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129 Cards in this Set
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With whom did the formation of Adidas begin? Where, and in what year?
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Rudolf and Adolf Dassler
1920, West Germany |
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Rudolf and Adolf Dassler: Who was the Business Man and who was the Innovator?
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Rudolf: Business
Adoff: Innovator |
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Adidas rose to prominence in ____ by _____ _____. This is considered the day that ______ ______ were born.
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1935, Jesse Owens, sports endorsements
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When the Dassler brothers had a fight, they split and became what 2 companies?
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Adolf: Adidas
Rudolf: Puma |
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What 2 things did Adidas's Marketing Strategy do?
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1) Set the standard for marketing in this industry
2) Caused other companies to copy Adidas |
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Adidas's marketing strategy put focus on: (4)
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Kinesiology
Product Line Endorsment Contracts Liscensing Agreements |
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(Marketing Strategy)
The science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy |
Kinesiology
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(Marketing Strategy)
Adidas was the first company to develop this. |
An extensive product line.
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(Marketing Strategy)
When the company pays an athlete to use or wear their product. The brand is identified with a logo which needs to be simple yet distinctive. Tends to be more effective than an ad because seeing the "real thing" increases credibility. |
Endorsement Contracts
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(Marketing Strategy)
Adidas Negotiated these with small foreign firms to produce their shoes |
Licensing Agreements
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What are the 3 economic advantages of licensing agreements?
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1) Maybe paying fewer taxes
2) Labor is cheaper 3) Since Adidas doesn't own the factories, it keeps cost low |
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What is the break even point?
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The point where sales=expenses and
profits= zero |
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What is the contribution margin?
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selling price- var cost
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What is Potential Profit?
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Cost Volume Profit
(Revenue- Fixed Cost-variable Cost) |
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"Criticism of Licensing Agreements" If a company doesn't use licensing agreements, then their break even point will be ____ and they will not be able to compete.
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Higher
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Mostly focused on working conditions in overseas factories including low wages and long hours, child labor, and unsafe working conditions
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criticism
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Who used this for Market Research (Merchants of cool video)
- Go to person's habitat to find out who they are - |
MTV
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MTV's created teenage male, crude, loud, obnoxious
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"Mook"
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A management practice in which organizations seek to engage in activities that have a positive effect on society and promote a public good
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Social Responsibility
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A position taken by an organization to protect or enhance the natural environment as it conducts its business activities. ex: walmart does this a lot
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environmental stewardship
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(America's Running Culture)
one of the best runner's in the world |
Steve Prefontaine
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(America's Running culture)
Won the marathon in the 1972 Olympics |
Frank Shorter
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What school was the Track Powerhouse? Who was the coach?
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University of Oregon, Bill Bowerman
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Who is the CEO of Nike today?
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Phil Knight
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Between Knight and Bowerman, who was the innovator and who was the Business man?
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Knight: Businessman
Bowerman: Innovator |
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Knight was the sole distributor of _____ and ______
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Tigers and Asics
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Bowerman and Knight started ______
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Blue Ribbon Shoe co.
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Where a firm will place its products along a line of attributes
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Linear city Model
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(Linear City Model) Knight saw a big gap where there was no ____ shoes.
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Running
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Where a firm would locate it's "presence" given the distribution of potential consumers (ex: knowing there are a lot of consumer's in oregon)
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Location Model
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Nike is named after what?
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The greek goddess of victory
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Nike's logo was created by ____ ____.
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Carolyn Davidson
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What are 2 extremely important innovations of Bowerman?
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Waffle Sole and making running shoes out of fabric instead of leather.
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In 1981, Nike had ____% of the Shoe Market.
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50
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Nike did what six things?
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1) expanded product line
2)Good use of endorsement Contracts 3) Contracted with Asian Factories for Production 4) Emphasizing research and development **5) Created Advisory Boards and Research Committees **6)Distribution channels |
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What did Nike do that adidas did not?
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Created Advisory Boards and Research Committees
and *****Used Distribution Channels |
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Who endorsed Nike?
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Michael Jordan
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When Nike went into small towns to sell shoes
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Distribution Channels
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(Merchants of Cool)
MTV's teen female |
Midriff
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When the media sells and image and then the teens sell it back
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Feedback Loop
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What is the Mean-End Chain?
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(Means) Attributes-> (Means) Benefits-> Values (Ends)
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This explains how attributes cause benefits which fulfill value.
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Means-End Chain
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Marketers try to figure out what customers ____.
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Value
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One type of knowledge consumers have about products or brands
- Physical, tangible, measurable |
Attributes
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Positive consequences of product use
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"Benefits"
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(Type of Benefit)
Provide immediate physiological outcomes. Ex: padding and support on shoes= injury free runs |
Functional Benefit
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(Type of Benefit)
Benefits that make one feel a certain way -Feel stronger= better able to cope |
Psychological Benefit
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(Type of Benefit)
Benefits are integrating Ex: Join a Club |
Social Benefits
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The end state that consumers are tyring to achieve in their lives such as health and self-fulfillment
Ex: Nelly and people trying to be like him |
Values
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___ ____ ____ by linking product attributes and benefits to values- the marketer is associating the product or brand with a sub-culture
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Values Define Cultures
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Enduring beliefs about desirable outcomes that transcends specific situations and shape ones behavior
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Values
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What are the two parts to Value?
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Instrumental Value and Terminal Value
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(Type of Value)
Refers to a pattern of behavior in how consumers use products which leads to a different demand for products Ex: wearing shoes to run vs someone wearing just to go to class |
Instrumental Value
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(Type of Value)
The end of the means end chain. Ultimately what the consumer wants to achieve. * Can say brand is value Expressive |
Terminal Value
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What company did Rebok start out as?
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Fosters
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In 1982, Nike became what in America?
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#1 most profitable company
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Why was Fosters not able to compete with Adidas and Nike?
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They didn't have licensing agreements.
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Two grandson's of Fosters wanted to make a trendier shoe. The created ____ after a _____.
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Reebok, gizelle
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In 1979 ___ ___ came from America and found Reebok. He brought it to North America and got the distribution rights.
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Paul Fireman
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What was the most expensive running shoe on the market and how much did it cost in 1979?
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Reebok, $60
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How much did Paul Fireman purchase Reebok for in 1981?
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$700,000
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Reebok created a shoe called the _____ which was created for aerobic and dance exercises.
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The Freestyle
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Reebok anticipated what three major trends?
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1) Aerobic/dance exercise movement
2)Increasing involvement of women in exercise 3)Extension of athletic wear to casual wear |
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What problem did Reebok end up facing?
Why? |
A pricing problem with the "Pump" because it was $130.
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What question should you ask when changing price?
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How much more inventory do I need?
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What are the Determinants of elasticity? (4)
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1) Number of substitutes available
2) How much time you have to respond 3) Share of budget involved in purchase decision 4)Necessity of Luxury |
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(Determinant of Elasticity)
-the more substitutes we have the higher the elasticity because people can easily switch from product to product |
Number of substitutes available
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(Determinant of Elasticity)
-If it is something you need right away you will probably buy it, but if you have to think about it, you probably won't or are way less likely to |
How much time you have to respond
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(Determinant of Elasticity)
% of income it will take to buy something |
Share of budget involved in purchase decision
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(Determinant of Elasticity)
Posibility of: Absolutely have to have, buy no matter the price |
Necessity of Luxury
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Price elasticity of demand=
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%change in quantity demanded/ %change in price
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In Price Elasticity of Demand, if over 1 it is _____ _____ if under 1 it is _____ _____.
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Elastic, Inelastic
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When consumers are not sensitive to prices.
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Inelastic Demand
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In inelastic demand, the change in quantity demanded is ___ than the change in price.
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less
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The higher the prices, the lower the demand is.
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Elastic demand
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Rebok thought the had what type of demand for the "pump?"
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Inelastic
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In Elastic Demand, the % change in quantity demanded is ____ than the % change in price.
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greater
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products that have a high price and that appeal to status conscious customers.
Demand increases as price ____. Demand decreases as price ____. |
Prestige Products,
Increases Decreases |
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What was the first Mistake Reebok made?
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The pricing of the "Pump" was too high.
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When Retailers tried to cut the price of the "Pump" what happened?
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Reebok said they would cut off the supply, they ended getting charged with price fixing by the federal government.
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Measures the rate of response of quantity demanded of one good, due to a price change of another good.
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Cross Price elasticity
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Consumers purchase more of a good when the price of an alternative (similar) good increases
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substitute
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a price rise in one good causes the demand for both goods to fall
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Complements
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Measures the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good to the change in income of the people demanding the good.
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Income Elasticity
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As income increases quantity demanded decreases.
Ex: Ramen over Steak |
Inferior goods
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As income increases quantity demanded increases
ex: more expensive running shoes vacations eating steak over ramen |
Normal Goods
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What is the second Mistake Reebok made?
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Very High Cost:
Operating Cost (32.7%) compared with Indrustrial Average (27%) |
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In Mistake #2 for Reebok, What made operating costs so great?
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1) Reebok spent too much money on endorsement contracts and sporting event sponsorships
2) Holding Cost for inventory was too great |
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What does Reebok's Mistake number 3 relate to?
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The relate to Footlock, the key retailer.
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Marketers going to retail establishments to build a relationship with the retailer
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Account Managers
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Account Managers participate in ____ _____, which is also the developing of long term relationships and an atmospher of trust.
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Relationship Marketing
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Reebok hired people that lacked experience in the ____ _____
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Shoe Industry
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Footlocker wanted an ___ ___ from Reebok. (This was a marketing strategy)
Reebok said ____ |
Exclusive Shoe
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Reebok wasn't working with the key retailer because they were distributing shoes to whom?
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Discounters near footlocker
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Ways that a product or brand links to the culture
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means-end-chain
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What was Nike's problem?
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The cultural context changed but Nike did not.
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What shoe company took better advantage of cultural trends?
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Reebok
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Another way of talking about brand loyalty is in terms of _____.
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Involvement
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customers aren't sensitive to changes in price (Reebok thought they had brand loyalty but they did not)
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inelastic demand
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Major account management should be geared towards developing ____ _____.
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long-term relationships
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Adidas bough Reebok in 2006 for ____.
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38 Billion
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When merging two brands, cutbacks are made in marketing, workers, and cut out costs so there is more profit
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Cost Synergies
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A buying situaion in which business buyers make routine purchases that require minimal decision making. ex: copy paper, the secretary places the same exact order every week
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Straight Rebuy
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Categorizes a previously made purchase that involves some change and that requires limited decision making.
ex: instead of ordering all white paper, order colored paper. |
Modified Rebuy
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A new business to business purchase that is complex or risky and that requires extensive decision making.
Ex: if you want to buy a smartboard and have never bought one |
New Task Buy
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The business practice of buying a particular product form only one supplier.
Ex: buying all supplies from staples |
Single Sourcing
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The business practice of buying a particular product from several different suppliers
ex: buying supplies from staples, office max, office depot |
Multiple Sourcing
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A trading partnership in which two firms agree to buy from one another
ex: Gm-> Borge Warner motors |
Reciprocity
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a business practice in which a buyer firm attempts to identify suppliers who will produce products according to the buyer firm's specifications
Ex: create a product and try to find someone to buy it |
Reverse Marketing
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A type of trade in which goods are paid for with other items instead of with cash.
Ex: Milashian Government bought 25 locomotives and paid with palm oil |
Countertrade
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A marketing stategy that supports enviromental stewardship by creating an environmentally founded differential benefit in the minds of consumers. Ex:Talking about what you are going to do to save the environment
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Green Marketing
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Marketing activities in which firms seek to have their corporate identity linked to a good cause through advertising public service and publicity
Ex:Telling people that we are supporting cause that is good for other people |
Cause Marketing
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The tendency to prefer products or people of one's own culture.
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Ethnocentrism
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Specific rules dictating what is right, wrong, acceptable or unacceptable.
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Norms
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A norm handed down form the past that controls basic behaviors.
Ex: division of labor in a household dictate hour at which we eat |
Custom
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Customs with a strong moral overtone
Ex: cannibalism is wrong where we live: eating dogs is wrong in our culture |
Mores
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Norms regarding the conduct of everyday life
Ex: What utensils we have on the table, the way we do things |
Conventions
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Three types of Norms?
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Customs, Mores, and Conventions
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These costs Change
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Variable Cost
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These costs stay the same
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Fixed Cost
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What is the equations for contribution margin?
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Selling price- variable cost
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What is the breakeven equation?
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total fixed costs/ Contribution margin
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What is the equation for potential profit?
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Revenue-Variable cost-Fixed cost
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How do you find Revenue?
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Selling price x volume
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How doyou find variable cost?
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Variable cost per unit x volume
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The man was forced to quit coaching because he refused to wear nike, lived w/Nike facotr workers. Discovered Nike was full of sweatshops
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James keety
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Who is the ceo of nike?
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Mark Parker
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Who endorsed nike skateboard shoes in 2003
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Paul Rodriguez Jr.
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What are sneaker collectors called?
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"sneakerheads"
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