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Intensive Growth Strategies: Ansoff’s Product-Market Expansion Grid

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The Ansoff&&num;8217&semi;s model is one of the best tool which companies to develop market and product expansion strategies&period;Ansoff&&num;8217&semi;s  model is based upon four type of strategies namely market penetration strategy&comma; market development strategy&comma; product development strategy and diversification strategy&period; The strategy is also dependent on company objectives include increasing sales&comma; increasing profit&comma; enter into new market&comma; develop new product and enter into new business&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ansoff&&num;8217&semi;s Product-Market Expansion Grid<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now we&&num;8217&semi;ll discuss the four intensive growth strategies in detail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Market penetration strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The first strategy company is looking to adapt for increasing there sales and profits&period; Marketing efforts of the company to offer their existing products in the current markets is called market penetration strategy&period; The best way to do this to attract competitors customer and looking for potential customer for the existing products&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Market Penetration Figure<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;605rad15&lowbar;fig1&period;jpg"><img style&equals;"border-width&colon; 0px&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;605rad15&lowbar;fig1&lowbar;thumb&period;jpg" alt&equals;"605rad15&lowbar;fig1" width&equals;"240" height&equals;"231" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The penetration that brands and products have can be recorded by companies such as ACNielsen and TNS who offer panel measurement services to calculate this and other consumer measures&period; In these cases penetration is given as a percentage of a country&&num;8217&semi;s households who have bought that particular brand or product at least once within a defined period of time&period;&lbrack;sky&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Examples of Market penetration strategy<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Recognizing that software as a service can be a potent market penetration tool&comma; <strong>Dell<&sol;strong> is assembling a services portfolio that now includes e-mail disaster recovery&comma; spam&sol;virus filtering and archiving via its MessageOne acquisition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Southwest airline<&sol;strong> in the current market by offering flights for the small distance cities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Peter Wilson of High Definition &amp&semi; Digital Cinema Ltd&period;&comma; in terms of market penetration<strong> HD televisions<&sol;strong> were present in only 17<br &sol;>&NewLine;percent of U&period;S&period; households last year&comma; a number that will grow to 22 percent this year and will exceed 55 percent in 2008&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Pakistan State Oil<&sol;strong> penetrate in Pakistan market from 40&percnt; to 65&percnt; in the duration of 4 years by developing new retail outlets&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3>Market development Strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Developing a new market for the existing company product is called market development strategy&period;This is the process of finding new market for the new customer to increase company performance by increasing sales and profits&period; Companies can develop market on geographical such as city&comma;country&comma;region&comma;state etc and demographical such as age&comma;sex&comma;gender&comma;class etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Market Development Figure<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;market&lowbar;expan&period;jpg"><img style&equals;"border-width&colon; 0px&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2009&sol;08&sol;market&lowbar;expan&lowbar;thumb&period;jpg" alt&equals;"market&lowbar;expan" width&equals;"240" height&equals;"234" border&equals;"0" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A marketing manager has to think about the following questions before implementing a market development strategy&colon; Is it profitable&quest; Will it require the introduction of new or modified products&quest; Is the customer and channel well enough researched and understood&quest; The marketing manager uses these four groups to give more focus to the market segment decision&colon; existing customers&comma; competitor customers&comma; non-buying in current segments&comma; new segments&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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