The External Marketing Environment in the Global Marketplace

Assignment 3

The External Marketing Environment in the Global Marketplace

Assignment Scenario:

The car sharing business has grown in popularity throughout the world in densely populated major city centers. As the new marketing associate for U Drive Transport, you are tasked with conducting a thorough environmental scan of the global marketplace to identify and analyze any opportunities or threats to the company, brand, and the product. To familiarize yourself with the car sharing industry, visit the websites of a few direct competitors of the company:

● Perform a search for "car sharing" on the Internet and look at two other competitors.

Directions for Executing this Assignment:

To complete this Assignment, respond to the following checklist:

❖ Watch the video on U Drive Transport by clicking on the video icon.

❖ Downl

Marketers conduct due diligence for the business by scanning the environment for social, demographic, economic, technological, political, legal, and competitive opportunities or threats. In this Assignment, you will practice scanning the global marketing environment for opportunities or threats to an organization. In this Assignment, you be conducting an environmental analysis as a new marketing associate for a car sharing business.

Instructions:

Examining the external environment for opportunities and threats to a company, brand, and product is an essential step in the development of a marketing strategy. As a new marketing associate with U Drive Transport, you are tasked with examining the global marketplace for expansion opportunities and threats.

Step 1. Use the template starting on page 2 to execute this task. 

Step 2. To begin the process, choose one region of the world by visiting: http://www.state.gov/countries

Step 3. Choose one (1) country within your chosen region of the world. Locate one (1) major city center within your chosen country and examine the external marketing environment for opportunities and threats.

Step 4. Using Chapters  4 and 5 in the textbook to inform your understanding of the 6 factors of the external environment in the global marketplace, examine the opportunities and threats to the company, brand, and product of U Drive Transport in your chosen major city center. Be sure to use the marketing language found within Chapters 4 and 5 of your textbook to explain your findings.

Step 5. Based on the findings of your external environmental analysis, write a 500 word business memo to the owners of U Drive Transport discussing why the company should or should not consider expanding into the country you chose to examine. Be sure to use Chapter 5 of the textbook to inform your understanding of global marketing. Apply the marketing language in your writing. You must examine the external marketing environment before writing the business memo.

Memo

[Type memo here]

U Drive Transport External Environmental Analysis

World Region:  Country:

Major City Center:

Resources: http://www.state.gov/e/eb/eppd/csr/index.htm

The U.S. Census International Data Base is located at: http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php

Resources: The World Factbook

References

Central Intelligence Agency. (2014). The world factbook. Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/ library/publications/the-world-factbook

U.S. Census Bureau. (2013, December). International programs: International data base. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/population/international/ data/idb/informationGateway.php

U.S. Department of State. (2014). Corporate Social Responsibility. Retrieved from http://www.state.gov/e/eb/eppd/csr

U.S. Department of State. (2014). Regions. Retrieved from http://www.state.gov/countries