MARKETING PLANNING www.innocentdrinksandfoods..uk pls make uts original... life. Part 1: Identify a selection competitors (minimum 3 competitors) criteria price, quality, brand, level advertising, product range Using strategic positioning tools PLC, BCG matrix perceptual mapping, identify competitive advantage organization Part 2: Identify marketing objectives Ansoff's growth matrix Part 3: Identify a growth strategy Ansoff's growth matrix propose a short-term marketing strategy (marketing mix recommendations) target market.
Marketing planning
Competition and competitive advantage
Based on the nature of the products sold, as well as the means of targeting the customers, Innocent faces severe competition from three distinctive players:
Orchard House Foods Limited
Premier Foods Plc. And Wellness Foods Limited (Hoovers, 2011).
The competition posed by each of these entities is important, but it must also be noticed that each firm is characterized by its own strengths and weaknesses. At the level of Innocent, these are best observed through the lenses of the BCG matrix. The chart below indicates the BCG for the company and its products:
Adapted from Daft and Vershina's Management, 2010
As the chart above indicates, Innocent possesses products...
But aside from this, it also means that the company is able to follow any competitive strategy it wishes, as it is supported by its wide array of consumer products. In other words, the wide array of products allows Innocent to select its future strategic moves based on the features considered of most interest to the company, rather than such a strategy being imposed on grounds of product details. Specifically, the competitive advantage is represented by the wide product selection, coupled with the adjacent benefits it generates.
Part 2: Marketing objectives
Innocent's future marketing strategies are influenced by the growth strategy it would implement, which is best assessed through the lenses of the Ansoff growth matrix, revealed below:
Kumar, 2010
Innocent's marketing strategy for the future is that of increasing its presence within the markets in which it already operates, but with the aid of new products. This is the result of the company's commitment to innovation and it translates into the strategic choice for the product development growth strategy.
The strategic choice for new product development creates a context in which innocent would retail within the same…
References:
Bock, M., 2010, Governance risk management and financial product development in Islamic financial institutions, GRIN Verlag
Daft, K.M., Vershina, N.., 2010, Management, International edition, Cengage Learning EMEA
Kumar, D., 2010, Enterprise growth strategy: vision, planning and execution, Gower Publishing Ltd.
Pooler, J.A., Pooler, J., 2003, Why we shop: emotional rewards and retail strategies, Greenwood Publishing Group
2011, innocent ltd., Hoovers, http://www.hoovers.com/company/innocent_ltd/ryyhrif-1.html last accessed on January 10, 2012
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