VNU - UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS FACUTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH ON GREEN MARKETING ACTIVITIES IN PANASONIC VIETNAM AND RECOMMENDATIONS Supervisor’s name: Dr. Dung, Vu Anh Student’s name: Nam, Do Dinh Student ID: 09050294 Intake: QH2009-E Program: International Standard Program Hanoi — May, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS ID)0. ›iiaaiaaadđdiddaỐÝẢ3ẮŸÝẢÝỶẢ iv LL ROP Ấy) i00 .cccccecececeeeesesesssesescssssesesecesscsesesssacscscsesevevavsvevavavevavacevevavaves ix ABSTRACT). | 610301 sere 0 ses nan 'ôôôốố số.
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WERE REE: EAR. Sat A 20 RESEARCH ON GREEN MARKETING ACTIVIRIES IN PANASONIC VIETNAM. Introduction to the Íirms. Introduction to Panasonic Corporation.
Introduction to Panasonic Vietnam. Panasonic ”s Green Positioning. Eco ideas - the principle of Green marketing in Panasonic Vietnam. Eco ideas - Vision and strategy.
Environmental Action Plan — Green Plan 2018. Overview on Panasonic’s Environmental Activities. Analysis on Green Marketing Activities in Panasonic Vietnam based-on Green Marketing Mix Model. Green Place — Green LOBIStICS.
Green Promotion - Green Advertising and Public Relations. Customers research on Green marketing in Panasonic Vietnam. Customers research on Panasonic Green marketing. Interview Panasonic Dealer’s OWNED.
sssesssssssssscssssnsssesesscsecsessanssssnssssssssssssscsssvsansussecaseasssasansecassseseesees 62 FINDINGS FROM GREEN MARKETING ACTIVITIES OF PANASONIC VIETNAM AND RECOMMENDATIONS. Findings from Green marketing activities of Panasonic Vietnam. Recommendations for imprOV€men{.15 0B SẺ ớớớớớớớỚN ớớẽxxx. 76 CTE EAN, PnNjNợjnNớớơớơớỚớớ_.ớớơỚớNẢNẢỨỨ sa 80 IV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ABBREVIATION MEANING 3D Three Dimensions 3Rs | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 4Ps Product, Price, Place, Promotion AMA 1 American Marketing Association AV Audio Visual | AVC Advanced Video Coding | BSR Business for Social Responsibility L_ BU Business Units CO2 Carbon dioxide | DSP Demand-Side Platform Econavi Eco-Navigation EMC | Electronic Manufacturing Company | EPA-NSW Environment Protection Authority-New South Wales | EPP Environmentally Preferable Purchasing ISD International Institute for Sustainable Development ISO International Organization for Standardization Ltd Limited NAAG National Association of Attorneys General NASPO | National Association of State Procurement Officials | No.
Number | OEM Original Equipment Manufacturers | PAVCV Panasonic AVC Network Vietnam PIDVN Panasonic Industrial Devices Vietnam PR Public Relations PV Panasonic Vietnam R&D | Research and Development | TVC Television Commercial L USD Dnited States Dollars Mái LIST OF TABLES Table ‘.1: Outline of Panasonic Vietnam Co., Ltd - Holding Company.2: Description of Green Indexes and their progress .3: Econavi and Panasonic’ products .4: Initiatives of resources recycling in detailed .cccccecccsescseeesessssteeeeeseeees 38 Table “5: List of products that acquired environmental labels in China (As March lẽ. 40 Table <6: Purchasing amount by areas of PIDVN. 44 Table “7: Summary of PIDVN’s Procedure of managing energy and resources. 47 Table <8: Some Panasonic Vietnam dealers in Han0i.ccccccsccsseesessceessesvesesesseseees 50 Table “9: The awareness of Panasonic prOdUCfS.- 56 Table “10: Opinions/understanding about Green Marketing activities of Panasonic Table 211: Importance levels of 4Ps factor in purchasing đecisions.s-: 58 Table 212: Customers’ viewpoints after purchasing and using Panasonic products.59 Table 213: Interview result at Hoang Linh Dealer .cccccceccscscecseseseesecsesevevesesesees 60 Table 31: Disadvantages/Limitations of green marketing in Panasonic Vietnam.
64 Table 32: Recommendations for improvement green marketing in Panasonic Vietnan. St SH HH1 0111111111 HH HH Tra 66 vii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: Green Marketing Mix Model .2: Organization Structure of Panasonic Vietnam Group.3: Vision looking to the 100th anniversary of Panasonic Group foundation .4: Indexes for the No. 1 Green Innovation Company in the Electronics b0 1.5: Panasonic “Eco ideas” Declaration .6: Concept of Green Plan 2018 .7: Econavi in washing machine of Panasonic Vietnam.8: Econavi - Energy Saving Made Easy .9: Panasonic’s goal of recycling-oriented manufacturing .10: Illustration of Panasonic’s product-to-product initiatives.11: Simple product life CYC]e.12: Three categories of environmental label .13: Environmental labels used in Chima .14: Type II Panasonic’s environmental declaration label.15: Vietnam Green Label.16: PIDVN purchasing COnditiOn .17: Eco ideas factory of Panasonic in Vietnam .18: Panasonic’s major initiatives taken for green logistics.19: CO2 emission from logistics of Panasonic.20: Panasonic Risupia ShOWrOOM.21: Some activities at Panasonic Risupia Vietnam Center.cccccceeeeeeen 54 vill Figure 2.22: The author visits Panasonic Risupia Vietnam Center Figure 2.23: Author takes the interview at Dealer Hoang Linh 1X ACKNOWLEDGEMENT [uring the time of preparing and completing my report, I was received numerus support and encouragement from many people. In addition, this is herebyio express my sincere gratitude to them.
Frst and foremost, I would like to give my special thanks to my supervisor, Dr. Vi Anh Dung for providing me with valuable recommendations and helpful materids. Despite his busy work, he spent much time on reading my draft and helping me correct the mistakes carefully and kindly. Working with him, I gained a deepercnowledge background about how to conduct a thesis.
S:cond, I wish to express my gratefulness to my advisor Ms. Pham Thi Hoa and ofler officers, who work at Panasonic Industrial Devices, for providing me necesszy data for this report. Besides, I would like to give my special thanks to Mr. Dag Tran Phuc, the director of iBESD Institute of Training and Consulting Busines because of giving internship chance and guiding me so much in finishing this theis.
I also want to show my appreciation to all other friends, from whom I have reeived many support. List, but by no means least, my sincere thanks are devoted to University of Econonics and Business, Vietnam National University, especially the academic board, or providing me such a huge support to improve myself and gain helpful experieices, Hanoi, May 1, 2013 DO DINH NAM ABSTRACT Green marketing has gained the strong concern among many researchers and businesspersons because of the huge environmental impacts of different industries and growing environmental awareness of government and public. In Vietnam, society and enterprises have just a bit overview as well as details on green marketing. Especially, the author realize that it one specific study about how to implement a comprehensive may be very useful for Vietnamese firms to refer.
For this reason, the research is aimed to study the implementation of green marketing with the very good case — Panasonic Vietnam. Based on literature review of green marketing, a framework for analyzing green marketing has been established. A case study of Panasonic Vietnam has been carried out to understand its green marketing implementation when this corporation operates in Vietnam. The findings suggest that Panasonic has implemented successfully many elements of green marketing such as green design, recycling in production, green procurement, green logistics, and green advertising.
However, there have been still many other activities of green marketing need improving. The results also contribute a crucial evidence for further application of the framework to analyze the green supply chain implementation of other companies. Further research should be conducted with more specific elements or typical activities in Panasonic Vietnam or a good case of Vietnamese company. Keywords: Green Marketing, Green Design, Green Procurement, Green Logistics, Green Advertising, Panasonic INTRODUCTION 1.
Problem Statement Although environmental issues influence all human activities, few academic disciplines have integrated green issues into their literature. This is especially true of marketing. However, because society becomes more concerned with the natural environment, businesses have begun to modify their behavior in an attempt to address society's "new" concerns. Some businesses have been quick to accept concepts like environmental management systems and waste minimization, and have integrated environmental issues into all organizational activities.
Some evidence of this is the development ofjournals such as "Business Strategy and the Environment" and "Greener Management International," which are specifically designed to disseminate research relating to business' environmental behavior. One business area where environmental issues have received a great deal of discussion in the popular and professional press is “Marketing”. Terms like "Green Marketing" and "Environmental Marketing" appear frequently in the popular press. Many governments around the world have become so concerned about green marketing activities that they have attempted to regulate them (M.
One of the biggest problems with the green marketing area is that there has been little attempt to academically examine environmental or green marketing. In Vietnam, society and enterprises have just a bit overview as well as details on green marketing. The nature of green marketing is unclear; there is also a documentation refers to Green Marketing is "Tiep thi xanh" while “tiep thi” is only a small part of the modern concept of marketing. The majority of businesses today, as mentioned, do not have a full enough sight on Green marketing.
Thus, green marketing programs sometimes do not show the nature of the problem. Therefore, researching on a good case in doing Green marketing will help clarify the overall picture of Green marketing. Moreover, this case study in Panasonic Vietnam can bring significant lessons for the majority of enterprises who are increasingly want to add the word "Green" on their marketing operation. Research purposes and research questions The first objective of the study is finding out aspects, basic activities of Green marketing based on the Marketing Mix model.
Secondly, because of a case research, the second objective is understanding, analyzing strategies and activities of Panasonic Vietnam in term of Green marketing. From there, the author wants to make recommendations to improve the Green marketing strategy and activities of Panasonic Vietnam. With these goals, the study was required to answer 03 key research questions: - What is Green marketing? - How is Green marketing in Panasonic Vietnam and its issues? - What may be solutions and recommendations for improvement? 3. Object and scope of research - Object: Green marketing activities in Panasonic Vietnam.
- Scope: e Space: Panasonic Vietnam. e Time: from March 2013 to May 2013. The main research methodology of the thesis is desk study. It means that this research is based on the secondary data from different sources of materials such as academic researches, economic reports, financial reports, surveys and journals.
Besides, this thesis also uses primary data collected by sending questionnaires to consumers and business owners that will be shown in chapter 2. The thesis is divided into 3 chapters: Chapter 1: Literature review on Green marketing. Chapter 2: Research on Green marketing activities in Panasonic Vietnam. Chapter 3: Lessons gained from Green marketing activities of Panasonic Vietnam and recommendations CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW ON THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF GREEN MARKETING Because resources are limited and human wants are unlimited, the marketers have to utilize the resources with lower waste while still achieve the organization’s goals.
Thus, green marketing is inevitable. There is growing interest among consumers all over the world regarding protection of environment. It is seen that people now concern about environment and their behavior are changing. As the result, green marketing has emerged which speaks for the growing market for sustainable and socially responsible products and services.
The green marketing has evolved over a period. Origin of Green marketing. According to Peattle (2001), the evolution of green marketing has three phases. The first phase was termed “Ecological” green marketing.
At that time, marketing activities were concerned to help environment problems and provides remedies for this. The second phase was “Environmental” green marketing. This phase focuses on green technologies, which can make new innovative products and reduce pollution as well as waste issues. The third phase was “Sustainable” green marketing.
This phase involves developing and promoting products and services that satisfy customers want and need in term of quality, performance, affordable pricing and convenience without negative impact to environment. In fact, the American Marketing Association (AMA) held the first workshop on "Ecological Marketing" in 1975. The proceedings of this workshop resulted in one of the first books on green marketing entitled "Ecological Marketing" (Henion and Kinnear 1976).