Mike customized Its marketing strategy depending upon the market as It did at the time of expansion to Europe by focusing on soccer rather than the aggressive US style ads and sponsored local club, and fortunately the Brazilian team for world cup in 1994 which they won an authenticated Nine's image into brand representing emotion allegiance and identification due to which over next decade overseas revenue for the first time passed US revenues. It diversified the product line by acquiring a British soccer related by acquiring British company manufacturing.Soccer related footwear apparel and equipment becomes sole supplier of uniforms to professional soccer teams. At the time of Beijing Olympics, although Ideas was official sponsor, received special permission for featuring Olympic athletes in its ads and sponsored several teams and athletes that resulted into 15% higher sales in Asian region.
For expansion of its product line of tennis clothing and Nine's gold brand it signed top tennis players and Tiger Woods relatively who changed the way professional golfers get dressed.Mike showed social responsibility by helping Lance Armstrong's campaign and spread Armstrong message of survival and will power world -wide The recent innovation by introducing technology in shoes by entering partnership with apple is Mike+ and marketed it by hosting largest and only global virtual race. With such an effective marketing strategies Mike today enjoys 31 % market share globally and 50% in US and is the top athletic apparel and footwear manufacture in the world. MARKETING MYOPIA The case argues about how marketing myopia resulted in decline and it is still effecting the growth industries.
Basically Marketing myopia is short-sightedness in vision of the firm for achieving higher revenues by concentrating on product pagination and neglecting customer needs and ways to satisfy them with organizations offerings through the products and services. The Industries assumed themselves to be riding some automatic growth escalator and descend themselves into stagnation. The four conditions that make industries to have such assumptions are: 1) The belief that growth is assured by expanding and more Fenton population. ) The belief that there is no competitive substitute for the industry major products. 3) Too much faith in mass production and in the advantage of rapidly declining unit costs as output rises. 4) Preoccupation with a product that lends Itself to carefully controlled scientific experimentation, Improvement and themselves to be in railroads business rather than in transportation business that stopped growth.
They don't lack opportunity but some of managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made car trucks or airplanes have.Aluminum industry has still continued to be growth industries due to efforts made for creating new customer satisfying uses. By Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation and Reynolds metals company. The Dry Cleaning, electrical utilities, grocery store led to their destruction by not responding to customer's demands. Even the petroleum industry is very much persuaded that there is no competitive substitute for their major product gasoline. None of them are enthusiastically researching fuel cells, batteries, solar power plants which are getting increasing attention and are selecting continuous customer needs.
These industries try to discover more convincing advertising themes, more effective sales promotional drives, what the market shares of the various companies are, what people like or dislike about service station dealers and oil companies and so forth. Nobody seems as interested in probing deeply into the basic human needs that the industry might be trying to satisfy as in probing into the basic properties of the raw material that the companies work with in trying to deliver customer satisfactions.
