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Marketing covers how organisations identify customer needs, create value and exchange products or services through suitable markets. Key concepts include market segmentation, targeting, positioning, consumer behaviour, the marketing mix of product, price, place and promotion, branding, product life cycle and differences between marketing and selling.
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- A. Microenvironment
- B. Macro environment
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of the above
Explanation: A company’s marketing environment has two levels: the microenvironment of close stakeholders and the macroenvironment of wider…
Correct answer: Both a and b- A. Financial intermediaries
- B. Marketing services agencies
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of the above
Explanation: Marketing intermediaries include marketing services agencies and financial intermediaries, along with resellers and physical distribution…
Correct answer: Both a and b- A. the cultural environment
- B. the demographic environment
- C. the economic environment
- D. both a and b
Explanation: The economic environment covers factors affecting purchasing power and spending patterns, including income, prices, savings, debt, and…
Correct answer: the economic environment- A. awareness
- B. interest
- C. evaluation and trial
- D. all of above
Explanation: The adoption process begins with awareness, followed by interest, evaluation, and trial before adoption.
Correct answer: all of above- A. Retailers
- B. Wholesalers
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of the above
Explanation: Retailers and wholesalers are marketing intermediaries that move products from producers to final buyers, so both can form part of the…
Correct answer: Both a and b- A. the cultural environment
- B. the demographic environment
- C. the economic environment
- D. the political environment
Explanation: The cultural environment shapes people's basic values, preferences, perceptions and buying behaviour.
Correct answer: the cultural environment- A. workers and managers
- B. Stockholders
- C. Community organizations
- D. Company's lawyers
Explanation: Internal publics are people within the company, especially workers and managers, whose decisions affect marketing performance.
Correct answer: workers and managers- A. subsistence economies
- B. industrial economies
- C. developing economies
- D. none of above
Explanation: Subsistence economies consume much of their own agricultural and industrial output and therefore offer relatively few market…
Correct answer: subsistence economies- A. $11.43
- B. $21.43
- C. $25.43
- D. $15.43
Explanation: With a desired return on sales of 30%, price equals unit cost divided by one minus the target return: $15 ÷ 0.70 = $21.43.
Correct answer: $21.43- A. Macro environment
- B. Microenvironment
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of above
Explanation: Customer markets and publics are groups in the company's immediate operating environment, so they belong to the microenvironment.
Correct answer: Microenvironment- A. business markets
- B. international markets
- C. consumer markets
- D. government markets
Explanation: Consumer markets consist of individuals and households buying goods and services for personal use.
Correct answer: consumer markets- A. awareness stage
- B. interest stage
- C. evaluation and trial stage
- D. adoption
Explanation: During evaluation, a prospective customer weighs whether the product is worth trying, often followed by a limited trial before adoption.
Correct answer: evaluation and trial stage- A. The company
- B. The suppliers
- C. The marketing intermediaries
- D. All of above
Explanation: The microenvironment includes the company itself, its suppliers and its marketing intermediaries, along with customers, competitors and…
Correct answer: All of above- A. business markets
- B. reseller markets
- C. government markets
- D. international markets
Explanation: International markets include buyers located in countries other than the seller’s home country.
Correct answer: international markets- A. renewable resources
- B. non-renewable resource
- C. Both a and b
- D. none of above
Explanation: Oil, coal, natural gas, and minerals exist in finite quantities and cannot be replenished on a human time scale, so they are non-renewable…
Correct answer: non-renewable resource- A. need recognition
- B. information search
- C. evaluation of alternatives
- D. both b and c
Explanation: The buyer decision process begins when a consumer recognizes a need or problem.
Correct answer: need recognition- A. de-augmented product
- B. actual services
- C. augmented products
- D. consumer products
Explanation: Consumer products are classified according to consumers’ needs, buying habits, and purchasing behaviour.
Correct answer: consumer products- A. high
- B. low
- C. average
- D. moderate
Explanation: During maturity, sales volume is high and production and promotional efficiencies generally reduce cost per customer to a low level.
Correct answer: low- A. basing point pricing
- B. uniform delivered pricing
- C. freight on board origin pricing
- D. zone pricing
Explanation: Under FOB origin pricing, the buyer pays the freight from the seller’s factory or shipping point to the destination.
Correct answer: freight on board origin pricing- A. price maintenance
- B. discriminatory pricing
- C. price fixing
- D. predatory pricing
Explanation: Predatory pricing occurs when a powerful seller prices below cost to drive competitors out and later strengthen its market position.
Correct answer: predatory pricing