva – Swiss Watches have a Worldwide Reputation for Quality • Technological Developments – Mechanical Watches have 100 to 130 components – Light-emitting diodes (LED) – Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) – Quartz Analog • Brands now Compete on: – Features – Product Attributes – Positioning Copyright © 2005 SalterQuest.com. All Rights Reserved. Key Brand Components • Early Publicity Advantages • Branding Challenge • Importance of Marketing • Role of Collectable Copyright © 2005 SalterQuest.com. All Rights Reserved. Current Brand Strategy • Early Brand Strategy • Current Brand Strategy Copyright © 2005 SalterQuest.com. All Rights Reserved. Image Associations Corporate Success Symbol Swiss Made Luxury Market Wealth in Travel Prestige Sports The World of Rolex Luxury Adventure James Bond 007 Disposable Income Copyright © 2005 SalterQuest.com. All Rights Reserved. Perceptual Map ...
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...network site, particularly is perceptions and advancements of Facebook. It begins by understanding this familiar tool from a marketer’s perspective. Following this, how Facebook changing the marketing practices is perceived. The essay finishes with implications for marketing practitioners. Firstly, there is different perception of marketers on Facebook, but the essay mostly provides general views relating to the current marketing issue. Brand relationship is illuminated from the marketing practitioners. It is probably interesting that over half of the social networking introspective people had become a fan of at least one brand. It happens in these forums that conversation commonly takes place between customer and customer or between customer and brand manager. In the more outstanding scheme of a consumer's life might seem relatively unimportant, but it is crucial in classifying and categorizing customer distrust and building sincere relationships for marketers (Patterson, 2011). For instance, Patterson has become a fan of a lot of brands like Nike, Ryanair, Mariah and Coke. This allows him to keep updated products, promotions or contests because he is one of consumers who enjoy catching up with promotions. Moreover, how Facebook places means for marketers (Lazerow, 2010). For those of who often...
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...MARKET SEGMENTATION: ADVIEWS ONLINE & LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD MARKET SEGMENTATION: ADVIEWS ONLINE & LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD To segment the market for the products - Nielsen Adviews online and Lowes Consumer credit card- using the segmentation basis on business-to-business and business-to-consumer market. Vijay Kumar Poomalai Student # 119000715 School of business and management Aberystwyth University vkp@aber.ac.uk TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 ASSUMPTIONS 2 2.1 ADVIEWS ONLINE 2 2.2 LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD 2 3 INTRODUCTION 2 3.1 ADVIEWS ONLINE 2 3.2 LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD 4 4 MARKET SEGMENTATION: ADVIEWS ONLINE 4 4.1 Organization Characteristics 5 4.2 Customer Characteristics 7 5 MARKET SEGMENTATION: LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD 9 5.1 Profile Criteria 9 5.2 Psychological Criteria 10 5.3 Behavioural Criteria 11 6 CONCLUSION 12 6.1 ADVIEWS ONLINE 12 6.2 LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD 12 7 RECOMMENDATIONS 12 7.1 ADVIEWS ONLINE 12 7.2 LOWE’S CONSUMER CREDIT CARD 13 8 REFERENCES 14 9 APPENDIX 15 ASSUMPTIONS Following are the assumptions based on which this report has been created. The product are not analysed or described exactly as it is in the field and the description on these products may have some variations. Note: The products that are mentioned in this document do not represent the real products. ADVIEWS ONLINE * Not all the features that are supported in this application...
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...Eric Dowling Alex Davydov Matthew Melnicoff Soledad Querol Molly Rotsch Contents Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................................3 Marketing Analysis .............................................................................................................................................3 The Target Brand ............................................................................................................................................3 "The Guest" ....................................................................................................................................................4 Target's Competitors ......................................................................................................................................4 Expect More, Pay Less ....................................................................................................................................4 Rise of the Store Brand ...................................................................................................................................5 Up and Up......................................................................................................................................................6 The Introduction of PFresh.............................................................................................................
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...2014 – 2015 MKTG 3010 C Exploratory Research Report Team Dynasty Group Members: Chen Ming, Lau Man Yan, Leung Chui Ying, Liu Kwan Ho , Ng Pui Sin, Yu Lubin 1) Business problem and research objective According to a marketing research report released by Experian Hong Kong in 2011, Groupon is the leading group buying company in Hong Kong with market share of 62%. It surpasses the second group buying company Beecrazy which only has market share of 13%. Facing the dominance of Groupon in the market, Beecrazy hopes to find effective strategies to help itself improve and gain more market share. Our research aims to discover what consumers care most when choosing group buying company and reveal the business problems of Beecrazy. We will research on four aspects – payment methods, credibility of group purchase platform, platform for sharing, and diversity and abundance of deals. From the research results, we hope to help mangers of Beecrazy to make good marketing and management decisions. 2) Secondary data analysis 2.1. Credibility of Beecrazy Beecrazy’s customers sometimes fail to redeem their deals. According to Headline Daily in July this year, Beecrazy received increasing complaints from its customers. Majority of the complaints were about failing to receive products after buying the discount vouchers online. Some affected customers even reported their dissatisfying experience to the Police. Also, according to Hong Kong Economic Times in 2012, one design...
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...decisions Executive Summary This report is based on Sainsbury’s management and business plans and performs an analysis of the company’s performance, governance and strategies in accordance with the literature review conducted for our study. The literature review focuses on the use of loyalty schemes as introduced by Sainsbury’s and business strategies related to marketing that affect the sales and profits of a company. Sainsbury’s approach to business is providing quality services to make the company great as well as to retain customers and long term relationships with suppliers and distributors. In this regard Sainsbury’s seems to have succeeded as its last year’s sales figures have gone up by a considerable percentage and it leads the market in terms of sales, doing even better than Tesco. The management structure including corporate governance and the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the company have been given here showing why Sainsbury’s could use its business strategies to become the largest retailer within the UK and move ahead of Tesco and other companies for a larger and more consistent consumer base. This report and analysis focuses on the strategic opportunities and directions available to Sainsbury’s after conducting a detailed analysis of its business strategies including governance and organisational structure and management decision-making processes. The financial reports of Sainsbury’s and the report on the management process in...
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...Management Nanyang Polytechnic February 13, 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the current customer relationship management of Singapore Café Ptd Ltd. The purpose of this report is to enhance the existing customer’s experience at Singapore Café and to increase our presence in the F&B Industry. Sources of data collection include search engines and websites of the companies. The report finds that it is important for Singapore Café to focus on our one-to-one marketing management and knowing who our customers are, where they are and what they need. However, in order to nurture better relationship with customers and retaining them, Singapore Café needs to keep a consistent system of collating information from returned feedback forms and take a step further in enhancing our programme and activities in engaging with our customers. Recommendations discussed include: * Leveraging on Social Media * Develop a centralised customer database. TABLE OF CONTENTS IMPLEMENTING CUSTOMER 1 RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 1 AS A CORE BUSINESS STRATEGY 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 INTRODUCTION 5 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM 5 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 5 SCOPE OF REPORT 6 SOURCES AND METHOD 6 FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS 7 CONCLUSION 14 RECOMMENDATION 15 LIST OF FIGURES Figures 1 Costa Coffee Six-Months Sales Projection 8 2 Loyalty Card 9 3 Costa Coffee Loyalty Card Website 9 4 Starbucks Group Member Social Media 10 5 Benefits of Social...
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...FSPA Sporting Goods Report CENTRAL EUROPE The third of the FSPA European Sports Research projects is the Central European Report, covering the larger 5 countries France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany and consisting of 4 volumes: Executive Summary – GERMANY Contact the FSPA: Tel: Fax: E-mail: Web: +44 (0) 2476 414999 x207 +44 (0) 2476 414990 milly@sportsandplay.com www.sportsandplay.com Executive Summary THE SPORTS GOODS MARKET IN CENTRAL EUROPE Volume 4: GERMANY 376 pages of English text and charts on the largest sporting goods market in Europe Case studies of successful and unsuccessful market penetration and related tips Sports participation and trade figures In-depth analysis of the whole supply chain Ten product categories studied from top to bottom Consumption trends and effective marketing strategies Comprehensive market and foreign trade statistics Listings of 184 executives interviewed and about 280 other distributors and retailers Profiles of 105 companies Fourth volume of a series also comprising reports on France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland Overview and highlights of the German report Located in the centre of Europe, Germany has been one of the few founding member states of the European Communities, later known as the European Union. The early membership has eased the supply chain from important ports. Thanks also to the fact that Germany has the largest population of any European country west of Russia, it has been the place on the...
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...answer the questions at the end of the case. Brand ambassador : employing real customers to get the word around. People love talking about things that make them happy - including their favorite products and brands. For example, if you really like an airline - they fly with flair and get you there at a reasonable price or you just love your recently acquired Sony camera - it is too good to keep the knowledge of the experience to yourself. In the old days, you would have chatted up these brands with a few friends and family members, but these days technology allows you to spread the word about products and brands experiences to thousands of other consumers. In response, Marketers are now working to harness the new found communications power of their everyday customers by turning them into influential brand ambassadors. Companies like Sony, Microsoft and McDonald's are now developing a new breed of brand ambassador programs that organize and multiply consumer to consumer interactions about their brands. These programs employ everyday consumers who are passionate about their products to act as part PR agents and part sales reps. MS-61 3 http://gyansagar.co.in Marketers select their brand ambassadors very carefully, based on customers' devotion to a brand and the size of their social circles. Once selected, the ambassadors are trained with real brand knowledge to go along with their passion for the brand. The ambassadors then tap into friends, family...
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...food quality by expanding the food menu * Change in customers taste with time * Less spending * No employee satisfaction * No. of units sold is the same but the revenue generated is lesser 2. Analyze the dynamics between McMichael and Wallace. Are they looking in the same direction? Why, why not? Anita McMichael and Trevor Wallace both recognize that The Coop needs to grow directionally by investing money in research to address the lack of quality and customer satisfaction issues. But both have a different approach to market research. McMichael believed that the underlying problem was to do with the operations, either customer service or food quality. Whereas, Wallace believed that the problem involved the company’s brand image and marketing activities. Hence, both are thinking and focusing from their narrow functional area. One also needs to note that Anita McMichael, Vice president quality, is deeply rooted in the company’s culture and seems to be a little old school of thought - was hired in 1982 – was unwilling to compromise food quality – instituted policies to control food preparation and delivery process – followed the motto “We are chicken” – her believe: if the...
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...Analysis This essay will focus on the global cards payments industry where Visa and MasterCard operate. Introduction VISA and MasterCard belong to the non-cash business of the global payments industry, an economic sector that is strongly affected by technology and innovation due to the fundamental shift from paper based payments (cash/checks) towards paper-less payments (credit cards, mobile payments, etc). This shift is considered almost irreversible as consumers appreciate more and more the convenience, practicality and security of the electronic money. Similarly for corporations the use of paper-less money brings uncontestable benefits in terms of management, efficiency and security of money flows. The global volume of non-cash transactions is approximately 260 billion (2009 data) and is growing globally at an average rate of around 7%, with Asia-Pacific and Emerging Markets growing a higher rate than USA and Europe. USA represents without any doubt the largest non-cash payments market in the world (40%) followed by the Europe (21%) and mature Asia-Pacific (all together 83%). In terms of future trends, non-cash payments are expected to grow at a very high rate in (37%) in CEMEA (Central Europe, Middle East, Africa) followed by Asia (23%, excluding China and India), BRICs and other mature economies in Asia-Pacific (14%), while Europe and North America will progress with much lower rates. For what concerns cards sub sector, we assist at a global level to...
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...Purpose of report Report is a form of logical expressions and organized. It consists of parts, titles and subtitles. For individual task, we, students BM2205E are required to observe any of ‘Customer Care Program’ of organization or any such programs that shows their effort to be close to the customer. We must choose two (2) organization from the same industry and do report based on their retention program. We need to compare between that two (2) organizations. In addition, we must also observe the impact it brings to the organization in term of performance and profitability. The industry that we can choose is either manufacturing, fast food, education, hospitality, fashion, entertainment, automotive or information technology industry. Reasons for written reports: • To know the background of the organizations • To analyse of business activities (customer care programs) • To provide information and facts • To identify problems • To propose solutions • To recommend actions to be performed • To concluded • To evaluate a research or activities • To synthesize a plan of action Introduction Customer care is also known as customer service. It is a process providing utilities of time and place for customers which included pre-transaction, transaction and post-transaction considerations relations to the exchange process with the customer. In other word, it is the provision...
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...2010, 138)Myer is one of Australian department store group which stayed at the top in customer satisfaction for department stores. According to the Roy Morgan Retail Satisfaction Report for September 2011, Myer remained top in customer satisfaction for Department stores with 89% of their customers either ‘very’ or ‘fairly satisfied’. (David Jones and Myer narrowly lead Department and Discount stores in satisfaction, 2011) At present, Myer have been issued different types of Myer cards as their customer loyalty programs. For example, Myer Visa Card is a part of customer loyalty program. The features are people can reward yourself with Myer Visa Card by spending on the things you need. People can earn Myer one Shopping Credits when they fill up their cars, buy groceries or pay bills. Shopping Credits can then be turned into Myer one Gift Cards for use at any Myer store. (Myer Visa Card Contract Documents and Credit Guide, 2011) Earn 3 Myer one shopping Credits for every dollar spent at Myer and up to 3 MYER one Shopping Credits with Myer one affiliates. And when people use your Myer Visa Card for their everyday shopping, people earn 1 Myer one Shopping Credit for every dollar spent. (Myer Visa Card Contract Documents and Credit Guide, 2011) Simultaneously, when people are approved for a Myer Visa Card, card holders are able to link with Myer another significant rewards programs - MYER one. Myer one is a membership programs....
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