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S/B/158. Thornton's Plc strategic position, current and future development strategies

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DATE:: 2006
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This essay style report reveals that finding the right target and message meant that Thorntons marketing plan had been crucial to their success. For example, addressing a number of issues and asking the correct marketing questions such as, what their relative strengths and weaknesses are, how customers view their products, what their image is, what their competitive advantage is, who their customers are, whether they are emphasising the right benefit mix to the right people, and their ability to target their product to other markets by emphasising other benefits. Also, the resulting strategic position also highlights what improvements Thorntons need to make which can be gleaned from the business audit (SWOT & PEST analysis).

Updated version of this paper is available here: C/B/2186. PESTEL and SWOT analyses of Thorntons

KEYWORDS: Strategic, development, position, SWOT, PEST, analysis, marketing, plan, audit, busine,