Topic One: The Marketing Environment 1. What is meant by the term marketing environment? The marketing environment consists of the actors and forces that affect a company’s capability to operate effectively in providing products and services to its customers. It is useful to classify these forces into the micro-environment (customers‚ competitors‚ distributors and suppliers) and the macro-environment (political and legal‚ economic‚ social/cultural‚ technological‚ environmental‚ legal forces). These
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The marketing environment surrounds and impacts upon the organization. There are three key elements to the marketing environment which are the internal environment‚ the microenvironment and the macroenvironment. Why are they important? Well marketers build both internal and external relationships. Marketers aim to deliver value to satisfied customers‚ so we need to assess and evaluate our internal business/corporate environment and our external environment which is subdivided into micro and macro
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MARKET ENVIRONMENT ________________________________________ • Before we start with marketing environment it is important to know what a market is and how can marketing be defined as. MARKET • A market is any structure that allows buyers and sellers to exchange any type of goods‚ services and information. • The market facilitates trade and enables the distribution and allocation of resources in a society. • Markets allow any tradable item to be evaluated and priced. A market emerges more
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Marketing Environment Marketing environment defined as ‘those condition and influences impingeing or potentially impingeing on marketing’ or anything that has an impact on what marketers do. Why pay attention? The world is changing constantly‚ if marketers don’t understand changes‚ they may be threatened. By consistently monitoring the environment‚ marketers can plan effectively and plan. There organisation ready to face change. Other definition; Actors and forces outside of marketing that
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Marketing Audit Starbucks Stores R. J. Yung Marketing Management March 13‚ 2006 Executive Summary Since its foundation in 1971‚ Starbucks has been working uncompromisingly to achieve the company objective of becoming the world’s leading coffee brand. Having gone through various stages of growing pain‚ today the Company is operating with over 10‚000 stores in 37 countries. Starbucks’ success was mostly a direct result of its aggressive expansion plan‚ that consequently turned the Starbucks
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Aleishia Wiley 07/11/2011 Marketing Fundamentals External Macro Environmental Factors of the Starbucks Brand It’s been 40 years since Starbucks was founded in 1971‚ and a lot has changed since they first opened their doors as a small store front is Seattle’s Pikes Place Market. Their headquarters is still based out of Seattle where they got their start but Starbucks has built a brand that is recognized throughout 50 countries across the globe. Despite small changes over the years the Siren
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uncertain marketing environment deeply affects the organization’.Discuss this statement‚explaining what is meant by the’marketing environment’ and explaining how it might affect marketing plans and activities with an example. The Marketing Environment The marketing environment refers to all of the internal and external forces that affect a marketer’s ability to create‚ communicate‚ deliver and exchange offerings of value. The factors and forces within the marketing environment
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Macro Environment Forces An organization’s macro environment consists of nonspecific aspects in the organization surrounding that have the potential to affect the organization’s strategies. When compared to a firm’s task environment‚ the impact of macro environment variables is less direct and the organization has a more limited impact on these elements of the environment. Macro environmental variable include socio-cultural‚ technological‚ political – legal‚ and economic. A firm considers
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Marketing Plan for Starbucks Submitted by: Submitted to: Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………….. Situational Analysis………………………………………………………………….. Cooperative Environment……………………………………………………. Competitive Environment……………………………………………………. Economic Environment……………………………………………………….. Social Environment…………………………………………………………… Political Environment/Legal Environment……………………………………. Marketing Planning…………………………………………………………………… Marketing Objectives…………………………………………………………
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steady decrease in sales over the past five (5) years. Appointed as the Strategic Marketing Manager‚ the main objective is to propose an alternative approach to achieving the company’s goals and objectives. FINDINGS: 2.1 Show the macro and micro environmental factors which influence marketing decisions. Marketing Environment The marketing environment consists of all the factors of a market which impact a marketing management’s decision when producing products as well as developing and maintaining
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