Company G
3-Year Marketing Plan
Assessment Code: VZT1
Table of Contents Introduction 3 Mission Statement 3 The Product 3 Consumer Product Classification 3 Target Market 3 Competitive Situation Analysis 3 Analysis of Competition using Porter’s 5 Forces Model 3 SWOT Analysis 4 Strengths 5 Weaknesses 5 Opportunities 5 Threats 5 Market Objectives 6 Product Objective 6 Price Objective 6 Place Objective 6 Promotion Objective 6 Marketing Strategies 6 Product Strategies 7 Price Strategies 7 Place Strategies 7 Promotion Strategies 7 Tactics and Action Plan 7 Product Action Plan 7 Price Action Plan 8 Place Action Plan 8 Promotion Action Plan 8 Monitoring Procedures 8
Introduction
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They are women with incomes of $25,000 or more a year that care about their appearance and spend money on beauty products. They tend to have curly or frizzy hair. They are women that tend to use beauty salons and keep up with fashion and fashion trends.
Competitive Situation Analysis
Analysis of Competition using Porter’s 5 Forces Model
The following analysis of Porter’s 5 Forces Model will help in determining the threats that my be present now or in the future and help determine opportunities and decisions regarding the marketing plan.
Competitive Rivalry CHI is Company G’s largest competitor as of the beginning of fiscal year 2014. CHI has a large Research and Development department that could eventually determine our technology advances. This threat is considered low to non-existent until the fiscal year end of 2017.
Threat from New Entrants There are currently no new threats from new entrants in this market. Company G’s technology, testing and production process that is very efficient for profitability cannot be easily replicated.
Threat from Buyers There is currently no threats from buyers. We are not limiting ourselves to one outlet in our distribution.
Threat from Suppliers A shortage in raw materials to make the ceramic element could propose a threat from our supplier. Although this threat is considered low, we will monitor the availability and research a comparable ceramic
The overall threat of new entrants in the retail market is a high level threat as it is relatively easy and inexpensive to enter
There is very little threat to us from our two suppliers. Vendor A is supplying us with the heat-sensing
The industry does not possess major threat from new entrants due to strong barriers to entry and strong competition for retail space. There is also a strong rivalry between competitors as limited space is being contested by major players alongside
Threat to new entrants: There is no barrier to entry in this industry but it might be difficult for newcomers to compete against existing well establishing companies.
It is easy for buyers can find a product/service that can replace the original ones with similar quality
Threats from Suppliers Company G’s current relationship with our suppliers are solid. Our reputation for putting out good products, consistently, and our steady demand for parts will enable us to establish a good foundation with our new suppliers. The parts that we’ll be purchasing from them can be made in various arenas and therefore we’ll be able to shop for the best company to do business with. A company we contract with can expect a long and fruitful relationship with us. We will be establishing with our new suppliers no compete clauses as well as confidentiality statements as to the design of our components.
You know that Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model is a useful tool for analyzing a business. The Model is used to help understand the importance of the five competitive forces and determinea strategy to develop and maintain a competitive advantage. The Five Forces are described and discussed in Chapter 1 of the textbook. They are:
Several threats exist. Company G is a well-established and respected company. Although this is a factor, rival companies eager to capitalize exist. Companies will make product closely resembling Company G’s and may offer at a lower price or with more incentives. Market growth will not be slow and low fixed cost to produce item will decrease rivalry. Since customers somewhat easily and freely switch from one product to another, this will increase rivalry. There are quite a few rivals in the same market.
Feedback: Michael Porter defined the Five Forces Model. Before formally presenting his model, he identified pressures that can hurt potential sales,
Threat of New Entrants (Medium): The threat of new entrants is not really high, appliances manufacturing industry is easy
We chose the Porter’s Five Forces as a valuable analysis tool as it helped us to identify the potential threats from new entrants as well as the power that the buyers have over the sales in this industry. It also helped us to identify the amount of competitiveness within the industry and how easily other products could be substituted for our products.
The Porter Five forces analysis helps the marketer to contrast a competitive environment. Porter’s five forces model is comprised of following five completive forces:
* Possibly the most intriguing of the group is the European-based Jajah. The service requires no client to
Porters five forces is a key model is to determine an organizations opportunities and threats. It considered to be a tool when trying to analyze a company’s microeconomics. This is the internal issue related to an organization. The competition of an organization have an industry. Supplier Power
Porter’s five forces analysis not only provides the ideas to create the strategic plan but also assesses the attractiveness of an industry.