In India, Air-conditioner was perceived to be a Luxury item in early nineties. The excise duty on it was as high as 110%. There were very few takers for this product. Baring few players like Voltas, Fedders Lloyd, Blue Star, LG and Samsung this industry was dominated by small scale unorganized manufactures. Over the period of time Government of India has reduced the excise duty to 8.24% (2007 onwards). There by reducing the price difference between unorganized and organized sector. Also due liberalization
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television and print commercial, and online. Not only this, Sony plans to enhance its existing distribution network to 6,000 in FY12, up from 5,000 outlets last year. Competitor analysis Sony knows that their competitors like Samsung, panasonic, LG and several other manufacturers will also be tempted to launch such a product but since it has patent, they may not be able
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largest producer of mobile phones. LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Electronics, South Korea was established in January, 1997 after clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). LG set up a state-of-the art manufacturing facility at Greater Noida, near Delhi, in 1998, with an investment of Rs 500 Crores In 2004, LGEIL also up its second Greenfield manufacturing unit in Pune, Maharashtra LG plans to set up Rs 500-cr unit in South
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT II REPORT ON “MARKETING CHALLENGES OF INDIA” Submitted to Prof.-S. Anant Ram Submitted bySayona Maitra (2012287) Shafique Gajdhar(2012289) Satakshi Rani(2012276) Shubham Saxena(2012303) Suneet Shome(2012315) Sunil Gupta(2012316) Word Count 6909 Page Count 46 Group no. 8 1 Contents The marketing challenges in India can be 1. Cultural diversity: 2. Differences in purchasing power of consumers in India 3. The layer of Westernization 4. Considering the psychographics
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Jun, China's 23rd richest man according to Forbes. The company has over 3,000 employees, mainly in mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and is expanding to other countries such as India, and Indonesia. As per the new research by IDC, Xiaomi is now the third largest smartphone maker in the world followed by Lenovo and LG at fourth and fifth place respectively. Samsung remains at the first place despite declining shipment volume, followed by Apple Inc. at second place. Apple Inc. is an American multinational
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Case Microwave Ovens Marketing strategy planning means finding attractive opportunities and developing profitable marketing strategies. A marketing strategy specifies a target market and a related marketing mix. It’s a picture of what a firm will do in some market. 1.1 Market Segment The company must find a way to segment the market and defines a target market. It is a fairly homogenous group of customers to whom company wishes to appeal. We could find 3 different dimensions to segment the market:
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Table of Contents Introduction 4 Mobile phone industry in India 4 Nokia in India 5 Nokia distribution structure in India 6 Role of Channel Partners 8 Margins at each level 10 Distributors Coverage Plan 11 Infrastructure required by distributor 11 Support provided by the company to the distributor 13 Credit/ Payment terms 14 Major Problems Faced by the distributors 14 Major Points of conflict 15 Major Problems/ Issues identified 16 Recommendations 17 Refrences 18 People Contacted
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A Framework for Marketing Management, 5e (Kotler) Chapter 18 Managing Marketing in the Global Economy 1) What is a global firm? A) A firm that operates in one country and exports its goods and services to foreign countries. B) A firm that operates in more than one country and has a sales and marketing staff in those countries. C) A firm that operates in more than one country and captures R&D, production, logistical, marketing, and financial advantages not available to purely domestic competitors
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“RURAL MARKETING” Executive Summary A debate continued for a long time amongst the Indian marketers, both practitioners & academicians, on the justification for the existence of the distinct discipline of rural marketing. Consequently, two schools of thought emerged. The first school belived that the products/services, marketing tools & strategies that are successful in urban areas, could be transplanted with little or no more modifications in rural areas. However, the second school
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Global Marketing The foreign marketing involvement of a manufacturing company may widely vary from a state of no direct involvement to a state of total involvement. Several types of involvement are generally observed, even though they are not mutually exclusive nor sequentially progressive. Depending on the kind and degree of its involvement in foreign marketing, a firm has to re-orient and re-organize its activities to cope with different levels of operational responsibilities inherent in such
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