Marketing Concepts and Practice Assignment 3
Mahfam Khalilian
Marymount University
As the article mentioned Louise Vuitton (LV) is one of the most famous and recognizable brands in the world. Louis Vuitton opened up his first store in 1854 in Paris and sold handmade excellent value trunks and luggage (Kotler & Keller, 2012). However, the label is more famous for its LV monogram, which is presented on all the recognizable leather items, purses, shoes, watches, jewelries, sunglasses and accessories. Louis Vuitton is one of the highest ranked luxury brands in the world. Today Louis Vuitton “holds a brand value of $26 billion according to Forbes and is ranked the 17th most powerful brand according to Interbrand” (Kotler & Keller, 2012). However, the question is “How does an exclusive brand such as LV grow and stay fresh while retaining its cachet?” In order to answer to this question we need to understand the marketing strategies of Louis Vuitton that makes it an outstanding brand among top luxury brands.
Louis Vuitton is one of the high luxury brands. LV mostly targets the upper class high society population as customers who are a very price insensitive to the price of products. Customers of this segment typically emphasis on the appeal of the product and customize design. In addition, they are very concern about the quality of the product. Louis Vuitton has already established a unique brand image in the customers’ mindsets over the years.
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Firms have developed ways to influence consumer demand which effect supply, one such technique is demarketing or the process of reducing consumer demand for a product to a level that the firm can reasonably supply.
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Louis Vuitton is considered under the luxury goods industry. The luxury goods industry is a high profitable industry with low outside threat. There are only few large players in the industry and they server to the wealthiest people in the world. The luxury companies have high power to control the price so they have ability to grow sustainably.
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, a luxury goods provider is looking to expand their brand dominance in Asia. In order to expand successfully LVMH must evaluate challenges that may arise and get in the way of their successful expansion. In the Asian market, LVMH must deal with political and cultural uncertainties, the threat of counterfeit products, and the increased cost of products in Asia compared to France.
Another challenge for Louis Vuitton is the market and brand dilution as it has already entered and successfully fit in the Japanese market. The products have already maintained the “acceptable” group, and the company has become to feel difficult to increase the revenue. The figure provided in the case showed that nearly half of the Japanese have Louis Vuitton-monogrammed items by the time of 2007. This seemed to make LV prevalent but not luxury any more. To maintain its brand image, it is
On the other hand, the large market potential has drawn a host of luxury-goods companies to enter the China market, which makes the competition fiercer and fiercer. And it is troublesome for LV that there are plenty of fake goods imitating LV’s style prevailing in China, which are actually not likely to reduce LV’s high-end consumers, but would exert negative influences on consumers’ impression and awareness of LV.
Marketing is selling the product goods and service by knowing the needs and wants of the customer and consumer (Kotler P, 2009). Marketing Management expertise has capable of knowing the change of an organisation to manage both the internal and external challenges of environment (Cant M C, et al, 2009). A company needs to classify the customer needs and identifies the demand of the supplying
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The traditional view of marketing is that the firm makes something and then sells it. A) Will not work in economies where people face abundant choice. B) New
It is one of the world’s leading fashion houses it sells its products through lease departments in high-end department stores, the e-commerce section of its website, and through standalone boutiques. For seven simultaneous years (2006–2013), Louis Vuitton was named the world's most valuable luxury brand. The brand is taken forward by Michael Burke (Chairman and CEO). It has a legendary history and heritage. It started from making flat trunks for the kings, queens and the elite class and now it comprises of various leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories, jewelry and watches. Still in this time it inculcates its founding values and quality, which add to the customer experience found only in Louis Vuitton boutiques.
LVMH’s brand portfolio is a catalogue of the finest things money can buy. Arnault said, “A Star brand is timeless, modern, fast growing and highly profitable.”[iii] LVMH has positioned its brands strongly in the luxury segment offering more than 50 different brands under their five core competencies. LVMH has been successful through all of their various brands in their portfolio giving them each their independence and creativity. “LVMH is well known for leaving much operational and marketing freedom to the various brands it owns.”[iv] “LVMH has done an excellent job of brand positioning, says Ben Cavender, senior analyst at China Market Research Group. It has succeeded in securing the particularly enviable position of gaining a following among the top percentage of China’s wealthy. As the financial crisis stretches on, LVMH customers in China still have money to spend.[v] “LVMH’s brand imaging, which relies heavily on pushing its European heritage, is so successful that it has benefited other brands by proxy, says Paul French, one of the founders of Access Asia, a group dedicated to tracking regional consumer and marketing trends. “Everyone hangs on the coattails of Louis Vuitton’s brand imaging in China.”[vi]
Louis Vuitonn is one of the world’s most highly recognised and highly expensive fashion brands. Dealing from handbags, luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewellery, accessories, sunglasses and books. They have a wide range of merchandise and the logo is known throughout the world its brand value is at 28.1 billion and it is ranked number 14 on the world’s most valuable brand. Louis Vuitton or the full name Louis Vuitton Malletier is a French fashion brand it was founded in 1854 on the Rue Neuve des Capucines in Paris, France. The brands logo is Louis Vuitton’s initials LV, and it is the monogram that appears on most or near all of the products from handbags to jewellery. It sells its products online, boutiques and high end department stores. The Louis Vuitton Brand and the famous LV monogram are among the world's most
Louis Vuitton “was established in France in 1854 by Louis Vuitton and became known as one of the oldest French luxury fashion houses” in the industry (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p. 14-2). The firm’s products range from high quality “leather goods, handbags, trunks, shoes, watches, jewelry, and accessories”; manufactured by highly skilled and expensive laborers in France (Forbes.com, 2016). In addition, Louis Vuitton market their products “in 50 countries with more than 460 shops and generates more than €7-billion ($9.5-billion U.S.) in annual sales” (Wendlandt, 2013).