INTRODUCTION
Marketing is essentially a matching process between the needs and expectations of customers, and the organization’s ability and capacity to satisfy them.
One of the main points of this process is the marketing planning.
The purpose of marketing planning and its principal focus are the identification and creation of competitive advantage. Marketing planning is the planned application of marketing resources to achieve marketing objectives.
In other words, it is the written document that describes your advertising and marketing efforts for the coming year; it includes a statement of the marketing situation, a discussion of target markets and company positioning and a description of the marketing mix you intend to use to
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Add to that a high rate of unemployment causes a drop in effective demand for goods, that demand requiring for the production of goods.
While these economic factors are largely outside the control of Tesco, they have an undeniable impact on the company business performance and its marketing decisions.
Tesco operates in a global world and is now located in several countries, and this international business is still growing, but it remains dependent on the UK market. This excessive concentration on a single market exposes them to risks and would be negatively affected by any slowdown in the UK food market (as the crisis of “mad cow” in the 1990s)
Finally, the economic crisis, which is still current, tends to reduce the purchasing power of consumers, who are much more reluctant and afraid to spend more than they can.
New technologies have had a great impact. For instance, online shopping has become a major factor in Tesco 's recent success.
Technology is the basis for the development of many products in the Tesco range. These new technologies have provided consumers than the company itself.
Consumer satisfaction is higher because services are more personalized and responsive to each and shopping becomes more enjoyable and seems less arduous. To obtain customer satisfaction, Tesco has put in place in its stores the following technologies:
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Tesco Plc is a Public Limited Company who securities and shares are included in the stock exchange and list of different countries. In UK, companies like Tesco Plc are registered under the companies Act 1980 and its shared are offered to public in regards of limited liability. In addition, Tesco is associated with retail sector that carries out a majority business of the company and contribute their share in country’s economy to a huge scale. Apart from the retail sector, Tesco Plc faced tough competition all over the world from companies like Wal-Mart, Asda, Sainsbury, and others. Although, Tesco is not in dominating position in the current retail market in the UK, but the company is one of the biggest retail companies working in the UK, North America, Asia, Europe and other. The company
Marketing is often thought of as advertising and selling, but marketing encompasses more than just selling a product or service and advertising it to entice customers to make a purchase. Perrault, Cannon, and McCarthy (2009) defined marketing as "the performance of activities that seek to accomplish an organization’s objectives by anticipating customer or client needs and directing a flow of need satisfying goods and services from producer to customer or client" (p. 6). However, Kotler and Keller (2009) stated one of the shortest definitions is "meeting needs profitably" (p. 5). The author's definition of marketing includes all of the activities a business
Technology is/and still playing a vital role in any business. The growth of online selling in the UK and the world has led to large increase in its online sales. The raising numbers of people, who own computers, smartphones and tablets; and having access to internet which has a high positive impact for their online sales. As there is an increase in demand of new technology, developments of new tablets, computers are rising in popularity and John Lewis sells a wide range of these. For John Lewis to keep up with the demands of their customers they had to move in-line with the recent development of new
Technological factors are important for Tesco because they have helped the business to grow immensely.
Technology refers in how Tesco adopt online shopping to attract customer, to purchase goods and services from the business. Another technology might be the introduction of
Tesco has about 310,000 employees (Tesco PLC, 2014) in the country, this has a significant effect on the entire countries economy and directly effecting the GDP of the United Kingdom; about £5billion was spent on wages in 2010 by Tesco. This money would have increased consumer spending in Tesco and many other shops, generating profits across the country enabling our economy to grow out of a recession (Worksmart.org, 2011).
There are several laws that affected Tesco due to the organization markets a wide-ranging of products and services. Like the agricultural goods the UK government is improving the shared agricultural policy. The government is revising the way direct subsidies will be allocated to farmers (Gov.uk, 2014, n. p.). Such measures can lead to lower subsidies, which affect the capability of farmers
Tesco Public Limited Company is a British multinational grocery business. It is a general stock retailer and the headquarter is located in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Tesco is the biggest retailer in British furthermore the third biggest retailer on the planet behind Wal-Mart (The biggest retailer of USA), and Carrefour (Second biggest retailer of France). With the fruitful of its long haul procedure for development, Tesco has 7,817 shops far and wide with 517,802 workers crosswise over 12 nations included UK itself and different nations which are Poland, Slovakia, China, Republic of Ireland, India, Hungary, United State, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Thailand, and Turkey and more than 80 million shopping trips for each week.
TESCO is top leading retailer in UK. It manages over a thousand supermarkets, hypermarkets, and convenience store in the United Kingdom, Ireland, central Europe, and Asia. TESCO started life in 1919 when Jack Cohen started surplus groceries from a stall in the East end of London. MR Cohen made profit of 1 from sales of 4 on his first day. TESCO brand first appear five years after in 1942 when he bought shipment of tea from a MR T. E Stockwell. From that time TESCO slowly improve in retail business and now they are take top position in UK retail business. Tesco aim is provide best products for their customer and make sure about customer requirements.
tesco can take advantage of its successful international expansion. tesco is in a position to share their know-how and also is able to apply technologies and know-how which will create a competitive edge over its rivals and also step its learning curve.
Tesco is a company which operates on a worldwide scale meaning there are many global political factors which have an impact on how the business functions, such as tax rates, legislation and economic stability Tesco needs to be able to monitor these factors in 12 countries across the world. (BBC, 2013) Also, multinational companies such as Tesco are often encouraged to create jobs for the domestic population in areas where there is financial instability, which in turn, increases demand for Tesco products and services.
Since acquiring number one ranking in 1996, Tesco has developed a successful multiformat strategy that has accelerated its advantage. Its UK sales are now 71% larger than Sainsbury’s. Also the Competition Commission’s report makes it very difficult for a competitor to challenge its scale and has effectively scuppered Wal-Mart’s chances of stealing UK leadership. Therefore, Tesco is in an enormously strong position in its domestic market.
The marketing plan habitually comprises time limits, budgets and allocations of staff and this can help the business identifying the definite marketing activities and specifications for the budget, setting and achieving marketing goals, bringing a marketing strategy in the company for life (Mcdonald et al, 2011)
Government drivers – In both its Home market and international markets, Tesco had to mitigate the governmental pressure, ranging from UK government’s department for environment, food and rural affairs to governments of East Asia. However governmental pressure has contributed to the evolution of Tesco’s business model. Even when its exit from Taiwan was based on asset swap model with its competitor Carrefour, it had favorable policies (expect Slovakia). Low trade barriers & compatible marketing regulations in the newly open markets allowed them to integrate the local community.
In May 2013, Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer and private sector employer of labour, announced annual sales for 2012–13 of £72 billion (~ $109bn ~ CSSbn),1 barely changed from the previous year. Profits were £3.4bn, down from £3.8 billion the year before. For Philip Clarke, Tesco’s CEO since 2011, this was his second set of disappointing annual results. Sales across Europe were flat, and the company had had to decide at the end of 2012 to exit Tesco’s business in the United States. The main source of encouragement seemed to be Tesco’s growing Asian business. Philip Clarke declared: ‘Building an international business, even when the global headwinds work