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The three key characteristic of the marketing concept are clearing customer needs, achieving customer satisfaction, attaining company’s profit.
Clearing the customer needs. The marketing aims at meeting the needs of its market where a company needs to understand its customers. With the change or development internal and external environment of company, the product market will varies from many factors such as customers' wants or demands. For instance, after the Great Depression in the UK, his poorest customers of the owner of the British Vitamin Products Company needs an affordable source of Vitamin C, causes the owner found a way to bottle fruit juices so that his juices were sold in small glass bottles which ensured easy transportation.
Achieving the customer satisfaction, Britvic emphasis strongly on brands and creating brand loyalty all the times, this is the reason why it has many follows for a long time.
Attaining company’s profit. Once the customer benefits and shareholder benefits not be satisfied, the company’s profit also not be attained. So, Britvic always obey this rule to achieve its company objectives and attain great profit.
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Micro-environment refers to the forces which influence the organization directly. It includes suppliers that deal directly or indirectly, consumers and customers, and other local stakeholders. Micro tends to suggest small, but this can be misleading. In this context, micro describes the relationship between firms and the driving forces that control this relationship. It is a more local relationship, and the firm may exercise a degree of influence.
Macro environment are those caused by external factors to the business of marketing opportunities and the formation of environmental threats. This includes all factors that can influence and organization, such as population, environment, economic environment, natural environment, technological environment, legal environment, and social and cultural environment. But that are out of their direct control. A company does not generally influence any laws (although it is accepted that they could lobby or be part of a trade organization). It is continuously changing, and the company needs to be flexible to adapt.
Micro-environment and macro-environment are all uncontrollable. But be different from the macro-environment, micro-environment refers to the forces that are close to the company and affect its ability to serve its customers, and the macro environment refers to all forces that are part of the larger society and affect the microenvironment.
In this case, Britvic company and its cooperative partners such as Pepsi enterprises, Its competitors such as Coca-Cola enterprises, as well as customers belong to Britvic’s micro environment. Policy/law affects the company’s advertisement by publish the new rules on television of food and drink to children aged under 16, but it is not only domestic policy affect on marketing method, but international politics and regulations too. The instability of economic like rates of inflation and interest rates also will affect Britvic. In the period of Great Depression in the UK, Britvic suffer a big impact not only itself but also the customers. Which belong to the economic factors. What’s more, technology is a major environment influence upon marketing strategy. Britvic development and breakthrough in technology to innovate the stills soft-drinks will meets the needs of customers.
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Marketing research is the collection and analysis of information about consumers, competitors and the effectiveness of marketing programs. The market research is very important because it can help in many aspects. First, it can meet customer needs. Britvic devote to new product development, which depend on the market research of customers feedback. In this case, Britvic launch Tango Clear with no added sugar in order to attract older consumers. The older market is more suitable for old consumers than others which generate a great progress on Britvic. Next, it can create customers satisfaction through finding out customers ' wants and needs, than creating the right marketing mix, because it can figure out the purchase trend of customers through all kinds of research methods, which help the decision maker of Britvic make suitable decision, or find new market. Last, it can reduce risks in the future business running. Due to the uncertainty which surrounds most business decision-making, such as in the Great Depression, marketing research can provide a large quantity of reliable information to the decision maker of Britvic, the decision maker utilize those information to reduce their risk in the any uncertainty in economic environment in the future. Fourthly, it can found the root cause for a specific problem within a business due to provide amount of effective and explicit information. When the company get into trouble, decision maker can clear the root cause as soon as possible and handle it.
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Britvic mix primary research and secondary research to collect and use market research information in this case. The difference between primary research and secondary research is that primary research consists of a collection of original primary data collected by the researcher own, which is more difficult on collecting information. The secondary research is analyses of information that has already been collected.
Primary research can also be classified further into qualitative research and quantitative research. Qualitative research based on behavior and altitude of individuals that lead to a high facticity, which includes focus group interviews depth interviews observational research and projective research. Company use it to achieve new product developing, like Britvic, it via focus group interviews select set of people who are brought together to test or evaluate a product to achieve developing of new product, which replace the market share of old product. However, quantitative research is based on the date that bring about high collecting speed, which includes face-to-face surveys, telephone surveys, postal surveys and Internet surveys. In the course of economic depression, Britvic read the government report on the economic downturn subject via government official website, it belongs to the Internet surveys. Those government reports can help the decision maker of Britvic preferably figure out from the dilemma they are and have a better future in business.
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Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of customer who have common needs and priorities, and then designing and implementing strategies to target them. Market targeting means the process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter. There is a difference between market segmentation and market targeting is that market segments are groups of prospective buyers that result from market segmentation while target market is a specific group of potential consumers toward which an organization directs its marketing program.
The progress of market segmentation and targeting in Britvic can divide into three steps. First step is identifying potential market. Then identify market segmentation, which means use different variable divide customers with similar needs into different market. The last step is selecting one or several market, then found and enter the target market.
For Britvic, The benefits of market segmentation and targeting can divide into three aspects. Firstly, it can classify customers and understand customer need more convenient, which make product targeted and marketing strategy exclusively. For example, Britvic focus on older customer and make soft-market into two main categories" carbonates and stills ". Secondly, it can help to brand construction. The targeting market can help company clear the market trend. In this case, for example, Britvic acquire the UK franchises of Pepsi and 7UP. Lastly, it can create chance and reduce threaten.
Following the trend that younger generations drink more purchased soft drinks than previous generations and fewer hot drinks, Britvic will get more chance to develop its soft drink in the future.
