The Case Study titled “ “discusses in detail about the problems that the Company – Luxor Writing Instruments Private Limited has been facing specifically with regard to the customers and retailers which in turn are hampering the sales of the Parker brand of the Company. This study is carried out depending on the various data which are obtained mainly from primary sources (direct interview with retailers) and the secondary sources (the website of the company, books, and print media). To complete my study, I had visited various retailers in the different markets which are located in the Central Delhi area for better understanding of their grievances and to identify the gaps in sales and marketing process.
The data gathered through this study will help to extract information regarding consumer tastes and preferences and the various issues faced by the retailers which would eventually help the Company to
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Ltd. The main objective of this study was to discover the various methods/ means for increasing the productivity and coverage by the TSI (Territorial Sales In charge) in the area of Central Delhi. This was done so that the retailer satisfaction is obtained which in turn would bring customer satisfaction and loyalty. This study was basically conducted for increasing the sales of Parker brand and to know the problems that are being faced in each area.
This study was an attempt to know various issues which were being faced by the retailers keeping a stock of the Parker brand in the various markets of Central Delhi area. This would help to dig out information regarding consumer tastes and preferences and the various issues faced by the retailers which would ultimately help the Company to resolve the issues and problems faced by the retailers in the Central Delhi area so that the Company can develop such plans and strategies that will enable them to increase the sales in the particular
You will also read about the Company’s advertising strategy and how this approach will bring into line the Company’s marketing goals. It will be determined how effectively the advertising will be measured and how the different promotional strategies relevant to the Company advertising will be utilized. Further discussion will establish the best marketing research approach used to measure customer satisfaction with the Company’s product (cassava powder) and training service initiated to train farmer in implementing large-scale farming. It will be explained how gaps in customer expectations and experiences will be addressed by the marketing wing of the Company, using the high knowledge and proficiency of experienced and well-schooled people in marketing management.
Information gathered to conduct this research came from a variety of websites such as, the Express website, and other websites that leak information about the company and they’re well doing in the retail industry. The five main topics that will be discussed in this
Du Pont has tried to enhance its channel of distribution by providing a large amount of marketing materials to be used on site such as in store demonstration unit. But here again the number of small retailers is a problem to make the impact of such materials noticeable without incurring huge costs. Overall, the retail industry seems to be healthy, as surveys have shown that there is a significant growth in sales. But there does seem to be a problem in the sense the despite growth in sales volume there is no growth in net profit.
In this report I will be comparing methods used by two different retailers on how they distribute two chosen products, of my choice, in two different retailing sectors. Seeing as the food and clothing sector both have very different styles of how they meet their product requirements, I will compare Tesco and JD; The products from these two companies itself that I’m going to compare is ‘Tesco Value Bread’ and Nike hoodies.
In period 3 the market share was lowest than it had ever been before (19.1%), net contribution became higher than in the previous years and the stock price index dropped. Looking at the sale force management, the SAKE brand concentrated most of its sales force on mass merchandise and the SAFE brand gave more attention to the departmental stores. Seven marketing research studies were purchased, the base cost for both brands increased than before, more sales persons were hired and trained than in the previous periods. Following the multidimensional scaling, the brand performance for SAFE was pretty high on a scale of 16/20. But at the level of convenience it was poor with a negative scale of 15. The influence of the product characteristics on MDS dimensions were generally not impressive but the performance for power was very strong, convenience in terms of design was strong, but the performance of the weight, design and volume were average. The firm A fell behind other firms in terms competitive advertisement and in spite of all the investment on marketing research to boost purchase, consumer interest was still not impressive. For three periods, the SAKE brand was performing a lot better than t SAFE.
This report analyses the current market for the Kirkcaldie & Stains department store and the areas that need improving based on the findings for the market analysis. The remote environment is analyzed through conduction a PESTE analysis showing that technological factors are one of the biggest contributors to the changing retail industry along with economic factors changing consumers shopping habits. The macro environment analyzed through a TOWS analysis, competitor analysis and customer analysis shows that the greatest threats include the online market, not having a broad target market and the physical presence inside the store does not align with Kirkcaldie & Stains image that they want to portray to their
Armstrong Coal Company Inc. employed me for three months at the Midway Mine. The Midway Mine is a surface mining operation that uses the dragline mining method. I am a certified foreman; however, I was employed as the maintenance supervisor over the Page 752 Walking Dragline Co. # 377. Matt Dunlap was my immediate supervisor and the foreman over the surface operation.
The O.M Scott & Sons Company has had continued success in the grass seed and lawn care industry. The company started in 1868 as a local company in central Ohio, focused on selling grass seed only. The company saw great opportunity in the lawn care industry, so it decided tot take action. O.M Scott & Sons grew into a national company that distributed its products by mail, and eventually sold to retail stores nationwide in 1959. The company was able to grow expanding the company’s field sales force. This increase in sales force led to a continued increase in sales and profits, which allowed the company to invest in R&D more heavily. This increase in R&D led to better products, which further increased sales and profits. The objective was to service the various retailers across the U.S with adequate inventories, especially in the high seasonal peaks. This was difficult for most of the smaller sized dealers the company was selling to, so Scott had to fund the dealer inventory buildup by itself.
The extracted data represented that there are many people who have crossed the age of thirty-five and visiting the shop since its start. Those customers are considered the asset and strength of the brand as they have observed all the changes and development of Ed Williams from the beginning. The target market for the business is elite class for whom price is not an issue. Secondly, they consider their loyal customers the biggest strength of the business as they find variety of products easily at Ed Williams. It has been noticed at the time of data analyzing of the case that pricing strategy decided by the brand is not sound enough. It is because looking the near competitors of the same brand, they offer fewer prices for the similar products and it could result into losing the customers. On the other hand, Ed Williams avoid advertising or promotional campaigns for the company but in my opinion, it is a loss to the brand as mass media plays an important role in the businesses to grab more
The Virginia Company did not have very experienced people to take on building up a strong settlement and had many gentlemen who wanted riches. Many people thought they would find gold fairly quickly but seen they were not alone. Many thousands of Native Americans were in their area and took them as a threat. The English thought they would even be friendly when they landed but was not so. The English started to lose many people to attacks by the Indians. They were now desperate to build a fort with cannons to properly defend themselves to save lives of their people. They have been losing people for quite some time now and they have been running low on supplies like food. As it was summer and hot, many of the people turned to the water in the
The choice of a suitable retail category to investigate the issues affecting the retail environment is crucial, and it should be representational in nature. This is essential because the rest of the retail categories can apply the recommendations for overcoming the issues. The retail category that can be useful in exploring the issues affecting module themes of global and international retailing, sustainability and ethics, and technology and retailing is foodstuffs and consumables. This retail category is at a better position to explore the module themes because it has a broad market. For instance, it is also essential to note there are no geographical barriers restricting people on the food that they consume, sustainability is an important aspect of foodstuffs and consumables category, and the use of technology in retailing has had a significant impact on the retail category.
Consumers buying decision making play an important role for the success of every company or organisation. Without the investigation into consumers and their buying behaviour companies and organisation and marketer cannot achieved their aims and objective of their goals in the sale of their product. The purpose of this investigation is to explore the relationship between the consumers buying decision making process and the beverage brand products. (Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola) The data for the research has been collected from the UK one of the biggest town in England know as Huddersfield. The result from the research has determining that in the UK, majority of the consumers prefer Coca cola beverage brand than Pepsi and the research result has indicated that consumers buying decision can significant influence the beverage brand product in the UK market the research continue to say that if coca cola has put more focus on consumers buying decision in the UK know what they expected from them and producer according to their customers demand and try to satisfy their need and wants this can lead coca cola toward the success and increase their profit in the UK market
The research conducted by Cory McAllister, proved to be foundational for this study in that it helped to provide interest in studying product use and purchasing.
To conduct a market research to analyse the importance of Private Labels in the Indian Retail space through all secondary databases, newspapers, interview excerpts, magazines, etc. To conduct a survey to gauge the look and feel of various private label brands from the customer perspectives and identify the attributes in general which corresponds to the thinking of
For this purpose the retailers were interviewed. Visits were made to retailing stores in west Nagpur area. Lastly, an analysis of the competitors like Prestige and Hawkins was also carried out to find out about their activities in the retail direction.