Executive Summary
Laura Ashley, Inc. is the “Quintessential English” lifestyle brand with over 63 years of heritage. The company was founded in 1953 by the husband and wife team of Bernard and Laura Ashley with the printing of small runs of headscarves, napkins, table mats and tea towels. Today the company strives to be the ultimate destination brand for women’s wear, and children’s wear and home furnishings. In recent years sales have been sluggish and the brand is not as relevant and popular as once was during their 70’s and 80’s “hay days”. As a result, there’s a need to adapt to change in new technology and the purchasing habits of the millennials generation of consumers. This report will provide an Integrated Marketing Communication Campaign Plan for Laura Ashley, Inc. that will create an opportunity to increase sales and capture new customers among the target audience. Our target market is female consumers between the ages 23-29. To better build our business we have developed a marketing campaign to attract the attention and interest of that age group and appeal to our existing customers through various communication channels.
Introduction The ever changing market place requires constant interaction and communication with consumers. In doing so, it will be important for Laura Ashley to release an impactful and relevant campaign that speaks directly to the target audience. This campaign will consist of a full integration of marketing. It will have one message
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Discuss what is meant by the term “customer orientation”. Illustrate with examples how companies demonstrate their customer orientation by reference to at least two elements of the marketing mix.
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This document represents The i-Fusions Consultant’s Report on BRITA. The company’s current business situation is analysed and various options for action considered. The report aims to identify a clear marketing strategy for Brita in order to address the current issues facing the company the associated falling sales.
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Zara adopts the minimal advertising strategy spending around 0.3% comparing to industry average of 3-4% (Pearson). Retailer uses this to invest on state-of-the-art stores in prime locations. This is quite a strategic move for Zara as it could be clearly seen that they positioned themselves close to luxury brands such as Chanel. ‘It shares Champs Elysees real estate with Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co, Guerlain and Cartier’ (Doran, 2014). By having stores near luxury brands, customers could easily links Zara to these prestige brands, hence, increasing its brand equity. These stores also attract new visitors like tourists through high footfall locations. Moreover, the store concept is carefully designed with luxury cues such as faceless white mannequins, minimal mirrors, and a monochrome colour palette. Secondly, Zara uses fashion campaigns to communicate its positioning. It was reported that Zara hired Freja Beha Erichsen, the same face appearing in Chanel campaigns and asked Patrick Demarchelier to make SS14 campaign (Cabon, 2014). Communication through traditional tools like H&M may decrease the exclusivity and luxury of Zara’s brand. Hence, selective quality brand communication creates higher brand image. From the analysis above, Zara depends on its fashionable products as its main attraction. The changing stream of products makes consumers to visit stores 17 times annually (Choi, 2014). Therefore, the retailer
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