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Crescent Pure Case study help
"Crescent Pure" case serves the major purpose of exploring the process of making product positioning decisions and how product positioning could be reflected in the marketing mix activities. Please carefully read the case carefully following the five steps discussed in the class. Your case report should include the following sections:
- Case summary: a brief summary with no more than one page, describing: 1) what the case is about; and 2) the logical structure of the contents.
- Market situation analysis: 1) what the non-alcoholic functional beverage market looks like; 2) how Crescent performs in the market.
- Address the following the questions in details respectively. For each question, analytical framework, concrete analysis and conclusion should all be included in your answer. Your conclusions need to be well supported.
1. What are the strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O), and threats (T) for Crescent in the energy beverage market?
2. What are the strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O), and threats (T) for Crescent in the sports beverage market?
3. Given that Crescent is PDB's first entry in the US sports and/or energy beverage markets, what must PDB do in regard to Crescent's pending launch?
4. What factors should influence the positioning of Crescent?
5. How is the market segmented? At what segment should Crescent be targeted?
6. What are the pros and cons of positioning Crescent as an energy drink, a sports drink, or a healthy organic beverage?
- Ramification and generalization (not required but strongly encouraged): What do you learn from this case? How would you generalize this knowledge to other companies or contexts? Please focus your discussion from a marketing strategy perspective.