Case Study Coke

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Introduction to Marketing Assessment task1 activity3 Maira de Lucca 1154140 Coke Repositions their Energy Drink QUESTIONS 1. Coke could have decided to withdraw the brand and introduce a new brand. Outline the advantages and disadvantages of this approach 2. Why do you think that Coke decided to persist with the Mother Energy brand, particularly when it had been considered unsuccessful by many in the target market? 3. Once a product is considered unsuccessful by the majority of a target market, how can a company move it back being successful (that is, what tactics should it employ)? 4. Review their relaunch TV commercial. 5. How important is it that their communication adopted a two-sided message approach? 6. How important was it to use humour? 7. Is this a suitable ad, or would there be an alternative approach? 1.The advantages of introducing a new brand is that they would attract new customers and the old ones would also be intrigued to try the new energy drink. Another advantage is that with a new product they can bring back the unsatisfied customers and show them that they feedback is important. The disavantages would be the money they will spend to come up with a whole new product and the time as well and there is a risk that the new product will also fail. 2.I think they persist because it would be too difficult to come up with a whole new product, and they already had invested a lot of money and if they just take it off of the market they would just lose the time and money invested, so they persisted because they realised that they could improve the product and make it successful. 3.The tactics that the company can use is doing a research to find out why the product was considered unsuccessful by the majority of a target market, and after finding out the reasons why the product was unsuccessful they could make the
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