1.0 Executive Summary
2.0 Company/Industry Analysis
2.1 Company Mission
MicroSkin’s mission is to be the leading producer of antimicrobial, durable phone cases for health conscious consumers and medical professionals. We seek to satisfy an everyday need of living healthy and germ-free, as well as protecting your phone from outside elements and accidents. MicroSkin will also aim to expand the product line by the end of the year to include tablet cases.
2.2 Company’s Strategic Goals
Over the next year, MicroSkin seeks to achieve the following financial and nonfinancial goals:
Financial Goals:
Achieve a marketing cost as percent of revenue under 20%
Nonfinancial Goals:
After the first year, introduce a line of antimicrobial tablet cases for leading brands such as Apple and Android.
Become the trusted partner and phone case supplier of hospitals across our initial market.
Enter new geographic markets that surround large medical conferences.
Develop successful online and social media campaigns.
Have brick and mortar stores actively seek out MicroSkin, offering to sell our products by the end of the year.
2.3 Company’s Core Competency
MicroSkin will draw upon its core competencies to achieve a competitive advantage with pricing and product features.
MicroSkin will employ a market-penetration pricing strategy because the consumer is highly sensitive to price and a lower price will stimulate market growth (Kotler & Keller, n.d.). With smartphone users spending an
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