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Kotler04 Exs
Environment
Chapter 4
Objectives
• Know the environmental forces that
affect the company’s ability
to serve its customers.
• Realize how changes in the
demographic and economic
environments affect marketing
decisions.
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Objectives
• Identify the major trends in the firm’s
natural and technological
environments.
• Know the key changes in the political
and cultural environments.
• Understand how companies can react
to the marketing environment.
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Case Study
Volkswagen
• “Millennial fever” set • The new VW beetle
the stage to bring back enjoyed cross-
the Beetle generational appeal
• VW’s investment: • Earned many awards
$ 560 million • Beetle now accounts
• Demand quickly for over 25% of
outstripped supply company sales
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Key Environments
• Marketing Environment
Microenvironment
The actors close to the company
that affect its ability to serve its
customers
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Key Environments
• Marketing Environment
Macroenvironment
The larger social force that affect
the microenvironment
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The Microenvironment
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The Microenvironment
• Suppliers
They provide the resources needed by the
company to produce its goods and services
Supply availability
Supply shortages or delay
Labor strike
Cost sales in the short run and damage customer
satisfaction in the long run
Monitor the price trends
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The Microenvironment
• Marketing Intermediaries
Firms that help the company to promote, sell
and distribute its goods to final buyers; they
include
Resellers
Physical distribution firm
Marketing service agency
Financial intermediaries
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The Microenvironment
• Customers
Customer market
Business market
Government market
International market
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The Microenvironment
• Competitor
Must provide greater customer value and
satisfaction than its competitors
Strategic advantage by positioning their offering
strongly against competitor’ offering in the
minds of customers
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The Microenvironment
• Public
Any group that has actual or potential interest in
or impact on an organization’s ability to achieve
their objective
Types of public
Financial
Media
Government
Citizen-action
Local
General
Internal
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The Macroenvironment
Macroenvironmental Forces
• Demographic • Technological
• Economic • Political
• Natural • Cultural
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The Macroenvironment
• Demography
The study of human population in terms of
size, density, location, age, gender, race,
occupation and other statistics
• Key Demographic Trends
World population growth
Changing age structure
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The Macroenvironment
• Born between 1946 and
Key Generations 1964
• Represent 28% of the
population; earn 50% of
• Baby Boomers personal income
• Many mini-segments exist
• Generation X within the boomer group
• Entering peak earning years
• Generation Y as they mature
• Lucrative market for travel,
entertainment, housing, and
more
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The Macroenvironment
Key Generations • Born between 1965 and
1976
• First latchkey children
• Baby Boomers • Maintain a cautious
economic outlook
• Generation X • Share new cultural
concerns
• Generation Y • Represent $125 billion in
annual purchasing power
• Will be primary buyers of
most goods by 2010
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The Macroenvironment
Key Generations • Born between 1977 and
1994
• 72 million strong; almost as
• Baby Boomers large a group as their baby
boomer parents
• Generation X • New products, services, and
media cater to GenY
• Generation Y • Computer, Internet and
digitally saavy
• Challenging target for
marketers
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The Macroenvironment
• Key Demographic Trends
Changing household type
Geographic population shifts
Better-educated, more white-collar
workforce
Increasing Diversity
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The Macroenvironment
• The Economic Environment
Factor that affects consumer purchasing
power and spending patterns.
Two types of national economies:
subsistence vs. industrial.
Consumers now spend carefully and
desire greater value.
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The Macroenvironment
• Key Economic Trends
Income distribution is skewed.
Upper class, middle class, working class and
the underclass.
Rich are getting richer, the middle class is
shrinking, and the underclass remains poor.
Consumer spending patterns are changing.
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The Macroenvironment
• The Natural Environment
Natural resources that are needed as
inputs by marketers or that are affected
by marketing activities
Concern for the natural environment has
grown steadily, increasing the
importance of these trends:
Shortage of raw materials
Increased pollution
Increased governmental intervention
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The Macroenvironment
• Technological environment
Forces that create new technologies, creating new
product and market opportunities
• Key Technological Trends
The technological environment is characterized by
rapid change.
New technologies create new opportunities and
markets but make old technologies obsolete.
Leads the world in research and development
spending.
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The Macroenvironment
• The Political Environment
Includes laws, governmental agencies, and
pressure groups that impact organizations and
individuals and limit various organizations and
individual in a given society. Key trends include:
Increased legislation to protect businesses
as well as consumers.
Changes in governmental agency enforcement.
Increased emphasis on ethical behavior and
social responsibility.
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The Macroenvironment
• The Cultural Environment
Institutions and other forces that affect a
society’s basic values, perceptions,
preferences, and behaviors.
Culture can influence decision making.
Core beliefs are persistent; secondary cultural
values change and shift more easily.
The cultural values of a society are expressed
through people’s views.
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The Macroenvironment
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Responding to the
Marketing Environment
• Reactive: Passive Acceptance and Adaptation
Companies design strategies that avoid threats
and capitalize upon opportunities.
• Proactive: Environmental Management
Use of lobbyists, PR, advertorials, lawsuits,
complaints, and contractual agreements to
influence environmental forces.
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