VIDEO GUIDE Advertising: Principles and Practice, 8th Edition Moriarty/Mitchell/Wells Segment 1: AFLAC Summary That wacky, quacky duck brought AFLAC to a high spot among most-recognizable ads and brand names. The insurance company is growing quickly as a result of this greater name recognition. It achieved 89 percent brand recognition in a relatively short time, resulting in $10 billion in sales and about a 25 percent compound growth rate. AFLAC had spent millions of dollars on advertising with
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company. He knew that Ducati could not grow indefinitely, and was struggling with what strategy might overtake these bounds. Minoli and the rest of Ducati’s top management team were considering different alternatives. One alternative was to attack Harley Davidson’s niche with a Ducati interpretation of a cruiser. Was this broadening of Ducati’s traditional niche the right move to sustain the profitable growth of the company? The Market for Motorcycles in 2001 The roots of the motorcycle industry
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Which aspects should be considered when making a decision on brand extension? How to define values that could be transferred to new versions of product? Companies adopt the brand extension strategy in order to facilitate the entry into new categories, as build a strong brand is a lengthy and expensive process. So the new product hits the market with the certification of a brand already recognized by the public. In this way while the brand transfers its credibility into
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its subsequent value to companies, will increase as consumers face a growing amount of information in the marketplace. By placing a well-known brand on a new product, a company can imbue that product with all the positive associations of that brand, thereby giving it a competitive advantage. With some estimates of the failure rate for new products at 90%, the added value of being associated with a trusted brand can be critical to a new product’s survival. Given the increasing value of established
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company. He knew that Ducati could not grow indefinitely, and was struggling with what strategy might overtake these bounds. Minoli and the rest of Ducati’s top management team were considering different alternatives. One alternative was to attack Harley Davidson’s niche with a Ducati interpretation of a cruiser. Was this broadening of Ducati’s traditional niche the right move to sustain the profitable growth of the company? The Market for Motorcycles in 2001 The roots of the motorcycle industry
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Master in Business Administration Marketing Management (7MK002) Harley Davidson Marketing Plan for the UK market British College of Applied Studies (University of Wolverhampton) Contents Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................03 Situational Analysis .......................................................................................................................... 04 Marketing Strategies
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Growing customer value, satisfaction and loyalty Building customer value, satisfaction, and loyalty As marketing expert Don. Peppers and Martha Rogers say: The only value your company will ever create is the value that come from customers-the ones you have now and the ones you will have in the future. Businesses succeed by getting, keeping and growing customers. Customer are the only reason you build factories, hire employees, schedule meetings, lay fiber-optic lines, or engage in any business
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online-age, the interest in brand communities has boomed. Companies have begun to realize that consumers can co-create value, co-create competitive strategy and collaborate in the firm’s innovation process. So customers are not anymore separate and exogenous to the firm but on the contrary they should be included in the companies’ actions. One way to include customers and create collective value is to invest in brand community. Brand community is a community that is formed around some good or service
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Marketing 201 Chapter 1 Marketing is a process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return. Needs: States of deprivation Wants: Form that needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality Demands: Wants backed by buying power Segmentation, targeting, demarketing. * Production concept is the idea that consumers will favour products that are available or highly affordable. *
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analysis includes a look at Harley Davidson’s biggest opportunities and threats. Harley currently operates in what is known as they heavyweight cycle market (over 650cc engines), this means that the sheer size and weight of their bikes set them apart from some of their other lighter, faster rivals. The heavyweight market can be broken down into three different segments cruisers, touring bikes, and performance models. Cruisers are the bikes that are generally associated with Harley Davidson’s, big, loud
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