AC 3.1: Use appropriate marketing techniques to ascertain growth opportunities in a market
Strategic marketing refers to an overall marketing plan which is designed to meet the requirements and needs of customers. For example, For a well known brand Apple, the focus would be on promoting its items and physical evidence. To ensure the effectiveness, Apple employed number of techniques and Anoff Matrix is one of them.
Ansoff Matrix
Ansoff matrix is a strategic marketing technique which is used firmly to determine product and growth strategy. This matrix gives great idea to an organisation that whether it should go for growing in existing market or new market with new product or existing product.
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This strategy means to provide new products in new market. This strategy needs more time and more research to implement so organizations implement this strategy after having clear cut idea about market requirements and customers needs and risk assessment procedure is also involve in it.
Tesco’s Growth Strategy
Tesco’s growth market is very planned and reliable and is enhancing Tesco’s network in all over the world with better making of strategic marketing. The best part of Tesco growth strategy is that they have entered in the business of restaurants. Tesco’s decision to acquire change has been proved to be a very significant move. This shows a really nice piece of evaluation.
The question arises here that why has Tesco take decision to diversify in the family restaurant market? The answer might be that Tesco wants to grow their business in different fields to acquire more customers and get more profit share. This is because of its better stability in the business of retailer that they moved into restaurant
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There are three to four generic strategies are used which are as follow
1- Lower cost
2- Differentiated
3- Focus
4- Cost leadership Strategy
An organistaion chooses one or two types of competitive advantage on other competitors while pursuing either via low cost or differentiated itself along different dimension values by customers to command a higher price. There is also two other types that are chosen by companies to get scope, either focus or industry wide by offering its product across many markets segments.
AC 3.3: Create appropriate strategic marketing objectives for a market
The aim of strategic marketing is to achieve customer satisfaction and in this way the value of organisation may increase to the highest level. A ell structured and well define strategic marketing objective plays a vital role in the performance of business. To set marketing objectives is bit critical because organisation has to articulate these with the overall mission and goals and can also able to determine that how it will be more benefited.
For example, The strategic marketing objects of Tesco are as follow
- To achieve a rate of growth towards 10% at least
Performance objectives? Strategies? Action Steps for
Tesco is amongst the largest food retailers in the United Kingdom (U.K) with over 3,400 stores and staff amounting up to 310,000. Tesco operates predominately in Europe and America with their headquarters located in the U.K. Tesco has the greatest market share in the U.K dominating approximately 28% of the overall market at the end of 2017. However, there is a constant battle in the highly competitive U.K supermarket industry with the four major players being Tesco, Sainsbury, ASDA and Morrisons. In recent years, Tesco has had to change their business model as well as their services to stay a market leader and differ-entiate from the competition. To find the main sources of competitive advantage that Tesco has over its competitors an analysis of the structure of the industry should be under-taken (Porter, 1980).
Tesco’s Ownership Tesco’s ownership is a PLC which means Public limited company. Because of this Tesco can easily expand and therefore go global, this is because, if they are a PLC then anyone from around the world can buy shares in that company, thus meaning that Tesco has more capital to invest In their company or other branches around the world, this also causes them to be global. Advantage One of the major advantages of Tesco being a public limited company is the fact that they would have a good status; this is because shareholders would want more dividend/yield from their shares and so they would be spreading the word about Tesco, in addition to this, the more shares people buy the more capital Tesco has to invest in their company to expand it and create other branches.
Recognizing an organization’s mission and values in the strategic planning process is always the first step. To a few organizations, this step would include revisiting and occasionally reworking the mission and values if necessary. To some organizations, it would be the first time they are sitting their mission and values. “Mission statements define the nature, purpose, and role of organizations; focus resources; and guide planning” (Keeling 213). They represent the route wherein the organization is proceeding.
The goals created for the organization have to be aligned with the strategic goals and overall mission of the entire organization.
KETING STRATEGY A marketing strategy is a process or model to allow a company or organization to focus limited resources on the best opportunities to increase sales and thereby achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Or it is a process or model to allow a company to focus limited resources on the best opportunities to increase sales and there by achieve sustainable competitive advantages. The marketing strategies of Hilton Garden Inn are as follows. Philip Kotler defines marketing as a social process used by the people, individually or in a group to achieve what they want by the creation or exchanging their product details and their values with others.
TRAINING: DEVELOPMENT: Training is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies as a result of teaching. Training is a program organized by the organization to develop knowledge and skills in the employees as per the requirement of the job. Development teaches how to become more productive and effective at work and at the company. Since Tesco aims to expand and diversify, that required the business to select the right people, in the right place, because customers’ needs and wants are different and the culture of each area varies. Tesco need to have flexible employee who are able to adapt the change in order to satisfy the customer.
Without having a good communication, proper information and effective knowledge company can not get the successes in the market. But the Tesco is the big company in the market. They have already had get the successes in the market so they have to maintain that successes and they are making the higher goals that have to be achieved. Tesco also needed a good communication, effective information and effective knowledge.
Firstly, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix that concentrate the market position of different products. Secondly, the experience curve and the Profit Impact of Market Strategies model which identified a number of strategic variables. Furthermore, competitive advantages model (Porter, 1985) which focus on five different forces in environment of organization, but suit with only stable market. Generic strategy was developed strategies under this school, especially it can identify position in the market. Advantages: -Provide content in a systematic way to the existing way of looking at strategy -Particularly useful in early stage of strategy development, when date is analyzed -This school emphasis on analysis and calculation can be a very strong support to the strategy development process -This strategy suit with big businesses or organization which have ability for operate effective market research in the environment
According to Tesco’s strategic report, the total sales for the year was 69.7bn and profit was 1.4 bn and Tesco Plc.’s net debt was (8.5 bn), these information will be helpful to some of Tesco’s primary stakeholders like the owners and the investors; as owners, they would want to know the position of the company and also will help them determine any future course of action and Investors want to make sure they can earn a reasonable return on their investment before they commit any financial resources to the company. Tesco plc. ’s strategic report also showed the number of employees and the number of shops around the world, which was 517802 and 7812 respectively. Tesco used 6 simple performance indicators instead of the steering wheel method, which they thought was too complex.
After discussing Morrisons’ key strengths, strategic choices are analyzed with some recommendations for strategic direction. Strategic Developments Food retail industry is fast-changing area of business, if to consider developments occurring in strategy of Wm Morrisons
Sainsbury's was set up in 1869 and since then, it has changed into the second most vital store chain in the UK, it works in more than 1200 general stores and solace stores where it uses more than 161,000 partners to facilitate the deliverance of the goods and services of the supermarket. , It is rated number 80 in the list that entails businesses whose total value add up to more than 5500 million euros in the world. By analyzing the strategic analysis of the company, we will be able to survey the strengths, opportunities, weakness and threats in the relationship with its structure and operations in the UK and general markets concerning its retail business. It also looks at a critical analysis and evaluation of the main future directions for strategic growth of the firm. The assets and ventures of the organization together ought to be utilized to eradicate the failures and the threats so as to build up a demanding philosophy against the dangers seen as threatening the progress of the company.
6.1 Marketing Mix Marketing mix is a set of controllable marketing tactics used by business to promote their product and achieve its marketing objectives. (L. Lake, 15 June 2017) Marketing mix is also called the 4Ps which consist of Promotion, Place, Product and Price. (M. J. Baker, 2001, p.54) 6.1.1 Product
Strategic marketing is a broad and practical subject which included the concept of marketing subjects of previous semesters such as business marketing. The study of this subject has contributed to marketing knowledge in many ways, as well as it has strengthened my skills in application of marketing concepts. My knowledge was increased that I was able to develop a complete strategic marketing plan of not only on the part of marketing analysis or strategy of a product or service, but also the whole corporate plan. My skills and capabilities that were developed and integrated during lectures and tutorials include the analytical skills, coordination skills, presentation skills, organization skills, etc.