Thomas Cook Tour Operation UK Ltd
Introduction
Thomas Cook Tour Operation UK Ltd is the third largest travel group operating in the UK travel industry, owning it’s own travel distribution channels, tour operation and airline. The company believes that they have earned their position through consumer recognition for their quality and expertise in providing package holidays. The instability of the market caused by high sensitivity to economic change and the intangible and perishable nature of the products sold, forces companies competing within the travel industry to constantly seek new and imaginative ways to create demand and maintain or strengthen their position. A combination of economic downturn, a lack of consumer confidence,
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Increasing fear amongst consumers afraid to fly and a downturn in the world economy caused a drastic decline in the demand for both business and leisure travel causing passenger numbers to plummet. Thomas Cook tour Operations, like it’s competitors experienced high profit losses as a result of falling passenger numbers, added security costs, falls in their share prices and increased insurance premiums in which occurred I the aftermath.
Prior to September 11th the travel industry experienced a dynamic growth between 1995 to 2001. During 2001 20.6 million package holidays were sold to the British Consumer, 1 growth of 2.6%. However the deterioration of the industry’s success came immediately after the terrorism attacks. Thomas Cook Tour Operations were as a result forced to develop a new strategy in order to save their rapidly falling profits. In order to develop their new strategy, the company carried out a SWOT analysis. This is a technique that involves identifying a company’s strengths and weaknesses in the business, the opportunities presented by the trading environment and any threats opposing the company. The below information is adapted from the Thomas Cook Tour Operations’
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Abercrombie and Fitch, a clothing company, that advertises, to the American young adult population, was founded in 1892 by two men; David T. Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch. David T. Abercrombie was born in Baltimore and was a former inventor and taper. Ezra Fitch was a successful lawyer. David convinced Ezra to become his partner in 1892, when the company was founded. By 1904 Abercrombie was the largest outdoor equipment and clothing store in the US. Today A&F is one of the biggest clothing companies, selling the “all-American” vintage look.
The internet is now an important part of the marketing sector. Using internet resources, companies can reach a larger audience than through traditional marketing, and do it faster and cheaper. Second Life, (SL) owned by Linden Lab, was founded ten years ago, and is one of the leading 3D virtual world software platforms. It provides virtual world, virtual life exploration, and real-life simulations in cyberspace. The virtual world is a web-based simulated environment for a user to participate via a virtual representation, referred as an “avatar”, who is provided with tools to view, navigate, and modify the virtual world space and participate in its virtual activities. (Second Life, 2009). SL provides a new arena for creative advertising methods and mechanisms. This report looks at the SL “virtual” marketing plan for the Vauxhall Car Company.
Being an upscale industry, Abercrombie and Fitch would appear to be a successful corporation. Although the company was once successful for a number of years, it’s apparent that there has been a significant decline in its overall appeal and how much revenue the company acquires each year. With just over 1,000 retail stores in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, Abercrombie and Fitch has thrived to be one of the most avid corporate extensions.
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By the end of 1998 though, there was evidence of a crisis occurring. Customers and media pulled together to assist senior management partake in an internal audit to identify the problems and see if they could come to a solution. The purpose of this assignment is to construct a SWOT analysis, highlighting each of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that were highlighted in the internal audit. The SWOT analysis is contained within the marketing plan and is the third step in the marketing planning process, coming after the Marketing audit and before any assumptions. (Joisce, Ted (2002), Marketing Planning Lecture Notes – 14/10/02, Mission, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics)
As we know from the case Abercrombie and Fitch has been criticized for its promoting systems because of its in-store advertisements of solid men and tempting ladies posturing verging on stripped in suggestive ways.(case) Even if we know that it is A&F strategy,we also can see that the main customers of A&F is t-agers. The point is that A&F is under the pressure and hard critic from older generation (parents) because the main target market of A&F is t-agers or college kids, it is providing or promoting sex and sexuality of models who works there rather than promoting the clothes and brand. But know A&F is in the right way. !Now Abercrombie & Fitch will end by July its "sexualized marketing," after years of blanketing its web sites, store windows
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