Essays on Pricing Strategy

Introduction

For understanding how the corn industry and the industry of water, I have interviewed with the marketing professionals from these two industries. Considering that marketing departments monitor the demand conditions, they can give us adequate information about their market.

Interviewer: What type of industry are you operating in? Marketing Professional 1: Producing corn requires using large lands, machinery, and knowledge of cultivating corn. Therefore, a company needs to have a high amount of financial resources to enter this market. Also, producing corn requires having the scientific knowledge for agricultural production. Changing climate and worse environmental conditions force us to ...

Introduction

Coca-Cola generally referred as Coke, is an American multinational company, producing a non-alcoholic carbonated drink, which was invented back in the 19th century by a pharmacist John Pemberton as a patented medicine. When the drink started to be distributed in the country’s retail market, the sales were below expectations. The businessman Asa Griggs Candler, however. saw a great potential in the company and acquired it in 1891, laying the foundation to the strongest brand in soft drinks market throughout the 20th century under the leadership of the visionary businessman and, later, his oldest son. Importantly, Asa Griggs Candler ...

Marketing mix consists of four elements that are product, price, place and promotion. It is known as one of the most important factors in marketing that can help to market the right product to the target audience. Marketing mix can be used for any product or service in any area and sports is not an exception. Sports marketing managers control each element’s strategy of the marketing mix separately. The only difference is that in sports marketing instead of place there is distribution. Therefore, the next paragraphs are focused on product, place, promotion and distribution (Shank). So, the goal ...

Executive summary

This product is centered on virtual reality technology. As a matter of fact, this product is designed for law enforcement officers. By simulating the dangerous conditions and circumstances that police officers have to work under on a periodical basis, the software will help law enforcement officers, make better decisions in a short period. Some of the decisions that it will help a law enforcement officer make are when to discharge a weapon when to engage a suspect and how to ascertain whether a situation has a potential of being volatile. What is more is that this software not only ...

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An Illustration of Jimmy Choo’s Performance 4 An Illustration of Jimmy Choo’s Performance in Various Markets 6 PESTEL Analysis Table 6 5 Forces Porter’s Model 9

Business Canvas Model (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2009) 12

SAFe Analysis Table 17 Financial Analysis 19 Conclusion and Recommendation 20

Reference List 22

Abstract The report analyses both internal and external environment for Jimmy Choo. The analysis has utilized different models including PESTEL, SWOT, five Porter’s forces and SAFe. The analysis has helped to identify internal capabilities of the company and the opportunities and threats presented by the external environment. The major opportunities for the company are product and geographical diversifications ...

I am reviewing the article titled “Use Pricing Strategy to Boost Sales” by Rafi Mohammed dated July 02, 2012, published in the Harvard Business Review. The author is writing about the subject to make executives and businesses aware about the importance of a pricing strategy and how optimising the pricing of products can lead to many fold increase in profits (Mohammed, 2012). The basic premise of the article is that better pricing should be the top priority for any company selling any product. The author provides three important reasons for this premise and then goes on to provide brief ...

Chevrolet Silverado also known as GMC Sierra is a product of General Motors. It is a full-size and heavy-duty pickup truck. The series of heavy-duty trucks of General Motors from which Chevrolet Silverado belongs was first introduced in 1999. Since its confinement in the General Motors till today, it passed through different innovative and more efficient advancements (Chevrolet.Ca, 2017). The variations in the engine and other equipment of the vehicle made it more successful and the prime choice for its buyers. It also managed to make its place in the market due to its holding company, General Motors that ...

Toyota Product marketing mix

Toyota Corporation is one of the automobile companies of the world that has diverse product. Some of the Toyota’s product mix include Toyota automobiles, welcab series, engines, Lexus automobiles, marine products, spare parts, and accessories. Toyota automobiles remain the most popular brand in this mix. The Welcab series are the company’s automobiles developed for people with disabilities and elderly. Its engines, spare parts, and accessories cut across all the company’s automobiles. Finally, Lexus automobiles designed and developed by the company are luxurious in making thus attracting those who like luxury products.

Place marketing mix in Toyota

Bhasin (2016) acknowledges that Toyota ...

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Product 3 Place 4 Price 4 Promotion 5 Social media 5 Televised communication 6 Personal selling 6 SWOT Analyses 6 Threats 7 Findings 7 Challenges 8 Opportunities 9 Recommendations: 9 Conclusion 11 Last US bag 14 Abstract: The Last US Bag company is a leading company which provide its consumers customized products and services and it is the main promotional strategy of the company. The market mix explains that the company is strong in its products and are able to cover maximum areas for its supply chain. There are explanations about the company’s SWOT analysis and recommendations from ...

The article, named as “The continued need for independent research on prescription drugs” by John F Hoadley talks about the cost pressure being faced by public and purchasers of the private sector in relation to prescription medications. It also discusses the debates over the policies framed by Medicaid and Medicare in regards to the drug benefits covered by them. The cost of Pharmaceutical goods is summing up to huge amounts, and is growing at a rapid pace; it is one of the most worrisome areas for the federal health policy makers. In the last few years, the United States ...

Summary of the Analysis

The mission statement of the company is efficient because it states what Amazon is, what it does, and why it exists, which are critical features. It also provides a guideline for the pricing strategy of the corporation; for instance, its choice to offer the lowest prices for quality products makes it very attractive to online shoppers. The firm formulates and implements its grand strategies, such as pricing, integration, diversification, location, and pricing based on its vision and mission statements. The SWOT analysis reveals that it has significant strengths that give it a competitive edge over its competitors. It also ...

<<Student Name>> <<Professor Name>> <<Course Title>> <<Date>> Branding Strategy: The Company plans to invest and efficiently manage its branding strategy to achieve its growth objectives. The core of the company’s success lies in implementing a relevant and coherent branding strategy. Defining each and every element of the branding strategy will enable management, customers and employees to understand what the brand vision is and what the company aims to achieve. This is really important if the company has to fight and grow in a competitive market place. ...

Introduction

Apple Inc. is a global company based in California, United States. The company is well-known for designing, manufacturing, and selling state-of-the-art personal computers, consumer electronic products, computer software, and cell phones in different parts of the world. It concentrates on providing its customers with the best user experience through its innovative services, software, and hardware. The company leads in innovation with iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and the Mac. Apple is the most valuable brand in the world. Apple Inc.’s marketing has played a considerable part in its success over the years. Consequently, the focus of the present paper ...

Digital Marketing: Mixed Mode Relationship (Hilton Hotels and Resorts)

Introduction Hilton Hotels and Resorts is a Hotel company and business with a global reach in the hospitality sector and offers hotel and resort services under the Hilton Worldwide brand. Conrad Hilton founded the Hilton Company and restaurant business in 1919 in Texas. Currently, the brand has spread all over the world under the flagship of Hilton Worldwide as the parent organization. In the United Kingdom, the company has its headquarters in London in Hilton London Tower. Hilton Hotels and Resorts in the U.K carry out operations in services such as accommodation, entertainment, and gambling. Most of the revenue ...

Skimming and penetration pricing strategies are used by the company when it is launching a new product into the market, but there are many differences between these two pricing strategies. In price skimming strategy, the company focuses on setting higher price for the product when introducing it to the market, and then decreasing it gradually. In this strategy, price is set high for skimming maximum revenues. The revenues are, however, skimmed layer by layer from the market segments that are willing to pay higher price; the organization in this way profitable sales though they are fewer in number (Kotler, ...

Milestone I

Apple Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, which makes it 40 years old. There is something to say about a company that has been around for that long; they must be doing something right. There were three different kinds of computers starting with the Apple I, Apple II and the Macintosh. The Apple I had a typewriter like keyboard with the ability to connect to the TV for the screen. These were all built by hand. The Apple II arrived in April, 1977 and with this came color graphics and a tape based machine. Then in 1984 Macintosh ...

Business

Financial Analysis The financial condition of the company, which is evident from balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, is indicative of the fact that the financial strength of the company is satisfactory. The horizontal analysis of balance sheet of Lowes Company is also showing improvement in performance of the company. Such as it can be seen from the Horizontal and vertical analysis that account payable of the company has increased, which means that there is improvement in payment of debts, and total shareholder’s equity of the company has also increased. Similarly, the horizontal analysis of income ...

Importance of Market Research

Market research is a process through which information is collected regarding the potential opportunities that product and service providers can take advantage of . Typically two main kinds of marketing research are conducted; the first is primary research in which on ground information is collected directly from your target audience. The second is secondary research, in which already published or available research regarding a particular issue is utilized in order to make strategic marketing decisions . In order to determine if A&W’s new pricing strategy of selling their ham and cheese burgers at lower costs than McDonald’s will work ...

Digital Marketing: Mixed Mode Relationship (Hilton Hotels and Resorts)

Introduction Hilton Hotels and Resorts is a Hotel company and business with a global reach in the hospitality sector and offers hotel and resort services under the Hilton Worldwide brand. The Hotel company and business were founded by Conrad Hilton in 1919 in Texas but has spread all over the world under the flagship of Hilton Worldwide as the parent organization. In the United Kingdom, the company has its headquarters in London in Hilton London Tower. Hilton Hotels and Resorts in the U.K carry out operations in services such as accommodation, entertainment, and gambling. Most of the revenue gained ...

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Executive Summary

Tesla Motors was developed in the year 2003 and has been the pioneer of producing the environment friendly vehicles ever since. The company has been widely known for its high performance sports cars that are equipped with the latest technology features and hinder the carbon emission, which eventually makes its vehicles environment friendly. The company is aimed towards reducing its inventory, production and distribution cost and provide high-end vehicles at low cost. The company is focused on enhancing the customer experience by means of providing them with the innovative features and design while keeping the cost low ...

Picking the winners is not an easy game when it comes to choosing a company to invest in, thus company’s strategy is one of the most important things to look at in order to make predictions of earning revenue in the future. The goal of this paper is to compare Apple and FedEx in terms of their market positioning strategies so as to make an accurate decision which of the companies is worth investing in. Both FedEx and Apple are focusing on providing high quality products and services for their customers. FedEx, for example, promises to provide high-value-added ...

Virgin Mobile: Pricing for the First Time

Young people are critical to many markets including mobile, fashion, technology, and entertainment. Other than forming a key component of the current market, young consumers are potential markets for the future. A business that captures their interest and commitment today has high possibilities of securing a lifetime relationship with them (Mitchell, 2012). However, marketers have not clearly identified the exact tastes and preferences of the young people as a unique market segment. The recent developments in information technology and the use of social media have complicated the marketing equation for this group. The requirement for transparency, relevance, and communication ...

Ethics are individual beliefs regarding what is bad and good or wrong and right. In the workplace, ethics usually has an effect on individual behavior. Social responsibility is the way that a business strives to balance the commit that it has to persons and groups in its social environment. The approaches to social responsibility and ethics include; the proactive stance, the accommodative stance, the obstructionist stance and the defensive stance (Giacalone & Thompson, 2006). There are various pricing strategies which businesses adopt so as to increase profits and customers. This paper will discuss the approaches to social responsibility and ethics, ...

An effective marketing plan must cover a number of the most important points. As it is listed by Mohr, J., Sengupta, S., and Slater, S. (2010, pp. 43-44), market analysis, company analysis and marketing strategy are among the paramount parts to be discussed in the marketing plan. Marketing strategy is mainly based on the 4P’s, which are Product, Price, Promotion and Place (Distribution). All these elements are interrelated and create a so-called marketing mix, which defines company’s success. In the 3M Greptile Grip Golf Glove (3M) case, each of the 4P’s elements was described as follows: ...

J. C. Penney’s “Fair and Square” Strategy

Abstract

In 2012 , the huge departmental chain of stores, J.C Penney under its CEO, Ron Johnson came up with an ambitious plan dubbed “Fair and Square” as a countermeasure to recession and dwindling sales. However, instead of revamping the stores the plan which entailed offering complementary promotions and periodical price reductions led to further decline and the organization had to seek alternative ways to remain afloat. This essay presents the problems that J.C. Penney faced and the recommendations that it needed to follow to revert to profitability. It also presents an analysis ...

Branding platform

Apple Inc. is a multi-technological company with the aim of defining the brand identity by deploying appropriate and significant branding platform. The vision and mission statements of any brand define the branding platform deployed by the brand. Apple Inc. is the brand that promises to provide savvy and hi-tech products, which no other brand can provide. Apple Inc. believes in the mantra that brand creates customers. Therefore, the branding platform is clearly and carefully chosen by the management of Apple Inc. Simply being cool is not enough as the core objective of Apple’s branding strategy. It is about ...

Executive Summary

The paper represents the business plan of an innovative idea that is to introduce training facility center in Florida. There is high scope in the market due to the availability of a large number of cops. The training center will provide all the related facilities to the individuals that can be availed in the training centers. It is the new concept to provide a platform to the trainees for their self-practice. Effective marketing strategies are required to attract customers towards this new center. Sales strategy is prepared that is to provide membership by paying off a subscription fee once. ...

The Name of Professor:

Introduction The main idea behind the mind of every investor is to achieve long- term growth of his or her business by serving a wider market to increase profitability. However, the existence of various factors such as competition and government regulations tends to impede the successful accomplishment of most investors’ goal. Besides, the efficiency of the strategies implemented by different investors constitutes fundamental hindrances to the realization of their long-term objectives. Therefore, efficient management is crucial to realize business expansion. Additionally, the consideration of other factors with a significant influence on the business environment is essential when formulating the ...

Question 1

AirSec Ltd. aims to become the market leader in the United Kingdom in the sector of technology security systems by 2020. The company targets to increase our sales and revenue for five years from 2015 by at least 10 percent and proportionately cut costs by 5 percent. The company aims to expand our workforce from 120 to 170 in a period of one year and enhance the quality and drive of the workforce through training, development, and reward incentives to attain growth and success. AirSec Ltd also intends to improve customer service by providing superior customer experience and meet ...

Nike cross fit shoes

Pricing strategy is an important factor in business; it plays a main role in creating demand on the market. Price is usually set by business to cover all cost spent for creating the product and to maximize the profit. There are several factors that form a price for any product and they can be divided into fixed and variable costs. For instance, costs for materials used in production Nike shoes, wages if the employees are paid for the amount of unites produced and utilities are variable costs as these expenditures vary with output. Fixed costs include machinery that is ...

Prada’s Marketing Strategy

Prada is one of the world’s most famous brands when it comes to clothing and fashion accessories. The process to become a market leader in the fashion industry can be traced back to the early 90’s when the company was started in Italy. In 1913, Mario Prada came up with the idea of starting Prada, with the goal of serving mostly the aristocrats and the European elite . This vision was realized through the first store located in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which was stylish and focused on the sale of luxury goods and accessories targeting the elite ...

Assignment 7: Distribution & Pricing Decisions

1. State your product idea and target market. The product device that looks like a kiwi bird that will help tourists navigate through New Zealand while it provides tourists with fun facts, history, and tourist information. The device plays the role of tour guide and further serves as a marketing (advertising) device. The product is GPKIWI that uses GPS technology to detect location and nearby places. Information fed into the device will be used in relation with GPS location, in order to provide relevant and accurate information. The target market for the device includes travel agencies, tour operators, independent ...

Introduction

Health Care System is complex sector, influenced by a number of internal and external forces. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the companies, operating in the industry is the strong dependence on the local and international regulatory base and the regulations with regards to the licensing and composition of their products. In this document, I will focus on Johnson and Johnson (J&J) operations and will look at the competition, customer profiles, marketing mix and pricing strategies, relevant for the company. As it was outlined in the previous work, J&J works with a complete line of products, including baby, skin ...

Introduction

Portakabin is a company that concentrates on the designing and delivery of modular buildings to its customers. The company is dedicated to providing its clients with quality products and services that match their needs. The initial company market dealt with the construction industry with a concentration on portable buildings that offered on-site storage and accommodation for the clients. However, the company has diversified its market by extending it to include schools, medical centers, and offices as well. Portakabin (2011) reveals that the company is one of the most recognized and well-established brand image. Its brand image is enhanced by ...

INTRODUCTION

Samsung as an innovative company maintains its leadership position in the TV market at global level. In 2014, it earned 1st position in relation to global TV market share (28.3%) across all product lines of flat-panel TV. In 2015, the company secured the leadership position by offering a range of innovative products like UHD, Curved and ultra-large-size TVs, and SUHD TV. The product (Samsung TV) is chosen because of the innovation the company has made in relation to the product. The company to increase the growth of the TV product lines as well as customer satisfaction collaborated with the ...

Introduction

Preliminary strategic audit refers to assess the current performance of the operations of the business. It examines that if the functions of organization are moving in the designed direction that is set to achieve specific goal or objectives. AT&T is a multinational company that provides effective communication products and services to its global customers. Its product includes smartphones, tablets, and broadband services that are widely used by the customers all over the world. The mission and vision of the company is to provide technological and innovative products to its valuable customers and ensures high satisfaction in the world market. ...

(Alivan Watch & Accessories Company)

Strayer University

Dr NAME Marketing 500 Alivan Watch & Accessories Company Branding strategy A good branding strategy will be necessary for Alivan Watch & Accessories Company to assist in the development of a triumphant brand to achieve specific goals. The ground rules that were used by companies in the past have been evolving. Thought leadership, content marketing, demographic changes, and social media are some of the factors that are challenging company brands. Thus, forming together with sustaining clientele trust as well as loyalty and confidence have become harder than ever before. Firstly, the branding strategy to be used by ...

Executive Summary

RASEOK Cosmetics is a new company in America and will venture into the supply of skin care products and sports apparels. The purpose of the above marketing plan is to justify how RASEOK Company will implement the set plan to realize the shareholder goals more effectively. The future of the company is instilled in the company vision to make people enjoy life due to the affordable skin solution offered by the business. One of the strategies used by the company is adequate satisfaction of consumers as a tactic of winning customer loyalty. The company intends to facilitate its operations ...

Wal-Mart is undoubtedly the biggest and matchless retail chain across the globe. It was founded by Mr. Walton in 1940s. Since then, it has embarked upon becoming the most successful and distinctive retailer, which offers premium everyday shopping experience with its ultimately unparalleled prices. Wal-Mart offers an extensive range of products under one roof that are primarily sorted into 14 key categories including groceries, baby-care items, electronics, books & movies, outdoor living and photo, home decor, fitness & sports, gaming, health & beauty, jewelry & apparel, medicine, toys, movie and furniture (Wal-Mart, 2016). This paper focuses on analyzing the retail and pricing strategy ...

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to understand the role of 4Ps in developing the marketing strategy of any product or brand. The 4Ps of marketing is known as the marketing mix which is defined as, “the set of actions, or tactics, that a company uses to promote its brand or product in the market” . In this paper the marketing mix of McDonalds and Burger King will be reviewed and compare. Both the companies are close competitors. McDonalds is one of the well-known fast food brand world -wide. McDonald’s face competition from various businesses in all the markets, ...

(Tutor’s Name) (Assignment)

Introduction The ongoing process of internationalization raises potential opportunities to multinational corporations worldwide. Over the last decades, there has been a shift in concentration of economic power from the western world to Asia, and this change is powered by emerging Asian economies such as China and India. Currently China is the world’s largest consumer market that has a great potential for further growth. In this context, multinational businesses worldwide seek an opportunity to enter the Chinese market in an attempt to enhance their sales volume and to strengthen global presence. This paper will evaluate ...

Introduction

Apple Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Cupertino, California, and was founded in the year 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The company produces hardware and software products including smartphones, personal computers, tablet computers, media players, iCloud and iOS operating systems. The current paper is aimed to enlighten the SWOT analysis of the company in order to incorporate the self-assessment to fit within the organization.

Strengths

According to Forbes (2016), Apple has the highest brand value of $145.3 billion, due to which it is the most recognized brand in the world. Apple Inc. has the competitive ...

Introduction

The analysis of Apple Inc. illustrates several challenges that company is facing in the modern business environment. It was identified that in order to grow organically and sustainably in international business environment, Apple should focus on the following three aspects: review current exclusivity policy in the growing economies and markets, such as India; change the pricing policy to widen the target customer range and penetrate middle class segment; introduce simpler and more user-friendly devices to the market to attract new customer, who looks for simplicity and basic use of smartphone. With the above in mind, the organization will require ...

The biggest problem faced by Instapaper, which is an iPhone app that enables readers to download articles, publications, or other written material available on the internet and read then later is that even after reducing the price needed to upgrade to a premium app version, the number of subscribers did not increase. On the other hand, only the number of version subscribers increased. This posed a challenge to the developers of the app. Freemium is the pricing strategy that was adopted by Instapaper application. Users were allowed to use the application for free but with limited features and were ...

Pricing Objectives

The core pricing objectives used by Champs Sports is sales oriented. The use of this type of pricing objective is it comes with other smaller yet important goals on board that has helped the company to be successful in the market niche it operates. Firstly, use of the objective has helped the company experience growth in sales and increase its outlets throughout the United States. Through the utilization of this objective, Champs Sports managed to increase their volume of sold products by setting prices in a way that more and more sales are achieved. Their main reason for use ...

Introduction

The report is prepared to present a strategic marketing plan for Muscat Festival for the year 2017 to 2019. It includes short-term planning that needs to be implemented for ensuring the growth in this yearly event. The marketing strategies are addressed in this plan to identify what needs to be done this year for increasing the number of visitors. The management intends to plan something different in the next two years that will increase the number of visitors and people of Muscat will be able to enjoy more activities and fun in their city. The changes are necessary to ...

Introduction

The present report delves into the expansion of Hind Al Oud Company into Bahrain, which is the only GCC countries in which the company does not operate. In particular, the report examines the suitability of Bahrain for Hind Al Oud Company’s expansion. The factors that make Bahrain a suitable marker for the company expansion are political stability, free market system, low inflation, positive economic growth and strong financial services regulation, positive industry growth, low level of centralized control required, lack of trade barriers, low transportation costs, unique business core competencies, low rate of expansion needed, high level of ...

The rationale of this report is to analyse the marketing information and facts of a company in UAE that is planning to enter an international market. The company chosen for this report is Anfasic Dokhoon that plans to start its operations in Tunis, Tunisia. The report contains the background of the Anfasic Dokhoon Company and the market analysis in Tunisia. The report also provides the marketing mix of the company as well as the staffing policies that would enable it to compete fairly in the international market. The potential suitability of various market entry strategies available to the company ...

Individual Project of McDonald’s

Individual Project of McDonald’s Different organizations belong to different industries. One of the most distinct among them is the food and service industry. Thousands of organizations belong and operate within this industry. It is otherwise defined as catering industry, which provides prepared meals such as restaurants and fast food chains. Food service industry is important when it comes to sustaining the supply of food products in the market. Thus, food service companies are known to influence the people’s eating habits (United States Healthful Food Council, 2012). For many individuals, eating out became a necessity more than luxury. ...

Business Plan for Super Green Smoothies

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Health is an important factor in everyone’s life, and people in the United Kingdom are moving towards healthy eating and drinking options with increased awareness of health related issues. However, it is determined that after having a boost in juices and smoothies market, now both of the markets are facing a decline in sales because of the negative publicity of smoothies. Smoothies faced negative publicity that they contain ingredients that damage teeth and high calories. Other smoothies those are famous with the label of green (organic) use sugar in their smoothies. There is no product in ...

BUSINESS ANALYSISName:

Introduction I am interested in Apple Inc. This company has managed to establish itself as one of the major multinational technology companies around the world. Apple Inc. has its headquarters in Cupertino, California in the United States. Apple deals with designing, development, and sale of computer software, consumer electronics, and online services. The company was founded in 1976 for development and sale of personal computers.

Strengths of Apple Inc.

One of the main strengths of Apple Inc. is innovation. Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple rose to prominence. Jobs had a knack for being ahead of the technology curve. Apple was able ...

McDonalds Product Line

McDonald’s is an American Company operating both domestically and internationally. It is the world’s largest hamburger restaurants and has more than 65 million customers. It has operations in more than 100 countries of the world. The company started as a small restaurant but with time it grew and developed to become the one among the world's Fortune 500 service companies. It offers plenty of products to its customer's something that helps us understand its product line better. Its product line includes Burgers, Breakfast products, Chicken, pork, beef and fish among others. This implies that most of its ...

Marketing Strategy

Red Bull organization is regarded as main energy drink provider that is distributing its products throughout the world. Red Bull is an international organization that is trying to market Red Bull Energy Drink. The mission of red Bull here is to enter into market of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is selected because it is located and China and China has successfully entered into the global market, and has provided several opportunities to international organizations to conduct their business in China. Further, China has also opened several platforms for businesses in order to facilitate them to enter into the Chinese ...

Introduction

The pricing strategy of a commodity is one of the crucial aspects of the marketing mix for an international organization. Pricing is the only marketing mix element that generates revenue for a company. An organization’s pricing model is fundamental to its expansion strategies in the international market (Theodosiou & Constantine, p.2). This essay examines factors that affect global pricing strategy of a product by a firm.

Factors affecting global pricing

With the example of iPad Air 2, different markets around the world have different prices for the model. The iPad Air (16 GB) model retails at $ 499 in the US market. However, price ...

Business Analysis

BUSINESS ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION Starbucks Corporation is an American based company which is established in 1971, and it is famous as the best retailer and marketer for its specialty in Coffee across the globe. Starbucks Corporation is operating more than 19,000 stores in 62 countries all over the world (Starbucks, 2013). The products of the Starbucks include the handcrafted, high quality coffees, a variety of food items and beverages. This report presents an analysis of economic and social factors that impact Starbucks and its business operations. The report presents three important factors and then the report identifies two critical ...

Introduction

The business planning and formulating is not as easy and simple as it seems just like to run operations and deal with staff. To start a new business, it is very important to understand the nature and role of entrepreneurship. Many entrepreneurs have succeeded, and many have failed in the past, it means that there is something exist that can differentiate the successful and failure entrepreneurs. Before conducting a plan for the new business of wedding planner services, it is needed to understand the needs, challenges and risks in the development of new business and how these challenges and ...

Apple Incorporation is a globally-operating company with its headquarters in Cupertino, California, in the United States. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The founders had fashioned the company for development and sale of personal computers. However, over time the company extended its operations to the production of consumer electronics, software, as well as delivery of online services. The hardware products of the company include iPad, iPod, Mac laptops, as well as the new Apple Watch. The consumer software that the company produces includes OS X and iOS operating systems. The online ...

The case study ‘Brighter Smiles for the Masses-Colgate vs. P&G, focused on the working mechanics by the two American consumer giants, on how to connect with the target market and strategically outdoing the competition.

The following are the case analysis and answers to the questions pertaining to the case study.

What is the case statement? What decisions does P & G need to make? The case statement is the introduction of Crest Whitestrips by P&G that revolutionized the oral care market, by allowing the consumers to whiten the teeth in the convenience of their home and the inception of a new category that became a cash cow for P&G in the tune of millions of dollars, ...

Business Plan

Executive Summary 3 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Operations plan 5 2.1 Location and facilities 5 2.2 Business processes 6 2.3 Distribution and outsourcing 9 3.0 Organizational plan 10 3.1 Management 11 3.2 Mission 12 3.3 Purpose 13 3.4 Vision 13 3.5 Legal structure 13 3.6 Organizational chart 14 4.0 Marketing plan 16 4.1 Price 16 4.2 Product 17 4.3 Place 19 4.4 Promotion 20 5.0 Financial plan 21 6.0 Growth plan 22 7.0 Contingency and harvest strategy 23 8.0 Timeline to launch the plan 25 9.0 References 28 10.0 Appendices 29

Executive summary

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Company Background

Coca-Cola is a leading brand in the beverages industry. The company has a global presence and is the third strongest brand in the world. It was formed in 1886 in Atlanta by a pharmacist. The products of the company include the soft and carbonated drinks. The company has enjoyed enormous growth over the years of its operations and diversified its product portfolio. The growth of the company is attributed to its vast distribution and the bottlers’ network around the globe. The industrial operations and the B2B selling have contributed a lot in the success of the company. The business ...