in Great Britain 0160-7383/$30.00 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.05.001 MARKET SEGMENTATION A Neural Network Application Jonathan Z. Bloom University of Stellenbosch‚ South Africa Abstract: The objective of the research is to consider a self-organizing neural network for segmenting the international tourist market to Cape Town‚ South Africa. A backpropagation neural network is used to complement the segmentation by generating additional knowledge based on input–output relationship and sensitivity
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Market segmentation allows businesses to satisfy the diversity in a resource-effective manner and is held up as the panacea of modern marketing (Dibb‚ 2001). Marketing segmentation is more and more vital for business in the modern time. This essay‚ therefore‚ tend to introduce the concept of market segmentation first‚ then and the merits and difficulties will be illustrated. Finally‚ different approaches are going to be demonstrated. Market segmentation is the process by which a diverse market
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Marketing Segmentation Theory based on selling Oxygen bars 1) Demographic Consumer age‚ gender‚ income‚ occupation are considered to be the main factors for demographic segmentation. Other factors like race‚ religion‚ nationality is not emphasized here because product usage will be less affected by those factors. Currently‚ similar-functioned products available in the market have a wide consumer age base‚ ranging from 20+ to 50+. I believe that this age difference does reflect the difference in
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6. Information Management system of IKEA………………………...(6~10) 7. Shopping at IKEA Franchises……………………………………..(10~13) 8. Summary……………………………………………………………….(14) 9. References……………………………………………………………..(15) History and background IKEA is a privately held‚ international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture. Ikea is made up of two other businesses‚ INGKA Holding B.V; which is the "parent company" for all of IKEA ’s group companies and Swedwood industrial
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SEGMENTATION (Harish pg3) The process of defining and subdividing a large homogenous market in to clearly identifiable segments having similar needs‚ wants or demand characteristics .Its objective is to design a marketing mix that precisely matches the expectation of customers in the targeted markets. Bases for segmentation Geographic segmentation -: Geographic segmentation calls for division of market in to different geographical units such as nations‚ states‚ regions
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make some of the best shoes (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). The issue that is discussed later in this paper would be of how Adidas had positioned its product in the market. 2.0 Segmentation‚ Targeting and Positioning The process of segmentation‚ targeting and positioning is shown figure 1 below. Segmentation is defined as dividing the market into distinct group of buyers that possess different needs‚ characteristics or behaviour that might need separate products or marketing mixes to satisfy
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company or business to effectively respond to different customers needs and wants in order to increase sales‚ they make use of market segmentation. Market segmentation as defined by Kerin‚ author of Marketing‚ 10e; involves grouping potential customers who have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. In further elaboration to define segmentation‚ if there is a demographic group of customers who are all on diets and are watching their weight (common needs/desires) and a business
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1. Abstract IKEA is a furniture company founded by a Swedish billionaire - Ingvar Kamprad‚ who is a successful leader and a living legend of IKEA. He made a great contribution to the innovation and successes of IKEA as well as keeping it grow strongly: Just in 10 years‚ sales of IKEA tripled from over $ 4 billion in 1993 to more than $ 12 billion in 2003. Starting a new career with IKEA by small business in the village Agunnaryd Elmtary - where Kamprad lived‚ but finally he turned to selling
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Explain how and why groups of customers are targeted for selected products What is segmentation? Market segmentation is the division of a market into sub groups with similar characteristics. A business can then target these groups and develop products and services for each of them. There are several ways in which consumers can be split up into. These is geographically which includes location‚ demographically which includes gender‚ social class‚ age‚ income‚ ethnicity or religion‚ psycho graphically
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Introduction IKEA states in their business idea: "We shall offer a wide range of home furnishing items of good design and function‚ at prices so low‚ that the majority of people can afford to buy them"(IKEA 2005). IKEA manage to keep costs low by their superior relationship with their suppliers were they buy low-cost components in huge quantities. Together with efficient warehousing and customer selling service it passes on to customers resulting in lower prices‚ anywhere from 25 - 50 % lower than
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