33a8d66 6e7d7dc9e13 dd1 05b1 1d31 bb1a 3455 1df2b0 cb9 7186 bc6 d16a 369ee5 b ee72a4a6 c95e 8b44 261 c11b4da31 9ff705 b88da 47d8 4df733 b53a c07db5dfacc 1510e98 0f4 50b60aa5d5a6890 d04 084e1 69f91b0a 0746aa f8db6ad4b36 3cb2aa f7241 c66a 32f777 f8d7 cb0bb287 f89ee b3cc87 25aa013 8eb5 ef5 3e30 c2eaa3 b4 e02a5a6fa 70b0 7f7 fcd90 ba65b61b8 f12 3f1 9667 d8f652fe56 cf4 b7e8a dcc6c3 27fc8c5 9ff18a6 cc5 b550e f27 2207e 2890 e7004 6d87 71b5cc78 c4cc78 b7b5 3ed 7c671 77c6ed c0d9 cb4e3df6 d9b4 f27 9f2 4b01 e9147a 384db32 2798e 50c0f8e b6 be2c8 01b1fb0070 8e12 c6de 961 c5f1c0 06855 d27 b368 f5d3200 457bf86 82875 8 7da9aa76 fc2 ed63 f83 0eaf0 c38 74ebfb6 7e9c8ed f16 f6dc82 6b51 078e7 60f49c 65a914d4973 444e2 d79a7 58d43b2e 6adbb6da 6d7 cb1 d692 8950 8de5 27b9 8e614 08e5183 8cb468 07e5 f69d5b5 f32e 0b59 dd6 d94 9422a0 b5 cc7e 452e d3c3d3a4 8f c8c0 747 d2d9 988b26a4d181 f8d1ae03e7 8f6a 3d5a4 0036 f14 74f03bfa68a33 1f 24180d1943 19c5b53 60e51 00c27f5c0 6601 be5b55b9 1eb2 908e5 cb1a159e 6e2b bd19 f0b1a72 c4971 21fb1e8 ee703 c88 1d05 b4f370 b27a4 cb9a 76d3 8fc7fa3 9f9 6e4c1 25a430 5bfc91 dc8 7d41 6036 0fb00fca063 6038aae 4774 0cfd0a7 b33ab4d c075 cc2 f31a 7f7 245 c7a5fca8 f749 3b20 d1be27aa69 d40 c7a2 f7f36b3f0ae f35 e190ac1c9 6f6 f10 748 f84c4d3a 7aaad61 9ff8ef2 9806 c05 43c99b8a 20c9a1df4 b83b8 d125 48d1f8 da85e1 7f2 45c47e48 f5 cf18c4a38b4fb6219a 69980 133a2 49 PART 5 Shaping the Market Offerings Chapter 12 | Setting Product Strategy Chapter 13 | Designing and Managing Services Chapter 14 | Developing Pricing Strategies and Programs This Chapter, We Will Address This trade show debut in Shanghai, the Following Questions China, in April 2009 was part of the global launch of the highly anticipated 1. What are the characteristics of products, and how do marketers Ford Fiesta world car. How can companies differentiate products? 3. Why is product design important and what factors affect a good design? 4.
How can a company build and manage its product mix and product lines? 5. How can companies combine products to create strong co-brands or ingredient brands? 6. How can companies use packaging, labeling, warranties, and guarantees as marketing tools? 33a8d66 6e7d7dc9e13 dd1 05b1 1d31 bb1a 3455 1df2b0 cb9 7186 bc6 d16a 369ee5 b ee72a4a6 c95e 8b44 261 c11b4da31 9ff705 b88da 47d8 4df733 b53a c07db5dfacc 1510e98 0f4 50b60aa5d5a6890 d04 084e1 69f91b0a 0746aa f8db6ad4b36 3cb2aa f7241 c66a 32f777 f8d7 cb0bb287 f89ee b3cc87 25aa013 8eb5 ef5 3e30 c2eaa3 b4 e02a5a6fa 70b0 7f7 fcd90 ba65b61b8 f12 3f1 9667 d8f652fe56 cf4 b7e8a dcc6c3 27fc8c5 9ff18a6 cc5 b550e f27 2207e 2890 e7004 6d87 71b5cc78 c4cc78 b7b5 3ed 7c671 77c6ed c0d9 cb4e3df6 d9b4 f27 9f2 4b01 e9147a 384db32 2798e 50c0f8e b6 be2c8 01b1fb0070 8e12 c6de 961 c5f1c0 06855 d27 b368 f5d3200 457bf86 82875 8 7da9aa76 fc2 ed63 f83 0eaf0 c38 74ebfb6 7e9c8ed f16 f6dc82 6b51 078e7 60f49c 65a914d4973 444e2 d79a7 58d43b2e 6adbb6da 6d7 cb1 d692 8950 8de5 27b9 8e614 08e5183 8cb468 07e5 f69d5b5 f32e 0b59 dd6 d94 9422a0 b5 cc7e 452e d3c3d3a4 8f c8c0 747 d2d9 988b26a4d181 f8d1ae03e7 8f6a 3d5a4 0036 f14 74f03bfa68a33 1f 24180d1943 19c5b53 60e51 00c27f5c0 6601 be5b55b9 1eb2 908e5 cb1a159e 6e2b bd19 f0b1a72 c4971 21fb1e8 ee703 c88 1d05 b4f370 b27a4 cb9a 76d3 8fc7fa3 9f9 6e4c1 25a430 5bfc91 dc8 7d41 6036 0fb00fca063 6038aae 4774 0cfd0a7 b33ab4d c075 cc2 f31a 7f7 245 c7a5fca8 f749 3b20 d1be27aa69 d40 c7a2 f7f36b3f0ae f35 e190ac1c9 6f6 f10 748 f84c4d3a 7aaad61 9ff8ef2 9806 c05 43c99b8a 20c9a1df4 b83b8 d125 48d1f8 da85e1 7f2 45c47e48 f5 cf18c4a38b4fb6219a 69980 133a2 49 Setting Product Strategy At the heart of a great brand is a great product. Product is a key element in the market offering.
To achieve market leadership, firms must offer products and services of superior quality that provide unsurpassed customer value. Ford Motor Company endured some tough times at the beginning of the 21st cen- tury. A safety controversy about its best-selling Ford Explorer and high gas prices that hurt sales of its trucks and SUVs put the company in deep financial straits. Perhaps the biggest concern was public perception that Ford products were not high quality.
A new CEO, Alan Mulally, arrived in 2006 determined to set Ford on a different path. Rejecting government bailouts during the subsequent recession created some goodwill, but Mulally knew reliable, stylish, and affordable vehicles that performed well would make or break the company’s fortunes. A redesigned high-mileage Ford Fusion with innovative Sync hands-free phone-and-entertainment system and an environmentally friendly hybrid option caught customers’ attention, as did the hip, urban-looking seven-seat Ford Flex SUV with a cen- ter console mini-refrigerator. Mulally felt it was critical to use Ford’s vast infrastructure and scale to create vehicles that, with small adjustments, could easily be sold all over the world.
The result of extensive global research, the Ford Fiesta hatchback was a striking example of this world-car concept. The rear of the car resembled a popular small sport-utility, its giant headlights were typical of more expensive cars, and dashboard instruments were modeled after a cell phone keypad. The com- pany knew it had a winner when the Fiesta won a uniformly positive response in Chinese, European, and U. Ford also relied on experiential and social media in marketing.
launch, 150 Fiestas Marketing planning begins with formulating an toured the country for test drives and 100 were given to bloggers offering to meet target customers’ needs or wants. The for six months to allow them to share their experiences. Ford’s customer will judge the offering by three basic elements: product and marketing innovations paid off. While the rest of the product features and quality, services mix and quality, and price U.
auto industry continued to tank, the Fiesta garnered thousands (see Figure 12. In this chapter we examine product, in of preorders and Ford actually turned a profit in the first quarter Chapter 13, services, and in Chapter 14, price. All three elements of 2010.1 must be meshed into a competitively attractive offering. Product Characteristics and Classifications Many people think a product is tangible, but a product is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a want or need, including physical goods, services, experiences, events, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas.
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Marketers must see themselves as benefit providers. Product Services features mix and • At the second level, the marketer must turn the core benefit into a basic product. Thus a hotel and quality quality room includes a bed, bathroom, towels, desk, dresser, and closet. • At the third level, the marketer prepares an expected product, a set of attributes and condi- |Fig.1| tions buyers normally expect when they purchase this product.
Hotel guests minimally expect a clean bed, fresh towels, working lamps, and a relative degree of quiet. Components of the • At the fourth level, the marketer prepares an augmented product that exceeds customer ex- Market Offering pectations. In developed countries, brand positioning and competition take place at this level. In developing and emerging markets such as India and Brazil, however, competition takes place mostly at the expected product level.
• At the fifth level stands the potential product, which encompasses all the possible aug- mentations and transformations the product or offering might undergo in the future. Here is where companies search for new ways to satisfy customers and distinguish their offering. Differentiation arises and competition increasingly occurs on the basis of product augmenta- tion, which also leads the marketer to look at the user’s total consumption system: the way the user performs the tasks of getting and using products and related services.3 Each augmentation adds cost, however, and augmented benefits soon become expected benefits and necessary points-of- parity in the category. If today’s hotel guests expect satellite television, high-speed Internet access, and a fully equipped fitness center, competitors must search for still other features and benefits to differentiate themselves.
As some companies raise the price of their augmented product, others offer a stripped-down version for less. Thus, alongside the growth of fine hotels such as Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton, we see lower-cost hotels and motels emerge such as Motel 6 and Comfort Inn, catering to clients who want simply the basic product. Striving to create an augmented product can be a key for success, as Jamestown Container has experienced. Jamestown Container Companies What could be harder to differentiate than corrugated containers? Yet Jamestown Container Companies, a leading supplier of corrugated products for companies such as 3M, has formed strategic partnerships with area manufacturers to provide every part of the shipping system.
It offers not only boxes |Fig.2| pr Five Product Levels p pr Core benefit 33a8d66 6e7d7dc9e13 dd1 05b1 1d31 bb1a 3455 1df2b0 cb9 7186 bc6 d16a 369ee5 b ee72a4a6 c95e 8b44 261 c11b4da31 9ff705 b88da 47d8 4df733 b53a c07db5dfacc 1510e98 0f4 50b60aa5d5a6890 d04 084e1 69f91b0a 0746aa f8db6ad4b36 3cb2aa f7241 c66a 32f777 f8d7 cb0bb287 f89ee b3cc87 25aa013 8eb5 ef5 3e30 c2eaa3 b4 e02a5a6fa 70b0 7f7 fcd90 ba65b61b8 f12 3f1 9667 d8f652fe56 cf4 b7e8a dcc6c3 27fc8c5 9ff18a6 cc5 b550e f27 2207e 2890 e7004 6d87 71b5cc78 c4cc78 b7b5 3ed 7c671 77c6ed c0d9 cb4e3df6 d9b4 f27 9f2 4b01 e9147a 384db32 2798e 50c0f8e b6 be2c8 01b1fb0070 8e12 c6de 961 c5f1c0 06855 d27 b368 f5d3200 457bf86 82875 8 7da9aa76 fc2 ed63 f83 0eaf0 c38 74ebfb6 7e9c8ed f16 f6dc82 6b51 078e7 60f49c 65a914d4973 444e2 d79a7 58d43b2e 6adbb6da 6d7 cb1 d692 8950 8de5 27b9 8e614 08e5183 8cb468 07e5 f69d5b5 f32e 0b59 dd6 d94 9422a0 b5 cc7e 452e d3c3d3a4 8f c8c0 747 d2d9 988b26a4d181 f8d1ae03e7 8f6a 3d5a4 0036 f14 74f03bfa68a33 1f 24180d1943 19c5b53 60e51 00c27f5c0 6601 be5b55b9 1eb2 908e5 cb1a159e 6e2b bd19 f0b1a72 c4971 21fb1e8 ee703 c88 1d05 b4f370 b27a4 cb9a 76d3 8fc7fa3 9f9 6e4c1 25a430 5bfc91 dc8 7d41 6036 0fb00fca063 6038aae 4774 0cfd0a7 b33ab4d c075 cc2 f31a 7f7 245 c7a5fca8 f749 3b20 d1be27aa69 d40 c7a2 f7f36b3f0ae f35 e190ac1c9 6f6 f10 748 f84c4d3a 7aaad61 9ff8ef2 9806 c05 43c99b8a 20c9a1df4 b83b8 d125 48d1f8 da85e1 7f2 45c47e48 f5 cf18c4a38b4fb6219a 69980 133a2 49 SETTING PRODUCT STRATEGY | CHAPTER 12 327 but also tape, shrink-wrap, and everything else needed to display or ship a customer’s final product. “It’s a combination for survival,” says the company’s chief operating officer. “More customers want to call one place for everything. We have to keep reinventing ourselves and form these kinds of relationships to remain competitive.”4 Product Classifications Marketers classify products on the basis of durability, tangibility, and use (consumer or industrial).