The document summarizes the marketing environment and its key components. It discusses that the marketing environment consists of the microenvironment and macroenvironment. The microenvironment includes factors close to the company like suppliers, customers and competitors. The macroenvironment includes larger societal forces like demographic, economic, technological, political and cultural factors. It also discusses how companies can respond to changes in the marketing environment in a proactive, reactive or passive manner by developing strategies, reacting to changes or doing nothing.