Global

Marketing
Warren J. Keegan Mark C. Green

Segmentation,
Targeting, and
Positioning
Chapter 7
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Learning Objectives
• Identify like groups of
potential customers
• Choose the groups to
target
• Use product-market
grid
• Segment markets
• Position the brand in
the mind of the
customer
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 Market Segmentation
• Represents an effort to identify and categorize
groups of customers and countries according
to common characteristics

Americans spent almost $55 billion on 83.3 million dogs in 2013.

Who owns whom?
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 Targeting

• The process of • Focus on the segments

evaluating segments that can be reached
and focusing marketing most effectively,
efforts on a country, efficiently, and
region, or group of profitably
people that has
significant potential to
respond

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 Positioning

• Positioning is
required to
differentiate the
product or brand
in the minds of
the target market.

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 Global Market Segmentation

• Defined as the process of identifying specific

segments—whether they be country groups
or individual consumer groups—of potential
customers with homogeneous attributes who
are likely to exhibit similar responses to a
company’s marketing mix.

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Global Market Segmentation
• Demographics
• Psychographics
• Behavioral
characteristics
• Benefits sought

Skiing became a sport in Norway where

it was invented 4,000 years ago.

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 Demographic Segmentation
• Income
• Population
• Age distribution
• Gender
• Education
• Occupation
What are the
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 Demographic Facts and
Trends
• In India, the number of people under the age of 14 is
greater than the entire US population

• In the EU, the number of consumers aged 16 and under is

rapidly approaching the number of consumers aged 60-plus

• By 2030, 20% of Americans will be over 65

• African-, Asian-, and Hispanic-Americans have a $2.5 trillion

buying power
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 Demographic Facts and Trends

• A widening age gap exists between the older

populations in the West and the large working-age
populations in developing countries
• In the European Union, the number of consumers aged
16 and under is rapidly approaching the number of
consumers aged 60-plus
• Asia is home to 500 million consumers aged 16 and
under
• Half of Japan’s population will be age 50 or older by
2025
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 Segmenting by Income
and Population
• Income is a valuable segmentation variable
– 2/3s of world’s GNP is generated in the Triad but
only 12% of the world’s population is in the Triad
• Do not read into the numbers
– Some services are free in developing nations so
there is more purchasing power
• For products with low enough price,
population is a more important variable

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Per Capita Income

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10 Most Populous Countries

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 Age Segmentation
• Global Teens-12 and 19 yr. olds
“A group of teenagers randomly
chosen from different parts of
the world will share many of
the same tastes.”

• Global Elite–affluent consumers

who are well traveled and have
the money to spend on
prestigious products with an
image of exclusivity
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 Gender Segmentation
• In focusing on the
needs and wants of one
gender, do not miss
opportunities to serve
the other
• Companies may offer
product lines for both
genders
– Nike, Levi Strauss

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 Psychographic Segmentation

• Grouping people according to attitudes, values, and

lifestyles
– SRI International and VALS 2
• Porsche example
– Top Guns (27%): Ambition, power, control
– Elitists (24%): Old money, car is just a car
– Proud Patrons (23%): Car is reward for hard work
– Bon Vivants (17%): Car is for excitement, adventure
– Fantasists (9%): Car is form of escape
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 Psychographic Segmentation
• The Euroconsumer:
– Successful Idealists–5% to 20% of the population;
consists of persons who have achieved professional
and material success while maintaining
commitment to abstract or socially responsible
ideals
– Affluent Materialists–Status-conscious ‘up-and-
comers’– many of whom are business professionals
– use conspicuous consumption to communicate
their success to others
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 Psychographic Segmentation
• The Euroconsumer:
– Comfortable Belongers – Disaffected Survivors
• 25% to 50% of a country’s • lack power and wealth
population • harbor little hope for
• conservative upward mobility
• most comfortable with • tend to be either
the familiar resentful or resigned
• content with the comfort • concentrated in high-
of home, family, friends, crime urban inner city
and community • attitudes tend to affect
the rest of society

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 Psychographic Segmentation:
Sony’s U.S. Consumer Segments

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 Behavior Segmentation
• Focus on whether people purchase a product
or not, how much, and how often they use it
• User status
• 80/2 Rule or Law of Disproportionality or
Pareto’s Law–80% of a company’s revenues
are accounted for by 20% of the customers

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 Benefit Segmentation
• Benefit segmentation focuses on the value
equation
– Value=Benefits/Price
• Based on understanding the problem a
product solves, the benefit it offers, or the
issue it addresses

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 Ethnic Segmentation
• The population of many • Hispanic Americans
countries includes – 50 million Hispanic
ethnic groups of Americans (14% of total
significant size pop.) with $978 billion
annual buying power
– “$1 trillion Latina” 24
• Three main groups in million Hispanic women:
the U.S. include African- 42% single, 35% HOH,
Americans, Asian- 54% working
Americans, and
Hispanic Americans
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 Assessing Market Potential
• Be mindful of the pitfalls
– Tendency to overstate the size and short-term
attractiveness of individual country markets
– The company does not want to ‘miss out’ on a
strategic opportunity
– Management’s network of contacts will emerge as
a primary criterion for targeting

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 Assessing Market Potential
• Three basic criteria:
– Current size of the segment and anticipated
growth potential
– Potential competition
– Compatibility with company’s overall objectives
and the feasibility of successfully reaching the
target audience

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 Current Segment Size
and Growth
• Is the market segment currently large enough
to present a company with the opportunity to
make a profit?

• If the answer is ‘no,’ does it have significant

growth potential to make it attractive in terms
of a company’s long-term strategy?

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 Potential Competition
• Is there currently
strong competition
in the market
segment?
• Is the competition
vulnerable in terms
of price or quality?

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 Feasibility and Compatibility
• Will adaptation be required? If so, is this
economically justifiable in terms of expected
sales?

• Will import restrictions, high tariffs, or a

strong home country currency drive up the
price of the product in the target market
currency and effectively dampen demand?
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 Feasibility and Compatibility
• Is it advisable to source locally? Would it make
sense to source products in the country for
export elsewhere in the region?

• Is targeting a particular segment compatible

with the company’s goals, brand image, or
established sources of competitive advantage?

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Framework for Selecting
Target Markets

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 9 Questions for Creating a
Product-Market Profile
• Who buys our product?
• Who does not buy it?
• What need or function does it serve?
• Is there a market need that is not being met by current
product/brand offerings?
• What problem does our product solve?
• What are customers buying to satisfy the need for which our
product is targeted?
• What price are they paying?
• When is the product purchased?
• Where is it purchased?
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 Product-Market Decisions
• Review current and potential products for best
match for country markets or segments

• Create a matrix with countries and products to

help with analysis

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 Target Market
Strategy Options
• Standardized Global Marketing or
Undifferentiated target marketing

– Mass marketing on a global scale

– Standardized marketing mix
– Minimal product adaptation
– Intensive distribution
– Lower production costs
– Lower communication costs
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 Target Market Strategy Options
• Concentrated Global • Differentiated Global
Marketing Marketing
– Niche marketing – Multi-segment targeting
– Single segment of global – Two or more distinct
market markets
– Look for global depth – Wider market coverage
rather than national – Ex.: P&G markets Old
breadth Spice and Hugo Boss for
– Ex.: Chanel, Estee Lauder Men

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 Positioning
• Locating a brand in
consumers’ minds over
and against competitors
in terms of attributes
and benefits that the
brand does and does not
offer
– Attribute or Benefit
– Quality and Price
– Use or User
– Competition
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 Positioning
• Attribute or Benefit • Quality and Price
– Economy – Continuum from high
– Reliability price/quality and high
– Durability price to good value

• BMW: The Ultimate Driving • Stella Artois beer:

Machine or
Reassuring Expensive
Visa: It’s Everywhere You
Want To Be
• Foreign Consumer Culture • FCCP: Grey Goose
Positioning: Focus on (France), Ketel One (the
import benefits Netherlands)
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 Positioning Strategies

• Global consumer culture

positioning
– Identifies the brand as a
symbol of a particular global
culture or segment
– High-touch and high-tech
products
• Foreign consumer culture
positioning
– Associates the brand’s users,
use occasions, or product
origins with a foreign country
Beer is associated with this German’s culture.
or culture
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 Positioning Strategies
• Local consumer culture
positioning
– Identifies with local
cultural meanings
– Consumed by local people
– Locally produced for local
people
– Used frequently for food,
personal, and household
nondurables
– Ex.: Budweiser is identified
with small-town America
Clydesdale =
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