4. Company
Capabilities
Company firms focus on satisfying
customer needs that match their core
competencies.
Marketers can use analyses of their
external environment to categorize any
opportunity as attractive or
unattractive.
5. Competitors
It is important to understand a
company's competitors
This includes their strengths
Weaknesses
Reactions to marketing activities that
they undertake.
Competitors will try to appeal to
consumers by criticizing other similar
companies
6. Corporate
Partners and
Physical
Environment
Businesses collaborate with other
businesses, mostly known as partners who
supply or help sell a product made by
other companies
The partners help each other by providing
the necessary components needed to
advertise and sell a product
The partners work together to create a
single efficient manufacturing system
The physical environment includes land,
water, air, and living organisms
Products and services are influenced by
how they are used in the physical
environment
The physical environment has many
challenges that affect it negatively, and
this leads consumers to want companies
to do business without harming the
environment
7. Macroenvironment
The Macroenvironment includes
Culture
Demographics
Social Trends
Technological Advances
Economic Situation
Political/Legal Environment
Responding to the Environment
9. Social Trends
and
Technological
Advances
Social trends are shaping consumers
values around the world
People like sustainability, health and
wellness, and more efficient utilization
and distribution of food
Technological advances include having
artificial intelligence, robotics, the
internet of things, and privacy things
10. Economic
Situation and
Political/Legal
Environment
Consumers monitor the economic
situation because it can determine
whether a consumer spends money or
not
Factors such as inflation, foreign
currency fluctuations, interest rates all
play a factor on how a consumer is
going to spend their money
Organizations must follow the
legislation and laws placed for fair
competition, consumer protection, or
industry-specific regulation
Marketers follow these rules and
regulations by not false advertising, by
refraining from using any harmful or
hazardous material, and adhere to fair
and reasonable businesses practices
when they communicate to consumers
11. Responding to
the
Environment
Companies engage in marketing
strategies that attempt to respond to
multiple political, regulatory,
economic, technical, and social
developments and trends in the wider
environment
In a changing market environment, the
marketers that succeed are the ones
that respond quickly, accurately, and
sensitively to their consumers.
12. Conclusion
The Marketing Environment is crucial for a business to understand the
immediate environment it places itself in, and the macroenvironment, which
allows them to understand consumers and what there are in the market for
A business can only succeed by following what most consumers want by the
way they provide a product, and where they sell it
Understanding what consumers want and need to buy a product is what
marketing is all about
Consumers are constantly changing what they want to see from a company
and will influence a company to act in the best way possible