Friday, May 9, 2014

STP Case Study : Low End and High End Car Market in Bangladesh

Segmentation, Market Targeting and Market Positioning (STP)

Low End and High End Car Market in Bangladesh

1.      Why did Subaru failed to grab local car market of Bangladesh initially with low- end cars?
Answer: In 1985 in Bangladesh car mainly used by upper class people who are rich and mostly highly educated. These people aren’t generally interested for low-end cheap cars. We can say that, Subaru’s lack of proper market segmentation and target marketing create failure to grab local car market of Bangladesh initially with low- end cars

2. Do you think Bangladesh is a prospective market for high-end cars?
Answer: With economic growth a big number of highly paid professional and executives are breeding who possess large amount disposable cash. Moreover, it is common idea that, high-end cars provides better safety and bring more luxury in life.  These scenarios makes Bangladesh is a prospective market for high-end cars and different sales report support it.

3. How Subaru or other car marketer can popularize their low-end cars in Bangladesh?
Answer: To popularize first they have to identify the target market and then they have to make good positioning of their product. Incentives like more local dealership, providing long term standard warranty, making affiliation with financial companies to provide loan and other financial flexibilities to customer, promotion through media etc. can be taken.

4. Define a positioning statement for the company like Subaru and Indian car producers.
Answer: Affordability without compromising quality, Car for everyone.

5. Which segmentation variable the car producers and dealers use at the time of segmenting car market of Bangladesh?
     Answer: People’s purchasing power. 

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