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Armstrong marketing an introduction 15th edition chapter 3


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Marketing: An Introduction
Fifteenth Edition
Chapter 03
Analyzing the Marketing
Environment
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Objectives Outline
(1 of 2)
3.1Describe the environmental forces that affect the
company’s ability to serve its customers.
3.2Explain how changes in the demographic and economic
environments affect marketing decisions.
3.3Identify the major trends in the firm’s natural and
technological environments.

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Objectives Outline
(2 of 2)
3.4Explain the key changes in the political and cultural
environments.
3.5Discuss how companies can react to the marketing
environment.

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First Stop: Microsoft: Adapting to the
Fast-Changing Marketing
Environment
In the fast-changing digital
marketing environment,
Microsoft has transformed
itself into a brand that
consumers can’t live without
in the post-P C, cloud-driven
world.

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Objective Outline 3-1
•Describe the environmental forces that affect the
company’s ability to serve its customers.

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Marketing Environment
•Outside forces that affect marketing management’s ability
to build and maintain successful relationships with target
customers
•Microenvironment: Actors close to the company that
affect its ability to serve its customers
•Macroenvironment: Larger societal forces that affect the
microenvironment

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Figure 3.1Actors in the
Microenvironment

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The Company
•Interrelated groups in a company form the internal
environment
•Departments share the responsibility for understanding
customer needs and creating customer value.

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Suppliers
(1 of 2)
•Provide the resources needed by the company to produce
its goods and services
•Supplier problems seriously affect marketing
–Supply shortages or delays
–Labor strikes
–Price trends of key inputs

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Suppliers
(2 of 2)
L’Oréal builds long-term supplier relationships based on
mutual benefit and growth. It “wants to make L’Oréal a top
performer and one of the world’s most respected companies.
Being respected also means being respected by our
suppliers.”

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Marketing Intermediaries
(1 of 2)

Marketing intermediaries help the company to promote,
sell, and distribute its products to final buyers.

Resellers

Physical distribution firms

Marketing services agencies

Financial intermediaries

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Marketing Intermediaries
(2 of 2)
Apple provides its retail
partners with much
more than just phones
and smartwatches. It
also pledges powerful
technical support.

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Competitors
•Marketers must gain strategic advantage by positioning
products strongly against competitors.
•No single strategy is best for all companies.

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Publics
•Publics: any group that has an actual or potential interest
in or impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its
objectives
–Financial
–Media
–Government
–Citizen action
–Local
–General
–Internal

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Customers
•Five types of customer markets
–Consumer markets
–Business markets
–Reseller markets
–Government markets
–International markets

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Figure 3.2Major Forces in the
Company’s Macroenvironment

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Objective Outline 3-1 Summary
•Company’s microenvironment

Company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries

Competitors, publics, customers
•Forces in the company’s macroenvironment

Demographic

Economic

Natural

Technological

Political and cultural

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Objective Outline 3-2
•Explain how changes in the demographic and economic
environments affect marketing decisions.

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Demographic Environment
(1 of 4)
•Demography is the study of human populations in terms
of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation,
and other statistics.
•Marketers analyze:
–Changing age and family structures
–Geographic population shifts
–Educational characteristics
–Population diversity

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Demographic Environment
(2 of 4)
•The U.S. population contains several generational groups:
–Baby Boomers
–Generation X
–Millennials (or Generation Y)
–Generation Z
–Generation Alpha

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Demographic Environment
(3 of 4)
Generational marketing: Baby
boomers and millennials are
now moving over to make
room for younger Generation
Alpha.

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Demographic Environment
(4 of 4)
Changes in the Demographic Environment
•The Changing American Family
•Geographic Shifts in Population
•A Better-Educated, More White-Collar, More Professional
Population
•Increasing Diversity

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Economic Environment
•Economic factors affect consumer purchasing power and
spending
–Changes in consumer spending
–Differences in income distribution

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Objective Outline 3-2 Summary
•Demographic environment

Age and family structures

Geographic population shifts

Education characteristics

Population diversity
•Economic environment

Changes in consumer spending and income
distribution

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Objective Outline 3-3
•Identify the major trends in the firm’s natural and
technological environments.

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Natural Environment
•Physical environment and natural resources needed as
inputs by marketers or affected by marketing activities

Environmental sustainability concerns have grown
steadily over the past three decades.
•Trends:
–Shortages of raw materials
–Increased pollution
–Increased government intervention

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Technological Environment
(1 of 2)
•New technologies create new markets and opportunities.

Digital Technology

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is technology to
track products through various points in the distribution
channel.
•Government agencies investigate and ban potentially
unsafe products.

Technological Environment
(2 of 2)
Disney is taking RFID
technology to new levels
with its cool new
MagicBand RFID
wristband.

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Objective Outline 3-3 Summary
•Natural environment

Shortage of raw materials and high pollution levels

Government intervention

Environmental sustainability
•Technological environment

Digital Technology

Radio-frequency identification (RFID)

Government regulation

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Objective Outline 3-4
•Explain the key changes in the political and cultural
environments.

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Political Environment
•Forces that influence or limit various organizations and
individuals in a society

Laws, government agencies, and pressure groups

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Major U.S. Legislation Affecting
Marketing
•Legislation regulating business is intended to protect
–companies from each other
–consumers from unfair business practices
–the interests of society against unrestrained business
behavior

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Major U.S. Legislation Affecting
Marketing: 1990–2020
(1 of 2)
Legislation Purpose
Nutrition Labeling and Education
Act (1990)
•Requires that food product labels provide detailed
nutritional information
Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act (C O P PA) (2000)
•Prohibits online collection of information from
children without parental consent
•Allows parents to review information collected from
their children
Do-Not-Call Implementation Act
(2003)
•Collects fees from telemarketers for the
enforcement of a Do-Not-Call Registry
C A N-S P A M Act (2003) •Regulates the distribution and content of
unsolicited commercial e-mail

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Major U.S. Legislation Affecting
Marketing: 1990–2020
(2 of 2)
Legislation Purpose
Financial Reform Law (2010) •Created the Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection, enforces Truth-in-Lending Act, Home
Mortgage Disclosure Act, and other laws
Exports Promotion Act (2010)•Authorizes the Commerce Department to
strengthen global markets for U.S. goods,
especially goods produced by rural and small and
medium businesses
Internet of Things Cybersecurity
Improvement Act (2020)
•Increase cybersecurity for Internet of Things
devices that connect internet to physical devices

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Socially Responsible Behavior
•Socially responsible companies actively seek out ways to
protect the long-run interests of consumers and the
environment.
•Companies develop policies, guidelines, and other
responses to complex social responsibility issues.
•Brand activism

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Cause-Related Marketing緣由行銷
(1 of 2)
•Companies use cause-related marketing to
–Exercise their social responsibility
–Build more positive images
•Primary form of corporate giving
•Controversy—strategy for selling more rather than a
strategy for giving

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Cause-Related Marketing
(2 of 2)
•Cause-related marketing:
WarbyParker sells
eyewear with a purpose.
“Companies can do good
in the world while still
being profitable,” says the
company’s co-founder.

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Cultural Environment
(1 of 3)
•Institutions and other forces that affect a society’s basic
values, perceptions, and behaviors
•Persistence of cultural values

Corebeliefs and values have a high degree of
persistence.

Secondary beliefs and values are more open to
change.

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Cultural Environment
(2 of 3)
•Shifts in secondary cultural values of people’s views about
–Themselves
–Others
–Organizations
–Society
–Nature
–Universe

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Cultural Environment
(3 of 3)
Catering to the natural,
organic, and ethical products
trend: Unilever’s Love Beauty
and Planet brand has one
goal: “To make you more
beautiful and give a little love
to our planet.”

Educational Groups
•Many universities have established offshore
campuses in various Asian countries or
have partnered local schools to introduce
joint degree and executive programs.
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Asians are motivated to upgrade their knowledge
and skills. This has translated into a high demand
for tertiary education and quality books.

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Objective Outline 3-4 Summary
•Political environment

Laws, government agencies, and pressure groups

Legislation affecting marketing

Socially responsible behavior
•Cultural environment

Core and secondary beliefs

Shifts in secondary cultural values

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Objective Outline 3-5
•Discuss how companies can react to the marketing
environment.

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Responding to the Marketing
Environment
•Reactivefirms passively accept the marketing environment
and do not try to change it.
•Proactivefirms develop strategies to change the
environment.
–They take aggressive actions to affect the publics and
forces in their marketing environment.

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Objective Outline 3-5 Summary
•Responding to the marketing environment

Reactive firms

Proactive firms