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SMITA
KOCHUMMEN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
OF COMMERCE,ST.CYRIL’S
COLLEGE,ADOOR
EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL
FACTORS
 External elements are affecting factors
outside and under no control of the company.
Considering the outside environment allows
businessmen to take suitable adjustments to
their marketing plan to make it more
adaptable to the external environment.
 Elements of External Environment:
 Micro factors
 Macro Factors
MICRO FACTORS
Micro environment refers to those individuals, groups and
agencies with which the organizations come into direct
and frequent contact in the course of its functioning. These
have a direct influence on the performance of the
Company.
 Customers
 Competitors
 Suppliers
 Marketing Intermediaries
 Financiers
 The Public
MACRO FACTORS
 Political/legal environment
 Socio cultural environment
 Economic and financial environment
 Technological environment
 Natural or physical environment
 Demographic environment
 International/Global environment
CUSTOMERS
 One of the most fundamental factors we learn
in economics is that satisfying customer
demand is a must for every business survival.
 Besides to be the leading company
entrepreneurs should not only identify but also
tailor to their customer’s interest.
COMPETITORS
 The competitive environment consists of certain
basic things which every firm has to take note of.
 No company, howsoever large it may be, enjoys
monopoly.
 In the original business world a company
encounters various forms of competition.
 The most common competition which a
company’s product now faces is from
differentiated products of other companies.
SUPPLIERS
 Suppliers are either individuals or business
houses.
 They combined together provide resources
that are needed by the company and
suppliers who offer best mix of quality,
delivery reliability, credit, warranties and
obviously low cost must be chosen.
MARKETING INTERMEDIARIES
 Market intermediaries are either individuals or business
houses who come to the aid of the company in
promoting, selling and distributing the goods to the
ultimate consumers.
 They are Middlemen (wholesalers, retailers and
agents), distributing agencies, market service agencies
and financial institutions.
 Most of the companies find, it is too difficult to reach the
consumers.
 In such a cases the agents and distribution firms help
to reach the product to the consumer.
FINANCIERS
 Shareholders, financial institutions, debenture
holders and banks provide finance to a
Company.
 Financial capacity, policies and attitudes of
financiers etc. are important factors of the
Company.
 If the investors are not interested in risk
taking, the Company cannot raise funds
through shares.
PUBLIC
 Literally word ‘public’ refers to people in
general. According to Philip Kotler, “A public is
any group that has an actual or potential
interest in or impact on a company’s ability to
achieve its objectives.” The environmentalists,
consumer protection groups, media persons
and local people are some of the well-known
examples of public.
THANK YOU

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Micro environment

  • 3. EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS  External elements are affecting factors outside and under no control of the company. Considering the outside environment allows businessmen to take suitable adjustments to their marketing plan to make it more adaptable to the external environment.  Elements of External Environment:  Micro factors  Macro Factors
  • 4. MICRO FACTORS Micro environment refers to those individuals, groups and agencies with which the organizations come into direct and frequent contact in the course of its functioning. These have a direct influence on the performance of the Company.  Customers  Competitors  Suppliers  Marketing Intermediaries  Financiers  The Public
  • 5. MACRO FACTORS  Political/legal environment  Socio cultural environment  Economic and financial environment  Technological environment  Natural or physical environment  Demographic environment  International/Global environment
  • 6. CUSTOMERS  One of the most fundamental factors we learn in economics is that satisfying customer demand is a must for every business survival.  Besides to be the leading company entrepreneurs should not only identify but also tailor to their customer’s interest.
  • 7. COMPETITORS  The competitive environment consists of certain basic things which every firm has to take note of.  No company, howsoever large it may be, enjoys monopoly.  In the original business world a company encounters various forms of competition.  The most common competition which a company’s product now faces is from differentiated products of other companies.
  • 8. SUPPLIERS  Suppliers are either individuals or business houses.  They combined together provide resources that are needed by the company and suppliers who offer best mix of quality, delivery reliability, credit, warranties and obviously low cost must be chosen.
  • 9. MARKETING INTERMEDIARIES  Market intermediaries are either individuals or business houses who come to the aid of the company in promoting, selling and distributing the goods to the ultimate consumers.  They are Middlemen (wholesalers, retailers and agents), distributing agencies, market service agencies and financial institutions.  Most of the companies find, it is too difficult to reach the consumers.  In such a cases the agents and distribution firms help to reach the product to the consumer.
  • 10. FINANCIERS  Shareholders, financial institutions, debenture holders and banks provide finance to a Company.  Financial capacity, policies and attitudes of financiers etc. are important factors of the Company.  If the investors are not interested in risk taking, the Company cannot raise funds through shares.
  • 11. PUBLIC  Literally word ‘public’ refers to people in general. According to Philip Kotler, “A public is any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on a company’s ability to achieve its objectives.” The environmentalists, consumer protection groups, media persons and local people are some of the well-known examples of public.