Major Segmentation variables for consumer markets
GEOGRAPHIC
Region North, west, east , south
Country 149 countries of world
Special focused country(report) Pakistan city Urban (most populated)
DEMOGRAPHIC
AGE 18-35
GENDER Females(specially), Males
FAMILY SIZE young, single, married, no children, married with children.
OCCUPATION Skilled workers, businessmen, middle/senior/junior Executives, self employed people, clerical /sales persons.
EDUCATION
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That specification was determined by research which helped the company to target the desire needs of particular consumers. That need was “ a low calories beverage”.
Company determined the effective segmentation key criteria of the product that the Market for Diet coke is Measurable, Substantial, Accessible, Differentiable and Actionable.
Segment’s Measurability:- Coca Cola Company has determined a measurable market segment. On average Diet Coke’s worldwide sell is 927million units per year, and characteristics of the segment are also obvious as Diet Conscious, working and fashionable buyers who are very conscious about their figure weight and health.
SEGMENT’S
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These all things give strength to perceive products image in the eye of consumers and impacts on brand loyalty and customer retention.
PROACTIVE MARKETING:- For satisfaction of consumers need the company fulfills all dimensions of being Proactive.
• Responsive Marketer:- The product “DIET COKE” a beverage without sugar and low calories after Coca cola carbonated drink was a kind of stated need as now consumers of this era are civilized and educated they need what they want. The company identified and introduced it, after that further company recognized that the story is not ended here, still the need is not fulfilled then further different flavors with cheery lemon and vanilla etc introduced.
• Anticipative marketer:- The company didn’t stopped after launching several products still marketer realized that health conscious people need diet beverage so they launched but they further anticipated future demand that people can further demand flavors in Diet drinks.
• Creative marketer:- Coke Cola company is a market driving firm. Product especially like Diet coke and it’s superb and mind blowing flavors are evidence for its
It is believed that many of the soft drink companies are the main reason for the rise of obesity in America. As stated in the article Coca-Cola and the fight against the global obesity epidemic, “The soft drink industry as a whole, and Coke in particular, has received harsh criticism for contributing to the global obesity epidemic. ”(Gertner 15).This suggests that as soft drinks and other processed foods are becoming more popular it is heavily contributing to the recent rise in people becoming overweight. Before fast food and soft drinks were popular, less people were obese which leads to the speculation that it is a cause for the problem. On the other hand there are studies that reveal that dietary factors don’t always affect a person’s weight.
When sitting down drinking a diet soda people really don’t think about what makes diet soda diet. If food and drink companies put diet on front of something does that automatically make it beater or even good for the consumer? When making something diet companies usually go straight for the artificial sweeteners to drop the calories in a food or drink, and when people pick up the diet product off the shelf at the store and they automatically think its good or better for them because of just one little word added to the label. But is it really better for you or could these sweeteners be doing harm? Yeah it might help someone loose that one extra pound or help with fitting into that year-old pair of pants that someone has been just dyeing to
Each company has a loyal customer base and many people refuse to drink the product of the competing brand. A comparison of recent advertisements from each soda brand reveals a lot about the
TRADER JOE’S – INDUVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1 Part 1 – Introduction What Joe Coulombe did was opening an ordinary supermarket into the industry but the strategies he took were separating the Trader Joe’s from its rivals. What he did was to offer products targeting sophisticated costumers who were searching for good bargains. The offerings of Trader Joe’s were so unique which are not found at rival shelfs. Another crucial decision he made was to take advantage of recent environmental movements such as the rising trend of costumers searching organic foods. The company also decided on selling private labelled products with lower prices than other brands of the same product.
Because of these new technologies, Coca-Cola 's production volume has increased sharply compared to that of a few years ago. 2.2.3 Key Strategic Objectives and Challenges • Acquisition targets in developed markets: Coca-Cola already has strong penetration in major soft drinks markets, which typically offers limited acquisition opportunities due to market consolidation. Much of the future volume growth is likely to come from secondary markets such as Vietnam and Indonesia. Coca-cola may be better advised to set its sights on larger acquisition targets in untapped regions such as the Middle East and Africa and some secondary markets. • Diet Products
Introduction Every business organization is using a marketing concept which is used as a tool to identify customer’s needs. And further try to meet them by making right decisions in line with customer’s needs. In line with meeting customer’s needs the ultimate goal of every business is to gain profit. That’s why they make use of different marketing strategies to meet not only the need of the customer but as well as the goal of the company. We know for a fact that marketing strategies comprises everything from developing a product, to introducing it to the market, to selling and improving it as the need of the target market changes.
Segmentation, Targeting and positioning, also known as STP are an essential part in marketing today. This model is important for generating marketing communication strategies and it aids the marketers to prioritize schemes and deliver personalized and pertinent messages to diverse audiences. This approach is audience oriented rather than product focused in terms of communication, which results in conveying appropriate messages to the members who are more commercially appealing. Segmentation benefits the managers in finding out the area on which they have to concentrate on in terms of geography, demographics, social factors or behaviors.
Coca-Cola strives to utilize every strategy available to become successful whenever it launches its business in overseas markets. Pepsi seemed to have discovered Coca-Cola’s disadvantages and it was using them to check Coke’s dominance. The new market structure brought about cut throat competition between the two cola giants. However, the competition ate into a large chunk of the two companies’
This aims at developing a deeper consumer desire for the brand, thus giving people more reason to purchase Coke- Cola products instead of competing brands. This is the essence of differentiation. Coca-Cola having an 'action orientation', instead of waiting for change to happen it is at the leading edge, driving action forward. This product differentiation strategy has created global value, brand loyalty, non-price competitor as well as no perceived
The process of the product is essential in marketing. This determines the capability of the product to supply the demand of the consumers. Coca cola has a number of processes which involves bottling and labelling solutions. The important stage that coca cola consider is control of the company to get products at the agreed time and good quality and the last step they consider is the selling of beverage for target customers of distributors. Physical evidence
According to TrackMaven, market segmentation is the process of dividing the market of potential customers into groups, or segments, based on different features. The created segment consists of consumers who will respond to the same marketing strategy and who share the nature of the same interests, needs, or locations. McDonald uses demographic segmentation as their main types of market segmentation. According to Sakshi Natani (2016), McDonald in Malaysia used mainly demographic segmentation, which divided in age, income, family-life cycle and social class.
The process of market segmentation involves the division of a market into groups of smaller size whose needs, behaviour and characteristics are distinct from each other. These smaller groups or 'segments ' may require separate marketing strategies. There are four major market segmentation variables namely behavioural, psychographic, geographic and
The main objective of this study lies in understanding the organization and studying and understanding the advertising effectiveness of Coca-Cola product .The methodology used in studying and understanding the perceived views of consumers towards the product was ‘SAMPLING’. The findings of the activity have been drawn out in form of graphs and suggestions have been offered there from the Coca-Cola Company is the world 's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented by pharmacist John Smith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892.
ABOUT THE SOFT DRINK INDUSTRY: The term "soft drink" refers to all types of nonalcoholic, carbonated, sweetened, flavored beverages. Nonalcoholic soft drink beverage market can be divided into fruit drinks and soft drinks. Soft drinks are available in glass bottles, aluminum cans; PET bottles are disposal containers can be divided into carbonated and non-carbonated drinks. Soft drinks are being manufactured since so long. There are various flavors in soft drinks that are lemon, orange, mango and cola.
1. MARKAT SEGMENTATION Market segmentation is a strategy that is generally used by a company to identify and define the target customers, and provide the supporting data for the marketing plan elements. There are five types of market segmentation which are demographic segmentation, geographic segmentation, psychographic segmentation, benefits segmentation and volume segmentation. • Demographic Segmentation Demographic segmentation is market segmentation according to age, family size, religion, race, gender, income and education. By using this segmentation, a company can categorize the needs of consumers more easily and target its consumers more accurately because demographics can segmented into several markets.