Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing
Ideas and resources for teaching marketing
KFC has introduced chicken flavored nail polish into their Hong Kong market. This new product (in 2016) is a significant extension to their brand. According to their publicity:
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This marketing exercise is designed to look at the most valuable brands in the world – as highlighted by the BrandZ top 100 for 2015.
Additional resources: Here Are the Top 100 Brands in the World
As you probably know, brand equity is becoming increasingly important factor to successful brands. Brand equity … See the full activity...
This video is taken from a documentary on advertising called Art and Copy. The documentary discusses some of the classic advertising campaigns over time and has interviews with the creative and production staff, along with some key clients.
In this small part of the documentary, the initial advertising campaign to launch the Tommy Hilfiger brand is … See the full activity...
In February 2012 the Pepsi Next product was launched into the US market. This case study provides students with an interesting insight into PepsiCo’s new product process and some of the challenging decisions that they faced along the way.
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Pepsi Next was launched by PepsiCo into the US market in February 2012, and … See the full activity...
This activity highlights the top level results from an attitudes/image market research study, comparing four different fast food chains. Your task here is to review the brand’s performance and see what the survey results have revealed.
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| Results in %’s | Brand A | Brand B | Brand C | Brand D |
| Lots of locations | 5 | 15 | 50 | 30 |
| Good menu range |
The following statement was released by Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. Although it was not described as a mission statement, it has been effectively framed as one. Your task here is to review it and determine what it indicates about Apple and their future direction.
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The statement made by Tim Cook of Apple:
We believe that we’re on … See the full activity...
The promotion of a brand is just ONE aspect of building brand equity. Achieving strong brand equity requires many components, but it can create significant value in the marketplace. The following exercise contains a number of checklist points for you to discuss regarding the building of, and the return on, brand equity.
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Factors that may contribute to (or … See the full activity...
The following is a broad summary of the successful McHappy Day promotion used by McDonald’s in Australia, which is a good example of a large company using its brand and customer base to raise funds for charity. This activity requires you to determine whether this is really example of responsible marketing or just another day on their marketing campaign calendar?… See the full activity...
This activity outlines two situations in regards to the potential impact on the firm’s positioning due to their distribution channel selection. Your task in this activity is to answer the assessment questions at the end regarding each situation.
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Increasing Sales of Jeans
The manufacturer of a well-known brand of jeans has determined that its selective distribution strategy is limiting … See the full activity...
Read the following case study on a hypothetical product manager for frozen pizza. They are faced with a strategic challenge for which way to growth the business. If you were this product manager, what would you do?
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Larry is a product manager for frozen pizza for a large national firm. He is in his late 20’s and is … See the full activity...
The following is an excerpt from a manager’s meeting for firm that manufactures pretzels (a snack food that is considered to be a healthy alternative to chips/crisps – quite popular in the USA, but not so much in other countries). In the discussion they highlight the four broad brand strategy choices. Assuming that you were part of this management team, … See the full activity...
Firms are usually faced with four broad branding choices. Obviously, having good brand equity presents the opportunity to leverage this strength in the marketplace for greater profitability. In this activity, your task is to simply classify each example to the brand strategy choice (refer list) that the firm has pursued.
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