5. DEREGULATION
• Much of growth in many sectors in India is
due to government policies of deregulation
and liberalisation
• Many countries have deregulated industries
to create greater competition and growth
opportunities
• Air lines in India is expanding after rapid
deregulation
6. HEIGHTENED COMPETITION
•Intense competition among domestic
and foreign brands rises marketing costs
and shrinks profit margins
•Many brands have become mega
brands and extended into a wide variety
of related product categories,
presenting a significant competitive
threat
7. INDUSTRY
CONVERGENCE
•Industry boundaries are blurring as
companies recognize new opportunities at
the intersection of two or more industries
•The computing and consumer electronics
industries are converging and digital
technology fuels massive convergence
8. RETAIL TRANSFORMATION
• Retailing in South Asia is going a major
transformation
• Due to rapid penetration of organised
retailers in India the shopping behaviour of
customers is also undergoing discernible
changes
• The retail revolution has spread to a range of
product categories from provisions and daily
use items to consumer durable products
9. DISINTERMEDIATION
• The amazing success of early dot com
companies created disintermediation
• In response traditional companies engaged
in reintermediation and became brick and
click retailers adding online services to
offerings
10. CONSUMER BUYING POWER
•Consumer has substantially increased
buying power and can purchase from
home ,office or mobile phones
•Business buyers can run a reverse
auction in which sellers compete to
capture their business
11. CONSUMER INFORMATION
•Consumers can collect information in as
much breadth and depth as they want
about practically anything
•They can access encyclopedias ,dictionaries
,medical information ,movie ratings,
consumer reports
•Social networking sites bring together
consumers of common interest
12. CONSUMER PARTICIPATION
•Consumers have found an amplified
voice to influence peer and public
opinion
•Companies are inviting them to
participate in designing and even
marketing offerings to heighten their
sense of connection and ownership
13. CONSUMER
RESISTANCE
•Many consumers today feel there are
fewer real product differences, so they
show less loyalty and become more
price and quality sensitive in their search
for value
•Many consumers avoid the products
they feel which are overmarketed