3. • Areas inside a company.
• Affects the marketing department’s planning strategies.
• All departments must “think consumer” and work together to
provide superior customer value and satisfaction.
Company’s Internal Environment
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5. SUPPLIERS
• Provide resources needed to produce goods
and services.
• Important link in the “value delivery system.”
• Most marketers treat suppliers like partners.
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MARKETING INTERMEDIARIES
Help the company to promote, sell, and
distribute its goods to final buyers
• Resellers
• Physical distribution firms
• Marketing services agencies
• Financial intermediaries
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8. CUSTOMERS
Five types of markets that purchase a
company’s goods and services.
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9. COMPETITORS
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• Those who serve a target market with products and
services that are viewed by consumers as being reasonable
substitutes
• Company must gain strategic advantage against these
organizations
10. PUBLICS
Group that has an interest in or impact on an
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