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‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

Department of Business Administration

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Assignment 1
Due Date: 1st March 2025 @ 23:59
Course Name: Marketing Management

Student’s Name:

Course Code: MGT 201

Student’s ID Number:

Semester: 2nd

CRN:
Academic Year: 2024-25

For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name:
Students’ Grade: Marks Obtained/Out of 10

Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY







The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated
folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be reduced
for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or
other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font.
No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Recognize an understanding of the overall marketing concepts, goals and strategies within the context
of organizations goals and strategies. CLO-1
2. Demonstrate the ability to formulate marketing strategies that incorporate psychological and
sociological factors which influence consumer’s decision. CLO-03
3. Develop critical and analytical thinking necessary to overcome challenges and issues of marketing in
the changing global environment. CLO-04

Assignment Question(s):

Part-A:

Case Study

(6 Marks)

Read the Chapter Case Study “A Flood of Water Consumption Choices” from Chapter No- 1
“Overview of Marketing” Page: – 24 and 25 given in your textbook/E-book – “Marketing” (8th ed.)
by Dhruv. Grewal and Michael Levy (2022) and answer the following Questions:
1. How does marketing impact the consumption of water, and how has this impact changed since the
mid-20th century? (2 Marks)
2. Describe three distinct target markets for drinking water. How does marketing create value for each
of these segments using the four Ps: product, price, place, and promotion? (2 Marks)
3. How has changing societal values impacted the way in which water is purchased and consumed? (2
Marks)

Part-B:

Critical thinking

(4 Marks)

1. Of the four growth strategies described in the Chapter No-2, which one you consider is the riskiest
and which one is the easiest to implement? Critically examine with the help of suitable examples.
Ch-2 (2 Marks)
2. Sustainability, health and wellness, efficient utilization and distribution of food are the various social
trends appear to be shaping consumer values in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and around the world.
For each of these trends, choose a retailer or service provider and critically examine that you believe
has seized the moment by grasping the importance of the trend and successfully marketing to its
customers as a result. Ch-5 (2 Marks)
Important Note:
1. Answers must be submitted without plagiarism. If more than 20% it will be marked zero.
2. Support your answers with references.
3. Minimum word limit is 150 words for each Answer.

Answers
Part-A Case Study
1. Answer Q12. Answer Q23. Answer Q3-

Part-B Critical thinking
4. Answer Q15. Answer Q2-

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Chapter 2
Developing Marketing
Strategies and a Marketing
Plan

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Learning Objectives
Learning Objective 2.1 Define a marketing strategy.
Learning Objective 2.2 Describe the elements of a marketing plan.
Learning Objective 2.3 Analyze a marketing situation using SWOT
analyses.
Learning Objective 2.4 Describe how a firm chooses which consumer
group(s) to pursue with its marketing efforts.
Learning Objective 2.5 Outline the implementation of the marketing
mix as a means to increase customer value.
Learning Objective 2.6 Summarize portfolio analysis and its use to
evaluate marketing performance.

Learning Objective 2.7 Describe how firms grow their business.

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PepsiCo

The development at PepsiCo reflects careful
analysis of the market and efforts to ensure that it
continues to attract a wide range of consumers.
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What is a Marketing Strategy?
A marketing strategy
identifies:

• A firm’s target market.
• A related marketing
mix.

• The bases on which
the firm plans to build
a sustainable
competitive
advantage.

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Exhibit 2.1: Macro Strategies for Developing
Customer Value

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Customer Excellence

Retaining loyal
customers.
Providing outstanding
customer service.
Disney’s My Magic system enables users to
swipe their MagicBand wristbands to get on
rides, make purchases, and open their hotel
room door

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Operational Excellence

Efficient
operations

Excellent
supply chain
management

Strong
relationship
with
suppliers

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Product Excellence
Provide products with high
perceived value and
effective branding and
positioning.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s
top global brands:
• Apple, Google,
Microsoft, Coca-Cola,
Amazon, Samsung,
Toyota, Facebook,
Mercedes, IBM.
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Locational Excellence
Especially important for retailers and service providers.
Many say, “The three most important things in retailing are
location, location, location.”

Competitive advantage based on location is not easily
duplicated. Starbucks makes it difficult for competitors to
enter a market and find good locations.

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Multiple Sources of Advantage
A single strategy (low
prices or excellent service)
is usually not enough to
build a sustainable
competitive advantage.
Southwest Airlines
• Provides good service
at a good value (ontime flights that are
reasonably priced).

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PROGRESS CHECK (1 of 3)
1. What are the various components of a marketing
strategy?
2. List the four macro strategies that can help a
firm develop a sustainable competitive
advantage.

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Exhibit 2.2: The Marketing Plan

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Step 1: Define the Business Mission

PepsiCo’s Mission Statement:
“To provide consumers around the world with delicious,
affordable, convenient and complementary foods and
beverages from wholesome breakfasts to healthy and
fun daytime snacks and beverages to evening treats.”
Coke’s Mission Statement:
“To refresh the world … To inspire moments of optimism
and happiness … To create value and make a
difference.”

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Step 2: Conduct a Situation Analysis Using
SWOT Analysis

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Internal
Strengths

Internal
Weaknesses

External
Opportunities

External
Threats

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Exhibit 2.3: Examples of Elements in a SWOT
Analysis (1 of 2)

Pepsi

Environment

Evaluation

Positive

Negative

Internal

Strengths
• Diverse brand portfolio
• Strong celebrity endorsers
• Successful marketing
campaigns with music
industry
• Commitment to social and
environmental charitable
causes

Weaknesses
• Lower brand awareness than
rival Coca-Cola
• Less market share than rival
Coca-Cola
• Environmentally unfriendly
packaging

External

Opportunities
• Expanding health food market
• Growth in global market share
• Acquisition of new brands

Threats
• Water scarcity
• Popularity of reusable water
bottles
• Soda taxes
• Increasing competition in the
snack food market

Sources: Bitesh Bhasin, “SWOT Analysis of Pepsi—PepsiCo SWOT Analysis,” Marketing91, April 3, 2019; Hitesh Bhasin, “SWOT of Coca-Cola,” Marketing91, 2018.

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Exhibit 2.3: Examples of Elements in a SWOT
Analysis (2 of 2)

CocaCola

Environment

Evaluation

Positive

Negative

Internal

Strengths
• High market share
• Strong brand
• Strong global presence
• Excellent customer loyalty
• Supply chain

Weaknesses
• Low diversification
• Few healthy beverages

External

Opportunities
• Emerging countries
• Diversifying products
• Bottled water

Threats
• Water scarcity
• Potential market
saturation
• Changes to labeling
regulations
• Increasing competitors

Sources: Bitesh Bhasin, “SWOT Analysis of Pepsi—PepsiCo SWOT Analysis,” Marketing91, April 3, 2019; Hitesh Bhasin, “SWOT of Coca-Cola,” Marketing91, 2018.

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Step 3: Identifying and Evaluating
Opportunities Using STP

Segmentation
Targeting
Positioning

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Exhibit 2.4: Hertz: Market Segmentation
Illustration
Segments

Cars
Offered

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Segment 1

Segment 2

Segment 3

Segment 4

Segment 5

Single thrill
seekers and
gear heads on
vacation

Business
customers
and families
who prefer a
luxurious ride

Environmental
ly conscious
customers

Families

Commercial
customers

Adrenaline
Collection

Prestige
Collection

Green
Traveler
Collection

SUV/Mini
van/4×4
Collection

Commercial
Van/Truck
Collection

Corvette ZHZ

Infiniti QX56

Toyota Prius

Toyota RAV4

Ford Cargo
Van

Chevrolet
Camaro

Cadillac
Escalade

Ford Fusion

Ford Explorer

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Market Positioning
Choose which segments to
pursue, then how to position
within those segments.
Define the marketing mix
variables so target customers
have a clear, distinctive, and
desirable understanding of the
product compared to competition.
Hertz positions itself as a quality
car and truck rental company that
is the first choice for each target
segment.

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Step 4: Implement Marketing Mix and Allocate
Resources

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Product and Value
Creation

Price and Value
Capture

Place and Value
Delivery

Promotion and
Value
Communication

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Product and Value Creation
Successful products and services are those that
customers perceive as valuable enough to purchase.

Dyson creates value with its innovative products (left). It can therefore charge significantly more than
the price charged for conventional fans (right).
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Price and Value Capture
Price is what the customer is willing to pay for
a product they perceive as good value.

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Place and Value Delivery
The product must be
readily accessible
when and where the
customer wants it.
• Dyson provides
product and place
value.
• Where are Dyson
fans available?

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Promotion and Value Communication

Advertising

Online
marketing
(including
social
media)

Personal
selling

Integrated
marketing
communications
(IMC)

Direct
marketing

Sales
promotion
Public
relations

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Step 5: Evaluate Performance Using
Marketing Metrics
A metric is a measuring
system that quantifies a
trend, dynamic, or
characteristic.
Metrics are used to
explain why things
happened and also
project the future.

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Evaluating Performance
Who is accountable for
performance?
EXHIBIT 2.5 Performance Metrics: Coke vs. Pepsi

Performance
Objectives, Marketing
Analytics, and Metrics.

Financial Performance
Metrics.

Portfolio Analysis.
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Source: MarketWatch, Inc.

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Exhibit 2.6 Boston Consulting Group Matrix

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Which Quadrant?
Whether a product is
classified as a star or
a question mark has
profound implications
on how it is treated
and supported within
the firm.

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PROGRESS CHECK (2 of 3)
1. What are the five steps in creating a marketing
plan?
2. What tool helps a marketer conduct a situation
analysis?
3. What is STP?
4. What do the four quadrants of the portfolio
analysis represent?

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Growth Strategies
Exhibit 2.7: Markets/Products and Service Strategies

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Market Penetration
Current marketing mix,
Current customers
Marvel used a market
penetration strategy by
expanding the distribution of
its films:

• Theaters.
• Xfinity.
• DVDs (in a variety of retail
locations).
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Market Development
Current Products or
Services.
New Markets.

Marvel pursues such a
market development
strategy when it enhances
the viewing of its movies by
expanding into more global
markets.

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Product Development
New product or service.

Current target market.
Marvel launched several
successful series on Netflix,
including Jessica
Jones, Daredevil, Iron
Fist, and Luke Cage.
• By developing series designed
for this format, Marvel can
connect with its customers in a
new and important way.

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Diversification
New product or service.

New market segment.
Related vs. unrelated
diversification.

Marvel has pursued related
diversification with its home décor.

If Marvel ventured into the child
day care service industry, it would
be an unrelated diversification
because it is so different from its
core business and therefore very
risky.

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PROGRESS CHECK (3 of 3)
1. What are the four growth strategies?

2. What type of strategy is growing the business
from existing customers?
3. Which strategy is the riskiest?

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Chapter 1
Overview of Marketing

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Learning Objectives
Learning Objective 1.1 Define the role of
marketing.
Learning Objective 1.2 Describe the evolution of
marketing over time.

Learning Objective 1.3 Describe how marketers
create value for a product or service.

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Water Bottles

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What Is Marketing?

Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes
for creating, capturing, communicating, delivering, and
exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients,
partners, and society at large.

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Exhibit 1.1 Core Aspects of Marketing

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Marketing Is about Satisfying Customer
Needs and Wants
How does Dove offer value?
• Dove added the Dove
Men+Care line and expanded
into products for babies.
• In advertising to male
consumers, Dove seeks to
acknowledge and recognize
modern men’s caregiving roles,
so it can link these
communications to its baby care
products too.

• Dove seeks to acknowledge
and recognize modern men’s
caregiving roles, so it can link
these communications to its
baby care products.

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Dove seeks to acknowledge and recognize
modern men’s caregiving roles, so it can link
these communications to its baby care
products.

Source: Unilever

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Exhibit 1.2: Exchange: The Underpinning of
Seller-Buyer Relationships

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Exhibit 1.3: The Marketing Mix

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Marketing Creates Value through Product,
Price, Place, and Promotion Decisions
The Marketing Mix:
The controllable set
of decisions or
activities that the firm
uses to respond to
the wants of its target
markets.

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• Product.

• Price.
• Promotion.
• Place.

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Product: Creating Value
The fundamental purpose of
marketing is to create value
by developing a variety of
offerings, including goods,
services, and ideas, to
satisfy customer needs.
• Goods.

• Services.
• Ideas.
Marketing creates value by promoting
ideas, such as bicycle safety.

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Price: Capturing Value
Price is everything a
buyer gives up (money,
time, energy) in
exchange for the
product or service.

If you don’t mind sitting in a middle seat and
putting all your baggage under your seat, flying on
low-cost carriers like Frontier is a good value.

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Place: Delivering the Value Proposition
Place represents all the
marketing processes
necessary to get the product to
the right customer when that
customer wants it.
Place more commonly deals
specifically with retailing and
marketing channel
management, also known as
supply chain management.
Hertz creates customer value by using biometrics to
create a function that recognizes loyal customers
using facial, iris, or fingerprint scans.

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Promotion: Communicating the Value
Proposition
Promotion is
communication by a
marketer that informs,
persuades, and reminds
potential buyers about a
product or service to
influence their buying
decisions and elicit a
response.
Babar books wanted to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the series.
It initiated a $100,000 campaign, working in collaboration with toy
stores and bookstores.
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Exhibit 1.4: Marketing Can Be Performed by
Individuals and by Organizations

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Marketing Impacts Various Stakeholders
Customers.
Supply Chain Partners.

Employees.
Industry.
Society.
The Great American Milk Drive, run in conjunction with
Feeding America, seeks to ensure that local food banks are
sufficiently stocked with nutritious, frequently requested items.
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PROGRESS CHECK (1 of 3)
1. What is the definition of marketing?

2. Marketing is about satisfying
blank.

blank and

3. What are the four components of the marketing
mix?
4. Who can perform marketing?

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Exhibit 1.5 Marketing Evolution:
Production, Sales, Marketing and Value

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Value-Based Marketing
A Lipstick Option for Those Who Dream of a
Hermès Bag

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Value-Based Marketing Era

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PROGRESS CHECK (2 of 3)
1. What are the various eras of marketing?

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How Does Marketing Create Value and
How Do Firms Become More Value Driven?
Build relationships with customers.
Gather and analyze information.
Balance benefits and costs.
Connect with customers using social and
mobile media.
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Value Stems From Four Main Activities
Adding Value
Using Marketing Analytics
Embracing Social and Mobile Marketing
Ethical and Societal Dilemma: Engaging in
Conscious Marketing
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Marketing Analytics
Companies collect massive amounts of data about
how, when, why, where, and what people buy.

Kroger collects massive amounts of data about how, when, why, where, and what people buy and
then analyzes those data to better serve its customers.
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Connecting With Customers Using Social
and Mobile Marketing
Social media ad
spending is growing,
increasing by 32 percent
in 2018 alone.
3.26 billion people link
to some social media
sites through their
mobile devices.
Make travel arrangements online either
through Facebook or hotels’ mobile app and
check-in is a breeze.

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Resolving Ethical and Societal Dilemmas
Conscious Marketing
Socially Responsible
Firms
Making socially
responsible activities an
integral component of
corporate strategies.
Too Good To Go is a UK-based app that has
partnered with 1,381 food stores to match
hungry customers to restaurants and stores
with surplus food that would otherwise go to
waste.

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PROGRESS CHECK (3 of 3)
1. Does providing a good value mean selling at a
low price?
2. How are marketers connecting with customers
through social and mobile media?

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Chapter 5
Analyzing the Marketing
Environment

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Learning Objectives
Learning Objective 5.1 Outline how customers, the
company, competitors, corporate partners, and the
physical environment affect marketing strategy.
Learning Objective 5.2 Explain why marketers must
consider their macroenvironment when they make
decisions.
Learning Objective 5.3 Identify various social trends that
impact marketing.

Learning Objective 5.4 Examine the technological
advances that are influencing marketers.

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Exhibit 5.2: Understanding the Marketing
Environment

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Exhibit 5.2: The Immediate Environment

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Company Capabilities
Successful marketing
firms focus on
satisfying customer
needs that match their
core competencies.

Corning initially made its name by producing the glass enclosure to encase
Thomas Edison’s lightbulb. But by successfully leveraging its core
competency in glass manufacturing while also recognizing marketplace
trends toward mobile devices, Corning shifted its focus.

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Competitors
Know their strengths,
weaknesses, and likely
reactions to firm’s
marketing activities.

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Corporate Partners
Parties that work
with the focal firm.
Nau works with
manufacturers to
develop clothing
from sustainable
materials.
Nau works with its corporate partners to develop socially
responsible outdoor (left) and urban (right) apparel.

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Physical Environment
Sustainable development:
Includes land, water, air, and
living organisms.
Products and services are
influenced by how they are
used in the physical
environment, and in turn they
can also influence the physical
environment.
Examples:

• Energy Trends.
• Greener Practices and
Green Marketing.

• Greenwashing.
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17 Global Goals of Sustainable Development
EXHIBIT 5.3 Global Goals of Sustainable Development

From the United Nations, “Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals to Transform Our World,” Last Modified March 18, 2019. The content of this
publication has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States.

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PROGRESS CHECK (1 of 2)
1. What are the components of the immediate
environment?

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Macroenvironmental Factors
EXHIBIT 5.4 The Macroenvironment

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Culture
Shared meanings, beliefs, morals, values, and customs of a group of
people transmitted by words, literature, and institutions.

Country Culture
• Subtler aspects can be difficult to navigate.
• Sometimes best answer is to establish universal appeal within specific
identities of country culture.
Regional Culture
• For national and global chains, particularly important to cater to
regional preferences.
• McDonald’s – slightly different variations of staple menu.

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Demographics
Characteristics of the human
population and segments,
especially those used to
identify consumer markets.

Provides an easily
understood snapshot of the
typical consumer in a specific
target market.
Marketers use data about
consumers to target offers.
census.gov

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Exhibit 5.5: Generation Cohort

Generational
cohort

Gen α

Gen Z

Gen Y

Gen X

Baby
Boomers

Range of birth years

2010–
2025

1997–
2009

1981–
1996

1965–
1980

1946–
1964

Age in 2020

0–10

11–23

24–39

40–55

56–74

Millennials and the Rise of the ‘Experience Economy’

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Income

Purchasing power is tied
to income.
Marketing opportunities
exist across the broad
range of income
distribution.
SC Johnson targets the bottom of the
income pyramid by selling pest control
products in Ghana.

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Education
Education is related to income, which determines
spending power.

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Gender
Male/female roles have
been shifting.
Marketing has changed
to reflect these shifts.
• Firms may need to be
careful about gender
neutrality in
positioning their
products.

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Ethnicity
Approximately 80% of
all population growth in
the next 20 years is
expected to come from
minority communities
By 2030 the Hispanic
population in the U.S. is
expected to reach more
than 72 million.

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Social Trends

Sustainability

Health and Wellness

Efficient Utilization and
Distribution of Food

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Sustainability
UN Sustainable
Development Goals
focus on social issues
for basic needs.
Certifications from
various agencies may
be important.

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Health and Wellness
Child and adult obesity
New markets focused
on healthy living
Mobile apps that
support health and
wellness

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Efficient Utilization and Distribution of Food
Diet-related Products
Reducing Hunger

Reducing Food Waste

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Technological Advances
Technology impacts every aspect of marketing:
• New products and services.
• New forms of communication.

• New retail channels.
Growing importance of mobile devices

New cutting-edge technology:
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Robotics.

• Internet of Things (IoT).
• Privacy Concerns.
Pepper the robot is used in restaurants, hotels, and coffee shops.

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Economic Situation
Affects the way consumers buy products and services and
spend money.
Monitor the economic situation in home country and abroad.

Major factors to monitor:
• Inflation.
• Foreign currency fluctuations.

• Interest rates.

Customers formed in line to bank counter
Consumer Confidence Index
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Political/Legal Environment
Comprises political parties,
government organizations,
and legislation and laws.
Firms must understand and
comply with
legislation regarding:
• Fair competition.

• Consumer protection.
• Industry-specific regulation.

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Responding to the Environment
Implement strategies
that respond to multiple
environmental forces.

Marketers that succeed
are the ones that
respond quickly,
accurately, and
sensitively to
consumers.

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PROGRESS CHECK (2 of 2)
1. What are the six key macroeconomic factors?
2. Differentiate between country culture and
regional culture.
3. What are some important social trends shaping
consumer values and shopping behavior?

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