SCENARIO
The Vice President of Marketing at MSH Brands (or at your employer or future employer company) has asked you to participate as a member of a marketing management team for the pet food group (or for their product line) for the company. MSH Brands is one of five companies competing in the pet food market. Your membership on the team will require you to make decisions regarding promotion, pricing, distribution, advertising, and product mix.
YOUR ROLE
You are a Brand Manager at MSH Brands. You are being asked to develop a marketing plan for a new pet food product (or new product or line extension at your employer or future employer.)
REQUIREMENTS
You are to develop a marketing plan including the following elements based on your research promotion, pricing, distribution, advertising, and product mix. Include the following in your marketing plan:
Business context. Describe the new product to be featured. What are the features and benefits? What is the company reason for bringing this to market? What are the corporate objectives for it?
Situation analysis. How will this new product complement the existing product portfolio or product line? Who is the target market? Who are the competitors? Use at least two different types of figures and two tables to present the data used for the situation analysis. At least one figure should present data at a single point-in-time, and at least one figure should present data over time. Be sure to correctly label all elements of your figures and tables in the plan and appendix.
Marketing strategy. What is the overall marketing strategy to support the achievement of the corporate objectives? What is the product positioning statement?
Marketing mix. What is the promotional strategy to support the achievement of the corporate objectives? What is the pricing strategy to support the achievement of the corporate objectives? What is the distribution strategy to support the achievement of the corporate objectives? What is the advertising strategy to support the achievement of the corporate objectives?
Effectiveness. How will you measure the effectiveness of this marketing plan?
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