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Revised Marketing Plan for Qantas
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

AWARDED BY NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY

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Name of Student: Abhilash Vijayan
Student Registration Number: SG 229
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Module Name: Contemporary issues in strategic marketing
Module Number: WEC-MBA-10-0506
Assignment Title: Revised marketing plan for Qantas
Submission Due Date: 1st November 2009
Student’s Electronic Signature: Abhilash

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1. Literature review
According to Alvin J Silk “one of the main aims of business purpose is to create a customer and hence marketing and innovation are two basic entrepreneurial function of any profitable business” (Silk, 2006: 7). Marketing is essential for an organization/company so as to attract and retain the customers. The opinion of Sergio Zyman, former Vice-president of Coca Cola is that, ‘the purpose of marketing is to sell more products to more people more often for more money in order to make more profit’ (Newman, 1999). Marketing is important for the creating and exchanging value with the customers (Silk, 2006:7). The opinion of Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller is that ‘marketing is the most important component of a business for financial success as without the demand for products/services there won’t even be a Finance, Operations, Accounting and other functions.’ The new age companies/organizations have recognized the importance of marketing and hence most of the big fishes in the pond has added a position in their firm named ‘Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)’, similar to the CEO and CFO (Kotler and Keller, 2006).
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References: 2. Brown, I.R, Clarke, G (2000) Marketing a Service for Profit: A Practical Guide to Key Service Marketing Concepts, Kogan Page Publishers. 3. Evans, N., Campbell, D, Stonehouse, G.(2003), Strategic management for travel and tourism, Butterworth-Heinemann. 4. Kotler, P, Keller, K.L (2005), Marketing Management 12th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey. 5. Jerome, E.M, Shapiro, S. J (1975) Basic Marketing, Irwin-Dorsey. 6. Newman, B.I (1999), Handbook of Political Marketing, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA; Newman, B.I, (1999) The Mass Marketing of Politics, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. 7. Sandhusen, R (2000) Marketing, Barron 's Educational Series. 8. Silk, A.J (2006), What is marketing?, Harvard Business School Press. 9. Stralser, S (2004) MBA in a day, what you would learn at top-tier business schools, John Wiley and sons, New Jersey. 10. O 'Guinn, T., Allen, C. and Semenik R.J. (2008) Advertising and Integrated brand promotion, Cengage Learning. 11. Winston, W.J (1985), Marketing strategies for human and social service agencies, Haworth Press. 13. Aviation: the real world wide web (2009), [Online], Oxford economics, Available: http://www.oxfordeconomics.com/free/pdfs/ox_econ_aviation_report/main.html [20th October 2009]. 17. The 7P’s of the marketing mix (2008), [Online], Available: http://www.marketingmix.net.au/marketing-mix/the-7-ps-of-the-marketing-mix [18th October 2009]. 18. Current Market Outlook 2009-2028 (2009), [Online], Available: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/cmo/ [19th October 2009]. 19. The Qantas experience (2009, [Online], Available: http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/qantas-experience/global/e [21st October 2009]. 23. The marketing mix (2008), [Online], Available: www.mtutors.com/The_Marketing_Mix.ppt [18th October 2009]. 26. Fleetwood, B. (2008), 30 airlines will fold before Christmas, [Online], Available: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/30-airlines-will-fold-bef_b_126626.html [19th October 2009]. 27. Airline industry lost over USD 6billion in the 1st half of 2009, (2009), [Online], Available: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/airline-industry-lost-ove_n_273820.html [20th October 2009]. 28. Ng, E. (2009), world airlines to lose USD 9 billion this year, [Online], Available: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/08/world-airlines-to-lose-9-_n_212467.html [20th October 2009]. 29. Cathay pacific wins airline of the year award, (2009), [Online], Available: http://www.worldairlineawards.com/main/aoy-2009-release.htm [20th October 2009]. 30. O’Sullivan, M.(2009), Qantas decries gulf airlines’ threat on Kangaroo route, [Online], Available: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/qantas-decries-gulf-airlines-threat-on-kangaroo-route-20091110-i5rd.html [21st October 2009].

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