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The Marketing
Environment
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Marketing Environment
• The marketing environment consists of actors
and forces outside the organization that affect
management’s ability to build and maintain
relationships with target customers.
• Environment offers both opportunities and
threats.
• Marketing intelligence and research used to
collect information about the environment.
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Marketing Environment
• Includes:
– Microenvironment: actors close to the
company that affect its ability to serve its
customers.
– Macroenvironment: larger societal forces
that affect the microenvironment.
• Considered to be beyond the control of the
organization.
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Actors in the Microenvironment
Figure 3.3
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The Company’s Microenvironment
• The Company
– Areas inside a company.
– Affects the marketing department’s
planning strategies.
– All departments must “think consumer”
and work together to provide superior
customer value and satisfaction.
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The Internal Environment
Figure 3.4
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The Company’s Microenvironment
• Suppliers:
– Provide resources
needed to produce
goods and services.
– Important link in the
“value delivery
system.”
– Most marketers treat
suppliers like partners.
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The Company’s Microenvironment
• Marketing Intermediaries:
– Help the company to promote, sell, and
distribute its goods to final buyers
• Resellers
• Physical distribution firms
• Marketing services agencies
• Financial intermediaries
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Resellers
• Resellers are distribution channel firms
that help the company to find its
customers or make sales to them.
• These include wholesalers and retailers
who buy and resell merchandise.
• Big C, Carrefour, Tesco Lotus etc. are
examples of big retailers.
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Partnering With Intermediaries
Coca-Cola provides
McDonalds with much
more than just soft
drinks. It also pledges
powerful marketing
support.
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Physical distribution firms
• Physical distribution firms
help the company to stock
and move goods from their
points of origin to their
destinations.
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Marketing Service Agencies
Marketing services Agencies are the
marketing research firms that help the
company target and promote its
products to the right market.
Acorn Marketing and Research
Consultants Co. Ltd
Research Dynamics Co. Ltd.
TNS Research International
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Financial intermediaries
• Financial intermediaries include banks,
credit companies, insurance companies
and other businesses that help the finance
transactions or insure against risks
associated with the buying and selling
goods
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The Company’s Microenvironment
• Customers:
– Five types of markets that purchase a
company’s goods and services
– Consumer markets
– Business markets
– Reseller markets
– Government markets
– International markets
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Consumer markets
• Consumer market
consists of
individuals and
households that
buy goods and
services for
personal
consumption.
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Business markets
• Business markets
buy goods and
services for further
processing or for
use in their
production
process.
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Reseller markets
• Reseller markets
buy goods and
services to resell at
a profit.
– Retailers
– Wholesalers
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Government markets
• Government
markets are made
up of government
agencies that buy
goods and services
to produce public
services or transfer
the goods and
services to others
who need them.
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International markets
• International
market consists of
buyers in other
countries including
consumers,
producers,
resellers, and
governments.
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The Company’s Microenvironment
• Competitors:
– Those who serve a target market with
products and services that are viewed by
consumers as being reasonable
substitutes
– Company must gain strategic advantage
against these organizations
• Competitor analysis is an important
aspect of developing effective
marketing strategies
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Who will win?
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The Competitive “Radar Screen”
Figure 3.7
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Types of Publics
Publics:
Group that has an interest in or impact on
an organization's ability to achieve its
objectives
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Financial Public
These influence the company’s ability to obtain funds. Banks,
investment houses and stockholders are the major financial
publics.
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Media Public
These carry news, features etc. They include newspapers, magazines, and
radio and television stations.
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Government public
Management must take government
developments into account.
Management must always follows the
government rules and regulations when doing
businesses mainly on issues of product safety,
truth in advertising and other matters.
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Citizen action
Public
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Local/General public
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Internal Public
These include workers, managers, volunteers,
and the board of directors.
Large companies use newsletters and other
means to inform and motivate their internal
publics.
When employees feel good about their
company, this positive attitude spills over to
the external publics.
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The Macro environment
• The company and all of the other
actors operate in a larger
macroenvironment of forces that
shape opportunities and pose
threats to the company.
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Figure 3.8
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
• Demographic:
– The study of human populations in terms of
size, density, location, age, gender, race,
occupation, and other statistics.
– Marketers track changing age and family
structures, geographic population shifts,
educational characteristics, and population
diversity.
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Changing Demographic Trends in Asia
create new Marketing Opportunities
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Economic Environment
Consists of factors that affect consumer
purchasing power and spending patterns.
• Changes in Income
– 1980’s –
consumption frenzy
– 1990’s – “squeezed
consumer”
– 2000’s – value
marketing
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Working class
Underclass
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Rising Consumer Affluence in Asia
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Natural Environment
• Involves the natural
resources that are
needed as inputs by
marketers or that are
affected by marketing
activities.
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Factors Impacting the Natural
Environment
Shortages of Raw Materials
Increased Pollution
Increased Government Intervention
Environmentally Sustainable Strategies
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Environmental Responsibility
McDonald’s has made a substantial commitment
to the so-called “green movement.”
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Technological Environment
• Most
dramatic
force now
shaping our
destiny.
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Technological Environment
• Changes rapidly.
• Creates new
markets and
opportunities.
• Challenge is to
make practical,
affordable
products.
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Technology Gaps Between Asian Markets for
Consumer Electronic Products
Figure 3.9
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Political Environment
Includes Laws,
Government
Agencies, and
Pressure Groups
that Influence or
Limit Various
Organizations and
Individuals In a
Given Society.
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Increasing Legislation
Changing Government
Agency Enforcement
Increased Emphasis on Ethics
& Socially Responsible Actions
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Cultural Environment
• The institutions and other forces that affect
a society’s basic values, perceptions,
preference, and behaviors.
• Core beliefs and values are passed on
from parents to children and are reinforced
by schools, churches, business, and
government.
• Secondary beliefs and values are more
open to change.
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Thai culture
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Schools
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Cultural Environment
Themselves
Society’s Major
Cultural Views Are
Expressed in
People’s Views of:
Others
Organizations
Society
Nature
The Universe
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Linkage between Environmental Analysis and
Marketing
Figure 3.10
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Linking of Macro and Micro Environmental Forces
Figure 3.12
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Rest Stop: Reviewing the Concepts
• Describe the environmental forces that affect the
company’s ability to serve its customers.
• Explain how changes in the demographic and
economic environments affect marketing
decisions.
• Identify the major trends in the firm’s natural and
technological environments.
• Explain the key changes in the political and
cultural environments.
• Discuss how companies can react to the
marketing environment.
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