1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris Fisher‚ Gap Inc is largest clothing and accessories retailer in America. The clothing store began in San Francisco California‚ where the Fishers opened their first shop because they had been frustrated with the poor service and clothing styles offered at other retailers. The store was named the gap because it supplied clothing to teenagers and college students‚ the "generation gap" between children and adults. Originally‚ Gap did not sell its own brand of clothing
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ASSIGNMENT 1) Market segmentation Market segmentation is simply a modern marketing strategy in which the market for your customers are divided in various several groups and segments based on some major key factors such as demographic‚ geographic‚ psychological and behavioural factors. By dividing the market‚ the sellers that that try to deliver good value to their customers will be able to have better understanding of their target audience and thereby make their marketing more effective. Market segmentation
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Market Segmentation The purpose for segmenting a market is to allow your marketing/sales program to focus on the subset of prospects that are "most likely" to purchase your offering. If done properly this will help to insure the highest return for your marketing/sales expenditures. Depending on whether you are selling your offering to individual consumers or a business‚ there are definite differences in what you will consider when defining market segments. Market segmentation is a marketing
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The purpose of market segmentation is to enable the marketer to adjust marketing mixes (product‚ price‚ promotion‚ place) to meet the needs of one or more specific segments. Basically marketers use the market segmentation process to divide big markets into smaller segments according to characteristics of individuals‚ different groups and locations. Adidas the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe and the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world markets by looking at buying attitudes
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Segmentation Segmentation is essentially the identification of subsets of buyers within a market who share similar needs and who demonstrate similar buyer behavior. The world is made up from billions of buyers with their own sets of needs and behavior. Segmentation aims to match groups of purchasers with the same set of needs and buyer behavior. Such a group is known as a ’segment’. Think of you r market as an orange‚ with a series of connected but distinctive segments‚ each with their own profile
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Market segmentation Market consists of large number of actual and potential customers. The process of splitting the market into different groups or segments based on the needs‚ characteristics or buyer behavior is called as Segmentation (Kotler‚ Brown‚ Adam‚ and Armstrong‚ 2007). Singapore Airlines (SIA) has used traditional approach adopted by legacy carriers for segmentation. SIA focuses on business travelers and the price sensitive leisure travelers. The business paradigm of SIA has clearly
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Gap Inc. in 2010: Is the Turnaround Strategy Working? 1. What does a five-force analysis reveal about the strength of competition in the U.S. family clothing stores industry? * The retail wearing industry is highly competitive‚ with buyer power being the strongest force. The painful materials needed for manufacturing are relatively abundant‚ which limits supplier power and accommodate room for price negotiating. There is low cost of entry‚ so the industry is flooded with competitors and
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stakeholder expectations‚ and voluntary acts flowing from corporate values and business strategies. Corporate citizenship involves actual results and the processes through which they are achieved” (Lawrence p.68). By definition alone‚ I believe Gap Inc. has demonstrated global corporate citizenship. The following paragraphs will address the actions the company has chosen to embrace including identifying the problem concerning human rights violations‚ analyzing the issues through various studies
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Market segmentation Introduction Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that is one of steps goes into defining the selection of consumers who have common need and will assist consumers with products that satisfy their individual sets of needs and buying practices. The purpose of market segmentation is to guide the consumer purchases‚ businesses are offering through marketing and sales program to maintain sales and growth of the business to survive from competitive market industry. In order
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traditional target market which is high school students is projected to decrease over the next ten years‚ we at regional state university need to come with a new idea of our target market. Other potential market segmentation can be considered by using these few methods that elaborated below. 1. MARKET SEGMENTATION Market segmentation provides businesses with the possibility of customizing a unique set of elements known as the 4P’s (product‚ price‚ place‚ and promotion) for specific target markets. Therefore
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