The International Marketing Activities of Burberry and Diageo

This expansion demonstrates how the luxury industry is now run by massive corporations whose focus is only on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and most importantly, PROFITS! With growth and expansion, has come a decrease in quality and rarity. The luxury garments produced are mostly not handmade but are even outsourced to large factories in places such as China and Turkey. Also, to meet quarterly turnover projections, “designers churn(ed) out increasingly trendy collections of clothes, handbags, and shoes.” (Thomas, Pg. 246) With hundreds of new stores around the globe the surplus of designer labeled merchandise is immense hence, the proliferation of outlet malls.

While reading through Eileen Fisher, Repositioning the Brand, it became apparent early on that the company’s main issue was relevancy—an issue that many companies face in today’s market. Keeping the company current in order to attract new customers while not abandoning already loyal customers in the process is a huge challenge that EILEEN FISHER struggled with. For purposes of differentiating between the company and the person, “EILEEN FISHER” shall refer to the company for the duration of this analysis summary.

In conclusion Burberry focus’s is not just on its brand name but on the quality and extensive features

From this course, I learned plenty of international marketing principles and knew that international environments are quite different from countries to countries. Each market you enter is different, and what works in one country or region will not work in another. As technology creates leaps in communication and transportation, the world continues to feel smaller and smaller. It is not that hard for companies and consumers to conduct business in almost any country around the world thanks to advances in international trade, and no doubt, the world is tending to be more international, diverse and muti-cultural in multiple ways. In most factors that influenced international marketing, culture has a great impact on it. A marketer always has to study about the local culture in-depth before offering a product to them, and I think that well- understanding of a country’s culture is really essential for international marketing.

The retail fashion sector is an enormous industry in the UK and there are many branded fashion retailers having

This marketing plan examines the case of TOPSHOP as a UK’s fast-fashion retailer. The following marketing plan is structured according the SOSTAC framework. Topshop is operating under the parental Arcadia Group. Over the latest years, Topshop has been one of the most popular UK’s fast-fashion retailers. The company is a multinational Omni-channel fashion retailer. Topshop is well-known for its high-quality products in medium low prices. The company’s portfolio owns a wide range of products and services. According to the Situational Analysis, the UK’s macro environment has changed over the latest years. The UK’s fast-fashion industry is becoming more and more cluttered with competitors from both UK

The uniqueness of the demographics of BCBG is that the boutiques are only in large cities, which gives the best business because of the large number of people in the areas. As for psychographics of the company, the goal is to provide attire that can be worn straight from work to a night on the town. The target market, being young professional women, can appreciate the designer price zone, because even though they are professional at work, they also enjoy the nightlife and make enough money to maintain their splurges and bills. For this they need versatile, high fashion garments at prices that won't spoil their income. They have a great mix that they market and manage very well.

Burberry need to scan their market segments in order to gain the most competitive advantage. Pestle analysis looks at the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors that affect an organisation providing a ‘comprehensive list of influences on the possible success or failure of strategies’ (Johnson, Whittington, Scholes, 2011). However, the three main changes that focused on in this essay are Economic, Social and Environmental factors. The economy within China is currently very stable; being a part of the 4 fastest growing economies in the world (BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India, China), it has made large strides in recent years in the business and industrial sector. , the country

Moreover for the profit for the year, Burberry had a drop of 8.55% to 287.7m from 314.6m. The trend of the firm is decreasing in related to the three financial years. The reason of the decline can be due to the increase of the geopolitical concern in the Middle East and Russia and Uncertainty in Eurozone. These factors have any huge negative impact on the performance of the luxury sector.

Burberry, founded in 1856, is a leading international luxury brand. Burberry designs, manufactures and licenses apparel and accessories for distribution through its own stores and network of prestige retailers worldwide. In early 1998, the new management team at Burberry set out its strategy to reposition and revitalise the brand, which resulted in significantly improved results and strengthened the base to build the business. With continuous growth since last five years, Burberry has faced new challenges of brand sustainability and positioning in a volatile industry (fashion) where customer behaviour is unpredictable. Thus, it requires a strategy that lays foundations for long-term growth and addresses the issues

Burberry Group plc (Burberry) is into the global luxury sector. It works in the designing, marketing and sourcing of outerwear, women’s wear, men’s wear, non-apparel and children’s wear categories. It distributes through a diversified network of retail, wholesale and licensing channels worldwide. The company operates its business in three ways by region, by product and by channel. Burberry distributes its products in Europe, Spain, Americas and Asia Pacific through retail and wholesale channels and with selective license arrangements. In addition, it licenses third parties to manufacture and distribute products using the Burberry trademarks. It categorizes

Gucci is a multinational fashion brand based in Italy. The brand specialises in leather goods, clothes, and fashion accessories for both and women aged between 24 and 30 years. Gucci was founded in 1921 in Florence, Italy by Guccio Gucci (Gucci Official Site United States, 2016). The main purpose of this paper is to provide an in depth brand analysis of Gucci. The paper will investigate and evaluate Gucci’s vales and identity, and will discuss how successfully these are reflected by Gucci’s business model, supply chain management, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. In addition to that, the paper will critically evaluate Gucci’s brand identity (identity) in relation to its brand image (external).

brand’s decision to assign Mr. Bailey as both the CEO and Creative Officer of the

Her transformation of Burberry had become a text book example of how to transform a business that other luxury brands are sometimes said to be “doing a Burberry” (Financial Times 2004). In 2005 Angela Ahrendts, replaced Bravo as Chief Executive who made changes to Burberry product line by making checks more stable and by focusing more on higher-margin products like handbags and perfumes (Friedman 2011).

The history of Burberry started in 1856 by dress maker Thomas Burberry. His store had developed a reputation for selling a quality range of outerwear By 1870 and the success of Burberry was accelerated with the invention of innovative fabric ‘gabardine’ in 1880