Trade marketing

Trade marketing

Trade marketing is a discipline of marketing that relates to increasing the demand at wholesaler, retailer, or distributor level rather than at the consumer level. However, you need to continue with your Brand Management strategies to sustain the need at the consumer end. A consumer is the one who identifies and purchases a product from a retailer. To ensure that a retailer promotes your product against competitors', you must market your product to the retailers, also. Trade marketing might also include offering various tangible/intangible benefits to retailers. The alignment of sales and marketing discipline to profitability. It is used to satisfy the needs and wants of the consumers.

Introduction

With the shift of consumer shopping behavior, 70 percent of shopping decisions are now made at the trade or what marketing practitioners refer to as "point-of-purchase". This new trend leads to the greater importance of merchandising and shopper promotions than consumer directed programs. Below the line promotions have become the focus of most consumer goods companies in order to drive higher sales. As retailer giants continually expand throughout every opportune territory, the role of merchandising in generating growth becomes more prioritized.

Targets of trade marketing

Distributor/Dealer

Distributor/Dealers are channel trade partners who act as a medium to ensure stock delivery/availability for the consumer across the geographies. Role of these entities is absolutely critical as they help in ensuring that the product is widely distributed and available for the end consumer. The key benefit of these entities is in ensuring that the distribution costs and lower for the manufacturer and simultatenously the products are available for the end consumer. The distributor and dealers operate on a base trade margin (factored in the cost of the product by the manufacturer). ALong with the base margin the trade partners also get additional schemes/incentives which keep on varying from time to time and product to product.The dealer could be a Retailer (selling to end consumer directly), wholesaler (selling to other retailers primariy) or an Modern Retailer (i.e. Self service stores like the Walmart, Careffour, Tesco etc which are into both the consumer retailing and wholesaling).

ales outlet

Sales outlet means a retailer. A retailer is also one of customers in trade marketing targets. Plans of trade marketing is targeting customers and shoppers. Therefore, trade marketing should provide sales outlets with customer & shopper-based value creation plans. Sales outlets (customers) are a place that manufacturer can meet shoppers and consumers.hej

Methods of trade marketing

Basic method of trade marketing is focusing on sales fundamentals, such as Distribution, Display, Promotion and Price. With data and knowledge of sales fundamentals, trade marketing develops market strategy aligned with brand strategy. In order to deliver sales volume and value, trade marketing support sales forces with well-designed fundamental enhancement plans.

Current trends in trade marketing

ee also

* List of basic marketing topics
* List of marketing topics
* Marketing
* Marketing strategy

References

* 12 Manage Management Communities - [http://www.12manage.com/description_trade_marketing_mix.html "Trade Marketing"]

External links

* [http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/mkt/dictionary/ Marketing dictionary]


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