Marketing Analysis of Nokia Mobile

This acquisition and consolidated case study discusses the acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft. Throughout this case study, we will try to explore following key aspects in the aforesaid consolidation between Microsoft and Nokia, as per the scenario of 2010-11:

Nokia now facing hard time. The company which was dominating the market for years now do not any entity in the market. They mainly focused on middle class and lower class people which was the main problem. They should focus on higher class people who can afford better quality phone with better features and application. If they starting doing it again I am sure people will again attracts to Nokia phones and the company will start once again.

Another reason that I feel this negotiation could be successfully completed was due to the fact that Microsoft and Nokia’s priorities aligned well at the time. Both companies saw the other’s products and capabilities as being complementary to what they already offered, which gave executives from both companies further incentive to

Nokia’s aggressive strategy to dominate mobile communication cluster would be the main reason how Nokia could become a world leader in the sector among other reasons. Nokia’s passion for mobile communication industry was great enough to give up more than 40% of its revenue in is pre-owned communication industry to concentrate only in mobile communications. Nokia was also lucky enough to see the possibility of mobile communication early enough to predominate the industry and prevent any competition from

Throughout 2007 – 2015 these companies have lost and gained market share. For example, Nokia Corp was the market leader in Germany for the smartphone industry in years 2007 to

Nokia, a company which was founded in 1865, set up wood pulp mills to rubber, cable, forestry, electronics and power generation. Upon entering the telecommunications equipment market in the 1960s, it concentrated in the producing radio transmission equipment. It started making phones in the 1980s and in 1991 the first GSM call was made with a Nokia phone and it supplied these GSM networks to other countries in Europe. But In the early 1990s investments in all industries except telecommunication operations were being divested, which led to Nokia being the world leader in the mobile phones industry for nearly a decade, one of its most popular phone being, the Nokia 3310, termed as “indestructible” by comedy website 9gag.com. Nokia

Nokia was the world’s largest mobile phone maker for 14 years. The company was once acclaimed for its marketing strategy success for changing mobile phones from just a communication device to everyday fashion accessories. However, in today’s global smartphone market, Nokia has only 3% of the market share and is declining. The company’s decreasing sales was an obvious sign of vulnerability leading to the selloff of its mobile device business to Microsoft in 2013 (Surowiecki, 2013).

They created the first GSM telecommunication and make it commercial. It is namely as Nokia Protitype Phone and the first product was Nokia 1011. Eventhough they were still have many competitors like Erricson, Samsung, and Google at the time, Nokia still keep trying to do their best when their falling era. Because of their innovation in GSM Phone, Nokia can get more their market for telecommunication and spread their product to their market. In 1992, Nokia tried to do the agreement with Vodafone and successfully in improving the network roaming for its GSM as the dominant network standardization. In the end of 1990s and in the beginning of 2000s, Nokia is still in the inertia eventhough they have many innovation products on GSM but their competitor like Erricson also created the same mobile for the telecommunication so that they competed each other for controlling the

Nokia Networks industry is characterized by rapid technological development, and we see the following as the key strategies.

Nokia is the Finnish communications and the multinational corporation of the information technology that is headquartered in Espoo, Uusimaa, in

The article I have chosen reports that with the launch of a new range of smartphones, Nokia is also effectively changing its approach to marketing. The company is moving away from more traditional marketing like advertising in print media and shifting towards advertisements through social media and digital campaigns. This allows Nokia to place a greater emphasis on collaborating with its customers through its marketing communication channels. In doing so, Nokia hopes to be able to rival dominant market competitors by increasing its market share and tap onto the rapidly growing smartphone industry.

Nokia delivered 19.6 million smartphones that can handle tasks such corporate e-mail and playing movies, including the Lumia models that went on sale in November, the Espoo, Finland- based company

The Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, one of the “Big Three” mobile handset manufacturers in the 1990s, started to reach difficulty as it entered the new millennium. In 2001, Ericsson’s sales dropped by 52%, recording a $1.39 billion loss which preceded an announcement that would lay off 20% of their workforce. Ericsson found itself losing market share to “Big Three” rivals Nokia and Motorola and eventually even to Siemens. Analysts attributed this downfall to Ericsson’s stagnant phone designs, slow time to market and their inability

In this paper is amid to review the performance of Nokia in Chinese mobile phone market since 2002. A literature review about marketing research models such as 4 Ps, Porter’s 5 Forces, SWOT analyses is carried out by the author. After that, this paper explained the changes of market environment in last decade with competitor analyses. In addition, the author evaluates the market mix of Nokia. Opinions of how well Nokia did in building a strong brand is presented afterwards. Following the above review and analyses, some recommendations for future marketing strategy are listed at the end of this paper.

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