chapter 3 the marketing environment, ethics, and social responsibility

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Chapter 3 The Marketing Environment,

Ethics, and Social Responsibility


Objectives1. Identify the five components of the marketing

environment.2. Identify the environmental factors that affect

marketing decisions and consumer buying power.

3. Identify the four levels of the social responsibility pyramid.


Environmental Scanning

• Process of collecting information about the external marketing environment in order to identify and interpret potential trends.

• Upscale chocolate retail outlet sales grew 20% from 2005-2007– So Mars launched Ethel’s Chocolate Lounges

named for the founding matriarch of the company


Elements of the Marketing MixWithin an Environmental Framework

THE COUNCIL OF BETTER BUSINESS BUREAUS (CBBB) “OUR MISSION is to promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.”The CBBB helps in keeping the Competitive Environment playing field level.


Dolls to Ethnic Targets2007

• Nickelodeon’s bilingual character

• Kmart 2007- 1st mass retailer with dolls in all stores– Terry Lee dolls– Baby Abuelita singing dolls

• special songs preserving Hispanic heritage: El patio de mi casa, Tengo una muñeca, A la rueda, Amambrocha

2050 – minorities 50% of U.S. residents– 30% in 2007

• Hispanic buying power - $1.2T in 2011• People want a doll & a story reflecting who they are

– Mattel’s American Girl with Native American, Hispanic, black historical dolls

http://www.nickjr.co.uk/shows/dora/diego.aspx

http://www.nickjr.co.uk/shows/dora/dora.aspx


Major Federal Law Affecting Marketing


Burger King ’07 Agrees to Limits on Kid-Aimed Ads

• Join Better Business Bureau's Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative

• New product: raw apples cut to look like french fries and served in a box called the Frypod.– Fits in car’s cupholder– Naming influence from IPod

• May ’07 - when Jobs became the largest shareholder of Disney– Disney ended $1 billion deal with McDonald’s

to receive cash for use of its movie &cartoon characters in Happy Meal tie-ins.


Major Federal Law Affecting Marketing


Four Stages in the Business Cycle1. Prosperity - Consumer spending maintains a brisk

pace and buyers are willing to spend more.2. Recessionary Periods - Sales of lower-priced

brands of grocery and household-goods products and private-label goods rise.

3. Depression - Consumer spending sinks to its lowest level.

4. Recovery Stage - The economy emerges from recession and consumer purchasing power increases.– Caution often restrains their willingness to buy.– As a recovery strengths, consumers become more

indulgent.


Social-Cultural Environment

• The relationship between marketing and society and its culture.

• The U.S. is becoming– older, – more affluent and– more cultural diverse

Consider the Nickelodeon web site. What are they doing to promote cultural diversity? Is their approach socially responsible?


Social-Cultural

Jockey 1976


Ethical Questions in Marketing

Product•Planned obsolescence•Product quality and safety•Product warranties•Fair packaging and labeling•Pollution

Distribution•Exclusive territories•Dumping•Dealer rights•Predatory competition

Promotion•Bait-and-switch advertising•Promotional allowances•Bribery

Price•Price fixing•Price discrimination•Price increases•Deceptive pricing

EthicalIssues


Competitive Advantage• Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil

• 32 talent scouts maintain dbase of 20,000 potential additions to cast• Each show as life of 10-12 yrs.• Runs 5 world tours & 5 permanent shows,

each with a $500M return• 300 seamstresses, engineers, makeup

artist create custom show materials • Award-winning series on Bravo

• NikeID.com customizes:– Lining, mesh, laces, style, shox


Ten Steps for Corporation to Improve Standards of Business Ethics1. Appoint a senior-level

ethics compliance officer.2. Set up an ethics code

capable of detecting and preventing misconduct.

3. Distribute a written code of ethics to employees, subsidiaries, and associated companies and require all business partners to abide by it.

4. Conduct regular ethics training programs to communicate standards and procedures.

5. Establish systems to monitor misconduct and report grievances.

6. Establish consistent punishment guidelines to enforce standards and codes.

7. Encourage an open-door policy, allowing employees to report cases on misconduct without fear of retaliation.

8. Prohibit employees with a track record of misconduct from holding positions with substantial discretionary authority.

9. Promote ethically aware and responsible managers.

10. Continually monitor effectiveness of all ethics-related programs.


Legoland competes with other theme parks in California.


When Sales Fail

• Britannica $650M revenue in 1989 from 4-volume encyclopedia sets– Sales force of 7,500 – Fell to force of 300 in 2005

• Slow to react to changing technologies• Myopic in defining business as publishing books

vs. providing information


Time-Based Competition Strategy

Developing and distributing goods and services more quickly than competitors.

Provides for• Flexibility and

responsiveness.• Improve product quality.• Reduce costs.• Expand product offerings.• Enhance customer

satisfaction.


New Regulatory Frontier

• Cyberspace:– How do you “police?”– Privacy and child protection issues.– How do you protect the consumer?


Economic EnvironmentForces that Influence Consumer Buying Power and Marketing Strategies

1. Business cycle2. Inflation3. Unemployment4. Income5. Resource

availability


InflationRising prices caused by some combination of excess demand and increases in the costs devalues money.

Three possible outcomes:1. consumers elect to buy now, in the belief that

prices will be high later;2. they decide to alter their purchasing patterns;

or3. They postpone certain purchases.


The Four-Step Pyramid ofCorporate Social Responsibility

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