Marketing Essays

In 1982 Howard Schultz, an employee of a small coffee-bean store called “Starbucks” was enlightened while sipping an espresso in a coffee shop in Milan, and the rest is history. He envisioned America’s “third place” next to home and work, where coffee-connoisseurs could linger and relax in a classy, pseudo-European …

Tomodachi operates in the central business district with over 10 competitors around the vicinity. However, Tomodachi has been able to remain relatively competitive and active by maintaining its differential advantage as the only modern Japanese restaurant with a world class sushi train as well as an a la carte menu …

Promotion is one of the major “tools” used in Marketing. Marketers usually use promotion to communicate and inform the public of their product. Promotion is also however used to influence the marketers target market usually via means of interpellation, promoting their product as better than any other similar products, or …

Nabisco Oreo Cookies, a brand that is older than the automobile assembly line. It is estimated that an average of 4.3 billion cookies have been eaten each year over the last 90 years. How does the number one sandwich cookie remain number one and not crumble? This paper will examine …

Lux Soap came into existence in 1964. Lux occupies a large market share in the Pakistani soap market as well as the international arena. The new Lux, with the sunscreen formula, is targeted towards a different market segment as compared previously to previous Lux. Lux is the first brand to …

The purpose of this document is to analyse the situation of Himalaya Herbals of Oregon and provide forecasts for future market and product innovations. We have developed organisational goals and objectives which stem from their “back to basics” philosophies’. After evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, we found that …

Case SynopsisThis case describes how Land Rover North America, Inc. (LRNA) has redesigned their dealerships and selling process with the objective of building and enhancing equity for its brand. Land Rover is a niche player in a very crowded and rapidly maturing product category. Competition is fierce and is dominated …

The aim of this essay is to explain the importance of customer satisfaction in service organisations. Clear meaning of the customer satisfaction has been provided along with the causes and results from the effective implementation. J. Heskett’s “service-profit chain” model has been used in order to understand the relationships between …

In the early 1990s the ice cream industry was state regulated. It had artificial market, where all production was sold despite huge overproduction in the industry. During transition from state governed to market economy, the industry shrank rapidly and was unattractive mainly because of political and financial turmoil. Once Russian …

Introduction Marketing in the simplest description attempts to understand customers in terms of what they buy, when they buy, why they buy, how much they buy, where they buy it, and with what they buy. Internationally, this means understanding culture. How marketing efforts interact with culture determines the success or …