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3
PRINCIPLES
OF
MARKETING
The
Marketing Environment
Chapter Outline
1. The Company’s Microenvironment
2. The Company’s Macroenvironemnt
3. Responding to the Marketing Environment
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The Marketing Environment
The marketing environment includes the
actors and forces outside marketing that affect
marketing management’s ability to build and
maintain successful relationships with
customers
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The Marketing Environment
Marketing Environment
Microenvironment consists of the actors close
to the company that affect its ability to serve its
customers, the company, suppliers, marketing
intermediaries, customer markets, competitors,
and publics
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Environment
Macroenvironment consists of the larger societal forces
that affect the microenvironment
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Demographic
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Economic
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Natural
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Technological
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Political
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Cultural
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The Company’s Microenvironment
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The Company
Suppliers
Marketing intermediaries
Customers
Competitors
Publics
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The Company’s Microenvironment
The Company
Internal environment includes:
• Top management
• Finance
• R&D
• Purchasing
• Operations
• Accounting
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Manufacturing
•Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Sdn. Bhd.
• Proton Tanjung Malim Sdn. Bhd.
Engineering Services
• Lotus Advance Technologies Sdn.
Bhd.
• PROTON Engineering Research
Technology Sdn. Bhd.
Financial Services
•Proton Commerce Sdn. Bhd.
•Lotus Finance Ltd (UK)
Investee & Associate
Companies
•Exedy (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
•Netstar Advanced Systems Sdn. Bhd.
Sales & Distribution
•Proton Marketing Sdn. Bhd.
•Proton Edar Sdn. Bhd.
Property
•Proton Hartanah Sdn. Bhd.
•Proton Properties Sdn. Bhd.
Others
•Yayasan Proton Lotus
•Pension Trustees Ltd (UK)
The Company’s Microenvironment
Suppliers
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Provide the resources to produce goods and
services
Treated as partners to provide customer value
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 Proton Supplier
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AV Ventures
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steering, wiper and washer and window regulator
systems
Ichikoh
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Head lamp,mirror (also for Toyota, Nissan, and
Subaru)
The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries
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Help the company to promote, sell, and
distribute its products to final buyers
Include:
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Resellers
Physical distribution firms
Marketing services agencies
Financial intermediaries
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries
Resellers are the distribution channel firms that
help the company find customers or make sales
to them
• Include:
• Wholesalers
• Retailers
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries
Physical distribution firms are the distribution
channel firms that help the company to stock
and move goods from their points of origin to
their final destination
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries
Marketing service agencies are the marketing
research firms, advertising agencies, media
firms, and marketing consulting firms that help
the company target and promote its products to
the right markets
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries
Financial intermediaries include banks, credit
companies, insurance companies, and other
businesses that help finance transactions or
insure against the risks associated with the
buying and selling of goods
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Customers
Customer markets consist of individuals and
households that buy goods and services for
personal consumption
Business markets buy goods and services for
further processing or for use in their production
process
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Customers
Reseller markets buy goods and services to resell at a profit
Government markets buy goods and services to produce
public services or transfer goods and services to others
who need them
International markets consist of buyers in other countries
including consumers, producers, resellers, and
governments
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Competitors
Firms must gain strategic advantage by positioning
their offerings against competitors’ offerings
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Publics
Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or
impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its
objectives
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Financial publics
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Media publics
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Government publics
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Citizen-action publics
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Local publics
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General public
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Internal publics
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Publics
Financial publics influence the company’s ability
to obtain funds—banks, investment houses,
and stockholders
Media publics carry news, features, and editorial
opinion—newspapers, magazines, and radio
and television stations
Government publics influence product safety and
truth in advertising
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Publics
Citizen-action publics include consumer organizations,
environment groups, and minority groups
Local publics include neighborhood residents and
community organizations
General publics influence the company’s public image
Internal publics include workers, managers, volunteers, and
directors
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
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Demographic environment
Economic environment
Natural environment
Technological environment
Political environment
Cultural environment
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Demography is the study of human populations in terms of
size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation,
and other statistics
Demographic environment is important because it involves
people, and people make up markets
Demographic trends include age, family structure,
geographic population shifts, educational characteristics,
and population diversity
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Changing Age Structure of the Population
Generational marketing is important in
segmenting people by lifestyle of life state
instead of age
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Changing Age Structure of the Population
Baby boomers include people born between
1946 and 1964
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Most affluent Americans
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Changing Age Structure of the Population
Generation X includes people born between 1965 and 1976
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High divorce rates
Concerned about the environment
Respond to socially responsible companies
Less materialistic
Quality of life
Consumer organizations, environment groups, and minority
groups
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Changing Age Structure of the Population
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Generation Y includes people born
between 1977 and 2000
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Internet generation
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
The Changing American Family
More people are:
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Divorcing or separating
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Choosing not to marry
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Choosing to marrying later
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Marrying without intending to have children
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Higher divorce rates
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Increased number of working women
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Stay-at-home dads
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Geographic Shifts in Population
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Trends include:
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Migratory movements between and within
countries
Moving from rural to metropolitan areas
Changes in where people work
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Telecommuting
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Home office
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Divorcing or separating
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Changes in the Workforce
Trends include:
• More educated
• More white collar
• More professional
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Increasing Diversity
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Markets are becoming more diverse
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International
National
Trends Include:
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Ethnicity
Gay and lesbian
Disabled
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Economic Environment
Economic environment consists of factors that
affect consumer purchasing power and
spending patterns
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Subsistence economies consume most of their own
agriculture and industrial output
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Industrial economies are richer markets
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Economic Environment
Changes in Income
Value marketing involves ways to offer financially
cautious buyers greater value—the right
combination of quality and service at a fair price
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Economic Environment
Changes in Income
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Income distribution
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Upper-class consumers
Middle-class consumers
Working-class consumers
Underclass consumers
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Economic Environment
Changes in Consumer Spending Patterns
Ernst Engel—Engel’s Law
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The percentage spent on food declines
The percentage spent on housing remains
constant
The percentage spent on savings increases
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Natural Environment
Natural environment involves the natural resources that are
needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by
marketing activities
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Trends
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Shortages of raw materials
Increased pollution
Increased government intervention
Environmentally sustainable strategies
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Green marketing
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Technological Environment
Most dramatic force in changing the marketplace with many
positive and negative effects
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Rapid change
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Provides new markets and new opportunities
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Internet
Medicine
Miniaturization
Weapons
Credit cards
Communication
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Political Environment
Political environment consists of laws,
government agencies, and pressure groups that
influence or limit various organizations and
individuals in a given society
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Political Environment
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Legislation regulating business
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Public policy to guide commerce—sets of laws
and regulations that limit business for the good of
society at large
Increasing legislation
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Protect companies
Protect consumers
Protect the interests of society
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Political Environment
Changing Government Agency Enforcement
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Federal Trade Commission
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Aviation Administration
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Environmental Protection Agency
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Political Environment
Increased Emphasis on Ethics and Socially Responsible Actions
Socially responsible behavior occurs when firms
actively seek out ways to protect the long-term
interests of their consumers and the
environment
• Cause-related marketing
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Cultural environment consists of institutions and
other forces that affect a society’s basic values,
perceptions, and behaviors
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Persistence of Cultural Values
Core beliefs and values have a high degree of
persistence, are passed on from parents to
children, and are reinforced by schools,
churches, businesses, and government
Secondary beliefs and values are more open to
change
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
Major cultural values of a society are expressed in people’s
view of:
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Themselves
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Others
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Organization
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Society
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Nature and the universe
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The Company’s Microenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
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People’s view of themselves
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Yankelovich Monitor’s consumer segments:
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Do-It-Yourselfers—recent movers
Adventurers
People’s view of others
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
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People’s view of organizations
People’s view of society
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Patriots defend it
Reformers want to change it
Malcontents want to leave it
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The Company’s Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
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People’s view of nature
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Some feel ruled by it
Some feel in harmony with it
Some seek to master it
People’s view of the universe
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Renewed interest in spirituality
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Responding to the Marketing
Environment
Views on Responding
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Uncontrollable
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Proactive
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Reacting and adapting to forces in the
environment
Taking aggressive actions to affect forces in the
environment
Reactive
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Watching and reacting to forces in the
environment
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QUIZ 1
 Chapter 1 and 2
 20 minutes
 Closed book
QUIZ 1
1. You can define marketing and its functions
in many ways. In your words, explain
marketing to someone who has not yet read
this chapter.
2. Explain the important of Internet Technology
(IT) in marketing.
3. Draw the product/market expansion grid
4. What is Market Penetration
BONUS
 How old Philip Kotler?