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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Marketing Plan-Vina Game Software Service Joint Stock Company-Free Essay

Executive Summary
Vinagame is one of biggest game companies in Vietnam market. It has just been founded in 2004 but it gradually become more and more popular because of its variety. Vinagame’s home page is http://zing.vn/. When they first were established, its main area is just providing authorized games from China and creating Vietnamese traditional games based on folk games from years ago. However VinaGame wants to spread out their brand name more popular, they decide to work in software outsourcing, e-commerce and media and communications as well. Due to its diversification, now its website has thousands of access per day to find about updated movies, new music albums, latest news or joining forum with others, etc. These leads to success of Vinagame and expansion of their brand name in the market.
In this marketing plan, our team only focuses on online games area of Vinagame and draws up a plan for the following year. we will help Vinagame set financial objectives and marketing objectives. Vinagame intends to achieve 5% increase in profit each month and holding 20% market shares.
Table of Content
1. Current Market Situation 4
1.1 Introduction 4
1.2 Situation analysis 4
1.2.1 Macro- environment: 4
1.2.2 Micro-environment: 6
1.3 SWOT Analysis 6
2. Objectives 8
2.1. – Financial Objectives: 8
2.2. Statement of Product Objectives (SMART): 9
3. Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning 9
3.1 Segmentation 9
3.1.1 Geographical segmentation 9
3.1.2. Demographical segmentation 10
3.1.3. Psychographic segmentation 10
3.1.4. Behavioral segmentation 10
3.2. Target Marketing 11
3.3. Positioning Segmentation 11
4. Marketing Mix Strategies 13
4.1. Product 13
4.1.1. Product and service classification 13
4.1.2. Three level of Product 13
4.1.3. Branding 14
4.2 Price 15
4.2.1 New Product Pricing Strategies: 15
4.2.2 Product Mix Pricing Strategies: 15
4.2.3 Pricing Adjustment Strategies: 15
4.2.4 Pricing Approaches 15
4.3. Place 16
4.3.1 Location 16
4.3.2. Distribution 16
4.4 Promotion 16
5. Action Plan & Budget 19
6. Control Program 21
7. Reference list 21


1. Current Market Situation
1.1 Introduction
VinaGame, founded in 2004, is a software service company. It is the first company in Viet Nam providing online games. They have more than 1000 employees and the main office is located at Ho Chi Minh City. They hold ¾ shares in online games market and become the biggest games company at the present. In 2004, they made a deal for Swords Man online with Kingsoft, a Chinese game company. This online game becomes the most attractive and popular in Vietnam from 2004 until now. In addition, they released some online games such as nine dragons, Ragnarok, Boom online, Sword Man online II, which are played national wide range too. In 2006, they offered the e-commerce website http://www.123mua.com.vn/. In 2007, they provided online music website http://mp3.zing.vn/ (VinaGame 2007).
1.2 Situation analysis
1.2.1 Macro- environment: Macro -environment affects the company in general and they could not be prevented.
Demographic: It is study of human population in term of size, density, location, age, gender (Kotler et al, 2005). So the population structure impacts strongly on Vinagame’s strategy of distributing their online games. In Vietnam, majority of people who play online game are from 10-30 years old (VinaGame, 2008). The reason is online game is entertainment pattern which the youth is most interested in (GameThu, 2007). According to GOPFP 2008, population at the age of 10-30 is about 38.16% so this is the most potential market for Vinagame to develop.
Economic: It is factors that affect consumer buying power and spending patterns (Kotler et al, 2005). Changes in income also affect amount of payment for game accounts. In 2004, average income of urban people is 815,000 VND (VNmedia, 2007). It increases about 200,000 more in average in 2006. Higher income may let gamers spend more money on their game accounts. According to VnMedia 2007, in general, people less than 25 years old pay 50-100,000 VND per month for Swords Man online, the most attracting game of Vinagame. Because of financial crisis, many gamers have to spend less on game online. Nevertheless our targeted customers are mainly teenagers and youth who depend mostly on their parents, their payment for game online is not affected much.
Social and cultural: It is institutions and other forces that affect society’s basic values, perceptions, preferences and behaviors(Kotler et al, 2005). In perception of Vietnamese or people in others countries, males usually play game for relax much more than females do. And males always like adventure, violent, fighting games. So Sword man online, nine Dragons and Sudden Attack are suitable. It leads to huge number of males play those game.
Natural: Natural resource that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities (Kotler et al, 2005). VinaGame buy the copyright original games from foreign countries and then remake them become the games for Vietnamese with Vietnamese language. In the future, with the steady develop in creativity of people, Vietnamese can write game. So the cost of game materials will be reduced and VinaGame will not need to import games.VinaGame have many employees who are very good at computer skill. They should invest more in human development. So they can write their own games without purchasing game material.
Political: It is laws, government agencies, and pressure groups tat influence and limit various organizations and individuals in a given society (Kotler et al, 2005). Policy of government for online games affects Vinagames’s business. For example, the limitation of playing time reduces the number of people play game (GameThu2007). Many games request players spend more time to get their characters stronger than other players. Players can only access to the games for 5 hours. So they will no more feel interested in the games.
Technological: It is the forces that create new technologies, creating new product and market opportunities (Kotler et al, 2005). Technological environment is the most effect on VinaGame because they are a software service company. They work on computer, internet to run their business. With the fast development in the Internet in Viet Nam, online game has chance to be more popular. According to VnMedia 2007, in 2007 there were about 21 million people using Internet. Beside internet, computer gradually becomes popular either. Therefore, it makes a good opportunity for online games develop.
1.2.2 Micro-environment: the micro-environment affects marketing strategies directly. Those factors impact on the number of players who plays online games of VinaGame.
Competition
-Direct competitors: they are the companies which provide online games for players in Viet Nam market such as VTC, Asia soft. VTC have some famous games such as Cross Fire, Audition and Asiasoft have TS online, Gunbound, Cabal online. They are the same type of game like VinaGame’s and they attract a lot of players. They directly compete to VinaGame and they affect number of their players. For example, Cross Fire of VTC competes to Sudden Attack of VinaGame, Swords Man with Cabal online and TS online because they are the same action type.
-Indirect competitors: they are some different type of game or type of gamer. For example, offline game is from EA game company, PS3 from Sony, Xbox from Microsoft. They also affect VinaGame because if people are interested in those games, they do not play online games more.
Marketing intermediaries: Firstly, they are the agencies that sell game card which enable players get in the game. However, they do not affect a lot because buyer does not care about service. Secondly, they are the game shop of VinaGame or they are the game shop of individual. Those are where people come and play games. So their service can affect number of player. They reflect how good those games are.
Suppliers: They are the software companies from foreign countries. They write games and then sell for VinaGame the copyright version. There are 9 suppliers which provide game for VinaGame: Kingsoft Inc, VDC Co.ltd, Intel corp, IDG venture, Indy 21 Co.ltd, Gravity, Nexon, CJ Internet, GameHi. In 9 companies, Kingsoft and GameHi support games for VinaGame. Games of Kingsoft lead the 3 of 5 top online games in Viet Nam. They play an important role in developing VinaGame become one of the biggest game company.

1.3 SWOT Analysis



Internal factors









External factors Strengths:
-they have strong advertising nationwide and huge amount of capital.
-their employees are the passionate gamers. So they understand deeply what gamers expect in a game.
-they have nationwide hosting network.

Weakness:
-VinaGame focuses too much on profit. It gradually lose the attraction of the game when player who spend more money, they get stronger character in the game.
-Although they have nationwide network, sometime a lot of error happen and cause annoying for gamers.
-Customer service department do not solve player’s problem quickly.
Opportunities:

-Viet Nam game market is developing very fast and it is a good chance for VinaGame develops.
-Many attractive games from over the world companies will release in few years.
-Internet is now used popularly. So it is good condition for online game become popular to everyone. SO Strategies
-make use of nationwide advertising and network to meet and satisfy player’s game demand when Viet Nam game market develops fast
- with almost employees are passionate gamers, VinaGame should select and buy the right game that is suitable for Vietnamese players WO Strategies

VinaGame also up to date the existing game more regularly in order to make players more exciting, not just focusing on profit. It also creates for VinaGame some competitive advantage to compete to others game companies
Threats
-Government policy does not allow people play excess 5 hours for each game.
- There are many foreign companies are running business in online game market and they compete to each other to attract players.
-if the game is unchanged or updated regularly, players will feel bored. ST Strategies
- Vinagame should use their passionate game employees to make competitive games to foreign games. WT Strategies
- They should care more about the network that they supply for users in order to improve quality of network and compete to new rivals. They also provide 24/7 customers services.


2. Objectives
2.1. – Financial Objectives:
Our finance objective is to return to investment for purchasing the game and increase 5% of profit each month from January 2009- December 2009.
In the first 3 to 4 months, from January to April Vinagame plans to rewrite the external games from Korea and China then translate into Vietnamese. In this period, they will get no profit. After release the game to market in March, they spend on marketing in order to attract players. From May, each month they will receive about 22.5 billions by selling 4.5 millions game cards to 1.5 millions forecasted customers and the forecasted profit is about 12.1 billions. Amount of money they pay for purchasing supplies is about 30 billions VND. The break-even point is about 1,270,000 numbers of game cards. Their wage budget for 6 months from the beginning always reserved to avoid emergencies. It is about 48 billions.

2.2. Statement of Product Objectives (SMART):
Vinagame is going to apply “more for more” approach for the products. As the company divides the products into three types of game card, that is ranged from 50,000VND to 200,000VND. The more products being paid, the more opportunities customer would have to satisfy their game passions. The company tries to make various kinds of products that up to customer’s need. Vinagame plans to increase the market share to 15% in 2009 and products would be sold 50% in each month.
By releasing new games every three months, Vinagame hopes to increase the quantity of new customer in the target market.
Furthermore, Vinagame’s brand awareness plans to increase the brand name by 40% within a year. To keep the current customers, Vinagame focuses specifically on product quality and services. Moreover, the company also looks at the potential customers to widen its own market. The customer would also be business man or women who are stressful at the office and want to find a new way of entertainment out of bars, restaurant or karaoke bar.
Besides, Vinagame gradually develops their current website in order to serve customer and media more flexible. The company accepts online ordering for customer who lived far from centre or some who are busy with work and have no time to buy at the agency.
Overall, the focus that Vinagame invests time and money in is the quality of games that the company tries hard to produce. The more attractive the games are, the more customers Vinagame would have. An improvement plan for new types of games for girl such as Boom online, games based on legends, etc, would be developed and deployed.
3. Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
3.1 Segmentation
3.1.1 Geographical segmentation
• City
Vinagame plans to launch the agency to other Vietnam’s main cities, which are Da Nang, Nghe An, Da Lat, Dak Lak. These potential cities are specially developed in Vietnam. Not only most of these cities are Vietnam’s main harbours but they also have
3.1.2. Demographical segmentation
As the needs and wants of Vinagame’s consumer targets on a specific range of age, the company decides to provide their product for young people from 8 to 25. Besides, even most people used to think game is only boy. Vinagame widen the target also for girl. There has not only boys who are concern about game but also girl nowayday. Since the Gunbound game officially launched in Vietnam, the youth was attracted to a type of colourful and active game with cute characters. This type of game makes people connect together. They could share the character’s clothes and stuffs and have money in exchange. Gunbound game makes girls and boys close together and it is funny to spend their time. Based on this experience, Vinagame plans the same type of game that could attract both genders to get involed in. From it, the products that are provided would be served for both genders. In Vietnam individually, household income generally stay at a low rate. Therefore, the average income group Vinagame focuses on is people earn approximately 3 million VND. Gamers of Vinagame mostly are students who parent’s earnings are suitable to give them money to spend on games and part time workers. Part time workers who do not have to do much work can spend one to two hours for game online. Vinagame produces three kinds of game that suitable to Vietnamese. There are swashbuckler, battle formation and tactic games.
3.1.3. Psychographic segmentation
Vinagame provides for targeted markets who are interested in being put to the test and try ways to deal with the difficulties of the games. Vinagame’s gamers are in lower and middle class with great patience, intelligence and ambitious.
3.1.4. Behavioral segmentation
As the customers include ex users, non-user and potential group, Vinagame started to focus on these groups to bring out suitable strategy to the market. Furthermore, the company also looks at the customer’s loyalty to identify the frequency of play games. Besides, Vinagame especially concerns about customer’s attitude toward their products to make changes up to customer’s wants in each period. The changes are made to create customer’s benefits as product convenience and relaxation.
3.2. Target Marketing
Vinagame’s target marketing strategy is “differentiated marketing”. Vinagame offers their product to several market segments. The company designs various kinds of games that suit with different personality of both sexes such as Swashbuckler and Battle formation for boy and Boom Online for girls with colorful designs.
3.3. Positioning Segmentation
 Positioning Map
Positioning Statement
Vinagame products are produced to give customers chances to satisfy their passion in game and relaxation. Based on the improvement that the company makes each day, Vinagame would potentially brings new value to the market with highest quality game that meet market’s current demands. The company slogan is “Leading Game Operator in Vietnam”. Vinagame is positioned on quality and service.












High quality



Low price High price



Low quality
Brand Price
Vinagame 50,000->200,000
Glassegg 100,000->150,000
Gameloft 100,000->150,000
VTCgame 25,000->30,000

To increase the needs and wants of Vietnam’s market, Vinagame is bringing a great international scale service that offers unique hosting, services and new process of payments
4. Marketing Mix Strategies
4.1. Product
4.1.1. Product and service classification
Vinagame sells not only game services but also tangible products.
- Product: Game card with different prices (tangible)
- Service: Game on the Internet (intangible)
Although it is the leading company in the game online market, it sill provides affordable products (various prices for game card: range from 20,000 VND-100,000VND). Customers also take fewer efforts to shop and buy and any player can buy its cards at any store or even small shops. So, according to Kotler 2005, Vina games are the convenience product in the category of consumer product.
4.1.2. Three level of Product

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a/ Core Benefit:
When customers come to Vinagame, they really buy these following things:
- Relaxing time, entertainment.
- Skills of thinking logically
b/ Actual product:
In the second level, planners will think of how to create a real product which includes these following factors.
- Brand name: Most famous brand name in the game online market
- Quality lesvel: Stable game with not many errors
- Packaging:
- Design: Colourful design with the name of the game, the card price, and the contacts service on the card
- Features: action games and funny
c/ Augmented Product:
In the last level, building an augmented product around the core and actual which must add the customer service and benefits (Kotler, 2005).
- Delivery and credit: order game cards on the website; pay the game account through the internet and text messages.
- Installation: instruction of installation on the websites
- After sale service: Contacts of Vinagame on the game card.
4.1.3. Branding
a/ Packaging:
At this time, Vinagame use plastic to make the game card. In 2009, Vinagame will use paper instead of plastic to protect the environment.
b/ Labelling:
The face of game card will include the name of company (Vinagame), price group, hotlines for customer service. In 2009, Vinagame will design different game card for each price group. For the price group of 20,000 VND, the card will have blue color, pink for 60,000 VND game card, and red for 120,000VND game card. Therefore, the customer will easy to recognize the type of card they want to buy.
c/ Branding Strategy:
- Brand Positioning:
Vinagame is the largest game online company in Vietnam (Vinagame, 2008). Along with the brand name Vinagame, in 2009, building up the beliefs and values in customers are very important to Vinagame.
- Brand Development Strategies:
According to Kotler 2005, successful brand will help to develop a new product. So the managers will follow Brand Extension Strategy to develop new games. Understanding this key point, in around 1 year, Vinagame will keep developing old brand games like Sword man, Zhengtu, Hot Step and Boom. These are famous games of Vinagame Company. None of these should be phased out. In addition to that, Vinagame will introduce two more new games in the trial versions. Players are very difficult to change to new games so if they see familiar name, they may try the new game.
4.2 Price
4.2.1 New Product Pricing Strategies:
There are many ways to set pricing strategies. In 1 year period, considering the price group and the segmentation of Vinagame, market-skimming pricing strategy will match the objectives of Vinagame in 2009. Setting high price is affordable with the target market of Vinagame so high price for high quality product will gain a large market share gradually (Kotler, 2005).
4.2.2 Product Mix Pricing Strategies:
- Optional-Product Pricing:
For each price of game card, player can choose to play what they want or they can choose what stuff they want to buy.
- Captive Product:
It means that when the players want to play the games of Vinagame Company, they have to buy Vinagame card. They cannot use VTC game card to play Vinagames . If they want to be stronger in the game, they have to buy Vinagame card to buy stuff they need such as clothes, food, power, weapon, etc.
4.2.3 Pricing Adjustment Strategies:
- Discount and Allowance Pricing:
To promoting the new games, Vinagame will apply the discount pricing. Customers can play any new games for free and if they want some tools or weapons to be stronger, they just have to pay half price. This discount period will last for 6 months.
Adding more playing time during Tet Holiday
4.2.4 Pricing Approaches
Vinagame bases on the satisfaction of customer about the games so the price of games will be decide following the theory of value-based pricing.
4.3. Place
4.3.1 Location
Vinagame has retailers everywhere because the Vinagame cards (Zingcard) are sold in any game shop and also some convenience stores. Most game shops are located around the secondary and high schools because Vinagame’s target market is students. Now, Zingcards are sold near school and parking area. Therefore, in 2009, Vinagame will continue to sell their cards at these places.
4.3.2. Distribution
Vinagame use the vertical marketing system to build up its distribution systems. In 2009, after the new game is bought, the technician will make some changes to the game so that it is suitable for Vietnamese players. For examples, changing to text from English to Vietnamese or adding more characters. So Vinagame is manufacturer, supplier and outlet.
Vinagame also use new way of high-tech distribution. They use the text messages or the Internet for customers to pay the game accounts.
4.4 Promotion
In order to attract more and more gamers come to their game online. VINA game has used the Pull Strategy to support for their target. Pull strategy is the business put lot of effort to advertise and promote product to create the enthusiasm from gamer to new product.(Kotler, 2005)

Since, Game Online is just a virtual product that cannot be bought direct, so VINA Game mainly build up the customer demand, in other word, they stimulus the gamer enthusiasm to the coming up games, through some different type of promotion such as :Advertising, Sale promotion, Public Relationship, and some additional ones like Physical Evidence , People, or Process.
ADVERTISING: is the way, product was presented under different forms, instead of people. Thus, VINA game used many various ways to promote their products through their homepage (www.vinagames.com), or some kind of social activities such as charity or sponsor to attract the people’s attention to their promoted product. Since, our targeted customer is mainly the teenager and youth who are interested in IT technology, and music, hence, we concentrated on promoting game on the specific IT newspaper, magazine such as E-Chip( the most favorite IT newspaper), or PC World, also put advertisement on music radio station ( xonefm). Also, VINA Game want to use message strategy that make customer react to our product in positive way, for example, our company will promote the brand new game online on our homepage that got lot of viewers, by mean of posting game trailers with vivid imagines , funny characters.. That will attract the gamer attention. Another one, VINA Game will send email to gamers being members to inform about the new coming up game. Additional, VINA game will keep the eyes on level of competition (i:e how much their direct competition pay for ads, how often they are shown on TV), based on that, they will regard about budget to pour on advertisement. Due to our targeted customer are teenager and youth, so they have intention to believe in big brand names, rather than small ones in market. Thus, a mount of money for advertising, or developing advertisement will raise our brand awareness from customer, percentage of future sales. Also, it helps us take more market share from rival’s hand.
SALE PROMOTION: the strategy to encourage customer to buy the product or services by providing some Consumer promotion Tools, for instance,
o Sample: Before providing the official game to market, VINA game always give the free trial beta, and close beta for gamers in a month, in order to get their interest in our new product.
o Coupons: when gamer buys one 50.000VND Card, they will have 200% in the balance instead of buying 50.ooo VND.This strategy aims to promote for mature games
PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP: the way company makes good impression on the various publics what take the much lower cost rather than advertise
o Special Event: to promote for “Swordsman Online”, VINA hold the “ Miss Swordsman Competition”, another ones is “Best Gamer Meeting”. to create the favorable news about the company and also interest the target publics.
o Lobbying: the way we integrate with legislator or official to affect on the government legislation and regulation. Our company will cooperate with the government in limiting the game online addiction of gamer, by mean of, we will reduce their level, or minus score if they more than 5 hours.
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE: the physical items that customer can see, also it portrays the company image that company tries to promote (Physical Evidence, 2008). For example:
o Brand name: when gamer buy the scratch- off prepaid cards. They will see the company logo on each card.
Credit: www.gamecardsvn.com,

o Internet/webpage: customer can see many different games with the flash trailer shown on the VINA game homepage. Also, they introduce some different types of business the company are operating.
o E-Mail: when people who are the member of forum, they will be informed by mail, about some new coming up game.
PEOPLE is who involve in business, having the more influence rather than any kind of promotion to customer’s experience whenever they contact the customer (People, 2008). Since, VINA game operates in service field, but our product can’t be sold direct to customer individual. Hence, the firm mainly pay attention to improve the better Customer Service Support that will add more value of our company to customer.
o Customer Service: customer support team, expertise on IT, providing gamer some technical supports: for example, they will return to blocked account to gamers. Also, they communicate with the customer through telephone or Internet (I;e mail), such as when they get problem with the scratch- paid off card, they will contact to our service to check, and then activate the balance for gamers.
PROCESS: is the number of process integrating with each other to create the an overall marketing process, in order to fulfil the main achievement (Process & Services Marketing, 2008).With purpose that seeing the customer experience to the company’s offering, from that the company can measure the achievement. Thus, we want to create our system understandable for everyone, not only our particular target, For instance, to “swordsman Online,” if gamer wants to play it. He just need go to our homepage to register, fill some information. After that, our system will sent him an activated message, and he can play game immediately.




5. Action Plan & Budget
Vinagame Action Plan
Task Who Time Frame (Jan-Dec 2009) Budget
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Market Research MRKT Depart
Survey on Homepage 5,000,000 (1)
Market Analysis 5,000,000 (2)
Product Development Prodt-Depart
Release free 1st beta vers 20,000,000 (3
Final beta 20,000,000 (4)
Release official game No Cost
Updated version 3.0 50,000,000 (5)
Advertising MRKT-Depart
On IT newspaper Echips 11,900,000 (6)
On Game Magazine
PC World (7)
On Internet (homepage) No Cost
On musical radio station (xonefm) 2,000,000 (8)
Direct-mail
(for gamers only) No Cost
Public Relation MRKT-Depart
Publish Vinagame magazine 20,000,000 (9)
Live Competition Gameshow 300,000,000 (10)
Charity for disable people 1000,000,000 (11)
Sponsor for technology prize ( TriTue Vietnam- Vietnam Intelligence) 500,000,000 (12)
Total 3,483,000,000

6. Control Program
Since the action program will be carried out in the next year, Vinagame should have some ways to evaluate the effectiveness of the action plan.
Firstly, we concentrate on the advertising of the new game so the awareness of players is the most important thing. The company will set up Customer Awareness Surveys. These surveys are designed to know the knowledge of customers about the new products so that the company can adjust its advertising campaign.
Secondly, Vinagame release the new game in March so the customer’s satisfaction should be concerned. By carrying out Customer Satisfaction Surveys, the managers can understand more about the need and want of players. So Vinagame can make needed decision to satisfy the players.
Finally, in term of sales, Annual Reports of the company and Sale figures will be analysed carefully. In these reports, we can see the number of actual players for the new game and the number of sold game cards. The company can also compares its performance with the other competitors like VTC or Gameloft. Therefore, the action plan will be adjusted for the next period.

7. Reference list
Marekting Teacher, viewed 13th December, 2008


VinaGame 2008, viewed on 14 December,

General Statistics Office 2008, viewed on 14 December,

Vinagame, 2008, Press Room, Press Realese, viewed 3rd December, 2008


Lemcom Network, 2008, Customer Awareness, viewed 5th December, 2008

About, 2007, Retailing, Tips to Increase Retail Sales, viewed 19th December, 2008

Search CRM, 2007, Ask the CRM Expert: Questions & Answers, How to increase market share and maintain customer trust, viewed 17th December, 2008


Kotler et al, 2005, Principles of Marketing: An Asian Perspective, Pearson, Singapore.
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(6) http://styletv.vn/advertising-price-list/
(7) http://www.pcworld.com.vn/pcworld/pconline.asp?t=pcolarticle&arid=1256
(8) www.xonefm.com
(9)http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18278
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Marketing Plan-HP Pavilion dv2700t-Free Essay

MARKETING PLAN


HP PAVILION dv2700t
2008












TEAM LJ-GROUP 2
S3183684-LE ANH TUAN
S3192550-LUU DUC MINH
S3176190-KIM JU YEON
S3192322-TRAN THI THANH NGA

LECTURER: KIERAN TIERNEY



TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive summary 3
Current market situation 3
Market analysis 5
Micro environment 5
Macro environment 6
SWOT analysis 8
Objectives 11
Corporate objectives 11
Financial objectives 11
Marketing objectives 12
Segmenting 12
Segmenting consumer market 12
Targeting 14
Positioning 15
Perceptual Map 15
Marketing mix strategies 17
Product 17
Price 20
Places 22
Promotion 22
Action Programs 24
Control Programs 27
References 28





EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

HP is one of the world leaders of products, services and solutions in IT area. During 14 years working in Vietnam, HP always shows the professional of administration and management together with satisfying customers in order to improve the company brand awareness. Therefore, HP occupies highly the Vietnamese market share with the number of 23% in 2008 and becomes the leaders in Vietnamese market.
In this report, HP figures the company’s objectives in a short period of 9 months for releasing a new series HP Pavilion dv2700t starting in August, 2008. Firstly, in the 1st quarter of 2009, HP’s targets are achieving $36 million of sales and 18% of that number is profit margin. HP also expects to increase the market share by 20%. To achieve the targets, finance department decides to do market research quarterly to identify consumer buying power then assist for marketing department. Secondly, marketing department states to maximize consumer satisfaction and build loyalty and goodwill in Vietnamese consumers by offering superior products and excellent after sales services. In addition, there will be the first release of HP official e-commerce website to let customers purchasing online and give their feedbacks. Finally, all of promotion activities and public relations are well-prepared under the control programs in order to increase HP’s sales.







CURRENT MARKET SITUATION

HP was established in 1939 in Palo Alto, California, US working in IT area. Since then, HP now has become one of the leaders in manufacturing laptops, printers, software, and others technological products. HP first entered Vietnamese market in 1995 as a distributor of IT product and provide solution for banks, finances, telecommunications, and aviation.
Recently, Electricity-IT magazine co-operating with Market Research Center iScan have run a survey to have an overview about customers’ favorites, expectations and evaluations to some specific products including our brand HP. This primary research was running based on the consumers who have bought and used those products. It was taken at some particular well-known IT-centers, resellers and stores in Hanoi, for instance, Tran Anh, Phuc Anh, and in Ho Chi Minh City such as, Nguyen Kim, Idea by 200 of 20-question samples. The result essentially was not out of our forecast, that our brand is becoming the most favorite brand in the Vietnamese laptop market. According to the survey, our recent market share is approximately 22.7%, which is the highest at this time (figure 1) in comparison with that same period in 2006; our firm’s rank was no.4 with 6.8% of market share. These figures prove that our company has made a breakthrough in Vietnamese market and made an impression in consumers’ goodwill by making hi-quality and well-design products.

Figure 1: Vietnamese Laptop market share in 2nd quarter 2008
(Source: http://www.dientuvietnam.vn/index.php/cong-nghe-thong-tin/con-so-biet-noi/64-con-so-biet-noi/1429-nhung-con-so-biet-noi-072008, viewed at 10th August 2008)









MARKET ANALYSIS

MICRO ENVIRONMENT

Consumers
As the figure of the previous part has shown, HP has approximately 23% of the Vietnamese market share. In this period of time, when the digital technology has been growing significantly, the demand of using computers and laptops not only in the world but also in Vietnam is increasing as well. By having hi-quality and professional products such as DV Pavilion and Compaq Presario, together with extra customer services both before and after buying, HP satisfies almost every kind of customers in Vietnam now.

Competitors
IBM-Lenovo and Sony are the most 2 “dangerous competitors” of our company. IBM has ThinkPad that is used much by businessman. The products of this series have some special functions such as “HDD anti-shocked”, “HDD special recovery” etc. which help users to protect and recover their information. On the other hand, Sony Vaio is famous for light and magnificent design, which is also a comfortable and portable device. In addition, HP also needs to pay attention on “indirect competitors” such as HTC mobile and T-mobile. PDA-Personal Device Assistance with beneficial features increasing day by day from these firms may affect laptop market.

Marketing intermediaries
Since HP entered Vietnamese market, we have been opening 5 showrooms, two in the north, two in the south and one in the middle. They are not only showrooms but also the retailers and customer services, where customers will be assisted and problem resolved.


MACRO ENVIRONMENT

Demographics
Recently in Vietnam, the number of people using computer has been increasing significantly. Their purposes might be different, some of them use for educating, some use for chatting and gaming, some use to support their works. In the previous few years, computer was rarely used in few offices by the directors or some well-trained engineers. However, recent research has shown that in Vietnam computer is now being used popularly by every kind of people. The most users now are young people who are from the Generation Y - people who was born in the period of 1977-1994 (Kotler, P, 2005). Therefore, Vietnam is becoming a potential market of PC distributions at this time.

Economics
Economic environment is one of the most important factors which possibly affects to our profit. In Vietnam, the personal average income is below $1000/year, therefore, if our products are too expensive, it will be not an efficiency investment even there are also a big number of Vietnamese successful businessmen. In addition, it is obvious that “urban Asians, as well as Vietnamese people, are typically richer than their rural counterparts” (Kotler, P, 2005). This will result in the different buying power between these 2 areas.

Politics
General Department of Vietnam Customs recently has been decreasing the import tax of laptops from 10% in 2006 to 8% in 2008 (http://www.customs.gov.vn/Default.aspx?tabid=670 ). As prediction of experts, there will be no more import tax for this product in 2012. This policy will positively affect to the laptop’s market, when both consumers and producers’ surplus increase.



Technology
The new trend of producing laptop is light-weight, fashionable and integrates more technology for example Webcam and microphone built-in, bass and booster enhanced, remote control, etc. to satisfy customer needs and wants.











SWOT ANALYSIS



Internal Factors




External Factors
Strengths
• Magnificent design together with strong processors built-in (www.notebookreview.com , 2008).
• Innovative features such as “HDD quickly recover tools”, “Environment friendly system”.
• Customer loyalty
• Wide distribution channel with five showrooms and many distributors
Weaknesses
• High price.
• Limited models in the same product line are distributed to Vietnam.
• Quite heavy.
Opportunities
• Decrease tax and tariff since Vietnam joined WTO.
• The demand for using laptop is increasing.
• The income level of Vietnamese people is increased gradually by 14.9% per year (General statistics office of Vietnam, 2007)
• The developing of the new technology has become more rapidly.
SO Strategies
• Attract more customers to buy the new series.
• The quality of the new series is a guarantee for the consumers to buy and use the products.
• Open new showrooms in new areas to expand the current market. WO Strategies
• Consider to lower price to compete with other rivals
• Using the new technology in order to make innovative design for the new series.
• Distribute more models of the new series in Vietnam market.
Threats
• Direct competitors: Sony, IBM, Dell, Acer, Apple.
• Indirect competitors: HTC, T-mobile
• High inflation rate may reduce the buying power.
• Many steps of the bureaucracy of Vietnam policy can make HP hard to expand the market
• Consumer behavior: Vietnamese people tend to buy cheap products.
ST strategies
• Using the new features of the laptop series to compete with the competitors as a competitive advantage.
• Expand the market share by focusing on different segments WT Strategies
• Reduce price by minimizing the labor costs and all unnecessary costs in the production process.
• Making the cheaper model in the new series (which still keep the main configuration parts and design features of the series).
• Promoting and advertising in order to change the consumers’ behavior about using cheap products.

OBJECTIVES

CORPORATE OBJECTIVES

 Customer loyalty
 To earn customer loyalty by providing highest quality of products, services, and solutions.
 Profit
 To make sufficient profit (18%) to reinvest in business opportunities and company’s growth.
 Growth
 Changing in market is our great opportunity to grow with innovative products.
 Employee commitment
 To motivate and care for our employees with providing the best work environment
 Global citizenship
 To share our success in Vietnam by contribution to charities and growth in employment.

FINANCIAL OBJECTIVES

 Achieve the 18% of profit margin over sales volume of $ 36 million in Vietnamese market in mar, 2009.
 Increase the sales of HP pavilion dv2700t by 200% in 1st quarter of 2009 in comparison with 2008.

MARKETING OBJECTIVES
 Customer awareness:
 Maximize the satisfaction of customer by providing the excellence in products.
 To make our products to be more attractive and competitive over other companies, the price will be reasonable and affordable.
 Brand awareness:
 Continue emphasize the company brand name to all of Vietnamese customers.
 Market share:
 Increase the market share up to 20% by 2009.
 Strengthen the competitiveness of our commodities in the Vietnamese laptop market by becoming the most favorite brand.
 Increase satisfaction:
 Establish online service center to listen their opinions and build closer relationship


SEGMENTING

SEGMENTING CONSUMER MARKET

The series of the HP Pavilion dv2700t is one of our revolutions in the laptop technology. Our products aim to assist every customer from upper middle to high class. To facilitate delivering our services and products to the customers, we have divided the segmenting consumer market into four main fields as: geographic, demographic, psychographic and behavioral segmentation.

Geographic segmentation
HP targets the market mainly in the urban areas where people can afford such products like our laptop. In the other words, it is possible to say that, HP aims to the class of people with the high living standards who are seeking for the self-esteem and self-actualization levels of needs. Especially, in the big cities as: Hanoi, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh are the three our market’s concentrations.

Demographic segmentation
To have a good segmentation, we clearly evaluate some factors as customers’ age, income and occupation.
 Ages: The new laptop series is aiming at not only young people but also businesspersons (at the middle-age) so the target customers of HP are people at the age from 18-54 that is consisted of 65% of the whole 82.7 million Vietnamese people (Morley, C., 2007, ‘Consumer fact pack’)
 Income: people whose income more than 7 million VND
 Occupation: HP divides their customers into many classes from students, white-collar workers and designers, businessmen, officials.

Psychological segmentation
In this section, we more concern about social class, lifestyle.
 Social class: The new laptop series of HP is aiming at people in high class in the society. According to the statistic from Nielsen, it will be mainly in the class A which will be about 31% of the population.
 Lifestyle: suitable for different people, from young people who prefer active, stylish, modern lifestyles to professional businessmen.

Behavioral segmentation
Behavioral: youngsters prefer stylish design, more features on entertainment. Meanwhile, businessmen favor elegant and formal design and improvement in official tools and applications.
Occasion: HP extends their product promotion for special events such as School opening day, Independent day, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

TARGETING

Geographic
Basically, the high income people gather in the urban as: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang, and Vung Tau. Due to this perception, HP aims to expand its brands in these urban areas because of high and potential purchasing power.

Demographic
HP products will be suitable people from upper to high class based on different prices and qualities. The customers will be favor with the products based on its performance and design.
Psychographic
HP focuses on customers who have the passionate with high quality products and in outstanding performance laptop.

POSITIONING

Positioning Statement
Hp Pavilion dv2700 is produced to help the customers match with the developments of technology and fashionable standards. Our products can satisfy the customer’s demands and needs due to the breakthrough technology and impressive design. With Hp Pavilion dv2700, you can show who you are and where are you in the society. Thus our slogan is “let’s make others look at you with HP Pavilion dv2700”.

PERCEPTUAL MAP












High quality




Low price High price





Low quality
Brand Price
HP Pavilion Dv2700t 17,300,000
Sony Vaio VGN-CR32G 18,500,000
Apple MacBook MB403ZP 27,700,000
Acer Asprie One A150 6,800,000
IBM-Lenovo Y410 15,500,000
Dell Vostro 1400 13,000,000



MARKETING MIX STRATEGIES

PRODUCT

Core benefit
 Convenience
 Portable
 Working outside

Product and service decisions


Product attributes

Processor, operating system and memory
Processor • Intel® Core™ Duo processor T8168
• 2.2 GHz level 2 cache 2 MB, 533 MHz Bus speed

Operating system Windows Vista® Home Premium
Memory 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz
Internal drives
Internal hard disk drive 120 GB
System features
Wireless technologies Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Integrated Wireless LAN
Wireless capability Bluetooth® wireless networking

VGA 256MB
Speakers and microphone Altec Lansing® speakers


Webcam HP Pavilion Webcam with integrated microphone
Weight
Weight 2.54 kg

< http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4245 viewed 29th august, 2008>

Brand
HP is a well-known brand among the laptop producers not only in Vietnam but also all over the world. The brand name of HP can guarantee for the quality of the new series in the consumers’ views. Moreover, the design of the dv2700t series is based on the original design of the dv2000 series which is considered as one of the best laptop design in the market at this time (www.notebookreview.com 2008).

(Kotler P et al, 2005, ‘Principles of Marketing An Asian Perspective’, Prentice Hall Publish, Pearson Education, pp. 237)

HP should use the brand extension strategies in order to promote the new series to the market. The well-known brand name of HP can gain the faith and belief of the customers about the new products when they make decisions whether to use or not about the new series.

Packaging
The new series dv2700t has its own package’s way. Laptops are now packaged in cotton bags which has two versions, one version for young people (that is designed to make the customers look stylish and actively), one version for business people (that is designed to show the elegant and precise of the users).





Labeling
Keep the traditional HP logo in the middle left.





After sales services
Customers of HP will be provided with the best and professional customers’ services. The warranty for the series is 2 years (1 year longer than other products of HP). Furthermore, the customers can pay $65 to extent warranty for each year more. Besides, HP also has 3 support centre in Vietnam which are operated 24/7 to answer and support any questions and problems from the customers.


PRICE

Product mix pricing
 Product line pricing
In the new series, HP divides it into many models with different configurations and designs. Each model is assigned in four different sub-series (ordinary series, limited series with unique design, entertainment series and ultimate series) in the series dv2700t and they follow four main price levels: $1100, $ 1400, $1700 and $2000 (for the 17 inches).





Entertainment series Unique design series Ultimate series
 Optional-Product Pricing
Besides offering different models to fit with the needs of customers, HP also uses the optional-product pricing strategy. HP welcomes customers to add features to upgrade for their laptops. They can choose to increase the RAM capacity (from 1GB to 2GB) or they can choose to change their HDD capacity (from 120GB to 250GB). The price of each item varies from $30 to $150

Price Adjustment
 Discount
HP will discount for customers who buy the new series in the first week of September. The discounting will be 500,000 VND for ordinary series, limited series and entertainment series and 1 million VND for customers who use the ultimate series.
 Promotional pricing
• Discount on holiday: in occasion of special events such as Independent day, Christmas and New Year’s Eve, customers can spend less money than usual about 15-20% to own the same products with the same quality.
• Promotion campaigns: together with these events above, HP will offer free maintain service for customers. Customers will just need to bring their laptops or PCs to HP care centre and HP will check all the products for free.

PLACES

Horizontal marketing system
Up to now, HP has three main distributors (first-class) and many other second-class distributors in Vietnam. In 12/2007, HP also opens 5 showrooms, two in Hanoi, one in Da Nang and two in Ho Chi Minh City. HP has a wide distribution channel all over Vietnam which can help the customers find it comfortable to buy or research about the products. The distributors of HP, for example, Phuc Anh or Tran Anh is very well known desktop and laptop retailers in Vietnam market.

Hybrid marketing system
HP combines between selling their products through their retailers, distributors and through the internet. Customers can come to any retailers of HP in Vietnam to buy the new laptop series dv2700t or they can order through the internet. The new e-commerce official website of HP is in progress of design and will be published in September, 2009.

PROMOTION

• In order to promote the new series to the customers, we plan to use a massive advertising campaign to attract users to the products. We will advertise the series dv2700t on the newspapers, magazines and the internet.
• Newspaper and magazines: Advertise on most viewed IT magazines such as PC world, E-chip magazine; and popular newspaper e.g. Lao Dong, Tuoi Tre, Tien Phong. These advertising channels are suitable with HP’s customers segmentation.
• The internet: HP decides to promote the new laptop on raovat.com-the most popular website for trading, thegioiso.com- where people have their passion in technology always search for newest information and 24h.com.vn-the biggest entertainment website.

Sales promotion
• Customers who buy a dv2700t laptop can join in the special customer program (which was usually charge for $100 fee to join in the program). They will receive discount for the next purchasing, free update software with license, etc.
• Retailers and distributors of HP will receive point for each laptop they can sell and at some specific level (like 10 points, 20 points, 50 points and more); they will be granted with some valuable presents. Besides the presents, the retailers will also receive discounts for 15% if they can sell more than 200 million VND products per month.

Public relation
HP plans to hold Press conferences to announce our new product lines, answer question coming from public media before launching our product campaign. At the end of 2008, there will be another conference holding for our annual report of company performance.


ACTION PROGRAMS



Action Responsible 2008 2009 Budget
8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3
Advertising and Promotion

Marketing department
Design 48,000,000
Newspapers: Tuoi tre, Tien Phong, Lao Dong 150,000,000
Magazines: PC world, e-Chip 350,000,000
Internet: raovat.com, 24h.com.vn, thegioiso.net 100,000,000
Opening day 1st 80,000,000
Published 1st e-commerce HP website
Independent day’s ceremony, sale off 15%
Sponsor: RMIT sweetheart 96,000,000
Sponsor: Voting for Ha Long bay become Natural world wonder 100,000,000
X-Mas and New Year’s Eve, sale of 20%
Distribution and Development Administration department
Distributing to resellers and showrooms
Developing customer database R&D 80,000,000
Market research 80,000,000
Hire staff and workers HR x 60,000,000
Salary & Wages 300,000,000
Showrooms rental x 270,000,000
Decoration for special event 50,000,000
Quarter overviews Finance department
Total expense: 1,768,000,000 VND





CONTROL PROGRAMS

Number of sales
 Tells us whether our marketing plan is working properly or not.
 Keep on monitoring the flow of sales to adjust our plans based on it. (E.g. plan for more promotion for low sales)
Retailers
 Can give useful information which helps us to evaluate our product’s performance and competitiveness in the market.
 We have to make sure that retailers provide enough information about our product and right price to customers.

Customers’ feedback
 The degree of customers’ satisfaction is the primary determinant of succeed of our marketing plan.
 We should try to improve the quality of products/services based on what customers complain about.



REFERENCES

• Kotler P et al, 2005, ‘Principles of Marketing An Asian Perspective’, Prentice Hall Publish, Pearson Education

• http://support.openview.hp.com/news_feb_05.jsp?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN ,
viewed 29th August, 2008
• Morley, C., 2007, ‘Consumer fact pack’, slides presented to Your consumers from Head to Toe seminar, Ho Chi Minh City, 22 May 2007
• http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4245, viewed 1st Sept, 2008
• http://www.gso.gov.vn/default.aspx?tabid=417&idmid=4&ItemID=4284, viewed 1st Sept, 2008
• http://www.customs.gov.vn/Default.aspx?tabid=1, viewed 1st, Sept, 2008
• http://www.dientuvietnam.vn/index.php/cong-nghe-thong-tin/con-so-biet-noi/64-con-so-biet-noi/1429-nhung-con-so-biet-noi-072008, viewed at 29th August 2008
• http://trananh.vn/maytinh/?a=CATE&hdn_category=2, viewed at 29th August, 2008
• http://www.advertisingmedia.com.vn/paperpricelist.php, viewed at 29th August, 2008







APPENDIXES

Marketing Plan-Mykolor Paint-Free Essay

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1
I.Current Market Situation 3
1.Introduction 3
2. Macro environment 3
3.Micro Environment 5
II. SWOT Analysis 7
III. Objectives and segmentation 10
1. Objective 10
2. Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning 10
III. Marketing Mix strategies: 15
1.Product: 15
2. Price: 17
IV. PLACE/DISTRIBUTION 19
1. Distribution 19
2. Location 19
V. Promotion Strategy 21
Because paint is one kind of shopping products that people would not buy frequently, our company will use both push and pull strategy to attract more customers. 21
1. Advertising 21
2. Sales promotion 22
3. Public Relation 23
VI. Action program 24
VII. Control 26
VIII. References: 27





Executive Summary

Joining into Vietnamese market in 2004, the Mykolor is one of the most famous brand of 4 Oranges corporation that takes 15% market share. Mykolor’s products differ from decorative to glossy paint. However, the main target is on the interior paint with unique design and features, like new waterproof system and the mix of new colors.
Despite the fact that Mykolor just enter into Vietnam market, it has already gained the customer’s awareness over past 4 years. The reason for such success are Mykolor’s distinctive advantages, such as high quality, new technology in mixing colors and creating new design that is suitable for modern lifestyle. Due the high price Mykolor has a selective distribution, focus mainly in big cities: Hanoi, HoChiMinh, Hai Phong and Da Nang. Mykolor has gained the popularity in the customer’s mind, and its future goal is to achieve 17% market share and increase 5% of profit at the end of 2009. In order to increase the customer’s awareness Mykolor has used Push and Pull strategy with promotion tools, like TV advertisements, magazines and E-newspaper. Mykolor converges on market segments which dedicate primarily to high income customers and new married couple, with an age ranging from 27 to 50 years old.











I. CURRENT MARKET SITUATION
1. Introduction
Mykolor has acquired 15 percent market share of the decorative interior paint (nhacvietplus, 2008). According to Vietnam news (2008), the company had sold out 100 million liter of pain in 2008 and has gain a huge amount of profit, with nearly $17.5 million for the first nine month of the year 2008. Plus, the revenue of the company is forecasted to increase nearly 5 percent annually. (viet mageazines, 2006)
As targeting the interior paint market, our company mainly focuses on the fashionable color and guaranteed ingredient. Our goal is to gain 18 percent of the market share and get the revenue of $24.1 million Vietnamese market until the end of 2009.
Mykolor is a high quality paint with high price, thus, our desired customers is the white-collard workers with the income of more than $1000 per month and our positioning is the “more for more” strategy. Otherwise, we intend to concentrate on promoting and advertising our products on the high class magazines for building, newspaper, television and Internet so as to impress and attract the consumers. Especially, we will find and invite the famous idols Quyen Linh who is the MC of the “Nha dep” TV program to become the representative for our products. The particular amount of money contributed on these parts will be summarized more detail in the action plan schedule.
2. Macro environment
a. Demographic
Based on the statistic of cafef.vn (2008), the population of Vietnam in 2007 is 85.2 million people. The speed of increase is 1.2 percent per year. What’s more, with the average income in 2007 is $835, it is estimated that this number will be nearly $1000 at the end of year 2009 (cafef, 2008). The increase in the income, population and number of companies who have come to Vietnamese market since Vietnam jointed WTO leads to great opportunities to the paint market in general and Mykolor paint in particular.

2.2. Economic
According to the Morgan Stanley Financial Service Corporation, the inflation rate and GDP of Vietnam is predicted to decrease from 27 to 24.1 percent and from 8 to 7 percent, respectively (tuanvietnam, 2008). General Statistics Office (2008) assumes that although the inflation is still high, the economy of Vietnam can still growth stably with the average using price in November of 2008 increase 23.25 percent compare to this period last year.



2.3. Technology
Environmental matters are something which people concern about most at the moment. Identifying these issues, Mykolor has developed the paint which is safe for the people’s health with the ability to anti-insect, easy wash and self-mix color technology.

2.4. Natural
Besides the most out standing feature is the dramatic increase in the population, the affect of environment is becoming more and more serious to the Vietnamese people. Let us take the historical rain in October this year as an example of this. At that time, in many people’s houses, abuses come from the chiefs when they use the paint with low coefficient of penetration or many quarter of collective housing units had been destroyed. (tintuconline, 2008)
3. Micro Environment
3.1 Competitor:
At the moment, our biggest rivals are Nippon and Joton. Actually, both of them have appeared in the Vietnamese market since 1994 and 1996, respectively. It is a long time sooner than us, which can be seen as our disadvantage. Moreover, Nippon is at the 15 out of 50 in the top 50 paint companies in Asia (giiexpress, 2008) and obtained 70 percent share of the motorbike and automobile coating pain in Vietnam. It can be seen clearly that in the scope of decorative interior paint, we are still the one; however, it is easy to judge that these two companies would be our direct potential threats in the future.

3.2. Marketing Intermediaries:
The company sells its products via a network of 800 distributors nationwide. (vietnamnews, 2008) which can be seen clearly from the maps below






3.3Suppliers
The ingredient of the material are mostly imported from the famous chemical corporations like: DEGUSSA (America), ELIOKEM (France), DOW CHEMICAL (America), ROHM & HASS (America), IDEX (America), NUPLEX (Australia). Clearly, the quality of these brands is completely warranted.

3.4 BCG Analysis
Taking BCG Analysis (Kotler, 2005) as the standard, we are now in the position of Cash Cow with low market growth, solely in Vietnam and high relative market share with approximately 15 percent of the market. In the Product life cycle, we are now in the growth with 5 percent increase in the revenue annually.

(Source: RMIT blackboard)
















II. SWOT ANALYSIS





Internal Factors (IFAS)




External Factors (EFAS)


Strengths

• Mykolor takes 15% of all market shares in Vietnam’s market=> a well-built place in consumer’s mind about the product.
• 800 distributors and 400 color consultant agencies- it has a quite wide distribution
• High quality product with new waterproof system and mix technology with new color.
• Good services- deliver and design advices
• Good sponsor and charity
• Representation of the brand with exclusive products and distinctive design
• Unique features- anti dust protection, simple to clean.
Weaknesses

• High price- range from 500,000VND to 1,500,000VND
• Mykolor’s segment- middle and higher classes=> limited range of customers.
• The smell should be deducted to the minimum
• Anti-allergic protection is still weak
• Mykolor’s paint appeared behind the competitors.

Opportunities

- Joining WTO makes easier to widen the paint market.
- As the Vietnamese income is increasing, (app.) => people desire the product that is environmentally friendly and harmless for usage while consider which product to buy.
- - High quality to high income customers: earning more than 1000$ per month
- Issues concerning the environment=> one of the major problems in Vietnam
- Applying new technological innovations in creating unique features for the product
- Joining the WTO means more buildings are being built, therefore the demand of painting the buildings will also increasing. SO Strategies

• An increase in living standard has lead to the desire of environmentally friendly and harmless for usage products
• Dramatic increase in population=> demand in purchasing and building houses, therefore paint.
• Focus on high income customers=> win brand loyalty by offering product with high quality, unique design and features.
• Variety of color mixture=> design and creativeness, a better choice for consumers
• Promotions and advertisements through mass media: internet, newspaper, television, magazine.
• Environmentally friendly interior paint.
WO Strategies

• Charge no fee delivery through big cities: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.
• Attract new customers by offering a beauty test for house: drawing pictures and design, suitable for different lifestyles.
• High quality: environment and user-friendly
• Implementing new technology
• Water-proof, mold-proof and damp-proof membrane technologies
• Anti-alkali base, anti-alum abase and anti-insects technologies
• Unique features=> Mykolor become more distinctive among competitors

Threats
• - Limited range of customers=> lack of consumption
• - New line of products=> may not be accepted by the consumers.
• - Due fluctuations in Vietnamese economy, such as inflation that happens quite regularly=> Mykolor, the paint industry, like any other industry has to adjust its prices in order to maintain the profit.
• - Wallpaper industry=> simpler to decorate the house
• - There are more and more strong competitors, such as Alex, Nippon, Joton, etc.
ST Strategies

• Creating unique features: flavor and natural smell, suitable for modern lifestyle and demand
• Focus on customer’s awareness about the product.
• High price=> high quality
• Mykolor’s wide distribution overcomes the competitors.
• Produce environmental friendly products
• Due the changing climate in Vietnam, wallpaper industry is not suitable for usage.
• Sponsor and charity programs=> stronger awareness in consumer’s mind


WT Strategies

• Focus on customers, who are businessman and white-collar workers=> people who can actually afford the product.
• Promotion and advertisements newspaper, television.
• High and new technology
• Higher price than competitors, but Mykolor possesses darkness of color and added functions
• Unique features, anti-dust protection and easy to clean make the product become distinctive among competitors.


















III. OBJECTIVES
.
• Financial Objectives:
Achieve the total revenue in $23 million 2008 and expect 5% (about $24.1 5 million) revenue growth next year.
• Marketing Objectives:
Increase at least 10% awareness of the target customers about our products by enlarging advertising 10% in the whole year of 2009.
Gain 2% of market share for decorative interior paint by opening more showrooms and distributions in the first half of 2009.

IV. SEGMENTATION
2.1. Segmentation:
Paint is considered to be one of the most important parts in creating the beauty of each house. However, each customer has a dissimilar need of paint used in different purposes. Depending on the differences in product’s requirement, Mykolor Company divides the market structure based on four major segmentation variables involving in geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral.
a. Geographic:
 Density:
According to the Appendix….(Income Growth in Hanoi and HCM city), Mykolor decides to focus on urban areas, especially, the five big cities such as: Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang, Hai Phong and Can Tho where people have more ability to afford for our products.
 Climate:
The differences in the temperature, humidity between the North and the South that are shown in the appendix……lead to the differences in the using purposes of paint. To satisfy the requirement of the customers, Mykolor will develop their products following product lines that are suitable with the unlike climates between areas in Vietnam.
 Season: August (beginning of the dry season) and October (beginning of the Wedding season) are chosen as the seasonal segmentation for our product. Following the Vietnamese conception, these times is good for repairing or building a new house because it is very difficult to build a new house in the rain season and many people believe that a new house will bring a lot of luck for the new married couple.

 Demographic:
Age: the target customer of our company is the group of people age from 27 to 50 years old. This group of customer usually has a demand of paint for building their houses or standard life after having a successful career and high income.
Income: according to the statistic in 2007 (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/4130.htm) the income per capita in Vietnam was $832 and the increase in the GDP growth rate in the nexts years (Appendix……..), the group of customer earning more than $1000 per month will be the one of segments this marketing plan want to focus on because they are likely having more opportunities to afford for our products with the price from about VND450.000 to more than VND650.000 per 5 liter barrel. .
Occupation: Mykolor’s focused customers are businesspeople and white-collar workers.
Benefits:
Quality: Mykolor focus on providing high quality interior paint. In general, all interior paint line has the variety of color. However, there are the different characteristics between interior, all interior and baclok paint. While interior and all interior do not have the waterproof system, baclok provides a glossy and smooth wall’s preface. Besides, some factors such as anti-insect, anti-humidity and so on will be added to protect the users’ health and the air. For example, the The new paint, named Mykolor Kiddykot, is the first to target the market for interior decoration of children’s rooms by having a chocolate aroma and its low volatile organic compound content.
2.2 Target marketing
• Segment size and growth: Based on the statistic about Hanoi’s and Ho Chi Minh City’s income growth (Nielsen, 2007, p.13) (Appendix 4), it is obvious that people’s living standard has increased significantly during the period of 7 years. To specify, the number of citizens earning over VND 7 million/month is forecasted to be 26% in 2009. As a result, Mykolor paint decides to focus on this high- income segment because they are undoubtedly the primary source to help our company achieve high profit.
• Segment structural attractiveness:
-Level of competition: Mykolor has many competitors in the paint market. However, our company is still priority in mixing color and proving healthy paint, while only a few paint firms can reach both these two characteristics. Therefore, the substitute product can be limited.
-Power of buyers: The same price is applied to all wholesalers. Thus, there is no necessity for price negotiation.
• Company objective and resource: Mykolor’s objective is to gain customers’ awareness, an especially big company, who tends to invest in Vietnam’s market. Our company has enough confidence to achieve best performance due to our products’ strengths and resources.
All things considered, our company will pay attention to Differentiated marketing. Indeed, we supply a majority of paint for different consumers. For example: our firm provides Intertor paint, All Interior paint for normal decoration, or anti- bacteria paint (Baclok). Simultaneously, we also produce a new kind of paint for childen with chocolate flavor named Kiddykot and plan to have a new line of anti-insect paint.

2.3. Positioning market:

 Identify competitive advantages:
Looking into the paint market recent years, it is easy to see that Mykolor has many competitors such as Nippon, Alex, Joton and Dulux. Nippon appears to be the most outstanding threat who has been seen as the leader coming to the paint market of Vietnam. Standing at the position of 15 out of 50 paint companies in Asia, Nippon has obtained 70 percent of the Vietnamese coating paint market. Other brands such as: Joton, Dulux and Alex attract the customers with low price, with approximately from VND 252,000 to VND 345,000 (sonnuoc.com). Another feature is that all of the brands mentioned above have entered the Vietnamese market for a long time sooner than us. To be specified, Nippon and Joton have joint the paint market from 1994 and 1996, respectively.

 Choose the right competitive advantages:
Initially, it can be seen that, people always want to express themselves through their own house. Thus, Mykolor is the leader in the scope of self-mix color technology which allows the consumers to create the color as their wish from the basic ones. Secondly, the surface of the wall covered by our paint is guaranteed to be easy to wash and anti-insect. Plus, Mykolor also focus on the safety of the customer and develop the paint which is completely harmless to people’s health. Higher price and fashionable colors are also the factors which separate us from our rivals.
 Select overall strategy positioning:
With the superior function that we provide, we decide to choose the “More for more” strategy with higher price and better quality. It is clear that our paint’s price is much higher than others one, with from VND 350,000 to VND 450,000 per 5 liter barrel whereas others are just from VND 252,000 to VND 345,000 (sonnuoc.com). On the other hands, we provide better quality paint as well with anti-insect technology, fashionable color, safety, easy wash and self-mix technology.
 Positioning map











V. MARKETING MIX STRATEGIES:
1. Product:
Initially, the firm realizes that except for the tangible products, customers also want to be offered after-sale service, like: guarantee or transportation. Mykolor can satisfy all of those demands for consumers. In other words, the company serves its customer with hybrid offer. (Kotler, 2005, p. 220)
Paint is a kind of product that demands more buying effort, comparison but less normally purchased. Thus, it should be categorized in shopping product. (Kotler, 2005, p.223)


Level of Products Current Development & Improvement
Core Benefit Protect and make people’s houses more beautiful
Actual Product • Brand name: MyKolor
• Quality level: High
• Design: including 810 colors, the paint is designed to be bright, silky, eye-catching, fashionable and protective.
• Features: Against dust-stick, easy to be cleaned, avoid water absorb toxic and smell limitation, and health safety.
• Packaging: plastic or iron barrels, with high protect level (solid and hard to be broken)
• R&D area should be continuously invested.
• Develop the product’s brand by applying multi-brands for interior paint: Interior, All Interior and Baclok 4+1
Augmented Product Mykolor also provides extra benefits to serve customers’ wants and needs:
• Delivery and credit: free offer for products’ transportation and convenience in paying the money directly through intermediaries.
• Installation: free instruction in mixing and utilizing paint.
• Warranty: From the purchasing date, the quality of Mykolor paint can last for 5-6 years.
• After-sale service: For consultancy and complaints, contact through customer care hotline: (043).6.331.456 (Hanoi) or (043).8.752.960(HCM City)


• Delivery and Credit:
Continue to expand the operating system in big cities
Improving the purchasing network, such as: selling through Internet, or using credit card
• Pre-sale and post-purchase services:
Providing more helpful advice for consumers in terms of remaining the color and quality for the paint.
















2. Price:
A Pricing mix strategies:
Product line pricing: Due to the fact that Mykolor interior water paint is separated into different levels, the price would be also flexible to match with the quality. For further explanation, Mykolor will base on each paint’s personal function and color standard to determine its line.


Mykolor Interior Mykolor All Interior Mykolor Baclok 4+1
(VND 500.000/ 18lite) (VND 500.000/5lite) (VND 700.000/5lite)
Low level of decoration, Average level of decoration, High level of decoration
Anti- moss and humidity Anti- moss and humidity Anti 5 kinds of bacteria
Not easy to be cleaned Not easy to be cleaned Easy to be cleaned

Optional product pricing: Currently, along with paint, Mykolor also provides painting and designing services for customers. For example: the wall decoration is supplied if clients demand. Our company will charge these services at VND 250.000/ wall.
Product bundle pricing: In the trading system, our company desires to sell to the customers a set of product, so that they can receive 5% discount. For instance, when the consumers decide to separately purchase Mykolor Baclok paint costs VND 630.000/5lite, they also have to pay for a set of all painting brush, with the price of VND 100.000. The total cost will be VND 730.000. If consumers buy a set of paint and brush, our firm will reduce the price to VND 700.000/5 l, or offer 5% discount.
b. Price adjustment Strategies:
Discount:
o A functional discount (or Trade discount): To a large extent, Mykolor’s selling activities depend on retailers, who are storing or warehousing Mykolor’s paint. Therefore, our company offers a trade discount for series of function. That is, 10% discount for storing the product, and another 5% discount on transporting the paint. By using this strategy, the firm can remain and improve the relationship with all retailers. Consequently, we are able to expand our sale volume by promoting them to purchase a larger number for the next time.
o A seasonal discount: Base on Vietnamese culture and traditional perception, our company realizes that there is a decrease in the number of sale during two periods: the first three months of each year and raining season (July and August). As a result, another 5% discount will aim to our customers in order to attract their attention and promote them to buy the products.
Psychological pricing:
In this aspect, Mykolor utilizes reference prices. To be specific, with the purpose of creating different products’ image in customers’ mind, the company will set the price of interior paint at VND 497,500 instead of VND 500,000. This tactic can create consumers feelings that they still buy luxury and qualified product but with a slightly lower price. Obviously, our sale volume may considerably increase due to more customers’ ability to afford the product.
Promotional Pricing:
Special-event pricing: In order to gain Mykolor paint awareness, our company tends to provide special discount of 10% for the first 10 customers, plus with 5% for the rest if they purchase our product on big event- Tet’s holiday.



VI. PLACE/DISTRIBUTION
1. Distribution
As we mentioned in the part of “Type of consumer products”, Mykolor paint belongs to shopping products part. Therefore, we choose selective distribution for this kind of products. Normally, Mykolor is only displayed and sold in the showrooms or stores that the company has rent. Our distribution channels are accessible to both intermediaries and our showrooms. Mykolor products segmented to individual customers and companies as well as corporations that want to invest in to Vietnam. Therefore, with these distribution channels, we can spread the efforts to outlets and attract more customers.













2. Location
Because our company wants to target not only customers with income more than $1000 per month but also companies and big corporations, we will open 3 more showrooms in 2 big cities: Hanoi and Hochiminh City.
 In Hanoi, we will open one showroom of Mykolor paint in Vincom City Tower _ one of the most popular shopping centers in Hanoi. It is a place that customers going shopping and looking for the products they want in short time.
 Another showroom will be established in Sinh Tu Street. This showroom is to specify only in decorative interior paint. Some people may wonder why we want to open a new store in a small street like that. However, Sinh Tu is a street that has sold paints since many years before. Therefore, people in Hanoi have habits to come to this street when need to buy paints for there house. A big and attractive showroom definitely will appeal customers.
 In Hochiminh City, we will open one showroom in Saigon Square shopping center. This trade center is always crowded with local and foreign customers. Placing a store in this center, we can ensure about wide spread of our brand name.

















VII. PROMOTION STRATEGY
Because Mykolor paint is one kind of shopping products that people would not buy frequently, therefore, we would like to use Push and Pull strategy to promote for our products and attract more customers .
1. Advertising
Since Vietnam joined WTO, the paint market was expanded, not only because big buildings appear more and more but also other foreign paint companies invest into our country. To keep our position stably, we have to use advertisements as the most effective way to determine our products’ different advantages for customers.


TV advertisements: Our Company would like to choose VTV3, VTV1, HTV1_ local channel of Hanoi and HTV9_ local channel of Hochiminh city as close channels to introduce our products. The reason we choose these 4 main channels is they are very popular in two biggest and most important cities in Vietnam. In 2009, instead of common time and general lines of products as usual, we only concentrate on definite period that can attract customers and decorative interior line of paint. Our targeting customers are business people and white-collar workers. They are very busy in all day, so do not have enough time to watch television. As a result, our advertisements will be shown mainly at 8.30pm in the break –time film on VTV1, at 9.30pm on VTV3 and before afternoon and evening film time in HTV1. Furthermore, break time between game shows also is a good time to attract the concentration of viewers. This period of time is suitable for them to sit with family, relax and update for the news. Each advertising clip is about 20 seconds. We will advertise on Television between 2 months for each time.
Magazines: Nowadays, people are very busy, so the time spending on reading is less than before. That is the reason we only advertise on business magazines or architecture’s ones. As our target is customers with high income, we will advertise in the newspapers that have higher than average price such as Tiep Thi & Gia Dinh for family appliances at 11.000 VND, “Kien truc nha dep” magazine for decorating houses at 16.800 VND, “Doanh nghiep” for business people and “wedding magazines” for preparing married couples. Those newspapers have stable number of readers with high enough salary that can afford to buy our products. After considering the price for advertising in some magazines, we decide to advertise in all 12 months. The price of advertising in these magazines is affordable to us (appendix 4)
E-newspaper (Appendix 5): in the period of information technology, Internet plays a very important role in spreading our brand name. Almost all of companies and corporations find their partners and investors through this mean of communication. In the past, we do not concentrate mainly on this potential area. To increase sales and expand market share in 2009, we will focus on it. Beside main website www.mykolor.com, we also put the banner of company and decorative interior paint in big websites that many people always visit such as dantri.com.vn, vietnamnet.vn (500,000 page views per day) or vatgia.com.vn. Each banner has size of 300*130 pixel at 30 kb and cost 5 millions VND per month (according to www.VietnamTradeFair.com). This kind of advertising is used mostly in 4 last months of 2009, because we want to attract more customers and increase the sales significantly in this time.
2. Sales promotion
Mykolor will not use famous stars to promote for the products in next year as usual. Consumers are very smart now, so they do not completely believe in advertising. We will make them remember and impress trying new paint, new colors they like with mixing technology. Customers will mix colors, paint one part of the trial wall by themselves and they can realize the different and effectiveness very clearly. Make a sudden attack on trying new and different method with existed product may bring very surprising and successful result. This campaign names “try new feelings with Mykolor”. We plan to launch this campaign in 2 months to prepare for the new sale season.
Beside the current way of using discount method in winter and 2 weeks before dry season in Hochiminh city since early years, we also give customers free items such as cups, raincoats, T-shirt with logo of Mykolor and interior paint. Those free items are parts of sales promotion; however, they also have very strong influences in advertising by appearing and impacting on customers’ minds everywhere.
Moreover, we also provide a very useful and interesting service for couples who have just married. Because our strength in comparison with other competitors is decorative function, we will design free one side of the wall as pictures in their bedroom if they buy our paint to repair their house. This campaign names “Happily ever after” and
will last in the wedding season from September to December.
As we mentioned in “Price adjustment strategy”, we will have 5% trade discount for retailers in the whole year with the rate of 5% for 500 units and seasonal discount for customers with 5% in July and August.
3. Public Relation
In 2008, Mykolor has become one sponsor of “Khong gian dep” program on VTV3. It is the program introducing architecture of beautiful houses which are owned by famous people. It guided viewers in designing and arranging their houses. In the first 3 months 2009, we still sponsor for this program to increase rate in televisions.
Beside the program “bringing blanket to the poor” in Tet period, we also develop the programs to help people under the storms around the year. With the meaning not only dress a “coat” for houses, we also bring warmly real coats for people who live in poor conditions. Moreover, we also help the poor repair houses to live, to get over cold winter and stormy seasons.
4. Direct marketing
Continuing the catalogs marketing in 2008, we will improve it in a new way. A team with training staff will collect the data of customers whose paint colors of house have intention to be worse. They will come and give them painting colors catalogs. At that time, they may think about painting their house or even they will consider for the next year.






VIII. ACTION PROGRAM
( Appendix3,4,5 )
Actions Responsibility Frequency 2009
Budget (USD)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Place
Present 3 big showrooms in Hanoi and HCM HR
Marketing
Finance • • $40,000
Advertising
Premium advertising times on TV PR
HR
Marketing
Finance
2 times/ week • • • • • • $52,000

Banners on Dantri.com.vn, vatgia.com & Vietnamnet.vn 1 week/
month • • • • • • • $13,290
Ads on “Tiepthi&giadinh,”, “Doanh nghiep”. “ Wedding” and “ Kien truc nha dep”
2 times/
month • • • • • • • • • • • $8,000
Promotion Campaign
“Try new feeling with Mykolor” campaign PR
HR
Marketing
Finance

2 times/year • • $12,000
Bonus items for later purchasing, free gift vouchers,. Last quarter • • $10,000
“Happily ever after” campaign Wedding season • • • $20,000
Public relation

“Khong gian dep” sponsor PR
Marketing • • • $40,000
Direct marketing
Catalogs marketing PR
Marketing • • $15,000
Society Program
“Warmly coat” program PR
Marketing
• • • $20,000
“Repair house “ program • • $20,000

Product development R&D • • • • • • • • • • • • $30,000
Total $280,290










VII. CONTROL
The control program can be seen as a valuable tool in order to measure the efficiency of the marketing plan as well as guarantee that the process of this plan will be followed strictly. Some indicators below might be utilized:
• The customer’s feedback:
 A large amount of surveys and questionnaire delivering to the customers through the intermediaries, website or including in the product’s packages will be collected and settled to draw an overall picture about the sales volume, customer satisfaction and the product quality.
 A small “Customer’s opinion” box will be put at every intermediary in order to collect the complaints and ideas of buyers.
Through these, the company can understand about the consumer’s knowledge about the product, their want and demand, the quality of the product in addition to the customer’s service.
• The sale volume of each type of Mykolor paint weekly, monthly and annually. From that we can judge if there will be some specific period in the year that the demand may go up or down and what model of paint is the best-seller in the market. All of this statistical information will be got from the retailers and showrooms. Base on these, the company can identify the solution to rise up the sale by encouraging the customers come to buy at the time when sale decrease through discount programs or making decision about what kinds of paint they should invest more or what type they should eliminate.
All of these problems will be evaluated monthly through the discussion of the managements. Each of them will point out the solution for the related issues that they are in charged of and ask for the agreement of the others.






VIII. REFERENCES:

Nhạc Việt Plus, Friday July 18th 2008, Không gian đẹp: Cơ hội ngắm nhà của "sao", viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://nhacvietplus.vietnamnet.vn/vn/tinnhacviet/14125/index.aspx

Vietnam news, Thursday December 4th 2008, Thai paint firm offers safe products, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008,
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01ECO041208

My Kolor, June 25th 2007, Ông Smit Chencharadpong, TGĐ Công ty 4Oranges, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://www.mykolor.com/news_detail.asp?ID=61&grID=NGR052826092744B
Việt Báo, Tuesday, September 5th 2006, 4 Oranges tăng vốn mở rộng sản xuất tại VN, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://vietbao.vn/Kinh-te/4-Oranges-tang-von-mo-rong-san-xuat-tai-VN/62163219/88/
Ven, November 8th 2008, NIPPON PAINT - High Quality Paint for Construction Projects, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, https://www.ven.vn/business-law/nippon-paint-high-quality-paint-for-construction-projects

Gii Express, April 30th 2008, The Top 50 Paint Companies In Asia - 3rd Edition, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008,
http://www.giiexpress.com/products/irl65864.htm

Tin Tức Online, Saturday December 13th 2008, Hà Nội sắp phá dỡ hàng loạt chung cư cũ, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://tintuconline.com.vn/vn/xahoi/238295/

Tuần Việt Nam, November 13th 2008, Morgan Stanley “bình luận nhanh” về kinh tế VN, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://tuanvietnam.net/vn/tulieusuyngam/5305/index.aspx

General Statistics Office, November 2008, Thông tin thống kê hang tháng, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://www.gso.gov.vn/default.aspx?tabid=413&thangtk=11/2008

Cafef, Sunday December 7th 2008, 50 năm nữa GDP bình quân đầu người của Việt Nam sẽ bằng Malaysia, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://cafef.vn/20081207113421350CA33/50-nam-nua-gdp-binh-quan-dau-nguoi-cua-viet-nam-se-bang-malaysia.chn

Cafef, Thursday November 27th 2008, Năm nay thu nhập của người VN có thể vượt 1.000 USD, viewed Saturday December 13th 2008, http://cafef.vn/2008112703161632CA33/nam-nay-thu-nhap-cua-nguoi-vn-co-the-vuot-1000-usd.chn







IX. APPENDIX
APPENDIX 1: Income growth in HCMcity and Hanoi




Appendix 2







Appendix 3: the years average weather condition readings covering rain, average maximum daily temperature and average minimum temperature.

Hanoi, Vietnam


Month Average Sunlight (hours) Temperature Discomfort from heat and humidity Relative humidity Average Precipitation (mm) Wet Days (+0.25 mm)
Average Record
Min Max Min Max am pm












Jan 1 13 20 6 33 - 78 68 18 7
Feb 1 14 21 6 34 - 82 70 28 13
March 1 17 23 12 37 Moderate 83 76 38 15
April 2 20 28 10 39 Medium 83 75 81 14
May 4 23 32 16 43 High 77 69 196 15
June 5 26 33 21 40 Extreme 78 71 239 14
July 5 26 33 22 40 Extreme 79 72 323 15
Aug 4 26 32 21 38 Extreme 82 75 343 16
Sept 4 24 31 17 37 High 79 73 254 14
Oct 4 22 29 14 36 Medium 75 69 99 9
Nov 3 18 26 7 36 Medium 74 68 43 7
Dec 2 15 22 7 37 - 75 67 20 7


The following bar chart for Hanoi, Vietnam shows the years average weather condition readings covering rain, average maximum daily temperature and average minimum temperature.



Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam


Month Average Sunlight (hours) Temperature Discomfort from heat and humidity Relative humidity Average Precipitation (mm) Wet Days (+0.25 mm)
Average Record
Min Max Min Max am pm












Jan 5 21 32 14 37 High 69 61 15 2
Feb 6 22 33 16 39 High 66 56 3 1
March 5 23 34 18 39 High 63 58 13 2
April 6 24 35 20 40 Extreme 63 60 43 4
May 4 24 33 21 39 Extreme 71 71 221 16
June 4 24 32 21 38 Extreme 77 78 330 21
July 4 24 31 19 34 Extreme 79 80 315 23
Aug 5 24 31 20 35 High 77 78 269 21
Sept 5 23 31 21 36 Extreme 78 80 335 21
Oct 4 23 31 20 34 Extreme 77 80 269 20
Nov 4 23 31 18 35 High 74 75 114 11
Dec 4 22 31 14 36 High 72 68 56 7
The following bar chart for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam shows the years average weather condition readings covering rain, average maximum daily temperature and average minimum temperature.







Appendix 4: advertisements’ price on VTV3

Code Time Day Price of Advertising
10" 15" 20" 30"

Time D 6am - 10am Monday - Friday
D1 6am - 8am Inside(outside) program 2,125,000 2,550,000 3,187,000 4,250,000
D2 8am - 9am Inside(outside) program 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,750,000 5,000,000
D3 9am - 10am Inside(outside) program 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,750,000 5,000,000
D4 10am - 11h50am Inside(outside) program 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,750,000 5,000,000

6am - 9h45am Saturday & Sunday
D5 6am - 8am Inside(outside) program 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,750,000 5,000,000
D6 8am - 9am Inside(outside) program 6,000,000 7,200,000 9,000,000 12,000,000
D7 9am - 9h30am Inside(outside) program 8,000,000 9,600,000 12,000,000 16,000,000


Time C 11h55am - 7pm Monday - Friday
C1 11h55am - 2pm Outside Film & Entertainment 9,000,000 10,800,000 13,500,000 18,000,000
C2 12pm - 2pm Inside Film & Entertainment 11,000,000 13,200,000 16,500,000 22,000,000
C3.1 2pm - 5pm Inside(outside) program 6,500,000 7,800,000 9,750,000 13,000,000
C3.2 2pm - 5h30pm Inside(outside) children program (whole week) 11,000,000 13,200,000 16,500,000 22,000,000
C4.1 5pm - 7pm Outside Film & Entertainment (whole week) 11,000,000 13,200,000 16,500,000 22,000,000
C4.2 5pm - 7pm Outside Film & Entertainment (whole week) 13,000,000 15,600,000 19,500,000 26,000,000
C4.3 5pm - 7pm Before News 7pm 14,000,000 16,800,000 21,000,000 28,000,000

9h30am - 6pm Saturday & Sunday
C5 10am - 12pm Outside Entertainment program 13,000,000 15,600,000 19,500,000 26,000,000
C6.1 10am - 11am Inside Entertainment program 15,000,000 18,000,000 22,500,000 30,000,000
C6.2 11am - 12pm Inside Entertainment program 15,000,000 18,000,000 22,500,000 30,000,000
C6.3 10am - 12pm Inside program that under 30' 14,000,000 16,800,000 21,000,000 28,000,000
C7 12pm - 1h30pm Outside Entertainment program 14,000,000 16,800,000 21,000,000 28,000,000
C8 12pm - 1h30pm Inside Entertainment program 15,000,000 18,000,000 22,500,000 30,000,000
C9 1h30pm - 5pm Inside other program 10,000,000 12,000,000 15,000,000 20,000,000
C10 Inside Film of Saturday & Sunday afternoon 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,500,000 10,000,000

7h45pm - 11pm Nights
C11 7h40 pm Between Weather News & 24/7 Sport News 27,500,000 33,000,000 41,250,000 55,000,000
C12 7h45pm After 24/7 Sport News 18,000,000 21,600,000 27,000,000 36,000,000
C13 7h50pm - 9h10pm Inside Film & Entertainment 1 16,000,000 19,200,000 24,000,000 32,000,000
C14 7h50pm - 9h10pm Outside Film & Entertainment 1 18,000,000 21,600,000 27,000,000 36,000,000
C13A 7h50pm - 9h10pm Outside Game shows 18,000,000 21,600,000 27,000,000 36,000,000
C14A 7h50pm - 9h10pm Inside Game shows 26,000,000 31,500,000 39,000,000 52,500,000
C15 9pm - 10pm Outside Film & Entertainment 2 14,000,000 16,800,000 21,000,000 28,000,000
C16 9pm - 10pm Inside Film & Entertainment 2 15,000,000 18,000,000 22,500,000 30,000,000
C17 10pm - 11pm Inside (outside) other program 11,000,000 13,200,000 16,500,000 22,000,000
C18 After 11pm 3,500,000 4,200,000 5,250,000 7,000,000





Appendix 4: Price of advertisements in “Kien truc nha dep” magazines

• Size:length x width (mm)
• Measurement: 1.000 VNĐ
• Price does not include 10% Value Added Tax

Number of publishing 1 3 KỲ 6 KỲ 12 KỲ
Discount 5% 7% 10%

2nd cover
(194 x 239) 26.400 25.080 24.552 23.760

3rd cover
(194 x 239) 24.200 22.900 22.506 21.780

4th cover
(194 x 239) 28.600 27.170 26.598 25.740
Bìa 2
1st page
(194 x 239) 22.000 20.900 20.460 19.800

2nd cover+ 1st page
(460 x 275) 46.200 43.890 42.966 41. 580

1 page
(194 x 239) 19.800 18.810 18.414 17.820

1/2 page
(95.5 x 239) 11.550 10.972 10.741 10.395


2 x 1/3
page (424 x 77.5) 13.200 12 .540 12.276 11. 880


1/3 page
(194 x 77.5) 7.700 7.315 7.161 6.930

1/3 page
(63 x 239) 7 .700 7. 315 7.161 6.930

2 pages (460 x 275) 39.600 37.620 36.828 35.640


2 x 2/3
page (424 x 158) 26.400 25.080 24.552 23.760


2/3 page
(194 x 158) 13.200 12.540 12.276 11.880

2/3 page(127.5 x 239) 13.200 12.540 12.276 11.880


2 x 1/2
page
(424 x 118) 19.800 18.180 18.414 17.820


1/2 page
(194 x 118) 11.550 10.972 10.741 10.395


2 x 1/4
page (424 x 57.5) 11.550 10.972 10.741 10.395


1/4 page
(194 x 57.5) 6.050 5.747 5.626 5.445


1/4 page
(95 x 118) 6.050 5.747 5.626 5.445


card (95 x 57.5) 3.300 3.300 3.300 3.300
Appendix 5: Price of banner advertisements on website


Picture Position Mearsure File Size Price(VND/
1 month)
1 130 * 60 pixel 12kb 1.500.000đ
2 300 * 80 pixel 25kb 3.000.000đ
3 300 * 130 pixel 30kb 5.000.000đ
4 442 * 45 pixel
top banner 30kb 8.000.000đ
5 780 * 120 pixel
bottom banner 50kb 10.000.000đ
6 100 x 430 pixel
50kb 15.000.000đ