PepsiCo vs. Market Segmentation Introduction Pepsi-Cola was founded by a druggist‚ Caleb Bradham in year 1898 (Overview‚ 2008). He came from New Bern‚ North Carolina (Overview‚ 2008). In year 1965‚ Pepsi-Cola merged with Frito-Lay in a new company named PepsiCo (Overview‚ 2008). Then‚ PepsiCo merged with Tropicana in year 1998 and also Quaker Oats Company in year 2001 (Overview‚ 2008). Those mergers have been divided in categories such as food‚ beverage and snacks. Now‚ Pepsi Brand is part of
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Summary........................................................................................ vi Potential Market Segmentation of a Brand New Product Product Potrayal................................................................................. vii Potential Market Segmentation..................................................................... viii Segmentation Profile..................................................................................... ix Evaluating The
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MARKET SEGMENTATION: ORGANISATIONAL ARCHETYPES AND RESEARCH AGENDAS* Mark Jenkins & Professor Malcolm McDonald Cranfield School of Management Address for correspondence: Mark Jenkins‚ Cranfield School of Management‚ Cranfield University‚ Bedford‚ MK43 0AL‚ UK. Tel: +44 (0) 234 751122; Fax: +44 (0) 234 750070 EMail: m.jenkins@cranfield.ac.uk Paper submitted to the European Journal of Marketing‚ February 1995. The authors acknowledge the invaluable comments of Professor Martin Christopher and the
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Consumer Behavior MODULE 3 MARKET SEGMENTATION AND POSITIONING MODULE 3: MARKET SEGMENTATION AND POSITIONING ( 2 hours) 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Aggregate Marketing and Market Segmentation Target Marketing Market Segmentation Alternatives available for Segmentation Basis for Segmentation Targeting Positioning Introduction: The traditional way of doing business was Mass Marketing which meant offering a standardized product to all the consumers or the entire market. However‚ it was increasingly
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8/8/07 2:04 PM Page 222 CHAPTER 11 Market segmentation YORAM (JERRY) WIND and DAVID R. BELL All markets are heterogeneous. This is evident from observation and from the proliferation of popular books describing the heterogeneity of local and global markets. Consider‚ for example‚ The Nine Nations of North America (Garreau‚ 1982)‚ Latitudes and Attitudes: An Atlas of American Tastes‚ Trends‚ Politics and Passions (Weiss‚ 1994) and Mastering Global Markets: Strategies for Today’s Trade Globalist
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to the true purpose of Market Segmentation – “Discovering Customers whose behaviors can be changed or whose needs are not being met”. Through analysis the authors describe how the Segmentation‚ if properly applied‚ would guide companies in tailoring their products & services to the groups most likely to purchase them. Good segmentations identify the groups most worth pursuing – The Underserved‚ the dissatisfied and those likely to make first time purchase. Good Segmentations are “Dynamic” in the sense
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According to Schiffman and Kanuk (2007)‚ market segmentation is the process of dividing a potential marketing into distinct subsets of consumers with a common need or characteristic and selecting one or more segments as a target market to be reached with a distinct marketing mix. When a mass customization approach cannot satisfy buyers’ individual needs‚ market segmentation is essential for determining which sizes will best fit groups of customers who share similar needs‚ thereby increasing customer
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Market segmentation is the fundamental component of a market-based strategy. A market segment is a specific group of customers with distinctive customer needs‚ purchase behaviours and different descriptive characteristics. (Best‚ 2000) By categorizing markets into sub sectors‚ targeting marketing effort in such a way as to meet the technical and other requirements of each of these‚ organisations maybe able to secure greater competitive position than if they attempted to satisfy the general requirements
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Segmentation and Target Market: Elio Motors Tina M Miller MKT 571 August 18‚ 2014 Jason Leonard Segmentation and Target Market: Elio Motors Introduction Paul Elio is the engineer and company CEO of an American startup automaker founded in 2008: Elio Motors. Production is slated to begin in early 2015 in Shreveport‚ Louisiana. The design of the vehicle has three wheels with all the standard convinces of a four wheeled vehicle. The selling points of this vehicle is that 90% of the parts used to produce
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MARKET SEGMENTATION‚ TARGETING AND POSITIONING MARKET SEGMENTATION When it comes to marketing strategies‚ most people spontaneously think about the 4P (Product‚ Price‚ Place‚ Promotion) – maybe extended by three more Ps for marketing services (People‚ Processes‚ Physical Evidence). Market segmentation and the identification of target markets‚ however‚ are an important element of each marketing strategy. They are the basis for
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