SUMMARY OF THE CASE STUDY
Avon, started its journey in the early 1886 is now the oldest and the largest marketers and manufactures of the beauty products. The advertisements from “Ding dong, Avon Calling” to “Hello Tomorrow” and from “You never looked so good” to the latest one “The Company For Women”, always helped Avon to improve its image and enhance the marketing strategies to serve the purpose. One of the amazing facts about Avon includes that it’s headquarter is situated in USA but major portion of its sales comes from outside North America. Avon has captured a huge market all over the world and its distributing the beauty solutions to almost all parts of the world. With Avon being a part of 112 countries, the company has
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Avon also uses the aspect of global pricing and this is determined by the state in a certain country local market and strategic objectives. This affects the country in the way that the country with the higher price ships the same products from the country with the lower price this making the company to count loss.
The company also uses the aspect of global promotion where Avon used brochures and catalogue to make their product known. It also uses advertising as a way of promotion they accomplish this by the use of media and billboards. These helps them to sell newly launched products, accelerate sales in some of its fastest-growing markets, and recruit reps in places like China.
Finally the Avon uses global distribution. The company does this to independent representatives who have taken orders from customers they have either communicated with or visited. This helps Avon to cut on cost of manufacturing excess goods which will not have an order.
QUESTION 2
Why is Avon so much more dependent on its foreign operations than on its US (home) operations?
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