Marketing Concept Flashcards
When did the production concept come about?
1850s
How did the production concept evolve?
Industrial revolution:
- technological inventions enabled market traders to set up factories
- grew rapidly
- demand to produce more and more
- needed more people to work in the factories
- people then had more money to spend on consumer goods
- new factories opened up
Where did the industrial revolution begin?
Manchester cotton goods production
Production concept demand
Companies didn’t have to think about the customer
Produce more
Reduced price for consumer
Prices go down demand goes up
As more people buy and produce more, prices go down
Production led:
Produce more
Bring prices down
More customers
How long did the production concept last?
Until late 1920s
Example of the production concept
Henry Ford didn’t give customers colour choice
What happened in 1929?
Wall Street crash caused by the Great Depression
Consequences of the Wall Street crash?
People started to think about what they were spending
More cautious with their money
Manufacturers also become more cautious
Prices went down below the cost of production
What was the outcome of the Great Depression?
Era of the selling concept
1930s
Who started the selling concept?
Tom Watson Snr
CEO of IBM
Why the selling concept?
Couldn’t rely on he customers to buy, you had to go out and sell things
How does the selling concept work best?
Not loyal to brands
Competition brings the price down
Who adopts the production concept today?
Still developing countries
Why do still developing countries use the production concept?
Don’t have the products and services of developed countries
As the get employment they can spend more on products and services