Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer

Use Steps: Use steps include all the customer's value added activities or the consumption of the product itself. These steps include all the costs the customer incurs in employing the product in its intended use.

C.
Experience: Enhance the experience the customer has with the product

2. Associate the company or the product with an image to increase customer pleasure in using the product

C. Project an image of the values of the firm

Ethnic-oriented

No. SIC Year Note
1 2032 1987 Campbell's soup trying to adopt regional marketing: made a spicier version of its Nacho Cheese Soup only available in the West and Southwest. But it isn't planning to make more than two Nacho Cheese soups: production too expensive.
2 2082 2000 U.S. and foreign brewers are pushing newer Latin imports and some U.S. brewed look-alikes in hopes of repeating the kind of rocketing growth Corona made. Anheuser-Busch came out with a new tequila-and-lime beer called Tequiza.
3 2086 1993 Arizona iced tea has unique packaging: Southwestern look. They're four oz. larger than competitors' 12-ounce containers.
4 2389 2003 Nautica has been experiencing bad times since 1997. Styles have changed from the preppy look to a more urban look with designers like FUBU, Phat Farm, and Sean John.
5 4481 1993 Carnival renovated a 37-yr-old ship to cater to Latin Americans. Only Spanish and Portuguese are spoken on the ship, and Latin American food, music and entertainment are offered.
6 5812 2000 The Olive Garden Italian restaurant chain has had 23 straight quarters of same store sales growth. That's due to the chain's focus on bringing authentic Italian dishes to U.S. consumers. In 1999, Olive Garden opened a restaurant in Italy. It is used to come up with dishes to add to its U.S. menu. It also opened a culinary institute where staff can learn more about Italian cooking.

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