Route to Market (RTM) -March
Discipline: Management, Domain: Marketing, Category: Business Plan
Date:  08-Mar-2012 to 09-Mar-2012
Organizers:  T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Website:  http://www.tapmi.edu.in/student-life/pratibimb/overview/
Location:  Manipal

Pratibimb – The TAPMI's e-Magazine - is the conglomeration of the various specializations in MBA (Marketing, Finance, HR, Systems and Operations). It intends to provide insights that relate to the various departments of Management. Hence, it gives an opportunity to the students of TAPMI as well as the best brains across country, to exhibit their creative quotient. The magazine also strives to gain expert inputs from various industries, thereby merging academics and industry.

The market has always been unpredictable for the companies. Significancantly more, in the case of international brands which are trying to enter new emerging markets. Every brand wants global recognition so that they can tap the new markets easily. The role of marketing managers during this age of globalization becomes more important in providing the companies with an apt strategy to enter new market. We give our readers a platform to experience this challenge through "Route To Market", where we invite the marketing maniacs to display their acumen by developing a marketing strategy.

The primary objective that the participant is expected to fulfill is to provide a "Market entry strategy" for an international brand/product into the Indian market. The winner of the event would be awarded a prize of Rs 1000/-

The overall strategy would be divided into three stages:
1. Market Assessment (Weightage: 35%) - Key Deliverables:

•Customer Assessment (Segmentation, Targeting)
•Market Competitive Assessment
•Distribution Channel Assessment

2. Communication Strategy (Weightage: 30%) - Key Deliverables:

•Positioning
•Promotion Strategy (Creative is not required)

3. Implementation and Go Live (Weightage: 35%) - Key Deliverables:

•Test market geography selection.
•Launch Price (Exact price to be mentioned)
•Performance measurement metric selection.

Rules:

•Brand for which entry strategy needs to be crafted is "Netflix"
•Document size should not exceed 4 pages excluding coverpage
•Maximum 2 members allowed in a team
•The participant is expected to justify his stand–point in each deliverable
•Each stage should be clearly mentioned under sub–heading
•Name the file as "RTM_TEAM NAME_Institute Name".
•Please register yourself on the following link: https://www.facebook.com/tapmi.pratibimb?sk=app_151503908244383
•Upload your entries on http://www.tapmi.edu.in/student-life/pratibimb/participants-submission

# Name Phone Email
1 Abhishek Anupam 8722644455 pratibimb@tapmi.edu.in
2 Sushmit Sinha 9743782511 pratibimb@tapmi.edu.in
# Title Deadline Date
1 Last Date for Submission 2012-03-22 00:00:00
# Rank Cash Certificate Others
1 1 1000 Rs no
   






    
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