The Impact of Green Marketing Strategies on Business Organisations

assuage any guilt they might feel about consuming mass quantities of unnecessary, disposable goods by dutifully tossing these items into their recycling bins and hauling them out to the curb each week”. (Westervelt, Amy. "Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment?" Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 25 Apr. 2012. Web. 5 Dec. 2015). So why is the reason that companies are starting to “Go Green”? Its clearly obvious that the change in America from an industrial country to a environmental country has taught big business how to market environmentalism in mass quantities of their product. The strategy of the consumption-environment mindset are increasing rapidly. If this trend of buying without thinking does not slow down, with problems like not shifting priority from consumption to being environmentally aware, things will certainly worsen. On the topic of green marketing, people often see that green marketing refers to the advertising of objects or products with environmental characteristics to them (Like the Nestle bottle, for example). Terms like “Environmentally Friendly”, “Refillable”, and “Recyclable”, are some of the things people associate with green marketing. In reality

The Marketing process is made up of simple concepts that involve lots of research on the part of the marketer. The process begins with understanding the consumer, without knowing what consumers need or want, it would be extremely hard for firms to both develop and sell a product. Knowing that consumers want more green products due to growing environmental concerns is a very important detail. Needs and wants are what fuel consumer purchases and marketers must perform research in order to best serve their customers. Through this research, marketers are led to the next step of the process and can now develop a customer driven marketing strategy. Here, the firm must decide how it will differentiate its product from others on the market.

Management is faced with many decisions when considering the environmental factors that affect marketing. This includes global economic interdependence, demographics, cultural differences, social responsibility, ethics, and technology. It is imperative for a company to understand how these factors can greatly affect the outcome of a company’s marketing plan.

-Initiate and implement the ‘Go Green’ project to promote the sustainability features of our products to customers

As more and more people are aware of environmental problems which our human being are facing, most people nowadays do shopping with some degree of morality in mind, taking social or environmental issues into consideration as they select from a range of product or services. Therefore, the concept of

As we have seen an increase in awareness around sustainability and climate change, with the help of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth documentary in 2006, we see organizations moving towards mitigating the effects of climate change in various ways (Al Gore, n.d). As this corporate social responsibility has become more prevalent, organizations are now pushing their green agenda by publishing sustainability reports, doing mass marketing and implementing sustainable business practices to portray the image that they too are working towards protecting the earth’s natural environment all the while focusing on their underlying goal of selling their products and

3. (TCO 3) The_____ approach of going green is a good example of the firm’s social responsibility in addition to demonstrating the highest degree of environmental sensitivity. (Points : 5)

Sustainability has achieved a more ecological tone in the past few decades in terms of a business model, but it originally derives from the concept that a business is successful due to the interconnected areas of economics, culture and ecology. Sustainability is now becoming a somewhat fad and thus it is understandable that it could be misconstrued by some as a form of “greenwashing”. Greenwashing is the idea that a company markets their “green” or environmentally friendly changes in policy and values, despite no actual concrete changes in these areas, for example some argue that Fiji Water greenwasher in terms of their marketing as an environmentally friendly water company despite their little effort to actually go carbon-neutral. Many companies are seeing the

Frog’s Leap Winery is located in Napa, California has recently made steps to become more socially responsible and self-sustainable. This case analysis will study the effectiveness of the company’s newly implemented strategies and provides constructive feedback for the company. The winery industry is highly populated and Frog’s Leap Winery is only one of the thousands that consumers have to select from. The current market is very health conscious and these “green” consumers focus primarily on “Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability. The company has expanded it’s vineyards and increased it’s net sales with the past 10 years by emphasizing to the importance of the “triple bottom line,” which the

Companies today are heavily influenced by the demands of customers and stakeholders. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to the social and environmental responsibility policies and practices developed by an organization to increase its positive influence and reduce its negative activity towards society (Parks, 2008). The business approach and corporate philosophy of an organization is easily altered due to economic pressures, technological improvement and stakeholder needs and demands. "Going green" or being eco-friendly is one such demand. Environmental and sustainability concerns originate most often from governments, consumer activists, and the general public (Schlosser, 2008). Thus, organizations must implement sustainability into daily practices. In addition, sustainability alters the nature of competition and drives companies to think differently about products, processes, and technologies (Parks, 2008).

Because the company's differentiation strategy is contingent on whether the “green” wine consumer continues to purchase the firm's products on the premises retail base, it is vital that these consumers understand the importance of the sustainability practices the company employs.

As a result, there has been a global need to avert this situation. Consumers have responded to this by being environmentally conscious in their purchasing decisions and buying environmentally-friendly products (Laroche, Bergeron & Barbaro-Forleo, 2001). They have increased their consumption of green products, which have in turn increased the focus on green marketing. Green marketing is the development of a marketing mix which caters to a specific target market who desire products/services which are environmentally friendly (Priebe, 2010).

Today, society is cluttered with marketing activities, and these activities surround us constantly. Among the issues of marketing, a vital part that influences human roles and activities is “environment”, more specifically the “green environment”. The green environment is now a leading concern for marketers. Moreover, on a global level, there is an increased awareness of global warming and adverse climatic conditions and as a result there is a spur in interest toward environmental protection and sustainable development. This study attempts to find out if Australian young consumers’ pro-environmental concerns, awareness and knowledge about environment related issues impact their buying behavior to prefer and buy eco-friendly products and pay a premium price for such products.

In this report, we analyze the data presented in the “Green Ox” case, with a view to determining a marketing strategy for Palmer Jackson, Inc. The time is fall of 2003; the data presented is with reference to this, if not explicitly stated otherwise. All market research data has been provided by Marketing Studies, Inc. Other mentioned data has been taken from the case. Data from any other sources is explicitly identified.

In today’s day and age, everyone is concerned about the environment. Our society is increasingly encouraged to “go green,” to do our part in making the world a cleaner, more eco-friendly place. Green marketing is one major strategy being used to promote such efforts, but is it effective? There is some debate about this concept, including the history of green marketing, the problems with green marketing so far, the effectiveness of marketing schemes like Sunchips and Toyota, and the strategies that could be used to increase the ability of green marketing. While protecting our planet is a noble concept, its execution seems to be a little vague. Of all the aspects concerning green marketing, one thing is clear: our planet still has a long