
F7BX 34
OUTCOME 1+2
Candidate Name:
Grade and Class:
Introductions
This report explain marketing and key characteristics, Explain Britvic’s micro and macro environment. Explain why market research and the information gathered are important to an organisation like Britvic. Explain the process of market segmentation and targeting and the benefits of segmentation and targeting to Britvic. Explain marketing theory in relation to each of the 4Ps. Explain the factors that would affect how Britvic might decide on their choice of each of these items.The importance of marketing services.Explain how Britvic might adapt their marketing mix in response to three possible changes in market conditions.
1. Marketing and three key characteristics of the marketing.
1.1 What is Marketing?
Marketing is the process of creating, distributing, promoting, and pricing goods and services to satisfy customer’s demand at a profit.
By analyzing the needs of the people,then research and develop new products in order to satisfy the customers, whilst we offer the right marketing mix of product, place, price and promotion, the customers get satisfied and good after-services eventually. The organization should offer a set of satisfying product in acceptable price to customers accompanying popularization activities.
1.2 What's the use of Marketing?
If you do not tell anyone, no one will know what you are selling in the end. And nobody will take the initiative to go to your office and tells you what products they want. if you want to sell goods, and make a profit. You have to let people know about your product. and let them know what this product is exactly what they want. The way that you make sure that they do know is through marketing. obvious,most firms understand the need for marketing but most really don’t understand what it is. In simple terms, is the production to consumption, through marketing. Marketing is not the same as advertising or sales, is a very complicated science. is not a simple advertising or sales.
1.3 Three key characteristics of marketing concept.
Needs, wants and demands are a part of basic marketing principles.
Needs are the basic requirements of human being, Such as food, clothing and housing. Without them, people will not survive. Meet people's basic needs can bring a lot of customers. For example, Britvic provide affordable source of Vitamin C for customer during the Great Depression in the UK.
Wants are people in order to live comfortable and special requirements are put forward. such as computers, mobile phones or car. For example, in order to attract older customers, Britvic plan to launch a Tango variant called Tango Clear with no added sugar to satisfy needs and wants.
Demands are wants backed up by the ability to pay. Demand refers to how much of a product or service is desired by buyers at various process. The quantity demanded is the amount of a product people are willing to buy at a certain price; the relationship between price and quantity demanded is known as the demand. Health awareness has driven demand within the soft drinks market since 2000 both from consumers and at government level. Indulgence, Younger generations drink more purchased soft drinks macro environment. than previous generations and fewer hot drinks.
Marketing concept is a philosophy that an organization should try to satisfy customers’ needs through a coordinated set of activities that also allows the organization to achieve it goal.
2. Britvic’s micro and macro environment.
2.1 Microenvironment
The Microenvironment can be defined as the forces close-related to the company and have an influence on their customers. It includes suppliers, customers, distributors and competitors.
For Britvic, their biggest competitor is Coca-Cola Enterprise Ltd. In addition, distributors also play an important role in this case, because Britvic supplies a wide range of products to approximately 200000 outlets across the county. during the Great Depression many of poorest customers needed an affordable source of Vitamin C; Ralph Chapman found a way to bottle fruit juices in order to stay fresh for longer without the addition of preservatives.
2.2 Britvic’s macro environment.
The Macro environment is described as the larger societal forces that affect the whole microenvironment. Can be summarized as four kinds of Political, Economic, Social and Technological.
For Britvic, the great depression is the economic environment, in those days the soft drinks sales are declined. The new rules on television advertising of food and drink to children aged fewer than 16 is a political environment which has led to the use of non-television campaigns. The technological factor is Britvic Company using a combination of poster, radio and advertisements in the Daily Record to raise brand awareness and promote sales of Tango. Social cultural factor is since 2000, health awareness has driven demand within the soft drinks market.
3. Market research and the information gathered.
3.1 What is Market research?
Market research can be defined as the systematic design, collection, interpretation, and reporting of information to help marketers solve specific marketing problems or take advantage of marketing opportunities.
3.2 Importance of marketing research
Through the market research, the research information can help Britvic company stay in touch with customers’ changing attitudes and purchase patterns and in a timely to adjust to satisfy customers demand. It can Assists Britvic company in better understanding market opportunities and Determines the feasibility of a particular marketing strategy. Help the Britvic Company in the development of marketing mixes and to match the needs of customers. And Improves Britvic company marketer’s ability to make decision. Market information is the effective way to improve Britvic’s economic benefit, can also lower the risks.
3.3. Secondary research and primary research
There are two main sources of marketing research data include of Secondary research and primary research.
The methods of secondary research have internally and externally, the internal sources include: sale history, distribution outlet, average order cost and so on; the external sources include: the government websites, libraries, newspapers and journals etc.
Primary research, or research using primary sources, is the use of first-hand data and resources. Primary research can also be categorized further into both Qualitative research and Quantitative research.
4. How Britvic might collect and use market research information.
The Britvic company through the primary research and secondary research to obtain information, the method of primary research have qualitative and quantitative.
Qualitative research concerns the gathering of information which can be interpreted in a number of ways, This type of research does not need a strict design plan before it begins. However, Qualitative research of a study using qualitative research is heavily involved in the process, which gives the researcher a subjective view of the study and its participants. When the Britvic Company has just founded, it can using the method of group discussions to collect information about new product development, because this method can produce more information, usually not statistical-more opinions and individuals’ thought.
Quantitative research allows the researcher to measure and analyze data. The relationship between an independent variable is studied in detail. Researcher is more objective about the findings of the research. But, the main disadvantage of quantitative research is the context of study or experiment is ignored. The main research techniques include experimental research and surveys. It can use the method of survey to collect information, preference on different kind of drinks.
Britvic Company can through the telephone survey to obtain information, because this method is fast, low cost, high response rates, wide range, and information is high value, Britvic Companies can quickly know customer’s demand for beverages, and formulate the corresponding strategy.
5. Process of market segmentation and targeting and the benefits of segmentation and targeting to Britvic.
By means of Market segmentation is marketers through market research, according to consumer's needs and desires, purchase behavior and buying habits and other aspects of difference, Put a product market as a whole is divided into several consumer group of market classification process. Then the Evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more of the market targeting to enter。The final Setting of the competitive positioning for the product and creating a detailed marketing mix. To establish an accurate market positioning.
Market segmentation is no single way, A marketer has to try different segmentation variables, alone and in combination, to find the best way to view the market structure. But what do people usually use four methods to distinguish the market. Has ways of geographic segmentation, demographic segmentation, psychographic segmentation and behavioral segmentation. Britvic use demographic segmentation,They launch a Tango variant called Tango Clear with no added sugar, designed to attract older consumers. The Britvic also choose poor people as their target consumers and designed bottle fruit juices.
Identify market targeting using three methods are segment attractiveness, business strength and selecting market segments. Undifferentiated marketing,Differentiated marketing and Concentrated marketing. Britvic for old customer using Differentiated marketing and Concentrated marketing. that plan to launch a Tango variant called Tango Clear with no added sugar. This is the first time that Tango has targeted a slightly older market and differ from traditionally positioned.
6 .Explain marketing theory in Britvic
6.1 Product mix and individual products
The Marketing Mix is an important part of corporate marketing strategy, Controlled enterprise marketing measures to form a holistic activity. The main purpose of marketing is to meet the needs of consumers.
Product: is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need. It includes physical objects, services, persons, places, organizations and idea.
Product mix refers to the total group of products that an organization makes available to customers.
Britvic has two product lines which mean the width of Britvic is two. The one is carbonate drinks and the other is still drinks. Britvic’s product line width is quite few, only two production lines; the depth has a lot of product brands, the carbonates have eight brands, the stills have eleven brands. So, product has good compatibility, consistency and continuity.
Every product has a limited period of popularity in the marketplace is called Product Life Cycle. It has five stages: development,introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Britvic is began as little more than a home business in the mid-nineteenth century is its’ development, during this period of time it produce all kinds of soft drinks and found a way to bottle drinks, In the period of introduction. Britvic brand was formally launched. After, Britvic buy the tango brand from Beecham and acquire the UK franchises of Pepsi and 7Up, and acquired the UK and Irish rights of the energy drink Red Devil in 2002 is it’s growth stage. Britvic places strong emphasis on brands and creating brand loyalty and in 2009 has gained market share across all major categories, this it’s maturity stage. 2008 is the decline of Britvic because of the economic downturn. Their soft drinks sales are resilient.
6.2 Distribution channels
Distribution channels are one of the four elements of the marketing mix. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user, using direct means, or using indirect means with intermediaries.
There are three kinds of Distribution Intermediaries. Wholesalers,Retailers and
Sales agents
The place is that the main function of distribution is getting the product to the customer in the right place at right time. The channels of distribution consist of wholesalers , retails, agent. The wholesalers do not trade with the end user and usually purchase goods in order to resell them to other intermediaries, typically retailers. Wholesalers legally own the goods they purchase and also physically store and handle the goods. Retailer sell directly to the consumer, but retailer themselves may have purchased the goods from a number of sources such wholesalers, agents or directly from the manufactures.
In the case,Britvic provide fully serviced vending machines for appropriate locations. Vending machines as distributors provide soft drinks to consumer. The vending machines are not affected by time constraints. The Britvic has franchises of Pepsi and 7UP in the UK. Britvic decisions effect by brand awareness. Therefore, Britvic is an agent of Pepsi and 7UP in the British. Pepsi Cola is the fourth beverage company in the world. Britvic has an agent of Pepsi that they can increase visibility in the UK.
6.3 Pricing methods
Price is one of the most flexible elements of the marketing mix as it is very easy to change. It will be affected by consumers, the trade and the competition. The pricing is very importance. A product has most readily changeable characteristic and it relates directly to generation of revenues and quantities sold. A key component of the profit equation, having strong effect on the firm’s profitability. Reasonable pricing helps customers differentiate a product from competing brands, guides marketers in their evaluation of the importance of price to the consumer, it is a combination of product's price and quality attributes.
The pricing strategies can divide into price skimming, penetration pricing, economy price and premium price.
Price skimming :in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time. It is a temporal version of price discrimination/yield management. It allows the firm to recover its sunk costs quickly before competition steps in and lowers the market price. The new product is introducted into market,
Penetration pricing:where the price of a product is initially set low to rapidly reach a wide fraction of the market and initiate word of mouth. The strategy works on the expectation that customers will switch to the new brand because of the lower price. Penetration pricing is most commonly associated with marketing objectives of enlarging market share and exploiting economies of scale or experience.
New products listed can take price skimming. When the competitor appear about Britvic , the company can take penetration pricing. There are many factors on pricing decisions, such as consumers, demand, competition, channels of distribution and so on. In the demand, the demand of consumers decrease and Britvic finally fall price to attract consumers. In the competition, with increasing of competitors the Britvic decreases price to take up the market share.
6.4 Promotional methods
The promotion is a form of communication. The main promotional tools available to a marketer include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, personal selling and direct marketing. The Britvic has numbers of advertising to attract the eyes of customers. The customers set a habit of attend about Britvic drink and it promote sales. In sales promotion, the shop often take sales promotions. The customers have a heart of saving money and Britvic drink is going to be sold better. There are many factors which influence the setting of the promotional mix which will now be examined. They include target audience, promotional objectives, budget setting and other factors. In the target audience, the Britvic must consider on what kind aimed people to promotion. The Britvic promotion on line is accepted in the young. In the young, people often is on the line. The promotion can be important effort.In the budget setting, the Britvic have enough money and it can create best advertisement to promotion. More and more customers can be affected by the promotion.
7. The importance of forces in marketing a service.
People play an important role in offering service; the customers’ satisfaction is intrinsically linked to the service provider. Everyone is involved in the process of consumption directly or indirectly. Such as customer, waiter or usher. The restaurant inspired staff’s enthusiasm to meet customers’ demands. If the customers are satisfied with your service, it may have a positive effect on the development of your company. For the Restaurant, the Restaurant assistant’s attitude may have an effect on the customers. So People is very important in the marketing strategy.
Processes mean caring about the quality; involve looking at the quality controls that need to be in place to ensure consistency of service. It is a key factor of Marketing Mix. Services, unlike physical products, happen "on the spot" and customers like to know what to expect. Examples include processes to reduce the waiting systems and service delivery. So there must be a leader during the Restaurant. So Processes is very important in the marketing strategy.
Physical evidence is the “tangible” part of the service, like the décor inside the Restaurant. The inside decoration of the barbershop is the physical evidence, such as tableware, table and chair, lamp, etc… So Physical evidence is very important in the marketing strategy.
8 Explain of external factors that may affect the Britvic
There are a lot easier to change factors, such as policy, economy and culture. In terms of culture, a lot of countries have their own cultural characteristics. In Britvic, if you want to operate in these countries, these factors must be considered. In China, most Chinese people have a heart of preserve one's health, so most Chinese prefer tea, Britvic must be conducted on the product to correct, to produce a series of tea beverages .In China there is a characteristic, people often assume that a good product should be expensive .So Britvic can raise the price of a certain in the relevant tea drinks. Retailers take up the dominant position in China, the tea drink can be in small supermarket sales. In terms of promotion, products placed some health factors, Britvic products will attract a lot of potential customers to a certain extent;
In terms of economy, if a country's economy fell, it means that every citizen will reduce the disposable capital. At the time of economic downturn, Britvic have to reduce their production products and change pricing strategy to a lower price.
Promotion: Influenced by competitors or policy, commodity sales to decline. Britvic Company need through to advertising or promotions to attract customers, for example, in the local TV station, website or newspaper publications to promotional products. Or if Britvic Company develops a new kind of drink, Britvic needs to use appropriate ways to do promotion to advertise this new product.
Conclusion
This paper mainly studies the definition and role of the Marketing, Britvic’s micro and macro environment. The importance of Market research and the information gathered. How Britvic might collect and use market research information. Process of market segmentation and targeting and the benefits of segmentation and targeting。 Explain marketing theory in Britvic。 The importance of forces in marketing a service. Britvic might adapt their marketing mix in response to three possible changes in market conditions.
Reference
1. Marketing
http://marketing.about.com/od/smallbusinessmarketing/a/whatismarketing.htm
2. Importance of marketing:
http://wenku.baidu.com/view/50306286d4d8d15abe234e3c.html
3. Three characterizes:
http://www.studymode.com/essays/Marketing-Needs-Wants-And-Demands-876133.html
4. Importance to company:
http://nbmcommunications.com/why-is-marketing-important-to-businesses.php
5. Macro:
http://www.studymode.com/essays/Marketing-Micro-And-Macro-Environmental-Factors-1411319.html
http://www.investorwords.com/19302/macroenvironment.html
6. Secondary research
http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_7993255_primary-secondary-research-differences.html
7. Primary research
http://www.ehow.com/info_8091178_advantages-disadvantages-qualitative-quantitative-research.html
