Business Driven Technology
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 3AYK
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Market Dissection:
The following graph shows the strategies for each product.
Cold Drinks
- They have a broad market and mainly focus on cost leadership strategy.
- Companies such as Pepsi, Coca cola keeps on battling the competitive prices it can offer to the customers.
- This strategy is a key element in driving the companies to huge success.
The Clothing brands
- The clothing brands like Levis, Armani or Peter England are having wide market.
- These companies will always bring differentiated products for their customers.
- These companies will experiment with the clothing textures, colours and length for giving funky and attractive look to the jeans...
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