Marketing Strategy

Credit: yalcinsonat / stock.adobe.com When Spotify was founded in Stockholm in 2006, things looked grim for the music streaming market. Filesharing sites such as Napster had been shut down by court order, and players such as Apple and Pandora used a pay per download or exclusive payment system. Twelve years later, Spotify’s streaming service was […]

Credit: Shutter B / stock.adobe.com What is it that makes some teams so effective while others struggle with inefficiencies, conflicts and a general lack of success? These are questions many companies and managers are constantly facing. With their large-scale project “Aristotle”, the online search giant Google decided to get behind the secret of successful teams

Credit: Michael Mulkens / stock.adobe.com Founded in 1986, the Washington DC burger chain was voted the most popular fast food restaurant in the US for the second consecutive year in 2018. In doing so, the company and their simple menu buck the trend towards luxury burgers as well as healthy eating. Since 2016, their expansion

Credit: Natalia / stock.adobe.com Marketing for Medium Sized Companies Fountain pens, pens or rollerball pens may be, in the eyes of many, things of the past, for which there is no more room in the world of smartphones, Alexa and speech recognition technology. But by tripling their turnover over the last ten years, long established

Credit: radub85 / stock.adobe.com Ups and downs With the company nearly 70 years old, Adidas is as robust and successful as ever before. While competitors such as Nike and Under Armour struggled with sales losses in the traditionally competitive US sportswear market, Adidas achieved an annual sales increase of 31%, continued to secure market share

Credit: chalermphon / stock.adobe.com Marketing Strategy In 2004, Nick Woodman offered his company’s first action camera for home use. Ten years later, the former niche product GoPro has become a hip accessory for the social media society; the company went public in 2014, with an evaluation of $2.95 B. We take a look at GoPro’s

Credit: magdal3na / stock.adobe.com Marketing Success Pure Gym’s first low cost gym outlets opened in four big UK cities. Their concept just came at the right time to a country affected by the financial crisis: 24/7 access, modern machines, skeleton staff and, instead of a membership, flexible monthly fees. Seven years later, Pure Gym is

Credit: wavemovies / stock.adobe.com Stories of Failures & Triumph At the beginning of this decade, international discount plattform Groupon was the start-up of the hour, celebrated by investors and the media. In November 2011, while doubts had been expressed about Groupon’s business model, the company had its IPO. However, after only a year, Groupon fell

Credit: nitikornfotolia / stock.adobe.com Start-up Success When, in 2003, students Mirco Wiegert and Lorenz Hampl came up with an idea for a new kind of cola, the German market was in the firm grip of multinationals such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi.  Armed with the minimalist slogan ‘vielviel koffein’ (muchmuch caffeine), the entrepreneurs went to take

Credit: Mymemo / stock.adobe.com Paths to Failure Boo.com was one of the greatest failures of the dot.com bubble that burst around the turn of the millennium. 16 years on, we are still talking about this failed online retailer for sports clothes, not only because it was spectacular but also because the reasons for boo.com’s demise