Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Assignment 2 - Global Marketing
- 1. What aspects of the Korean Honey Market are
- Favourable for Korean Food
- Korean Food is in a Strong Financial position
- Honey is used after ops to speed
recovery
- Canadian Honey is perceived as higher quality & lower cost then local product
- Popular present sent back to Korean by Korean immigrants
- 20-30kg
- Korean shoppers didn't view domestic honey as
pure
- Strong Demand for Honey in
Korea
- research suggested demand will
increase
- it seemed likely that the domestic supply would not keep up with
demand
- Unfavourable for Korean
foods
- Price of Honey in Korea is High due to excess demand
- The bulk of Korean Honey is sold through
- herbal medicine stores
- Honey Specialty stores
- No One firm dominated the distribution system
- wholesale herbal medicine
distributors
- Suply herbal medicine stores
- Increased competition
- Dong Seo Foods
- Well known in korean food processing industry
- Buys honey direct from domestic producers
- they process it, package it, label it then sell it though large food
stores
- Regulatory Changes
- Until 2011 Honey Could be Imported by
- the Ministry of Agriculture
- Head of Agriculture Co-op
- With permission from the MOA
- With a 25% Tariff Charged
- At the end of 2011
- with a trade surplus
- Outside Political pressure
- The Korean government relaxed certain import restrictions
- Honey imports were now allowed
- but only for hotel use
- this could be favorable as well
as unfavorable prior to 2011
- 2. Key uncertainties in the strategy suggested in marketing
plan
- Marketing Plan
- Phase 1
- Environment
- Import restrictions will change over
time
- Threat of competition
- other importers
- Other Canadian honey makers
- First time Canadian Honey will be introduced to Koreans
- only for commercial uses
- Canadian honey will not be available directly to
koreans as all honey imported will be used for
hotels
- Product
- Only introducing Canada 1. white honey
- Price
- Low price of Canadian Honey being
perceived as low quality by the koreans
- Not knowing the price of other importers
- Canadian
- Other Honey producers
- Australia
- Distribution
- Honey used in hotels now bears distributors name not producers
- Other distribution channels
- Promotion
- Door to Door / Person to Person method
- Marketing Budget
- Government Lobbying being biggest expense
- Timing
- Consentrating on seoul inititally
- continuance of Phase 1 until government open market
- When will this be??
- Marketing Action plan
- taking 50% of market in 3 years, but they are only opening the market slowly through Seoul
- Phase 2
- Environment
- Phase 3
- Phase 4
- 3. How can marketing plan be improved?
- 4. Adress Kevin Lee's POV regarding export expansion