Huong: W141732952 Date: 21/11/2013 Contents Executive Summary: 4 1. Introduction: 5 2. Background: 5 2.1 Dates of facts: 5 2.2 Mission and vision statement of Apple: 6 2.3 The competitive advantage of Apple: 7 3. Marketing strategy: 8 3.1 Ignore your critics: 8 3.2 Turn the ordinary into something beautiful: 8 3.3 Justify your price: 9 3.4 Communicate with the language of your audience: 9 3.5 Extend the experience: 9 3.6 Build a tribe: 9 3.7 Become the name: 9
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What is the best smartphone in the current market? Most of us know that Apple iPhone is the best smartphone in the world. Well, who is the rival for apple iPhone? Samsung Galaxy smartphones? Well, you’re wrong. There is another new smartphone in the market that could become a competition to Apple iPhone. That is none other than OnePlus smartphones. Yes, OnePlus is a smartphone manufacturer founded in China on December 2013. Many people might look down at the phone as it is a China product but actually
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first lost its number one ranking, a position it had held for 14 years but reach to sell-off in less than 10 years. So the most valid question from all is what happened to Finland's most beloved company? This case is all about analysis of NOKIA’s strategies responsible for its market domination to sell-off . Snapshot of NOKIA’s History To understand the Rise and Fall of NOKIA, it is important to track the history of NOKIA on a single canvas. The same is attempted through following short liners
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their purchasing decisions. Current competitors, their products and, how they market these products must be analyzed. This will help GE to improve the product and ensure that its product has unique qualities. Once these tasks have been completed a strategy can begin that will develop into a marketing plan that will reach the target audience. Identify the segmentation criteria that will affect your target market selected To determine the profitability of the GE Smart Refrigerator, GE will need to
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market products and evaluate the effectiveness in two organisations (Sainsbury and Samsung). These companies use marketing techniques such as branding, relationship marketing and growth matrix. Branding Branding is very important to marketing because it helps establish a product in a market and build the brand. Most brands have certain things that make them noticeable like a logo or a slogan for example Samsung has their name in bold writing on their products like phones and TV’s and Sainsbury
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should be both older and younger people selected for any jury. In the case regarding Apple vs. Samsung, “the jury was diverse, but decidedly not a panel of patent experts: among the two women and seven men were a social worker, an engineer, and an unemployed video game enthusiast” (Wilhelm). The jury of this particular case delivered its “much anticipated decision” in only three days time, ordering that Samsung was to pay Apple $120 million for copying some of the Apple iPhone’s technology and applying
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Samsung: Uneasy in the Lead By ERIC PFANNER and BRIAN X. CHEN December 23, 2013 Lee Kun-hee, the man who built the most successful, most admired and most feared business in Asia — a $288 billion behemoth that is among the most profitable in the world — had a message for his employees this year: You must do better. At other companies, congratulations might have been in order. His companies were headed to another extraordinary year. But this was Samsung, the South Korean industrial group that
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Case Analysis --HTC Corp.in 2009 Class: Competitive Marketing Strategy Student Name: Fisher Yu 1. Evaluate HTC’s performance to date. What are its competitive advantages and vulnerabilities? Be sure to elaborate on HTC and its competitors’ positioning on performance and cost. Financial performance of HTC compared with its main competitors For this part, we will be using ROA (return on assets), ROE (return on equity), and profit margin to evaluate HTC’s abilities to generate profits
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in US Markets; with products that appeal across target markets. iPhone 4S sales have eclipsed internal Apple brands, as well as other smartphone companies in the U.S. market. Recent sales dominance, however, has not established an industry lead. Samsung, in partnership with Google’s Android Operating system, owns the global marketplace with something like 21% of total market share. Apple faces both technological and political challenges in the largest smartphone market, China, as it is unable to
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Section A: Short Answers 1) It is difficult to improve service productivity because services cannot be stored on shelves for sale at a later date. Also, in the service sector, it is not always possible to increase output given the same number of input, as the input is usually people and the service experienced by them contains many variables, each of which can lead to a different outcome for the consumer. For example, whenever I visit my hairdresser in Jades Hair Salon, I come back very happy knowing
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