Parker pen co

This slide is the solution to the Parker Pen Company Case A and Case B. we have tried to get proper solutions to the questions.

1. Parker Pen Co. International Marketing

2. Type Private (subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid) Industry Writing instruments Founded 1888 Founder George Safford Parker Headquarters Newhaven, East Sussex, England Area served Worldwide Key people George Safford Parker, founder, Kenneth Parker In 1993 Parker was acquired by the Gillette Company , which already owned the Paper Mate brand, one of the best-selling disposable ballpoints. Gillette sold the writing instruments division in 2000 to Newell Rubbermaid, whose own Sanford Stationery Division became the largest in the world—owning such brand names as Rotring, Sharpie, Reynolds as well as Parker, Paper Mate , Waterman, and Liquid Paper.

3. Products available in the Market TYPE MODEL 5TH Technology I.M., Ingenuity, Sonnet, Urban Fountain pens Duofold , Premier, Sonnet, Facet, Esprit, Urban, I.M., Vector, Jotter Ballpoint pens Facet, Executive, Esprit, Frontier, Urban, I.M., Vector, Jotter Inks and refills Quink, 5TH Mode

4. Lets summarize What is the case all about

5. Case A What we have understood and what we can derive

6. What would you do if James Peterson's shoes in January 1982? Designing global Strategy with reference to Parker’s present market conditions. Decentralized marketing strategy Retain old successful managers.

7. What changes if any, would you make in Parker’s marketing strategy? Keeping only High end products to keep loyalty untouched Adopting global marketing strategy with lack of rigidity and required customization Continuing with the previous decentralized strategy with gradual expansion

8. Which aspects of Parker’s structure would you discard? Which would you keep? Discard Rigid centralization Faulty technology Self-reference criterion of peterson Keep Retain old, experienced management staffs Providing more freedom to the country managers, subsidiaries and agencies Give due Importance on the R&D Cells

9. Assume that you are James Peterson and you have just hired a new management team composed oh highly qualified executives from outside companies. You and your team are convinced that you have the solution to Parker’s problems but there are many holdovers who disagree with you. How would you incorporate the views of Parker management into your plan? This is a crucial decision for an individual as it is hard to choose between experience and modernization. The best solution to this problem would be to use the experience of the holdovers and inculcate it into the new teams ideas that would even give an edge to the competitors

10. CASE B What we have understood and what we can derive

11. Why did Peterson’s global strategy fail? Self-reference criterion Rigid centralization Pursuing the market and products of lower end in addition to higher end products Use of faulty technology in production plant Firing of successful managers

12. What lessons can be drawn from the decline and fall of Parker Pen? One should always be careful with the customers it has before trying to expand and grab more customers because a rapid strategic change can affect the loyal customers. All products cannot be marketed in throughout the globe equally, centralization always doesn't work for all products. For a product like pen it is very important to decide how you want to place your Brand.

13. Though late but still PARKER’s management realized that the pen business consisted of “little pocket of entrepreneurial activity around the world” were not susceptible to centralized, standardize approach. So it is well understood that we must understand the requirement of the market and plan their marketing effort accordingly. Conclusion Other wise this would hit the wall and crashed like the effort of Mr. Peterson and will lead the company in a riskier situation like PARKER. Again sudden shifting from one strategy to another also proves to be disastrous for a company. It should be done slowly and gradually giving sufficient time to the consumer to adopt with the change. Beside this an international marketer should also judge and assess the differences of the varying situation judiciously to lessen risk of his marketing effort. .

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