...Case Study: Victoriassecret.com Maria Alfaro Electronic Commerce Instructor: Prof. Monique August 21, 2011 Victoria Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products, that has a huge brand recognition and it's well established as the leading retailer in its category around the country. It first opened in 1977 and operated the catalog system, mailing orders, but like many other retailers have done, it launched a Website to operate business directly with customers, on December 4th, 1998. This case study provides general information on how the Web site Victoriassecret.com operates their sales and marketing strategies. Victoria's Secrets Revenue Model The Web site was launched to strengthen and support the Victoria's Secret brand to exceed sales goals, and they use the Web Catalog Revenue Model, where they take advantage of the reputation of the brand, which is a very recognized intimate apparel brand, with sexy supermodels, top photographers and bold advertising, successfully adapting their catalog sales model to the Web, allowing customers to place order through the Website or by telephone. This way the company supplement their long time mail order system. In the Web site they display photos of clothing with their prices, colors, sizes, and availability in their stock. The customers can check the styles very carefully, the fabrics (as they provide a close up in the photo), and they even receive recommendations...
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...Unit 7 Case Study Question 1-3 The first question that I would like to answer in this case study about Gillette is that Gillette has successfully convinced the world that “more is better” in terms of number of blades and other razor features. Why has that worked in the past? What is next? Gillette is solitary of the recognized shaver trademark targeted at man. The shaver has conventional fame and conservative by man who hand over their mug and membrane to Gillette. The technical novelty and promise for excellence and carry on development geared towards the only one of its kind requirements of man, which assist them to sense and give the impression of being their finest subsequent to every use. Gillette has existed victorious in persuasive the globe that supplementary is enhanced, in view to the integer of razor blades and other features of a shaver. To be unbeaten in the industry, it is essential that, a business comprehend the desires of its patrons and make sure that those requirements are gather and existing to clientele. Gillette realizes what man wish in their employ of shaver for their clean up and also appreciate and be acquainted with how to advertise the Gillette trade name to all man around the globe. As well as the scientific novelty and get through has shaped the preponderance excellence and healthy soughed shaver by man approximately the utterance. “From the twin blade (Trac II), the introduction of the triple blade shaving system (Mach 3), and the six...
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...Silky Strategy of Victoria’s Secret Chelsea Chi Chang Alice Lin Charlene Mak BEM 106: Strategy Professor McAfee 28 May 2004 1 Victoria's Secret is a retail brand of lingerie and beauty products, owned and run by the Limited Brands company. Victoria’s Secret generates more than $4 billion in sales a year. It is the fastest growing subsidiary of Limited Brands and contributes 42% of corporate profits. More than 1000 Victoria's Secret retail stores are open in the United States. Products are also available through the catalogue and online business, Victoria's Secret Direct, with sales of approximately $870 million. Victoria’s Secret was established by Roy Raymond in the San Francisco area during the 1970s. Raymond saw an opportunity in taking “underwear” of the time and turning it into fashion. Products stood apart from the traditional white cotton pieces, which department stores offered, with colors, patterns and style that gave them more allure and sexiness. They combined European elegance and luxury. Even the name Victoria’s Secret was meant to conjure up images of 19th-century England. The store went so far as to list a fake London address for the company headquarters. Like Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret markets self-indulgence at an affordable price. By 1982, Raymond had opened six stores and launched a modest catalog operation. He then sold Victoria’s Secret to Limited Brands, which took Victoria’s and sprinted away. Today, Victoria’s Secret enjoys nearly a monopoly position...
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...Mass Marketing is Diminishing Some claim that mass marketing will always exist for the large brands that target the mass market. Others claim that mass marketing is becoming less significant. I believe mass marketing is becoming less significant due to advancements in technology and the impact of cultural diversity. I will describe why I think these two major factors are eliminating mass marketing along with what I believe the future holds for mass marketing. Advancements in Technology Technology has evolved over the years from the Internet to smartphones to social media and is now a part of our everyday lives. In addition, with technological advancements companies now have more than ever the ability to maintain customer databases. I believe for a company to become successful marketing strategies need to adapt to changes in technology. Internet, Smartphones, Social Media Prior to the emergence of the Internet companies used mass marketing because the strategy was to reach as many consumers as possible. Then the Internet enabled consumer’s endless access to information, thus changing their purchasing behavior. Consumers are able to become more knowledgeable about products than ever before. Marketing efforts need to be adjusted to appeal to Internet users. According to Kotler and Keller (2012), “The widespread usage of the Internet allows marketers to abandon the mass market practices that built brand powerhouses in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s” (p. 135). Then once...
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...Marketing Strategies of Coca-Cola Conducing to Success University of Victoria Marketing Strategies of Coca-Cola Conducing to Success In the past few decades, a great number of new corporations have emerged and became the main supporting force in current economic construction. In fact, few centuries ago, enterprises –like Coca-Cola– are still the mainstays of economy, and such enterprises have accumulated lots of experiences and lessons that junior corporations need to learn from. According to American “Wealth” magazine report, the top 500 companies around the world have the average life of 40 to 42 years; only 2% of enterprises survive to 50 years (Wealth Magazine quoted Mao, 2009). Moreover, Leon Stafford pointed out that the Coca-Cola Company had beaten the Apple, IBM, and Google to the top for 12 years (2011 ( need a citation here, missing the source name). Therefore, the Coca-Cola Company propels not economists but green hands to study its strategies. In “Recipe for Coke? One More to Add to the File,” Brown and Severson (2011) said that the recipe for Coca-Cola had always been an interest for many corporations, but none have been capable of replicating the taste of Coca-Cola. I used this information to explain that the Coca-Cola Company took advantage of consumers’ strong curiosity, stimulating them to buy the good. In “An Internalization Approach to Joint Ventures: Coca-Cola in China,” Mok and Dai (2002) introduced internalization theory to explain the entry mode...
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...Case Study: Roxanne Quimby “Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, reasoning, and acting that is opportunity obsessed, holistic in approach, and leadership balanced for the purpose of value creation and capture”. This quote best defines entrepreneur Roxanne Quimby. Regardless of her humble beginnings she was able to use her creative skills and business tactics to create an empire. In the long run her hard work rewarded her with millions of dollars. Burt’s Bee’s became a major success after a matter of years. It all started with Roxanne and her team of forty employees that kept the whole operation running. The business grew to obtaining revenue of three million dollars per year. However, soon enough Roxanne was hit with a major dilemma. Her company was originally located in the state of Maine. As many may or may not know Maine has an expensive payroll and business tax is high. So in order to remain in Maine the company would need to expand fast. For some reason, however, the company’s growth could not keep up with Maine’s demands. so Quimby had to make an important decision, fast. After some consideration Quimby decided to move her company to North Carolina. North Carolina at the time was a popular state, where companies were growing and expanding. The taxes in North Carolina were also lower than they were in Maine. At first, Roxanne was feeling apprehensive about the move. But overall the decision was not too difficult to make. There was potential growth that Roxanne envisioned...
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...PEST ANALYSIS OF VICTORIA’s SECRET Victoria's Secret is a retail brand of lingerie and beauty products, owned and run by the Limited Brands company. Victoria’s Secret generates more than $4 billion in sales a year. It is the fastest growing subsidiary of Limited Brands and contributes 42% of corporate profits. More than 1000 Victoria's Secret retail stores are open in the United States. Products are also available through the catalogue and online business, Victoria's Secret Direct, with sales of approximately $870 million. Victoria’s Secret was established by Roy Raymond in the San Francisco area during the 1970s. Raymond saw an opportunity in taking “underwear” of the time and turning it into fashion. Products stood apart from the traditional white cotton pieces, which department stores offered, with colors, patterns and style that gave them more allure and sexiness. They combined European elegance and luxury. Even the name Victoria’s Secret was meant to conjure up images of 19th-century England. The store went so far as to list a fake London address for the company headquarters. Like Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret markets self-indulgence at an affordable price. By 1982, Raymond had opened six stores and launched a modest catalog operation. He then sold Victoria’s Secret to Limited Brands, which took Victoria’s and sprinted away. Today, Victoria’s Secret enjoys nearly a monopoly position on the retail of intimate apparel in the US. The typical bra that once sold...
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...his or her life watching television commercials. These commercials have the will to show food, cloths, beverages and the most important: beauty items in the most perfect way. These adverts show beautiful and flawless women exposing not only their desirable bodies and faces but also, their ideologies. Every time regular TV viewer watches television, magazines and even newspapers he is constantly in contact with this a massive and wild environment that has a clear effect in society. Sometimes the audiences do not realize the significance and the magnitude that looking to these adverts have. By looking at these ads, in an unconscious way, the viewers are creating a stereotype about things. For example, when a single viewer stares at a Victoria Secret advert it will create an image in their mind of how a “regular” woman should look like; sexy body, perfect face, skinny and with a skin with almost no pores. People look advertising and they never reflect and ask them selves questions like: “Why are these adverts made the way they were made?” Or “What effects they have in the audiences mind?” People really get affected by advertising as this mass media establishes different ideologies that makes the audience reflect that to “fit in” society they should follow the same ideas shown in media. Nevertheless there are adverts for every kind of object in the market what is impressive is that adverts that are more explicit with women stereotyping are the adverts that are made to advertise...
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...MEDIA MARKETING AND THE FASHION INDUSTRY By Lisanne van Rietschoten Amsterdam Fashion Institute GRADUATION THESIS Social Media Marketing and the Fashion Industry WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND HOW ARE FASHION BRANDS APPLYING SOCIAL MEDIA AS A MARKETING TOOL AND COMMUNICATION CHANNEL? By Lisanne van Rietschoten International F&M Student Graduation Coach: Marco Mossinkoff Amsterdam Fashion Institute, May 10,2010. PRODUCT THE PRODUCT IS INSPIRED BY THE DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF TACTICS AMONG FASHION SEGMENTS TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL MEDIA GOALS. THE LINK BETWEEN GOALS AND TACTICS IS ACCORDING TO MY RESEARCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF SOCIAL MEDIA SINCE IT PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN A BRAND’S SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS. MY AIM WITH THE PRODUCT IS TO MAKE FASHION BRANDS AWARE OF MY FINDINGS ON GOALS AND TACTICS. INSTEAD OF GIVING AWAY PRINTOUTS OF MY +15,000 WORD THESIS, THE PRODUCT IS HANDY AND ACTS AS A VISUALISATION OF MY MOST INTERESTING RESEARCH OUTCOMES. MY PRODUCT COMES IN A FORM OF A BROCHURE AND A MAP. IF MY THESIS PROVES TO BE SUCCESSFUL, I AM PLANNING TO SEND OUT THE BROCHURE AND MAP TO COMPANIES ALONG WITH MY CV TO APPLY FOR A FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME JOB IN THE FIELD OF DIGITAL MARKETING. ABSTRACT Social media may sound like a new concept, but it is actually based on the most authentic marketing tool we know: word-of-mouth marketing. The speed of online word-of-mouth goes enormously fast, making social media highly attractive for the use of marketing and communication...
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...Learning and Change for Sustainability at Yarra Valley Water Patrick Crittenden Suzanne Benn Dexter Dunphy A Case Study March 2010 Enquiries The Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability Graduate School of the Environment Macquarie University NSW 2109 ariescoordinator@gse.mq.edu.au (02) 9850 8597 2 Contents Introduction ............................................................................ 4 Methodology ............................................................................ 5 Background ............................................................................. 5 Approaches to Learning and Change at YVW .................................... 6 Creating a more innovative organisational culture.....................................6 Integrating environment as a strategic issue............................................7 Sustainability tools ..........................................................................9 The Natural Step................................................................................... 9 Life Cycle Assessment ...........................................................................11 Collaborative learning through stakeholder engagement ........................... 12 Linking culture, strategy and mechanisms for learning and change ......13 Organisational learning ................................................................... 14 Conclusion ....................................................................
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...Assessment 1 Develop workplace sustainability Questions What are the sustainability issues? Unsustainable activities have led to changes in our environment, or have been identified as having the potential to lead to future changes. The types of changes that are occurring or are predicted to occur form the key issues for sustainability. The following Table 1 provides a summary of the key issues. They are related to changes to the physical and cultural (being the way we live) environments, which in turn relate to the economic environment. What does sustainability mean? Every day we hear the term ‘sustainable’ or ‘sustainability’ being used to describe a large number of issues and news items. There is the ‘sustainable economy’, ‘sustainable agriculture’, ‘economically sustainable’, ‘the need to be sustainable’, ‘sustainable work practices’ and ‘sustainable water supply’ to name a few. The Brundtland Report, Our Common Future, is seen by many as one of the first global reports to address sustainable development. This report defined sustainable development as: “…development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Brundtland (1987) National strategy for ecologically sustainable development Sustainable Development is defined by the Australian Government’s National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development as: “…using, conserving and enhancing the community’s resources...
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...MQCS Hamad AlAjmi - 1109504 MQCS Hamad AlAjmi - 1109504 VICTORIA’S SECRET VICTORIA’S SECRET Contents Business profile and interview 3 Interview With alshaya CS Officer 3 Victoria's Secret Business description 5 Type of Business 6 Location and Number of Employees 6 Ownership Structure 6 Product and Services 8 Levels of Customer Service 11 Customer Profile 12 External customers of Victoria’s Secret 13 Internal Customers 15 Satisfaction of Customers Five Needs 20 Appropriate Market Research 21 Best seller product 21 Product range information 22 Product information and specifications 23 Delivery, warranty and return or cancelation policy 24 Sample promotional materials 24 Management and Leadership qualities 26 Leadership qualities 26 Management skills 27 Position description of CS manager: 31 Types of customer service training 35 Schedule for training 37 Example of customer service training policies 38 Feedback from customers 42 Survey 43 Managing customer service reports 46 Conclusion 47 Referencing 48 Business profile and interview Interview With alshaya CS Officer 1. What is great customer service in your understanding? You should always smile and greet the customer with good morning sir / mam or which part of the day it is. After that the query should enter the system for any follow up or feedback. Always make sure the customer ends the call as satisfied as possible. 2. How would you handle an...
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...IKEA Case Study 12/31/2009 GAPR09RM085 Riddhima Chopra IKEA Case Study December 31, 2009 Table of Contents About....................................................................................................................................................... 3 History ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Corporate Structure ................................................................................................................................ 4 Vision and Mission .................................................................................................................................. 4 The IKEA Concept .................................................................................................................................... 5 IKEA Range .............................................................................................................................................. 5 IKEA Store................................................................................................................................................ 6 Design.................................................................................................................................................. 6 Location.........................................................................................................................................
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...Gender and consumer behaviour Consumer buying behaviour can be influence by various factor, which included several major factor that could influence their buying behaviour while in engaging in buying decision. Therefore, these factor could be vary tremendously in terms of income, age, personal taste, as well as gender. By understanding consumer buying behaviour it will allows marketers making further process while in creating an appropriate marketing strategy aim on their consumers. Furthermore, it can be a foundation for marketers to develop a sense of awareness on the criteria that influence consumer buying decision making. In this analysis, it is to study the differences between the genders at a various level of buying decision. Among all these factor which will influence consumer buying behaviour. Gender is one of the major factor. Putrevu, (2001, p.1) stated that gender is one of the most common method while on segmenting criteria which used by nowadays marketers. This makes sense, by dividing gender into two male and female primary category, its makes marketers ease to identify and access into their market and at the same time it is large enough to be profitable. The differences between men and women is due to their diversity in socialization, biological and psychological factors that illustrate the differences on their behaviour at the various situations. When comes to decision making whether it is on shopping or eating, or perhaps in the aspect of personal or professional...
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...IM for Lovelock & Wirtz, Services Marketing 6/e Teaching Notes for Cases - Section 5 45 CASE 6 AUSSIE POOCH MOBILE OVERVIEW After creating a mobile service that washes dogs outside their owners’ homes, a young entrepreneur has successfully franchised the concept. Her firm now has more than 100 franchisees in many parts of Australia, as well as a few in other countries. In early 2002, she and her management team were debating how best to plan future expansion. STUDY QUESTIONS How did Christine Taylor succeed in evolving the local dog-washing service she developed as a teenager into an international franchise business? ________________________________________________________________________ Note: All financial data are in Australian dollars (AUD), whose exchange value in 2003 at the time of the case was USD 0.57 = EUR 0.58 = GBP 0.41. [More recent exchange rates reflect a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. dollar against the Australian dollar, euro (EUR), and pound sterling (GBP). By late 2006, AUD 1.00 = USD 0.76 = EUR 0.60 = GBP 0.40). These changes in exchange rates would not affect decisions by APM on expansion within Australia but could have an impact on the relative attractiveness of future investments in, say, the UK versus the U.S.] 1. © 2004, 2007 Christopher H. Lovelock 2. Compare and contrast the tasks involved in recruiting new customers and recruiting new franchisees. From a franchisee’s perspective, what are the key benefits of belonging...
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