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1
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What is the Ansoff Matrix?

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A marketing planning model that helps a business determine its product and market strategy

2
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What is the output from the matrix?

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Four suggested growth strategies

3
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What are the four growth strategies of the Ansoff Matrix?

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  • Market penetration
  • Product development
  • Market development
  • Diversification
4
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Market penetration sells what products into what markets?

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Existing products into existing markets

5
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What is the aim of market penetration?

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To increase market share by getting existing customers to buy more

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What is the risk level in market penetration?

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Very low

7
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‘Cadbury’ market penetration example:

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Cadbury chocolates repackaged into Christmas selection boxes

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Situations that might make a business choose market penetration:

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  • Potential to grow in the market
  • Existing customers would be willing to buy more of the product
  • New customers could be attracted away from competitors
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Advantages of market penetration:

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  • Little risk
  • Change is likely to be small
  • Familiar with market
10
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Product development sells what products into what markets?

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New products into existing markets

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‘Dyson’ product development example:

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Producing hair-dryers as well as hoovers

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What is the risk level of product development?

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Educated risk - new product aimed at existing customers who like similar products

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Situations that might make a business choose product development:

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  • Its current products are becoming obsolete

- They have a new innovative product

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Advantages of product development:

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  • Enables business to stay competitive
  • Can develop product portfolio
  • Gain a patent for new products
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Market development sells what products into what markets?

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Existing products into new markets

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What is the risk level of market development?

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Fairly high - no guarantee customers will buy new product

17
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Why do the government support market development?

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They are keen to encourage international trade

18
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‘Lego’ market development example:

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Produced new colours to sell into female market

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Situations that might make a business choose market development:

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  • Market segments that don’t buy its products
  • Spare capacity to produce additional quantities
  • Strong brand name
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Advantages of market development:

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  • Can use popularity of its products to attract a new group of customers
  • Its not changing what it actually does
  • Usually already a proven product
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What is a risk of market development?

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  • Cultural difference can cause successful products to fail in other markets e.g. B&Q in China
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Different approaches to market development:

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  • New geographical markets
  • New product dimensions or packaging
  • New distribution channels
  • Different pricing policies to attract different customers
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Diversification sells what products into what markets?

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New products into new markets

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‘HMV’ diversification example:

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Diversified into the live entertainment market with the £40m purchase of several live music venues but exited the market soon after

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What is the riskiest strategy out of the four?

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Diversification

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Situations that might make a business choose diversification:

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  • Current market is vulnerable
  • Does not want to risk everything on one product
  • Wishes to grow
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Advantages of diversification:

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  • Growth
  • Protects business from external influences in one particular market
  • Can create economies of scale
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What does the Ansoff Matrix look at?

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The risk associated with a marketing strategy

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Disadvantages of Ansoff Matrix:

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  • Can over simplify risk - diversification may not be that risky if the change is not significant
  • Does not take into account how competitors may react

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