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An empirical study of benchmarking marketing efforts

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  • Mehir Kumar Baidya
  • Bipasha Maity

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Shareholder value is non-negotiable in business. Marketing managers' should devise a marketing mix to create shareholder value. This work takes a modest attempt to devise and suggest a simplistic approach for managers of how to benchmark marketing efforts to maximise shareholder value. A quantitative research approach was taken into consideration. Four hypotheses were framed. Data on sales, advertising, and price were gathered from ten brands in a category over ten year. Thereafter, a hybrid regression model was fitted to data. Results reveal that the actual-points and the optimal-points of price and advertising are not equal in all nine cases in the pair-wise analyses. Findings of this research should guide managers to benchmark right price-point and right advertising-expenditures-point which indeed will maximise shareholder value of brand in question. This paper contributes to marketing because it highlights the role of marketing efforts in shareholder value creation and maximisation.

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  • Mehir Kumar Baidya & Bipasha Maity, 2019. "An empirical study of benchmarking marketing efforts," International Journal of Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(2), pages 223-240.
  • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbfmi:v:5:y:2019:i:2:p:223-240
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