how can market leaders expand the total market and defend market share?

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How can market leaders expand the total market and defend market share

Brand, product, or firm that has the largest percentage of total sales revenue (the market share) of a market. 

Market leader

Expanding total market demand

BY ADDING  NEW CUSTOMERS 

 Market penetration strategy

1) those who might use it but do not

New market segmentation strategy

2)Those who have never used it 

Geographical expansion strategy

3)Those who live elsewhere

More usage

Through increasing the amount, level and frequency of consumption

Amount through packaging and product redesign

Larger package sizes

Increasing the level of consumption

Frequency of consumption

Identifying additional opportunities to use the brand 

Tying the product to holidays and festivals

Identifying new ways to use the brand

Advertise ways to use product differently

Defending market share

Developing new products and customer services, distribution effectiveness and cost cutting

Continuous innovation

Proactive marketing

• Proactive firms are:• Ready to take risks and make mistakes

• Have a vision of the future and of investing on it

• Have the capabilities on innovate • Are flexible and nonbureaucratic• Have many managers who think proactively

Defensive marketing•Occupying most desirable market space in consumer’s mind•Ex: tide, pampers

Position defence

•Protect weak fronts and support a possible counterattack

Flank defence 

•Achieve broad market envelopment that signals competitors not to attack•Introduce a stream of products and announce them in advance to make competitiors shift focus elsewhere

Pre-emptive defence

•Exercise of economic and political clout•Use revenue from profitable products to subsidize weaker products

Counteroffensive 

defence 

•Market broadening: Shifting  focus to more generic needs•Market diversification: Entering unrelated industries

Mobile defence

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