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Part 1: Marketing Channel Systems

Session # 4

Industry Analysis
Behavioral
Processes in
Marketing Channels
Dr. Ajay Kumar
Pandey
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Learning Objectives

• Importance of Industry

• Understanding Industry Forces

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Industry Analysis

1. General Features of the Industry

• Current size / turnover of the industry

• Product categories / sub-categories and their relative volumes

• Factors affecting demand and performance in recent years

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Industry Analysis .. Contd.

2. Industry Environment / Settings


This will indicate the kind of strategies needed to be
successful in that particular industry, this could be:
• Fragmented or Concentrated industries
• Emerging industries
• Industries undergoing a transition to maturity
• Declining industries
• Global industries

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Industry Analysis .. Contd.

3. Industry Structure
This is about basic fundamental economics, technical features and
forces of the industry:
• Number of players
• Nature of competition (monopoly/oligopoly/perfect competition etc)
• Entry and Exit barriers
• Total market size and relative market share of the players
• Installed production capacity and relative share of the players
• Significant change in recent years
• Demand - supply scenario

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Industry Analysis .. Contd.

4. Industry Attractiveness
It is an extension of industry structure only:
• Potential
• Growth
• Profitability
• Industry barriers
• Forces shaping competition in the industry
• Likely future pattern of the industry

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Industry Analysis .. Contd.

5. Industry Performance

(Overall production, sales, profitability, technological advances etc.)

6. Industry Practices
(Marketing mix: product, price, place, promotion;
and R&D, Legal tactics etc.)

7. Emerging Trends/Likely Future Patterns

(growth, changes in buyers needs, pace of innovation, entry/exit of


firms, policy/regulatory dynamics etc)

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Business Competition
Most people think business
competition is a tug of war
between rivals for market share

But, Porter says –


Business Competition is
rather more complex

It is not about who is the biggest It is –


About who is the most
profitable
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Porter’s Five Forces Model

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1. Bargaining Power of Buyers

Example: Airline Industry

Buyers

Who always want to:

Get More

Pay Less
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2. Bargaining Power of Suppliers

Suppliers

Who always would like to:

Get Paid More

Deliver Less

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3. Threat of Substitutes

Substitutes

They come from different industries


And, serve the same basic need

They reduce your market share

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4. Threat of New Entrants

New Entrants

Can also create tensions


Say, better service offerings

This forces you to spend more in order to retain customers


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5. Rivalry among Existing Competitors

Existing Rivals

Intense competition reduces,


everyone's profitability

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Exercise - Call To Action, One Page
• Project will be evaluated on the content/coverage, flow,
originality, quality of critique and analysis. The groups
should take care that they submit original work.

• One Page Write up:


• Each group is expected to give a one page write up on
project they want to undertake by 5th August, 2024. This
should include:
- Name of the company,
- Objective(s), and
- Research methodology

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