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Sustainable Marketing Social Responsibility and Ethics Chapter 16 Rest Stop: Previewing the Concepts • • • Define sustainable marketing and discuss its importance Identify the major social criticisms of marketing Define consumerism and environmentalism and explain how they affect marketing strategies 16 - 2 Rest Stop: Previewing the Concepts • • Describe the principles of sustainable marketing Explain the role of ethics in marketing 16 - 3 First Stop: Sustainability at Unilever • Under its Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever has set out to create a better future every day for people around the world • Sustainability efforts span the entire value chain • Works with final consumers to improve the social and environmental impact of its products in use • Fuels innovation, resulting in new eco-friendly products and new customer benefits 16 - 4 Sustainable Marketing • Socially and environmentally responsible marketing that: • Meets the present needs of consumers and businesses • Preserves or enhances the ability of future generations to meet their needs 16 - 5 Figure 16.1 - Sustainable Marketing 16 - 6 Sustainable Marketing • McDonald’s “Plan to Win” addresses issues related to: • Food-supply sustainability • Sustainable packaging • Reuse and recycling • Responsible store designs “Plan to Win” strategy has both created sustainable value for customers and positioned the company for a profitable future 16 - 7 Social Criticisms of Marketing • Marketing’s impact on individual consumers has been criticized in terms of: • • • • • • High prices Deceptive practices High-pressure selling Shoddy, harmful or unsafe products Planned obsolescence Poor service to disadvantaged consumers 16 - 8 High Prices • Three factors are cited as leading to high prices: • High costs of distribution • High advertising and promotion costs • Excessive markups Heavily promoted brands cost much more than private labels virtually identical nonbranded or store-branded product 16 - 9 Deceptive Practices • Deceptive pricing - Falsely advertising factory or wholesale prices or large reductions from a phony high retail list price • Deceptive promotion - Misrepresenting a product’s features or performance, or luring consumers to store for out-of-stock item • Deceptive packaging - Exaggerating package contents, using misleading labeling, etc. 16 - 10 Deceptive Practices • Deceptive practices have led to legislation and other protective consumer actions • FTC governs deceptive practices • Use of puffery is legal, but may harm consumers in subtle ways • Deceptive practices are not sustainable as they harm a firm’s business in the long-run 16 - 11 High-Pressure Selling Tactics • Salespeople are often accused of using highpressure selling tactics: • In persuading people to buy goods they had no intention of buying • Because prizes are often given to top sellers • Marketers have little to gain from highpressure tactics • Such actions damage relationships with the firm’s customers 16 - 12 Shoddy or Unsafe Products • Products are not made well or services are not performed well • Products are unsafe due to manufacturer indifference, increased product complexity, and poor quality control • Products deliver little benefit or are even harmful 16 - 13 Planned Obsolescence • Causing products to become obsolete before they actually need to be replaced • Using materials and components that will break, wear, rust, or rot sooner than they should • Holding back functional features, and introducing them later to make older models obsolete • Perceived obsolescence - continually changing consumer concepts of acceptable styles to encourage more and earlier buying 16 - 14 Poor Service to Disadvantaged Consumers • They are forced to shop in small stores where they pay more for inferior goods • National chain retailers practice redlining and refuse to open businesses in poor neighborhoods 16 - 15 Underserved Consumers Lack of supermarkets in low income areas, have left many disadvantaged consumers with little or no access to healthy, affordable fresh foods 16 - 16 Marketing’s Impact on Society as a Whole • Marketing’s impact on society as a whole has been criticized in terms of: • Creating false wants and encouraging materialism • Overselling private goods at the expense of public (social) goods • Creating cultural pollution, stemming from constant exposure to marketing messages 16 - 17 Fuel for Thought • Marketing messages are prevalent throughout the United States, and critics contend that this causes “cultural pollution • Do you agree? Why or why not? 16 - 18 Marketing’s Impact on Other Businesses • Critics charge that a firm’s marketing practices can harm other companies and reduce competition through: • Acquisitions of competitors • Marketing practices that create barriers to entry • Unfair competitive marketing practices 16 - 19 Marketing’s Impact on Other Businesses Walmart was accused of predatory pricing practices by local pharmacists Wal-Mart countered charges by noting that their tremendous buying power allows them to sell at this price and still make a profit 16 - 20 Consumerism • An organized movement of citizens and government agencies to improve the rights and power of buyers in relation to sellers 16 - 21 Traditional Seller’s Rights • Introduce any product in any size and style, provided it is not hazardous to safety; or, if it is, to include proper warnings and controls • Charge any price for the product, provided no discrimination exists among similar kinds of buyers • Spend any amount to promote the product, provided it is not defined as unfair competition 16 - 22 Traditional Seller’s Rights • Use any product message, provided it is not misleading or dishonest in content or execution • Use any buying incentive schemes, provided they are not unfair or misleading 16 - 23 Traditional Buyers’ Rights • To not buy a product that is offered for sale • To expect the product to be safe • To expect the product to perform as claimed 16 - 24 Proposed Consumer Rights • Consumer advocates call for additional rights: • To be protected against questionable products and marketing practices • To influence products and marketing practices in ways that will improve quality of life • To consume now in a way that will preserve the world for future generations of consumers • To be informed about important aspects of the product 16 - 25 Consumers’ Right to Information • Product labels contain information about ingredients, nutrition facts, recycling, country of origin Jones Soda even puts customer submitted photos on its labels 16 - 26 Environmentalism • An organized movement of concerned citizens and government agencies to protect and improve people’s living environment 16 - 27 Environmentalism • Those who subscribe to environmentalism believe that marketing system’s goal should be to maximize quality of life • Life quality includes the quantity and quality of consumer goods and services and quality of the environment 16 - 28 Environmentalism • Is concerned with damage to the ecosystem caused by global warming, resource depletion, toxic and solid wastes, litter, etc. • Over the past several decades, such concerns have resulted in federal and state laws and regulations • In recent years, however, firms have accepted more responsibility and many have adopted a policy of environmental sustainability 16 - 29 Environmental sustainability • Management approach that involves developing strategies that both sustain the environment and produce profits for the company 16 - 30 Figure 16.2 - The Environmental Sustainability Portfolio Sustainability Efforts—Pollution Prevention Subaru of Indiana claims that it now sends less trash to the landfill each year than the average American family 16 - 32 New Clean Technology • Many companies are adopting design for environment (DFE) and cradle-to-cradle practices • Design products that are easier to recover, reuse, recycle, or safely return to nature after usage Coke is researching and testing new bottles made from aluminum, corn, or bioplastics 16 - 33 Marketing at Work • Sustainability means: • Driving out hidden costs • Conserving natural resources • Providing sustainable and affordable products so customers can save money and live better Figure 16.3 - Marketing Decision Areas That May be Called into Question Under the Law 16 - 35 Consumer-oriented marketing • A principle of sustainable marketing that holds a company should view and organize its marketing activities from the consumer’s point of view 16 - 36 Customer-value marketing • A principle of sustainable marketing that holds a company should put most of its resources into customer-value-building marketing investments 16 - 37 Innovative marketing • A principle of sustainable marketing that requires a company to seek real product and marketing improvements 16 - 38 Sense-of-Mission Marketing • A principle of sustainable marketing that holds that a company should define its mission in broad social terms rather than narrow product terms Sense-of-mission marketing has made Pedigree the world’s number one dog food brand 16 - 39 Marketing at Work • Ben & Jerry’s, The Body Shop, Burt’s Bees, Stonyfield Farms, Patagonia, Timberland, and TOMS Shoes pioneered the concept of valuesled Method’s mission is to inspire a happy, healthy home revolution 16 - 40 Societal marketing • A company makes marketing decisions by considering consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-run interests, and society’s long-run interests 16 - 41 Figure 16.4 - Societal Classification of Products 16 - 42 Deficient Products that have neither immediate products appeal nor long-run benefits Pleasing products Products that give high immediate satisfaction but may hurt consumers in the long run Salutary products Products that have low immediate appeal but may benefit consumers in the long run Desirable Products that give both high immediate products satisfaction and high long-run benefits Desirable Products PepsiCo has hired a team of scientists to help it develop a larger portfolio of healthy product options, such as the Trop50 brand 16 - 44 Business Actions Toward Sustainable Marketing • Firms need to develop corporate marketing ethics policies to serve as broad guidelines that everyone in the organization must follow 16 - 45 Business Actions Toward Sustainable Marketing • Ethics policies should cover: • • • • • • Distributor relations Advertising standards Customer service Pricing Product development General ethical standards 16 - 46 Business Actions Toward Sustainable Marketing • In solving issues on ethics and social responsibility, companies and marketing managers can rely on principles of: • The free market and legal system • Letting responsibility fall to individual companies and managers to develop a social conscience • International marketers face the challenge of varying business practices and standards across countries 16 - 47 Rest Stop: Previewing the Concepts • • • Define sustainable marketing and discuss its importance Identify the major social criticisms of marketing Define consumerism and environmentalism and explain how they affect marketing strategies 16 - 48 Rest Stop: Previewing the Concepts • • Describe the principles of sustainable marketing Explain the role of ethics in marketing 16 - 49 All rights reserved. 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