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Marketing Planning for Toyota Camry

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1.0 Introduction: Toyota is Japan car manufacturer and it has become top seller in the world. Toyota brand is very popular in public’s eyes and even their customers may put their money down for one of Toyota’s car although sometime they have not confirmed yet with the price. Toyota’s cars are reliable and believed have higher quality (Please refer to appendix 1). One of Toyota popular product is Camry. Camry is Toyota second global model after Corolla. In 1980, Toyota launched Toyota Celica Camry and they targeted the Japanese home market. Toward the end of its model lifecycle, Toyota also introduced Toyota Camry sports version (Please refer to appendix 2). During 1982, Toyota started to introduce Camry with independent model line. …show more content…

(Please refer to appendix 3) This policy means that the foreign investors could not own 100 percent of the company, thus they seek for other Asean country. Toyota has set up the manufacture factory in Thailand which responsible for assembly of Toyota vehicles sell in Asia countries. The action is considered as a way to deal with Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA). AFTA is to ensure the products which are manufactured among Asean countries, can freely import and export to these countries without any tax impose. However, the government has deferred the AFTA for the automotive industry from 2005 to 2010. The overdue of the AFTA means that the government has to pay the penalty fees according to the contract agreement. When AFTA 2010 is started, all vehicles which import from Asean countries will have no tax impose anymore, which include Toyota. They may monitor and wait for the AFTA starts on then just do the purchase from Toyota.
2.2 Demographic environment: National demographic factors include age structure of population, educational standard, religions, gender, and others. These factors are influencing the market strategy of marketers to market their products. In Malaysia, the population of the country is only 27.17 million. (Please refer to statistic in appendix 5) This means that Malaysia does not consist of huge market opportunities. However, we

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