Market entry strategy

Market entry strategy

A market entry strategy is the planned method of delivering goods or services to a target market and distributing them there. When importing or exporting services, it refers to establishing and managing contracts in a foreign country.

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Factors

Many companies successfully operate in a niche market without ever expanding into new markets[who?]. Some businesses achieve increased sales, brand awareness and business stability by entering a new market[who?]. Developing a market entry strategy involves a thorough analysis of potential competitors and possible customers[who?]. Some of the relevant factors that are important in deciding the viability of entry into a particular market include Trade barriers, localized knowledge, price localization, Competition, and export subsidies.

Timing of the market entry

"What countries to enter and when mainly depends on the financial resources of a company, the product lifecyle and the product itself." [1]
The different strategies available are:

  • Waterfall strategy
  • Wave strategy
  • Sprinkler strategy

Strategies

Some of the most common market entry strategies are: directly exporting products, indirect exporting using a middleman, and producing products in the target market.[2]
But also:

Market entry and trade risks

Some of the risks incurred when entering a new market and start domestic or international trade include:

  • Weather risk
  • Systematic risk, different from systemic risk, the systematic risk is the risk inherent to the entire market or an entire market segment [3]
  • Sovereign risk
  • Foreign exchange risk
  • Liquidity risk

While some companies prefer to develop by their own their market entry plans, other outsource to specialised companies[who?]. The knowledge of the local or target market by those specialized companies can mitigate trade risk[citation needed].

More market entry strategies:

Production at home Indirect exporting (export merchant) Direct exporting (foreign customer, agent, distributor, representative office, foreign branch, foreign subsidiaryÖ Production abroad without direct investment (management contract, franchising, licensing, contract manufacturing) with direct investment ( partly owned subsidiary, acquisition of a foreign company, set up a new company, equity joint venture).

Sources

  • Reviving Traditions in Research on International Market Entry, Po Li (Auteur), T. Li, JAI Press, 2003 ISBN 0762310448 ISBN 978-0762310449
  • On durable goods markets with entry and adverse selection,Janssen, M. Roy,CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS,2004, VOL 37; NUMBER 3, pages 552-589 ISBN ISSN 0008-4085

References

  1. ^ Lymbersky, C.: (2008) "Market Entry Strategies", p. 364; Management Laboratory Press, Hamburg
  2. ^ Corporate documents, Chapter 7: Market Entry strategies
  3. ^ investopedia, systemic risk

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