Marketing Unilever United Kingdom Marketing Communication Plan Report
Write a report that will address the integrated marketing communication plan of Unilever in the United Kingdom.
You have been recently recruited as a brand communication executive at an
established FMCG company, Unilever, in the UK.
As part of your role, you are to develop an integrated communication plan for a
brand specially dedicated to a potential target market. You have been asked to
prepare a report which must assess the current marketing environment and
strategies applied in the last three years for a selected brand of your choice in the
same company and required to design an integrated communication plan to
achieve the success for a brand in 2022.
Furthermore, you have been requested to assess the current market segment for a
brand and design the appropriate target segments as per the developed
communication plan. As part of your answer, you must emphasise how the
performance of a brand contributes to create the brand equity. In order to achieve
this, you have been further asked to evaluate the current brand equity of a
selected brand and suggest the new recommendations to improve the brand value
based on a selected brand equity model.
What is the communication strategies used by the brand (Push Pull and profile, Media strategies, Segmentation and positioning strategies, branding strategies) . what are the positive side of these strategy and negative sides
have been used as part of its integrated marketing communications effort.
How a brand used social media to develop networks with the customers
Task II
Prepare an integrated marketing communication plan for the same product for the
2022 period
Develop an integrated Marketing Communication plan 2022 period
Key points to add are
Context analysis
Objectives
Strategies
Tactics
Action
Control
Analyse the current market segments and recommend the best segments for your
brand. You must use correct segmentation bases to agree on the new target
segments.
Market segmentation and what segmentation do you use for your brand .
Do you know how to segment the market – demographic , geographic , Psychographic , Behavioural
Critically assess the current customer relationship strategies of the brand and then
assess the dimension of the brand equity. You must use a specific brand equity
theoretical model to assess the brand equity for a given brand.
what is relationship methods company has used so far to build with customers – you must find how a company used a number of strategies to build the relationship – some example must be produced and analysed .
Finally brand equity of the brand – how a brand value can increase Either use Keller brand equity model or Aaker’s model.
Conclusion
READING REQUIREMENT
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