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Marketing

Management
Environmental Factors
Session 1 (contd.)

28th September 2019


Marketing Environment
All the actors and forces influencing
the company’s ability to transact business effectively
with it’s target market.
Microenvironment
Forces close to the company that
affects its ability to serve customers
Marketing
Environment
includes
Macroenvironment
Larger societal forces that affect the
whole economy
Micro - Environmental Factors

Company

Publics Competitors
Forces
ForcesAffecting
Affectingaa
Company’s
Company’sAbility
Abilityto
to
Serve
ServeCustomers
Customers

Suppliers Market
Marketing
Intermediaries
The Company’s Microenvironment
• Company’s Internal Environment - functional areas
such as top management, finance, and
manufacturing, etc. capabilities; resources

• Competitors - those who serve the same target


market with similar products and services.

• Customers – the five types of markets that purchase


a company’s goods and services.
Company

Publics Competitors

Forces Affecting a
Forces Affecting
Company’s Ability toa
Company’s Ability to
Serve Customers
Serve Customers

Suppliers Market

Marketing
Intermediaries
The Company’s Microenvironment
• Marketing Intermediaries - help the company to
promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers.

• Suppliers - provide the resources needed to produce


goods and services.

• Publics - any group that perceives itself having an


interest in a company’s ability to achieve its objectives.
Company

Publics Competitors

Forces Affecting a
Forces Affecting
Company’s Ability toa
Company’s Ability to
Serve Customers
Serve Customers

Suppliers Market

Marketing
Intermediaries
Macro-Environmental Forces

Demographic

Technological Economic
Forces
Forcesthat
that Shape
Shape
Opportunities
Opportunities
and
andPose
PoseThreats
Threats
to
toaaCompany
Company
Political-Legal Socio-Cultural

Natural
Lifestyle Influences

Multi-tasking

Time-starved

Money-constrained
Personal Factors

Age
Self- Life cycle
concept stage

Lifestyle Occupation

Values Wealth
Personality
Natural Environment
Shortage of
raw materials

Increased
energy costs

Anti-pollution
pressures

Governmental
protections
The Macro Environment
Political/Legal variables
• Anti trust laws
• Taxation laws
• Labor laws
• Deregulation philosophies
• etc., etc……….
Political Environment

Increased
Legislation Changing
Enforcement

Key Trends in the


Political Environment

Greater Concern for


Ethics
Growth of interest
groups
Technological Environment
Pace of change

Opportunities
for innovation

Varying R&D
budgets

Increased regulation
of change
Marketing Environment
Demographic

Company
Cultural Economic
Publics
Suppliers

Company
Competitors Customers
Political Natural
Intermediaries

Technological
That’s all for
today!!!

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