Chapter Nineteen
The Global Marketplace
The Global Marketplace
Topic Outline
• Global Marketing Today
• Looking at the Global Marketing Environment
• Deciding Whether to Go Global
• Deciding Which Markets to Enter
• Deciding How to Enter the Market
• Deciding on the Global Marketing Program
• Deciding on the Global Marketing
Organization
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Global Marketing Today
A global firm
• Operates in more than one country
• Gains marketing, production, R&D, and
financial advantages not available to purely
domestic competitors
• The global firm sees the world as one
market
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Global Marketing Today
Global firms ask a number of basic questions:
• What market position should we try to
establish in our own country, in our
economic region, and globally?
• Who will our global competitors be, and
what are their strategies and resources?
• Where should we produce or source our
product?
• What strategic alliances should we form with
other firms around the world?
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Looking at the Global
Marketing Environment
The International Trade System
Restrictions on trade between nations
include:
• Tariffs
• Quotas
• Exchange controls
• Nontariff trade barriers
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The International Trade System
Tariffs are taxes on certain imported
products designed to raise revenue or to
protect domestic firms
Quotas are limits on the amount of foreign
imports a country will accept in certain
product categories to conserve on foreign
exchange and protect domestic industry
and employment
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The International Trade System
Exchange controls are a limit on the amount of
foreign exchange and the exchange rate against
other currencies
Nontariff trade barriers are biases against bids or
restrictive product standards that go against
American product features
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The International Trade System
The World Trade Organization and GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT):
• A 61-year-old treaty
• Designed to promote world trade
• Reduces tariffs and other international trade
barriers
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The International Trade System
The World Trade Organization and GATT
World Trade Organization
• Enforces GATT rules
• Mediates disputes
• Imposes trade sanctions
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Environment
The International Trade System
Regional Free Trade Zones
• Economic communities are free trade zones
• European Union (EU)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC)
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Looking at the Global
Marketing Environment
Economic Environment
Economic factors reflect a country’s
attractiveness as a market:
• Industrial structure
• Income distribution
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Marketing Environment
Economic Environment
Industrial Structure
• Subsistence economies
• Raw material exporting economies
• Industrializing economies
• Industrial economies
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Marketing Environment
Economic Environment
Income Distribution
• Low-income households
• Middle-income households
• High-income households
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Marketing Environment
Political-Legal Environment
• Country’s attitude toward international
buying
• Government bureaucracy
• Political stability
• Monetary regulations
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Marketing Environment
Political-Legal Environment
Countertrade is non-cash payment
• Barter is the exchange of goods or
services
• Compensation or buyback is the sale of a
plant or equipment and the payment in
resulting products
• Counterpurchase is when the seller
receives payment and agrees to spend
some of the money in the other country
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Marketing Environment
Cultural Environment
Impact of Culture on Marketing Strategy
• Business norms
• Cultural preferences, traditions, behaviors
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Environment
Cultural Environment
Impact of Marketing Strategy on Cultures
The need to adapt to local cultural values and
traditions rather than imposing their own
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Deciding Whether to Go Global
Factors to consider
• Can the company understand the consumers
• Can it offer competitively attractive products
• Will it be able to adapt to local culture
• Can they deal with foreign nationals
• Do the company’s managers have the experience
• Has management considered regulation and
political environment of other countries
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Deciding Which Markets to Enter
• Define international marketing objectives
and policies
• Foreign sales volume
• How many countries to market to
• Types of countries to market to based on:
– Geography
– Income and population
– Political climate
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Deciding Which Markets to Enter
Rank potential global markets based on:
• Market size
• Market growth
• Cost of doing
business
• Competitive
advantage
• Risk level
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Deciding How to Enter the Market
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Exporting is when the company produces its goods
in the home country and sells them in a foreign
market. It is the simplest means involving the
least change in the company’s product lines,
organization, investments, or mission.
• Indirect exporting
• Direct exporting
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Joint venturing is when a firm joins with
foreign companies to produce or market
products or services
• Licensing
• Contract manufacturing
• Management contracting
• Joint ownership
Joint venturing differs from exporting in that
the company joins with a host country
partner to sell or market abroad
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Joint Venturing
Licensing is when a firm enters
into an agreement with a
licensee in a foreign market.
For a fee or royalty, the
licensee buys the right to use
the company’s process,
trademark, patent, trade
secret, or other item of
value.
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Joint Venturing
Contract manufacturing is when a firm
contracts with manufacturers in the
foreign market to produce its product or
provide its service. Benefits include faster
startup, less risk, and the opportunity to
form a partnership or to buy out the local
manufacturer.
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Joint Venturing
Management contracting is when the domestic firm
supplies management skill to a foreign company
that supplies capital. The domestic firm is
exporting management services rather than
products.
Joint ownership is when one company joins forces
with foreign investors to create a local business
in which they share joint ownership and control.
Joint ownership is sometimes required for
economic or political reasons.
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Direct investment is the development of
foreign-based assembly or manufacturing
facilities and offers a number of
advantages including
• Labor
• Logistics • Lower costs
• Control • Raw material
• Government incentives
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Deciding on the Global
Marketing Program
Standardized marketing mix involves selling the
same products and using the same marketing
approaches worldwide
Adapted marketing mix involves adjusting the
marketing mix elements in each target market,
bearing more costs but hoping for a larger
market share and ROI
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Marketing Program
Product
Straight product extension means marketing a
product in a foreign market without any change
Product adaptation involves changing the product
to meet local conditions or wants
Product invention consists of creating something
new for a specific country market
– Maintain or reintroduce earlier products
– Create new products
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Global Marketing Program
Product
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Marketing Program
Promotion
• Companies can either adopt the same
communication strategy they use at home
or change it for each market
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Global Marketing Program
Price
Uniform pricing is the same price in all markets
but does not consider income or wealth
where the price may be too high in some or
not high enough in other markets
Market-based pricing is the price the market
can pay but does not consider actual costs
Standard markup pricing is a price based on a
percentage of cost but can cause problems in
countries with high costs
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Global Marketing Program
Distribution Channels
Whole-Channel View
Seller’s headquarters organization supervises
the channel and is also a part of the
channel
Channels between nations move the products
to the borders of the foreign nations
Channels within nations move the products
from their foreign point of entry to the final
customers
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Deciding on the
Global Marketing Organization
Typical management of international
marketing activities include:
• Organizing and exporting department with a
sales manager and staff
• Creating an international division organized
by geography, products, or operating units
• Becoming a complete global organization
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