Brand Management
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Brand Management explores the strategic processes involved in building, maintaining, and enhancing brand equity in todays competitive marketplace. The course covers key concepts such as brand positioning, brand identity, and brand loyalty, while examining the psychological and emotional factors that influence consumer perception. Students will learn how to develop effective branding strategies, manage brand portfolios, and measure brand performance through real-world case studies and practical exercises. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to create, sustain, and grow successful brands in various industries.
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Marketing Management A Strategic Decision Making Approach 8th Edition by John Mullins
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Chapter 1: The Marketing Management Process
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Q1) A product has greater place utility for a potential customer when it can be purchased with minimum risk and shopping time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A society cannot reap the full benefits of specialization until it develops the means to facilitate:
A)production of essential goods such as food for domestic consumption.
B)protection of local industries from external players.
C)the trade and exchange of surpluses among its members.
D)production of all goods that are needed for domestic consumption.
Answer: C
Q3) Ultimate customers buy goods and services for personal use or _____.
A)for the use of others in their immediate household
B)as inputs to production of other goods
C)for resale to other customers
D)for use in the day-to-day operations of organizations
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Marketing Implications of Corporate and Business Strategies
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Q1) Market-oriented firms are characterized by a consistent focus only at the managerial level on customers' needs and competitive circumstances.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In terms of the BCG growth-share matrix,the market leader in a high-growth industry is termed a:
A)cash cow.
B)star.
C)dog.
D)question mark.
Answer: B
Q3) How a business unit competes within its industry is the critical focus of business-level strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Understanding Market Opportunities
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Q1) In the emerging economies of Asia and Latin America,the pace of economic development in recent years has led to a rapid increase in the number of consumers deemed by demographers to be middle class.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Rivalry among present competitors is greater if the investment intensity is low.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following statements is true in the context of the technological environment?
A)Technology has little bearing upon the operation of businesses.
B)The production of crop is not affected by technological developments.
C)Technological innovations are the result of changes in computing systems only.
D)Technology has changed how goods and services as well as ideas are exchangeD.
Answer: D
Q4) Create an opportunity/threat matrix for a pharmaceutical firm.
Answer: 11ea526e_5505_e038_b75e_cdd451ed62c9_TB5096_00
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Chapter 4: Understanding Consumer Buying Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following is a cost attribute that consumers use to evaluate alternative products?
A)Credit terms
B)Trade-in allowance
C)Construction
D)Delivery time
Q2) How does a product's price affect a consumer's decision making for a high-involvement and low-involvement product?
Q3) Highly brand-loyal customers resist cents-off coupons,special promotions,or in-store displays on account of their strong brand preference.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Selectivity and organization are factors that guide consumers' perceptual processes and help explain why different consumers perceive product information differently.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the difference between a culture and a subculture?
Q6) Discuss the several ways in which a consumer can evaluate alternatives.
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Chapter 5: Understanding Organizational Markets and Buying Behavior
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Q1) The demand for industrial goods and services is derived from the demand for consumer goods and services.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Due to the lack of experience of the buying center in case of ________,the buying center tends to view the supplier's reputation as a critical factor,and generally choose a well-known and respected supplier to reduce the risk of making a poor decision.
A)dealing with an ultimate consumer
B)new-task buying
C)straight rebuy
D)buying a common service
Q3) In the context of industrial goods,lumber and iron ore are examples of _____ .
A)operating supplies
B)raw materials
C)business services
D)accessory equipment
Q4) Discuss the demand characteristics and market demographics of the typical organizational market compared to the typical consumer market.
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Chapter 6: Measuring Market Opportunities: Forecasting and
Market
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Q1) _____ refer to individuals who adopt a new product because they are forced to do so for either economic or social reasons.
A)Late majority
B)Innovators
C)Early adopters
D)Early majority
Q2) What are some critical questions that managers setting up competitive intelligence systems should ask?
Q3) Customer lifetime value refers to the margins that a customer generates over a lifetime less the cost of serving the customer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Salespeople can be asked how much they are likely to sell when completing a survey of salesforce opinion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Calculating customer lifetime value does not require historical data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Targeting Attractive Market Segments
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Q1) The strategy of treating the people of developing countries as a single market segment has been successfully implemented by many companies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Segmentation by lifestyle segments markets on the basis of who the consumers are in a demographic sense.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Macro trends are generally more favorable for companies like Coca-Cola in emerging markets with rapidly growing middle classes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Firms aiming a single product and marketing program at the mass market are always successful in their marketing endeavors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the three important steps in the market segmentation process.
Q6) What are the basic target market selection strategies?
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Chapter 8: Differentiation and Brand Positioning
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Q1) Which of the following is true of physical positioning?
A)It is based primarily on market data rather than technical datA.
B)Physical positioning is most suited for services.
C)It helps define the structure of competition.
D)Customer perceptions are best measured in physical positioning.
Q2) Using price as one dimension of a positioning grid is typically very useful.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Positioning ultimately occurs in customers' minds.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If shifts in the market environment cause customers to reduce the importance they attach to a current determinant attribute,marketers may have difficulty repositioning a brand with an intensely perceived position on that attribute.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Readily available data is used typically for perceptual positioning.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the concept of brand positioning.
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Chapter 9: Business Strategies: a Foundation for Marketing Program Decisions
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Q1) The business strategy most likely to have been successful when cordless telephones were first introduced and began to grow as a market was that of the:
A)differentiated defender.
B)low-cost defender.
C)prospector.
D)reactor.
Q2) All not-for-profit service organizations are concerned with producing and marketing a service as an adjunct to a physical product rather than marketing a service as their primary offering.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A prospector strategy is particularly well suited to stable and static environments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which types of executives would you expect to have the greatest power in prospector and low-cost defender organizations? Why?
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Chapter 10: Product Decisions
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Q1) Prices tend to remain stable if the rate of decline is slow during the decline stage of a product.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Harper Inc.is a multinational consumer goods company that markets multiple brands.The company's brands include Sunshine tea,Goldie cookies,Arch fragrance products,and so on.Which of the following branding strategies is practiced by Harper Inc.?
A)Family branding
B)Individual branding
C)Brand extension
D)Collective branding
Q3) Differentiating on quality can occur on any of the eight dimensions of quality for goods.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A principal goal of using the stage-gate process is to improve the speed with which a firm brings new products to market.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Pricing Decisions
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Q1) Laboratory or test-market experiments provide insights into the price-demand relationship for a product and also reflect the likely reactions of competitors to different prices or changes in price over time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In freight absorption pricing,the seller does not pick up any freight charges.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The value-in-use assessment process begins with the selection of a reference product,usually the product the customer is currently using or a major competitor's product.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Under a going-rate pricing approach,firms set prices by adding a desired markup on retail to the unit cost.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is price lining? Explain with the help of an example.
Q6) List the steps involved in the price setting process.
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Chapter 12: Distribution Channel Decisions
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Q1) What are the types of agent middlemen? Briefly explain each.
Q2) The theory of transaction cost analysis (TCA)argues that when substantial transaction specific assets are involved:
A)the cost of using independent channel members is lower than the cost of managing a company salesforce.
B)the cost of using independent channel members is higher than the cost of managing a company salesforce.
C)cost is not a consideration.
D)cost should be evaluated for each individual transaction.
Q3) A _____ entry strategy involves setting up a production facility in a foreign country.
A)licensing
B)sole ownership investment
C)countertrade
D)franchising
Q4) Mention the objectives to be accomplished by the distribution channels designed by managers.
Q5) What are the advantages and disadvantages of an intensive distribution strategy?
Q6) Identify and define the basic types of contractual VMSs.
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Chapter 13: Integrated Promotion Decisions
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Q1) Firms selling complex,high-tech products such as computers and pharmaceuticals are significantly more likely to rely solely on external salespeople.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ is a technology that provides a way for consumers to receive audio via the Internet.
A)Portal management
B)Podcasting
C)Blogging
D)Banner advertising
Q3) Television is not effective to reach the emerging middle class in the developing world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The principal tools from which a marketer can choose in developing an IMC plan are advertising,personal selling,sales promotion,and public relations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss out-of-home,exhibition,and supplementary media.
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Chapter 14: Marketing Strategies for a Digitally Networked World
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Q1) With which of the following technologies can syndicated content can be fed to users having preferences for such content?
A)Really Simple Syndication
B)Data portability
C)Mash-up
D)Bullet Board System
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a threat to technology?
A)Lack of effort from a firm to digitize music recordings
B)Lack of funds required to convert a text book into a downloadable format
C)Absence of web access in a village where a firm launches a social networking website
D)Imitation of a question bank released by a publisher on the internet
Q3) Which of the following stages in the consumer experience process requires that information flow from customer to seller?
A)Transaction
B)Product delivery
C)Customer insight
D)Product return
Q4) Explain the six-stage consumer experience process.
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Chapter 15: Strategies for New and Growing Markets
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Q1) Which of the following is the best example of a head-to-head positioning against competitive offerings or potential offerings?
A)Developing a second brand or product line with more appealing features
B)Providing more attention to internal quality control processes
C)Using reminder advertising for existing products
D)Investing more in smaller and slower-growing segments in an industry
Q2) Pioneers cannot quickly add line extensions or modifications to their initial product.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Followers typically enter a market after the decline phase of life cycle,and they start with low market shares relative to the established pioneers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Skimming or early withdrawal strategy may be used when early adopters are willing to pay a high price and demand is price inelastic.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Strategies for Mature and Declining Markets
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Q1) Transition periods are commonly accompanied by a shakeout during which weaker businesses fail,withdraw from the industry,or are acquired by other firms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Defender strategies work best in industries:
A)that may have opportunities for continued growth.
B)where the basic technology is not very complex.
C)where heavy R&D investments need to be made.
D)where there is no clear well-defined competitive strategy.
Q3) In a fragmented and heterogeneous market where some segments are less well developed than others,a market expansion strategy may generate substantial additional volume growth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the requirements for measures of satisfaction to be useful analytical tools?
Q5) Describe the major gaps in service quality.
Q6) What are the methods of maintaining a low-cost position?
Q7) Mention the benefits of maintaining customer retention and loyalty.
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Chapter 17: Organizing and Planning for Effective Implementation
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Q1) A company following a differentiated defender strategy is most likely to have:
A)moderate SBU autonomy.
B)very few incentive programs.
C)high SBU autonomy.
D)high synergy in areas central to differentiation.
Q2) People with expertise in purchasing,manufacturing,order delivery,and billing are most important to new product development.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When using a prospector strategy,a SBU will perform best on volume and share-growth dimensions when:
A)percentage of sales spent on marketing is low.
B)structure has low levels decentralization.
C)structure has low levels of formalization.
D)managers from R&D and engineering have little influence.
Q4) Prospector business units are likely to perform better on the critical dimensions of new product success when organizational decision making is relatively centralized.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Measuring and Delivering Marketing Performance
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Q1) A product sales analysis is helpful when combined with account size and sales territory data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is an example of key variables concerned with external forces?
A)Firm's advertising activities to change attitudes of customers
B)In-store merchandising activities designed to improve product availability
C)Specialization of labor to minimize costs
D)Changes in long-term demand
Q3) A new candy called Twirl was launched by a leading food manufacturer,Silver Ring Corporation.The candy was promoted with the help of a wide range of marketing activities.This was followed by a comparison of the relative costs and outcomes of each marketing activity.Which of the following audits would have most likely conducted the study of the cost-effectiveness of the company's marketing activities?
A)Marketing environment audit
B)Organization audit
C)Product manager audit
D)Marketing productivity audit
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