Brand extension (brand stretching) is a marketing strategy that uses a company’s existing successful brand name for a new product or modified product in a new category. The brand extension strategy helps the company to extend and move the brand to another category. Example: Dettol – Dettol bath soap, Dettol sanitizer, Dettol shaving cream, Dettol liquid hand wash, Dettol liquid …
The retailers are always looking for a new marketing strategy to have a competitive edge in the market and to serve the customers better. Nowadays, there’s a trend for branded products and you’ll find them everywhere across all the departmental stores, discount stores, and mass merchandising malls. That’s why they all look almost the same. The concept of differentiating your …
One of the main functions of marketing is to achieve the desired exchanges with the help of target markets. The question is what marketing philosophy should follow to streamline the desired objectives. Furthermore, what should be the interest organization, customers, and society? Today, we will discuss product concept, pros and cons, and how it’s different from the production concept. What …
The consumer has to consider many things that what type of product he’s going to buy. It’s because there’s a difference between buying a car and buying a coffee or an ice-cream. It’s a common observation that if the product is costly and expensive, then it’s purchasing would take more time. Rather than a product that’s casual, cheap, and ordinary. …
During the period of WW2, the industry was producing machine guns, weapons, and other wartime equipment. When the war finished, the industrialists changed their focus to consumer goods. They maintained the same pace of production as of the wartime in the 50s. Consequently, the supplies exceeded the demand in the market. Now businesses and companies had a great challenge and …
5 C’s of marketing is a useful framework to perform situation analysis. The 5 C’s of marketing analysis allows doing environmental scanning of five important component that improves marketing decision making process. These components include the internal and external environmental situation of a company.
In the manufacturing industry, the concept of ‘product’ once meant that all the processes would take place under a single company’s banner. This process had a lot of advantages as it reduced the manufacturing cost and reliance on others. But over time, the manufacturing concept has undergone multiple changes adding to the benefit of the multinational organizations. Today, the product …
The Macro environment tends to focus on the broader issues of the business like the economy, socio-cultural environment, laws and regulations, technology, and politics. Economics is going to be the main area of interest when we speak of business. But it doesn’t mean we can ignore other macro-environmental factors, all of those factors are equally important. In simple words, we …
Macro Environment is the external environment greatly influenced the business success, strategies and decision making. These factors are uncountable by the business organizations. Or The wider and broader set of economical conditions is known as macro environment.
