This document provides an overview of international marketing. It discusses reasons why companies go international, including market saturation, foreign competition, and emerging new markets. It also outlines the stages of international marketing expansion from domestic to global. Additionally, it presents the framework of international marketing involving political, economic, socio-cultural, technological environments. It defines a multinational enterprise (MNE) as a firm that owns assets in more than one country, with at least 25% of its operations outside its home base. Finally, it notes characteristics of MNEs such as economic power and large foreign sales, assets and profits.