Independent Strategies in Industrial Marketing

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Describes the industrial marketing, B2B, strategies like competitive aggression, competitive pacification, publics, political/ legal like lobbying, implicit cooperation etc.

Independent Strategies
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Understanding Independent Strategies
?Independent efforts of an industrial

firm using its own resources or strengths
?Depends on an organisation’s

strengths and initiatives

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Competitive Aggression
?Comparative advertising
?Captain Cook made a reference to

Tata Salt by showing a look-alike package not be limited category products
?eg:Lotus

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?Can

be successful medical grounds
?Horlicks’

tirade on Complan for 23 1/20/13

Competitive Pacification
?Industry Promotions
?Franklin Templeton – mutual fund

industry awareness

?Zicom Security systems – security

systems awareness

?Price Umbrellas
?US Telecom companies

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Publics
?Environmental control:
?P&G: dedicated to reducing waste and

hazardous chemicals

?Toyota: dedicated to minimising

environmental pollution recently in India

?Toyota Hybrid car Prius launched

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Political/ Legal
?Lobbying:
?Reliance Communications: Could switch

to GSM operations after heavy lobbying with Central Govt. operations set up thanks to heavy lobbying

?Reliance Industries Limited : oil drilling

?Pepsi: Offered Food Processing

technology to Indian government in exchange for easy entry into Indian market 1/20/13

Resource Supplies
?Coping with Irregular Demand:
?Soft drink companies regularly increase

production in the hot summer months in India

?De-Marketing:
?Google recently threatened to pull out of

China after its servers in China were hacked into

?If the demand for its products is too

inadequate in a certain geographical area in relation to the cost of 1/20/13 marketing,

Implicit Cooperation
?Price Leadership example:
?Apple: Its products set the tone for the

market

?iPod: defining price point (maximum that

you can pay for quality)
?Prices and Sales unaffected by ‘cheap

Chinese’ onslaught

?Technology leadership example:
?Intel: Always stays a step ahead ?Tic-toc approach: change microprocessor

architecture every 2 years

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