INDUSTRY RISKS
According to our external analyses, the risks for our business is concerning about the machine. One of the biggest risks in our business is the breakdown of the machine or having no electricity or brownout. Our product almost rely on our machine because it is the only equipment needed to make the ice cream. According to our competitor analysis, we can consider their pricing strategy as one of our risks. The soft served ice creams are very cheap compared to our price. Also, our competitors near our location is already an established brands. Another risk for our business is also the availability of substitute products like smoothies, frappes, ice candy, cold soft drinks, etc.5 FORCES ANALYSIS
Bargaining power of suppliers (Medium)
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Our product is unique but ice cream has substitute products like milk teas and frappes that also gives the same benefit of ice cream that gives a cooling effect. Even though our product has a competitors in the trade area and has a substitute product, our product is still unique because of the process of making the ice cream itself. Based on our market research consumer has a lot of choices of kind of ice cream which they prefer which will divide our market depending on their …show more content…
According to our survey, the types of ice cream that the consumers buy and eat correlates to their decision process. Their decision process now is being a factor for their purchasing power. For example, we asked respondents if they value the way of making the ice cream and almost half of the percentage said yes which now affects their decision whenever they buy ice cream. The decision process of our target market is from word of mouth and social medias. Through that, our target market can be aware of a new brand and influence their buying behavior. According to Euromonitor, the most type of ice cream that is purchased by Filipinos are bulk ice cream because it is already part of the festives and other special occasions. This is exactly one of the reasons why Selecta remains the market leader in the ice cream industry. Another emerging type of ice cream is the artisan ice cream. It has an edge over its competitors because of the different flavours they offer. According to one article in Inquirer Read Along, chocolate remains significant flavour in our country. The reasons why consumers buy ice cream are because of cravings, stress reliever, and for special
The commercial featuring Drake and the popular soft drink Sprite, was first launched in February of 2010. In the ad, Canadian born rapper Drake is seen standing in a studio attempting to rap with the beat provided to him. It appears the rapper cannot find the “right” words or “feel” the music. The producer asks him what’s going on and Drake responds with uncertainty. A sprite is given to the rapper to drink in the hopes that he will somehow come “alive”.
Jennifer Macmaster who has a master degree is a 26 years old female. She is a secondary school teacher. She spends most of the time at school, so sometimes she feels tired. Thus, she starts to do exercise. Especially, she likes to do yoga because it can make her feel relax.
A supplier with strong bargaining power has the advantage of charging their price higher or selling low quality of the product to them. The bargaining power of suppliers will be low as there are many suppliers in the market offers similar products and this allows courts to switch to other suppliers that offer lower cost. Intensity of rivalry within industry High Threat Competitors in the industries There are quite a number of businesses involve home furnishing and electrical appliance.
When launching a new product or service, a company needs to develop the key group of customers in which they are targeting. There are many steps in identifying the target market; one of these steps is to look at past marketing plans in a company and collect information to produce a customer profile. This profile is important because “it influences the objectives, creation of the communications message and the channels and media mix being selected” (Gbadamosi and others, 2013, p. 275). When this profile is solidified, the appropriate methods to make a successful marketing plan can take action to launch the new product or service. Nordstrom’s Treasure & Bond, is a new clothing line by the leading fashion specialists, targeting 18-30 year
The Pantry’s use of forward integration contributes to this bargaining power. They receive much of their in-store goods from Budweiser, Frito Lay, and Coca-Cola, who in turn provides delivery services directly to stores. Bargaining Power of Buyers Low brand loyalty and minimal switching costs make the bargaining power of buyers high. Buyers make the decision to patronize other businesses when the opportunity to pay lower prices, presents itself.
The strategy recommended would match both external and internal fit that help Ice-Fili to increase its current market share (5%), maximise its long term profits and to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. To dominate the Russian ice cream market and maintain its market leader position, it has to brand itself as the top historical Russian ice cream producer and strengthen its core product in the impulse segment. Due to little product differentiation, there is low brand loyalty for consumers. Ice-Fili could distinguish itself from creating high brand awareness via marketing and advertising.
Besides that, product differentiation is one of the threats of new entrants. Starting a new business we need to use a lot of money for advertising to attract customer, but we have to create our new things that cannot found in others competitors. For non-traditional barriers to entry, we have unique business model. We created a business with a unique design and establish a network of relationships that makes the business model work so that no people can easily to copy our
These potential competitors represents the barriers to entry for instance, the requirement of a high venture, the processes set by the management and also a brand which is well-known by the public to reduce the intimidation set by potential competitors which are due to enter the market sooner or later. Seeing that chocolate is famous world-wide, the possibility for new companies to penetrate the market with new chocolate recipes that are able to capture the consumers’ hearts regardless of
Market size: this factor has great effect of the Crescent pure product according to the market research the market for energy drink is growing 40%, in the year 2010 to 2012, and its revenue forecasted from 2013, is $8.5 billion to $ 13.5 billion in 2018.It’s means gap for the further potential is prevail, in this situation the company should position in such away which is new for the customers. Consumer Perception: this factor also affects the positioning of the product because with the help of this factor firm know the behavior of customers about the product. If we look to the example of Crescent they have low price strategy over the rivalry, some consumer said that this low quality product. Brand reliability is the factors which inspiration the crescent positioning approach, alteration in the brand can result in change of product
Threat of Substitutes 4. Bargaining Power of Buyers 5. Power vested by Suppliers 1. Competitive Rivalry: According to Porter the competitiveness in any sector is significantly increased by the number of players operating in the field and their major competencies.
1.2. Product Differentiation This refers to differentiation that aspires to make a product more attractive by contrasting its unique qualities with other competing products (Investopedia, 2015:1), as in the case of Coca-Cola, other soft drink brands. Successfully adopting this strategy would have a company gaining a competitive advantage, as the customer would then view the product as unique or superior. This is what coca cola has managed to do, and has managed to do it on a scale that is globally unique, and globally recognized.
3- Threats of substitute products 4- Bargaining power of customers 5- Bargaining power of suppliers Practical implementation of the Model:
A product is the item that business makes with aim to fulfil the needs and wants of customers. It is also the item that business actually sold to the customers. For our company, our product is the ice cream. (Talloo, 2007, p.154) 6.1.1.1 Product Design- features and quality Our company has designed our products according to the features and quality that all range of customer desires. Our ice cream is made from natural fruits such as
Cadbury started its journey way back in 1905 in United Kingdom’s with the manufacturing of tea and coffee. Later they got into chocolate market and became the leader of the market with market
Vadilal faces stiff competition from Amul and Mother Diary who are continuously introducing new products and offerings for their customers. Vadilal also faces one of the major threat from local players who sell the low priced products in market. Thus Vadilal faces great competition at national as well as regional level in the entire ice-cream