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Managin g Product s and Brands Marketing Management Chapter 11 Presented by Prince Cielo
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ManagingProductsandBrands

Marketing Management

Chapter 11

Presented by

Prince Cielo

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Learning Objectives

• Explain the product life cycle concept

• Identify ways that marketing executives manage a product’s life cycle

• Recognize the importance of branding and alternative branding strategies

• Describe the role of packaging, labeling and warranties in the marketing of a product.

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What is Product Life

Cycle?

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Product Life Cycle the stages of a new product goes through in the marketplace.

Stages of Product Life Cycle

Figure 10-1A

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• Introduction Stage1 when a product is first introduced to its intended target market.

sales grow slowly, and profit is minimal.

• Trial the initial purchase of a product by a consumer.

• Primary Demand the desire for the product class rather than for a specific brand.

• Selective Demand the preference for a specific brand.

Skimming Strategy Penetration Pricing

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• Growth Stage2 when the sales of the product is increasing at their fastest rate.

• Repeat Purchases people who tried the product, satisfied and bought again.

Reasons:

• New people trying or using the product• Growing proportion of repeat purchasers

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• Maturity Stage3 at this stage, theirs a slowing of total industry sales or product class revenue.

Reasons:

• New competition in market or saturation• Customers have tried the product but not satisfied and abandon on buying the product.

Or there is a strong growth in sales.

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•Decline Stage4 it is the final stage when the sales drop.

Reasons:• Environmental Changes• Emerging of New Technology

Two Strategies• Deletion

product deletion, or dropping the product from the company’s product line.

• Harvesting when a company retains the product but reduce marketing costs.

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Dimensions of the Product Life Cycle

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Some Dimensions of the Product Life Cycle

Length of the Product Life Cycle

Shape of the Product Life Cycle

Product Level: Class and Form

The Life Cycle and Consumers

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Length of the Product Life Cycle there is no exact time that a product takes to move through its life cycle. consumer products have shorter life cycles than business products.

Reasons:

• Lack of mass communication• Technological Change

Ex. New product innovation replaces existing products.

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Shape of the Product Life Cycle

the product life-cycle sales curve. there are several different life-cycle curves, each type

suggesting different marketing strategies.

4 Different shapes of life-cycle sales curves for 4 Different types of products:

• High- Learning Products

• Low- Learning Products

• Fashion Products• Fad Products

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Shape of the Product Life Cycle• High- Learning Products

– is one for which significant education of the customer is required and there is an extended introductory period.

• Low- Learning Products– sales begin immediately because little learning is required by the

customer, and the benefits of purchase are readily understood.– can be easily imitated by competitors.

• Fashion Products– is a style of the times.– fashion products are introduced, decline, and then seem to

return.

• Fad Products– this products are typically novelties and have a short life cycle.– a fad experiences rapid sales on introduction and then an

equally rapid decline.

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The Product Level: Class and Form

• Product Class– refers to the entire product category or industry,

such as a prerecorded music.

• Product Form– pertains to variations within the product class.

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– The life cycle of a product depends on sales to consumers.

• Diffusion of Innovation– a product diffuses or spreads, through the population.

Five Categories of Product Adopters

√ Innovators√ Early Adopters√ Early Majority√ Late Majority√ Laggards

The Life Cycle and Consumers

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Reasons for resisting a product in introduction stage:

• Usage Barriers– the product is not compatible with existing habits.

• Value Barriers– the product provides no incentive to change.

• Risk Barriers– physical, economic, or social.

• Psychological Barriers– cultural differences or image.

The Life Cycle and Consumers

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Managing the Product Life Cycle

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• Product Manager– sometimes called brand manager.– manages the marketing efforts for a close-knit family of products

or brands.– responsible for managing existing products through the stages of

the life cycle.

Role of the Product Manager

Two measurements used by product manager in monitoring sales,

market share, and profit trends.

• Category Development Index (CDI)• Brand Development Index (BDI)

Three ways to manage a product through its life cycle.

• Modifying the Product• Modifying the Market• Repositioning the product

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Modifying the Product

Product Modification involves altering product’s characteristics, such as its quality,

performance, or appearance, to try to increase the product’s sales.

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Modifying the Market

Finding New Customers Increasing a Product’s Use Creating a New Use Situation

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Product Repositioning is changing the place a product occupies in a consumer’s mind relative to competitive

products.– Reacting to a Competitor’s Position– Reaching a New Market Position– Catching a Rising Tend– Changing the Value Offered

Trading Up involves adding value to the product through additional features or higher quality

materials. Trading Down

involves reducing the number of features, quality, or price. Downsizing

reducing the content of packages without changing package size and maintaining or increasing the package price.

Repositioning the Product

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Branding and Brand

Management

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• Branding– a basic decision in marketing products in which an organization uses a name,

phrase, design, symbols, or combination of these to identify its products and distinguished them from those of competitors.

• Brand Name– is any word , device (design, sound, shape, or color), or combination of these used

to distinguish a seller’s goods or services.

• Trade Name– is a commercial, legal name under which a company does business.

• Trademark– identifies that a firm has legally registered its brand name or trade name so the

firm has its exclusive use, thereby preventing others from using it. Product Counterfeiting

involves low-cost copies of popular brands not manufactured by the original producer, has been a growing problem.

Branding and Brand Management

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• Brand Personality– a set of human characteristics associated with a brand name.

• Brand Equity– the added value a given brand name gives to a product beyond the

functional benefits provided.

2 distinct advantages First, brand equity provides a competitive advantage. Second, consumers are often willing to pay a higher price for a product with brand

equity.

Brand Personality and Brand Equity

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Creating Brand Equity

• First, develop positive brand awareness and an association of the brand in consumers’ minds with a product class or need to give the brand an identity.

• Second, a marketer must establish a brand’s meaning in the minds of consumers.

• Third, is to elicit the proper consumer responses to a brand’s identity and meaning.

• Fourth, is to create a consumer-brand resonance evident in an intense, active loyalty relationship between consumers and the brand.

It is carefully crafted and nurtured by marketing programs that forge strong, favorable, and unique consumer associations and experiences with a brand.

4 Steps in Sequential Building Process

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Successful, established brand names with Intangible Assets Coca-Cola Microsoft Nokia Toyota Samsung

• Brand Licensing– is a contractual agreement whereby one company (licensor) allows its

brand/s or trademark/s to be used with products or services offered by another company (licensee) for a royalty or fee.

Valuing Brand Equity

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This are the five criteria mentioned most often when selecting a good brand name:

Picking a Good Brand Name

1• The name should suggest the

product benefits.

2•The name should be memorable, distinctive, and positive.

3•The name should fit the company or product image.

4•The name should have no legal or regulatory restrictions.

5•The name should be simple and should be emotional

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Branding Strategies

• Umbrella or Multiproduct Branding Strategy• Individual Branding and Multibranding Strategy

• Private Branding Strategy

• Mixed Branding Strategy

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• Umbrella or Multiproduct Branding Strategy

• Umbrella Branding– a company uses one name for all its producers in a product class

• Corporate Branding– when a company’s trade name is used.

Line Extensions– the practice of using a current brand name to enter a new market segment in

its product class.

Subbranding– which combines a corporate or family brand with a new brand.

Brand Extension– the practice of using a current brand name to enter a completely different

product class. Co-Branding- pairing of two brand names of two manufacturers on a single product.

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• Multibranding– which involves giving each product a distant name.– is a useful strategy when each brand is intended for a different

market segment.

Fighting Brands– a new product brands as defensive moves to counteract

competition.– their purpose is to confront competitor brands.

• Individual Branding and Multibranding Strategy

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• Private Branding– private labeling or reseller branding– when it manufactures products but sells them to a wholesaler or retailer

with the intention that they will sell these products under the wholesaler’s or retailer’s brand name.

• Private Branding Strategy

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• Mixed Branding– where a firm markets products under its own name/s and that of a

reseller because the segment attracted to the reseller is different from its own market.

• Mixed Branding Strategy

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Packaging and Labeling

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Packaging and Labeling

• Packaging– refers to any container in which it is offered for sale and on which label

information is conveyed.

• Label– is an integral part of the package and typically identifies the product or

brand, who made it, where and when it was made, how it is used, and package contents and ingredients.

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Creating Customer Value and Competitive AdvantageThrough Packaging and Labeling

3 components of packaging and labeling

Communication Benefits

Functional Benefits

Perceptual Benefits

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Packaging and Labeling Challenges and Responses

Four Challenges

Connecting with Customers

Environmental Concerns

Health, Safety and Security Issues

Cost Reduction• Shelf Life

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Warranty– is a statement indicating the liability of the manufacturer for product

deficiencies. Express Warranties

are written statements of liabilities. Limited-coverage Warranties

specifically states the bounds of coverage and, more important, areas of noncoverage.

Implied Warranties which assign responsibility for product deficiencies to the

manufacturer.

Product Warranty

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End of Presentation


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