Ikea & Conforama marketing
Case study - 11 pages - Services marketing
Nowadays, customers are more and more demanding and seek the best product that fits their needs and likes. Marketers also have been forced to face up to fast changes and trends. Besides, a company cannot answer to all consumers' needs so it has to choose whom its product or service will address....
Corporate entrepreneurship: The case of Naturis
Essay - 10 pages - Services marketing
The study of Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) is gaining increasing interest within the field of Entrepreneurship. Much research has been carried out, mainly focusing on identifying determinants and outcomes of CE. Scholars suggest that the term “corporate entrepreneurship” encompasses...
Marketing challenges when targeting developed markets: How to overcome them?
Essay - 10 pages - Services marketing
Over the past decade, many Asian companies have established branded products in several emerging markets (consumer electronics industry or domestic appliances for example). But nowadays, the next challenge is, for emerging market companies, to establish branded products in developed countries....
International marketing: the French company Caroll in Brazil
Essay - 16 pages - Services marketing
In order to enter the Brazilian market, the French company Caroll has to adapt its strategy. Indeed there are a lot of competitors like Zara, Etam and the local competitors. The Brazilian market represents a good opportunity for the firm and Caroll has to develop its brand on the Brazilian market...
The impact of negative rumors on consumers' behaviors
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
Mac Donald's has been one of the most famous victim of negative rumors, with the “wormburgers' scare” (Newsweek, 1977). “Wormburgers” are hamburgers made with worms-based steak. In 1977, an astonishing rumor took birth in the United States, blaming the famous hamburger firm to...
Volkswagen's Touareg "Kong" advertising campaign study
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
December 2005, one of the most anticipated films of the year has come to the cinemas all around the world. This film is King Kong, produced by Universal Studios. January 2005, Volkswagen, the largest car manufacturer in Europe, had made an alliance with Universal Studios. Thanks to this deal, the...
Global industry study: Hennes & Mauritz (H&M)
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
The aim of this International Marketing survey is to present the international operations of a global brand and to confront them with our international marketing lessons. Our studied company is Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M). Before analyzing all the international operations of this group, it seems to...
European brewing market analysis
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
To introduce an analysis of the brewery industry, one point must be underlined: the European brewery market is mature, which is essential to understand its trends and its forces. We are now going to use the Porter's model of the Five Forces Analysis to develop this analysis. First of all,...
A look at the Bass model: Report structure
Essay - 16 pages - Services marketing
Diffusion is a popular theory of communication used in marketing to model the first-purchase sales growth of a new product over time. As Mahajan et al (1990) put it diffusion theory suggests that a new product is first adapted by a few innovators who, in turn, influence others to adopt it. Taking...
Case study: Lexus and partners Andrews Alridge, the launch of the Lexus LS 460
Essay - 22 pages - Services marketing
Sakichi Toyoda became famous as the inventor of the automatic loom such as a non-stop shuttle change type Toyoda automatic loom. Following in his fathers footsteps, Kiichiro Toyoda devoted his life into the manufacturing of cars. He founded, in 1984, the Toyota motor corporation. Toyota is a...
The building of customer loyalty and retention strategies in sports marketing
Essay - 23 pages - Services marketing
The research in this dissertation focuses on the building of customer loyalty and retention strategies in sports marketing with the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) as an example. This research aims to provide the factors which influence customer loyalty from a sports customer...
Levi strauss japan k.k.: a denim jeans market - published: 15/01/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Services marketing
Levi Strauss is the largest brand-name apparel manufacturer in the world. Levi Strauss's core product lines for men, women, and youth are the LSJ brands of jeans and jean-related products. Facing up a period of economic crisis in the Japanese, Levi Strauss risks to lose market shares. How can...
Parenthood in French law and filiation
Essay - 9 pages - Services marketing
The purpose of this paper is first to understand French parenthood, namely the way to be the legal father or mother of a child. Investigating further, we will see whether the current legislation is modern enough or not, which will be our main question. Indeed, some scholars and politicians think...
Ikea culture
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
Power Distance Index (PDI) focuses on the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in the country's society. In Sweden, the low Power Distance ranking indicates that in this society, there is no difference between citizen's power and wealth. In these societies equality and...
Buyer interview
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
To conduct my buyer interview, I have contacted a French company named Alimentation Fine de France (AFF), which means French Fine Food. My contact was Marie-Dominique X, the key buyer of the company. I asked her a few questions about her company, the general buying process, and the people who...
Parfum d'Orsay: A strategic marketing proposal
Essay - 9 pages - Services marketing
The purpose of this report is to make an analysis of the luxury fragrance market and, after this said analysis, to propose some strategies to the D'Orsay rare fragrance company so that they might improve their financial and marketing performances. The use of the term 'luxury...
The importance of consumer behaviour through the example of Dim's marketing: A successful French tights company
Essay - 5 pages - Services marketing
“Consumer behaviour has been described as the dynamic interaction of affect and cognition, behaviour, and environmental events by which human beings conduct the exchange aspects of their lives” (Blythe, J. The essence of consumer behaviour, p.2). In other words, marketing strategies...
Green marketing and sustainable development in France: What are their impacts on a company's strategy?
Thesis - 14 pages - Services marketing
The environment and its protection occupy an increasingly significant part of our quotidian. The safety actions of our environment are growing, thus we can see the development of the selective sorting, green transport (bus functioning with gas for example), the removal of the plastic bags at...
Strategic management: Mercator Dolenjska
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
In this case study for strategic management, we will analyse the company Mercator Dolenjska. The reason we do that is to look how the future of the company could look like, taking into account its advantages and disadvantages. For that we made an analysis of the company, it's internal and...
Pernod-Ricard "Local Roots, Global Reach"
Essay - 9 pages - Services marketing
The word “alcohol” derives from Arabic al-kuhul and is applied to the many members of the family of alcohols. Beverage alcohol has a well-established place in the global economy. The industry is usually defined in terms of a value chain centered on the actual production of the alcoholic...
Website evaluation : Audi
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
Audi is a German car manufacturer and a part of the group Volkswagen AG. The official name of the company is Audi AG, and its registered office is located at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The name Audi is the acronym of Auto Union Deutsche Industrie. This name also comes from Latin audi (imperative mode...
Multi - National enterprises
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
A uni national company is an enterprise or a business, a venture which target is to have some customers in order to make some profits. But, it is represented in only one country. They can be smalls or big like the railway company in France SNCF for example. A multinational enterprise (MNE) may be...
Cadbury on the Irish market
Market study - 18 pages - Services marketing
Cadbury Schweppes is a global confectionery manufacturer and a soft drink producer in North America. The company is the number-one worldwide for confectionery products. The company is headed by Todd Stitzer, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Sir John Sunderland, the Non-Executive chairman....
Creating a new marketing service
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
With 7.2 millions of people, including 306,000 graduate student and 47% of people between 16 and 44 years old, London is the biggest city in UK. There are 3,900 pubs and 233 clubs which shows an important nightlife in London (Visit London). In London there are some of the best clubs in Europe...
International marketing case study: The mineral water MOUZAïA
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
Within the framework of our course, Marketing Internationally, we were invited to realize a group work on “which marketing strategy could Mouzaïa adopt in order to establish its products in French speaking Western Europe countries?” From the beginning, we felt involved in the topic as...
Twingo II in Japan
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Renault is a famous French vehicle manufacturer, which produces cars, buses, tractors and trucks. Previously known as Société Renault Frères, the company was founded in 1898. Since 2000, the group signed an Alliance with Nissan, the Japanese automaker. Indeed, Renault now holds a stake of 44.4%...
The services marketing management in a four star hotel: focus on Four Seasons
Essay - 12 pages - Services marketing
Services' marketing, or third generation marketing, is one of the most significant preoccupations in the current business world. Indeed, services are more and more important in the developed countries' economy. It represents between 70 and 80% of GDP and of the workforce. This assessment is...
Coursework assignment: Marketing plan
Thesis - 11 pages - Services marketing
The Coca-Cola Corporation is the leader throughout the world in the soft-drinks market thanks to its international famous drink, the Coca-Cola. The company developed a range around the most unavoidable product (Diet Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Cherry Coca-Cola…). The international firm has a...
The evolution of sex imagery in French advertising
Essay - 17 pages - Services marketing
The term “Chic Porn” is sometimes seen differently by the customers. On one hand, it reveals something that the customer rejects and on the other hand something exciting. It is very interesting to analyze the use of sex imagery in advertising and its evolution. The sex images in...
Coach: introduction of an American leather goods producer to the French market
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Let us briefly recall the features of the French leather goods market. This market is composed of 123 enterprises generating a turnover of 1703.2 billions euros. In France, approximately 14.000 employees are working for leather goods companies. The low and middle price companies have entered a...
