Marketing Channel Strategy The marketing channel(s) that will be used to distribute the product and the reason why these channels were selected. In order to have the widest possible consumer reach, the household cleaning products will take advantage of the media, national retailers, catalogs and the Internet as distribution channels. Objectives of each channel selected. The major objective of the media will be to achieve brand equity, a key success factor for any consumer

Marketing Communication Strategy Case 1 Open: The first mention of Stella Artois in this article was a biography of the brand, dating from its humble roots in the late 1970s and its rise to fame as a popular international beer from Europe in the 1990s,sold as some form of luxury Beer Company that was available to mainstream audiences. A poor marketing campaign using the phrase "Reassuringly Expensive" was seen as marketed poorly

Marketing Pricing Strategy There are different approaches to pricing strategy. The pricing strategy should fit within the context of the overall marketing strategy. Among the different options for pricing strategy are revenue maximization, profit maximization, survival, skim pricing, and penetration pricing (NetMBA, 2010). There are also approaches such as cost-plus that take into account the company's cost structure but in a competitive marketplace it is more normal that the pricing strategy reflects

Marketing Pricing Strategies The pricing of a product or service is an important aspect of the marketing mix. The pricing of a product will need to be set at a level that will support the firms' long-term profitability; even were there are short-term market penetration strategies or loss leading prices, the ultimate aim of the firm is for the generation of revenues and creation of profit. The pricing strategy chosen by a

Marketing Branding strategies are key to a company's success. Levi-Strauss must take care not to sully its reputation by jumping into a new line of business attire. The proposal to create a new line of Levi-Strauss office clothes is flawed. The following consulting report outlines the reasons why the company must change its approach towards developing a new line. Branding strategies are key to a company's success and why the Levi-Strauss name

Conversely the partnerships of open source databases vendors including MySQL and others have created a strong alliance that has forced Microsoft's SQL Server database team to create customized connectors for these open source applications. Open source, first the subject of an encirclement strategy, is now implementing its own on Microsoft's operating system business. The Linux operating system is now pre-installed on many of the world's leading hardware manufacturers' laptops,