Chapter Three

Analyzing the Marketing

Environment

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 Analyzing the Marketing
Environment
Topic Outline

• The Company’s Microenvironment

• The Company’s Macroenvironemnt
• 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 target customers

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 The 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
The Company
• Top management
• Finance
• R&D
• Purchasing
• Operations
• Accounting

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 The Company’s
Microenvironment
Suppliers
• Provide the resources to produce goods
and services
• Treated as partners to provide customer
value

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 The Company’s
Microenvironment
Marketing Intermediaries

• Help the company to promote, sell

and distribute its products to final
buyers

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 The Company’s
Microenvironment
Types of Marketing Intermediaries

Physical
Resellers distribution
firms

Marketing
services Financial
agencies intermediaries

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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
– Financial publics
– Media publics
– Government publics
– Citizen-action publics
– Local publics
– General public
– Internal publics
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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
– Baby boomers include people born
between 1946 and 1964
– Most affluent Americans

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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
• Generation X includes people born
between 1965 and 1976
– High parental divorce rates
– Cautious economic outlook
– Less materialistic
– Family comes first
– Lag behind on retirement savings

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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
• Millennials (gen Y or echo boomers)
include those born between 1977 and
2000
– Comfortable with technology
– Includes:
• Tweens (ages 8–12)
• Teens (13–19)
• Young adults (20’s)

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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment

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
More people are:
• Divorcing or separating
• Choosing not to marry
• Choosing to marrying later
• Marrying without intending to have children
• Increased number of working women
• Stay-at-home dads

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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
• Growth in United States West and
South and decline in Midwest
and Northeast
• Moving from rural to metropolitan
areas
• Changes in where people work
– Telecommuting
– Home office
– Divorcing or separating
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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment

• Changes in the workforce

– More educated
– More white collar

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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
Increased Diversity
Markets are becoming more diverse
– International
– National
• Includes:
– 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
• Industrial economies are richer markets
• Subsistence economies consume most
of their own agriculture and industrial
output

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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 Consumer Spending Patterns

• Ernst Engel—Engel’s Law

• As income rises:
– 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
• Trends
– Shortages of raw materials
– Increased pollution
– Increase government intervention
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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Technological Environment

• Most dramatic force in changing the

marketplace
• Creates new products and
opportunities
• Safety of new product always a
concern

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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
• Legislation regulating business
– Increased legislation
– Changing government agency enforcement
• Increased emphasis on ethics
– Socially responsible behavior
– 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 are persistent and

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 and include people’s
views of themselves, others,
organizations, society, nature, and the
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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
• People’s view of themselves
– Yankelovich Monitor’s consumer
segments:
• Do-It-Yourselfers—recent movers
• Adventurers
• People’s view of others
– More “cocooning”

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 The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
• People’s view of organizations
• People’s view of society
– 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
• People’s view of nature
– Some feel ruled by it
– Some feel in harmony with it
– Some seek to master it
• People’s view of the universe
– Renewed interest in spirituality

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 Responding to the Marketing
Environment
Views on Responding

Uncontrollable Proactive Reactive

• React and • Aggressive • Watching
adapt to actions to and reacting
forces in the affect forces to forces in
in the the
environment environment environment

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