This document outlines key aspects of analyzing a company's marketing environment. It discusses both the microenvironment, consisting of actors close to the company like suppliers and competitors, and the macroenvironment, consisting of broader forces like demographic, economic, technological, political and cultural factors. The company's microenvironment includes internal groups as well as suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics. The macroenvironment analyzes factors such as demographic changes, economic conditions, the natural environment, technological advances, political and regulatory forces, and cultural values that influence customer behavior. Marketers must understand these environmental factors to effectively respond in a proactive, reactive, or adaptive manner.

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Chapter Three
Analyzing the Marketing
Environment

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Analyzing the Marketing Environment
• The Company’s Microenvironment
• The Company’s Macroenvironment
• Responding to the Marketing Environment
Topic Outline

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The Marketing Environment
The marketing environment includes the
actors and forces outside marketing that
affect marketing management’s ability to
build and maintain successful relationships
with customers

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The Marketing Environment
Microenvironment consists of the actors
close to the company that affect its ability
to serve its customers, the company,
suppliers, marketing intermediaries,
customer markets, competitors, and
publics

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The Company’s Microenvironment
Actors in the Microenvironment

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The Company’s Microenvironment
• Top management
• Finance
• R&D
• Purchasing
• Operations
• Accounting
The Company

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The Company’s Microenvironment
• Provide the resources to produce goods
and services
• Treated as partners to provide customer
value
Suppliers

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The Company’s Microenvironment
Help the company to promote, sell and
distribute its products to final buyers
Marketing Intermediaries

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The Company’s Microenvironment
Resellers
Physical
distribution
firms
Marketing
services
agencies
Financial
intermediaries
Types of Marketing Intermediaries

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The Company’s Microenvironment
Firms must gain strategic advantage by
positioning their offerings against
competitors’ offerings
Competitors

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The Company’s Microenvironment
Publics
Any group that has an actual or potential interest in
or impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its
objectives
– Financial publics
– Media publics
– Government publics
– Citizen-action publics
– Local publics
– General public
– Internal publics

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The Company’s Macro-environment

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The Company’s Macro-environment
Demography is the study of human populations
in terms of size, density, location, age, gender,
race, occupation, and other statistics
Demographic Environment

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Demographic Environment
• Growth in the rural population
• A changing family system
• The changing role of women
• Increasing diversity

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Economic environment consists of factors
that affect consumer purchasing power and
spending patterns
• Industrial economies are richer markets
• Subsistence economies consume most of
their own agriculture and industrial output
Economic Environment

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Natural environment involves the natural
resources that are needed as inputs by
marketers or that are affected by marketing
activities
• Trends
– Shortages of raw materials
– Increased pollution
– Increase government intervention
– Environmentally sustainable strategies
Natural Environment

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Technological Environment
• Most dramatic force in changing the
marketplace
• Creates new products and
opportunities
• Safety of new product always a
concern

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Political environment consists of laws,
government agencies, and pressure groups
that influence or limit various organizations
and individuals in a given society
Political Environment

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
• Legislation regulating business
– Increased legislation
– Changing government agency enforcement
– New forms of nontariff barriers in trade
• Increased emphasis on ethics
– Socially responsible behavior
– Cause-related marketing
Political Environment

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Cultural environment consists of
institutions and other forces that affect a
society’s basic values, perceptions, and
behaviors
Cultural Environment

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Core beliefs and values are persistent and are
passed on from parents to children and are
reinforced by schools, religious institutions,
businesses, and government
Secondary beliefs and values are more open to
change and include people’s views of
themselves, others, organization, society,
nature, and the universe
Cultural Environment
Persistence of Cultural Values

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
• People’s view of organizations
• People’s view of society
– Patriots defend it
– Reformers want to change it
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values

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The Company’s
Macroenvironment
Cultural Environment
Shifts in Secondary Cultural Values
• People’s view of nature
– Some feel ruled by it
– Some feel in harmony with it
– Some seek to master it
• People’s view of the universe
– Renewed interest in spirituality

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Responding to the Marketing
Environment
Uncontrollable
• React and
adapt to
forces in the
environment
Proactive
• Aggressive
actions to
affect forces
in the
environment
Reactive
• Watching
and reacting
to forces in
the
environment
Views on Responding