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Chapter 3
Chapter Three Outline
Marketing Environment
The Company’s Microenvironment
The Company
Suppliers
Marketing intermediaries
Competitors
Publics
Customers
The Company’s Macroenvironment
The Demographic environment
The Economic environment
The Natural environment
The Technological environment
The Political and Social environment
The Cultural environment
Marketing Environment
The Company
Top management
Finance
R&D
Purchasing
Operations
Accounting
Marketers must work with other departments in the company and make decisions that support
the strategies and plans of top management.
The Company’s Microenvironment
Suppliers
• Supply shortage or delays can cost sales in the short run and
damage customer satisfaction in the long run.
Marketing Intermediaries
Help the company to promote, sell and distribute its products to final buyers.
Resellers: Are distribution channel firms that help the company find customers or make sales to
them. Example: Wholesalers and retailers.
Physical distribution firms: Help the company stock and move goods. Example: Transportation
and warehousing companies.
Financial intermediaries: Insure the risk that is connected with buying and selling of goods.
Example: banks and insurance companies.
The Company’s Microenvironment
Competitors: Those who serve a target market with similar
products and services
Five types of customer markets that purchase a company’s goods and services are
Consumer: Are people who buy goods and service for their personal use.
Business: Buy goods and services for further processing our use in the their production
processes.
Government : Government agencies that buy goods and services to produce public services or
transfer the goods and services to others who needs them.
Economic environment consists of factors that affect consumer purchasing power and
spending patterns.
Marketers pay attention to trends and consumer spending patterns across and within
their world markets.
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Types of economies:
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Industrial economies: Are richer markets for many different kinds of products.
Developing economies: Offer outstanding opportunities for the right kinds of products.
Subsistence economies: Consume most of their own agriculture and industrial output
and offer few market opportunities.
The Economic Environment
Firms who require these scarce resources face large cost increases.
The Natural Environment
The Political Environment is made up of laws, government agencies, and pressure groups that
influence or limit various organizations and individuals in a given society.
2. Protect consumers for unfair business practice: Misleading advertising and packaging, unfair
prices
3. Protect the interest of society against bad business practice: Ensures that companies take
responsibility for the social costs of their production or products.
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The Political Environment
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The Cultural Environment
Core Beliefs and values are passed from parents to children and are
reinforced by schools, religious institutions, businesses, and governments.
Marketers have some chance of changing secondary beliefs and values but
very little chance of changing core beliefs and values.
Reference
Kotler, Philip and Gary Armstrong, Principles of
Marketing, 15th edition, Pearson Education
Limited, 2014.