Category Archives: Marketing Mix

Case Studies on Marketing Mix

A-maize-ing Retail Marketing-Mix

Supermarkets are a battleground for packaged goods. Competition for shelf space and the cost of instore promotions make retail a tough market for even the largest companies. A-maize-ing Foods*, a small producer of corn chips and snacks, had some initial [...]

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Positioning on Export Markets : A paradigm of Bounded Rationality applied in the context of positioning for Swedish Exporting firms

It is not easy to predict what will happen tomorrow. It is perhaps even more difficult knowing what will occur next year or even two years from today. To put it short we are uncertain about the future. Swedish firms [...]

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Parcel Force: Using the marketing mix to drive change

Parcelforce Worldwide is part of the Royal Mail Group and is a leading provider of express parcel deliveries. It provides a range of services including a guaranteed delivery on certain times or days. Parcelforce Worldwide uses a network of international [...]

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Social marketing communication in a multicultural environment

Social marketing communication (social marcom) campaign production can be more challenging when the audience includes individuals from ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD) communities. Additional issues such as culturally related values, practices, and attitudes need consideration. Normally, social marcoms campaigns for [...]

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The product life cycle and online fashion

ASOS.com is the UK's market leader in online fashion retailing. It offers own-label, branded fashion and designer goods. Its headquarters are in Camden Town in North London. ASOS.com originally stood for As Seen on Screen. The company was set up [...]

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Developing a Rural Market e-hub The case study of e-Choupal experience of ITC

ICT has potential to make significant inroads in a traditional agrarian economy like India. Indian agro-sector has been exploiting the benefits to ICT. Innovative ICT application platforms are being created by private sector players in conjunction with local farmers. One [...]

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Rural marketing: a challenge in true sense

Promotion of brands in rural markets requires the special measures. Due to the social and backward condition the personal selling efforts have a challenging role to play in this regard. The word of mouth is an important message carrier in [...]

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