Table of Content Table of Content 1 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Introduction / Problem Statement 3 3. Internal Analysis 4 Positioning 4 4. External Analysis 7 Specialty Coffee 7 Hot Drinks Market 7 Porter’s Five Forces 7 Macro-environment 10 Demographic 10 5. SWOT-Analysis 13 6. Positioning 14 7. Corporate Strategy 16 8. Objectives 17 Short-Term objectives 17 Long-Term 17 9. Marketing Mix 19 Product 19 Place 20 Price 20 Promotion 21 Promotion
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addition, the drive-thru concept brought explosive growth through delivering food-on-the go. “Fast Food” was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1951, and U.S. fast food companies are now franchised in over 100 countries. In the U.S. alone there are over 200,000 restaurant locations. Revenue has grown from $6 billion in 1970 to $160 billion in 2011, an 8.6% annualized rate (Sena, 2012). Fast food franchises focus on delivering high volume, low cost, and high speed products. Frequently, food
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Seattle, Washington January 26, 2012 Dear Shareholders: You are cordially invited to attend the Starbucks Corporation 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on March 21, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. (Pacific Time). The meeting will be held at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center, located on Mercer Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, in Seattle, Washington. Directions to McCaw Hall and transportation information appear on the back cover of the notice of annual meeting and proxy statement. Under
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Principles of Marketing (MKTG 320) Fall 2013 Syllabus (Tentative) Madan M.Batra (MBA, Ph.D.) Professor of Marketing and International Business Room 406A Eberly 724-357-5776 (Office) 723-388-9595 (Cell) batra@.iup.edu Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays: 12:15 to 2:00 p.m. & 3:15 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Please see the D2L course website for announcements concerning any changes in office hours during a specific week. Instructor Profile I am a professor
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Redbox – Marketing Plan U.S.A Esther Orosz, Wiebe Poelmann, Shu K, Martin Gerzmann 2/15/2011 Redbox – Marketing Plan 1 CONTENTS 2011 1 Contents ......................................................................................................................................................................1 2 Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................................3 3 Introduction
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state of Tennessee. False (Global company profile, easy) 2. Generally, the objective of the location decision is to maximize the firm's profit. False (The strategic importance of location, easy) 3. When selecting a location, service organizations typically focus on maximizing revenue, but minimizing transportation costs is also frequently an objective. False (The strategic importance of location, easy) 4. When innovation replaces cost as a firm's focus for location
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Transferable 40 Engaging and Fun 40 Services/Pricing 41 Do Not Forget the Employees 41 Customer Care / Customer Satisfaction 42 Ethical Behavior in Customer Relationships 42 How will repair/service efforts affect customer satisfaction? 46 Price discounts and allowances 48 Promotional Pricing 49 Differential Pricing 49 Promotions/Marketing 50 Market exposure 52 Generating Leads 53 Improved Sales 53 Reduced Marketing Expenditure 53 Delivering Value 54 Economic Value 54 Quality
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create better price for its customers and superior income for it self, by delivering the equal products as a competitor but with lower cost, and by delivering unique variety of menu that exceed advantage those competing products. The Broadway Café will make every effort to maximize its profits, and enlarge the market share. The Broadway café will take advantage on Network, Telecommunications, and Wireless Computing. By utilizing M-coupons, offering free Wi –Fi to the customers. The Broadway café will
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C H A P T E R T W O Communicating Strategically In the first chapter, we examined the changing environment for business over the last half century. In this chapter, we explore how these changes have affected corporate communication and why it has become imperative for modern companies to communicate strategically. Strategic communication can be defined as “communication aligned with the company’s overall strategy, [intended] to enhance its strategic positioning.”1 An effective strategy
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for Chapter 7 This chapter looks further into key customer-driven marketing strategy decisions—how to divide up markets into meaningful customer groups (segmentation), choose which customer groups to serve (targeting), create market offerings that best serve targeted customers (differentiation), and positioning the offerings in the minds of consumers (positioning). Chapter Objectives: 1. Define the four major steps in designing a customer-driven marketing strategy: market segmentation, market
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