Business strategies of red wine importers-the case of small-sized frims

Autor: Chang, Chii Fen, 張綺芬
Rok vydání: 2012
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 經營管理碩士學程(EMBA)
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From the needs of wine increased in Taiwan area, many stores opened everywhere in the city, the importers wondered how they can sell better? What are the customers’ want? What wine has highly competition power? How is the market taste? There are less studies of wine in local, the purpose of this study is to find out a win-win strategy that can be told as thinking logics and frames. This study is trying to figure out can importers make the right import strategies from the initial stage, that means the choose and setting of Target Markets, Products, Promotions, Marketing Mix and Pricing. The questions of this study can be told as: Business Strategies of Red Wine Importers(including choose of import countries, wine varieties, pricing, promotion and place).This study analyze the specific target market of small sized firms or the beginners in Taiwan wine market, trying to get some key elements for the importers when doing import’s strategies; The case study start from the import stage, how a small sized firm or beginner wants to enter into local market, what is the enter strategies, from where will be the best, use the frame setting in Chapter Three to check the rules of enter, use the Literature brought in Chapter two and cases interview to find some important key factors. First, check the resources they have, check every faces of their import strategies, and see how the marketing mix fit or not, finally reconfirm is the performance meet with their strategies and marketing mix? Case study is the main research method of this study, interview objects set as local importers in Taiwan, selection criteria is :(a)named firms, (b)import many different wines, (c)has own shop, (d)willing to accept our interview, (e)experience of internet sell. We found eight points as a small sized Red Wine importers’ business strategies as following: 1.Professional knowledge is essential. 2.Language as communication tools, English is only the basic, others would be plus like French, Spanish, German, … 3.Funds are the most important. 4.Past experience in wine is good but not necessary, customer base will more helper in initial stage’s business running, products without quality will be a disaster. 5.Control and choose of import countries and objects is the key factor. 6.Accuracy of Target Market. 7.The smooth and correlation of the Marketing mix is high. 8.Customer Relationship Maintenance is important. To be a professional wine importers not only import the wine into the country but also needs the pre-planning when import, that means every step of business need highly coherent with,then the goods can be sold easily and smoothly to make money as purposed. This eight conclusions may not the first innovation, but it’s the analysis result of the real cases, most of the firms do not know the points where they success or failed, sometimes they use the old experiences as strategies and do not look at the now situation they faced, that’s why they lost the games; this study hope to use the eight basic elements that verified in the study to help the red wine importers from the very beginning, set them a right direction and a check list to help make things better. Key Words: business strategy, resource based view(RBV), market segmentation, target market, positioning, marketing mix, customer relationship management(CRM), red wine, importers, import country, import objective.
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