Analysis Of Puma S Current Marketing Communications Programme

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: Distinction, University of Strathclyde, language: English, abstract: Today’s sportswear has undergone a significant transformation from its functional past to an all-embracing concept belonging to modern culture, fashion and competitive sports. The term itself encompasses high functioning performance clothing, footwear and casual leisurewear. Predominantly, the term is understood to include high profile sporting brands such as Adidas, Nike, Reebok and Puma, but many smaller niche brands also fall in this category, such as New Balance Running or Calloway Golf. This essay offers an initial analysis of the wider sportswear industry, its make-up and current trends. Following this a deeper analysis of the integrated marketing communications of Puma is conducted.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 2,0, University of applied sciences, Munich, course: Marketing, language: English, abstract: Puma is a sports lifestyle company that originally started as a German shoe factory that specialized on football shoes and running spikes in the late 40 ́s. In more than sixty years of existence, Puma has experienced the highest highs as well as the lowest lows. During this time, Puma maintained its expertise in the field of football shoes and now belongs to a small leading group of brands, developing and selling the best football shoes worldwide. This paper focuses on analyzing Puma ́s position on the market in the field of football shoes, examining its strengths and weaknesses, while also describing the market in general by using Porter ́s Five Forces as well as exploring the influences on the market by doing a PEST-Analysis. Taking this into consideration, the paper discusses where Puma Football might achieve a unique selling proposition and how their marketing objective and strategy looks like.

Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, 36 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: It seems that the mass of consumers break up into many heterogeneous sub-groups. Researchers and marketing experts strongly believe that in the near future, homogenous customer groups will split up into more and smaller target group segments - and each of those segments demand for a unique and certain communication. Against this background and the fact that enterprises have to struggle on homogenous markets with multinational companies in a hard competition; the identification of the exact target group becomes more and more important. The more information the decision-makers have about their target group, the better they can communicate with them. Consequently, an increase in sales is the result. For this reason, the Master-Thesis copes with the innovative psychographic target group approach - the Semiometrie. Hereby, 210 selected words reconstruct the psycho-cultural models that constitute the subconscious system of choice and of the identification of desires of respondents. Beside an extensive explanation of the method, a differentiation from selected models is undertaken by the writer. It is the author's greatest concern, on the one hand to provide a very in-depth under-standing of Semiometrie from the theoretical point of view. On the other hand, he is anxious to present a well- and novel understanding of Adidas', NIKE's and Puma's target group by using the Semiometrie. Consequently, the concept of research design is included within the empirical research. Due to collected and provided data by SevenOne Media and TNS Infratest as well as an in-depth analysis and interpretation of these data, the Master-Thesis offers a detailed de-scription of each of those target groups. These results are as well supported by i

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 2,0, University of applied sciences, Munich, course: Marketing, language: English, abstract: Puma is one of three worldwide leading sportswear companies. But in difference to its competitors Puma is considered more of a sports lifestyle company. Puma promotes this image and exploits systematically the opportunities offered by the sports lifestyle market in all categories and regions. Puma Football plays a significant role in the portfolio of the company and its marketing was especially promoted in the last 12 months in view of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. This paper is based on the Marketing Analysis of Puma which stressed on the position of Puma on the sportswear market in the segment of football and pointed out its unique selling proposition. It focuses on Operative Marketing and the combinations of marketing-political instruments that are used by Puma. In this context the paper will explain the theory of the product policy and then use this information to analyze products of Puma Football in terms of their product life cycle and product portfolio. But first the corporate and brand strategy will be introduced, since it is a pivotal issue of Puma ́s marketing strategy and operative marketing instruments.

Marketing Communications Management: concepts and theories, cases and practice makes critical reflections on the prime issues in integrated marketing communications and is designed to encourage the reader to stop and think about key issues. The author takes a managerial approach to the subject and provides a set of frameworks that facilitate both learning and teaching. A wide range of pedagogical features is included such as sample exam questions, 'stop points', vignettes, and case studies, and a summary of key points concludes each chapter. Most organizations need some form of marketing or corporate communications and this text is designed to service both practitioners and students undertaking formal study. The author addresses strategic and critical issues that dovetail with the current interest in marketing communications as reflected in the media, with particular emphasis given to advertising and sponsorship.

Integrated Marketing Communications is a new text which will answer the key questions of what marketing communications is, how it works and why it is such a vital contemporary marketing function. It is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of this complex and rapidly evolving area. The author's long experience in the industry, and as a senior academic, ensures that the book is able to show how the communications process really works and how it can best be managed in a strategically and tactically cost effective manner. Throughout the book the framework of analysis, planning, implementation and control is used to help the student organize their approach to the complex decision making in the present communications environment. This is both an essential text and an indispensible reference resource and has been rigorously developed for undergraduates and postgraduates in Marketing and Business, and for the new CIM Certificate and Diploma exams in Business Communication, Promotional Practice and Marketing Communications.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Essen, language: English, abstract: On the one hand, brands can increase a company's value significantly or even represent the company itself. On the other hand, consumers want to take over the image of a brand and identify themselves with the characteristics carried by the brand. This goes along with the need of having branded goods as a mark of status and belonging. Therefore, companies need to focus on strengthening their brand image and brand equity in order to succeed on the market and diversify themselves from their competitors. However, the question is, are the efforts in creating a strong brand image and high brand equity justified when thinking about the impact on the consumer? Why are so many companies focusing on image instead of paying attention to the quality of their products? And why do so many companies spent money on sponsoring sports teams instead of investing in the improvement of their product's characteristics or developing new innovative products? In order to get into the topic, this case study will have a look at Puma as a concrete example of how branding affects a company. The intention of this case study is to point out how Puma achieved the way from a shoe manufacturer to a well-known lifestyle brand by looking at the creation of a brand image on the one hand and an increase in brand equity on the other hand. - Does a positive brand image have an influence on a company's turnover? - Does a high brand equity influence a company's economic development or does a positive development of a company increase its brand equity? - Do brands have an effect on consumer's buying behaviour?

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Marketing is part and parcel of everyday life with every transaction being marketing or a business initiative of some kind. As Mullins & Walker (2010) put marketing is a social process that involves those activities that are necessary to enable individuals and organizations to get what they need or want by conducting exchanges with other people so as to establish a continuous exchange relationship. It is also possible to say that marketing is in vain if relationships are not created with the consumers to enable the firm get repeat buying from the customers. The strong brands not only in the UK but also around the world have worked hard to ensure that people know their brands in a sense that they have made it possible for people to establish a personal attachment to the brands. This kind of loyalty is what makes organizations excel and post impressive financial results. Through this therefore it is possible to see the value of communication in business. Relationships are only built through constant communication with the customers and this happens through a variety of ways. For companies to succeed they need to have an integrated promotional mix in which they pass information to consumers to increase their presence in a given market and to increase customer understanding of their products and services. The Integrated marketing communication hence is a process of building and continuously reinforcing mutually profitable relationships with various stakeholders such as employees, consumers and the general public, through the development and coordination of a strategic communications program that enables stakeholders to make a constructive contact with the company brand through different media (Fill, 2009).