Marketing Strategy for the Mars Ice Cream Bar
My Aims for this Report
In this report I will be focusing my attention on Mars Ice Cream Bar.
I will investigate how they promote their product. I will do this by
investigating how they advertise their product, and where, as well as
looking at how they package their product and at the same time I will
look at where they sell the Mars ice cream bar. Also I will be
investigating their main rivals and compare their marketing mix’s.
This will give me a better chance of giving good suggestions on how
they could improve their ice cream product to bring in a larger
revenue and get away from their main rivals so they could dominate the
ice cream bar market.
Background to Mars
Mars claims to be the world leader in every market that it is in. This
in includes branded snack foods, petcare products, main meal foods and
vending machines. ‘ Mars has an annual turnover in excess of
US $13 billion. Our products are consumed in over 100 countries around
the world.’ In Europe alone £20 billion is spent every year on Mars
confectioneries, £4 billion of this is from Britain. Of that £4
billion, around 70% of it is on chocolate goods. They are considered
the world’s best managed companies.
They easily dominate the chocolate bar market as they own the likes of
‘Snickers’ ‘Mars’ ‘Maltesers’ ‘M&M’s’ and ‘Twix’. But do they dominate
the ice cream bar market? Mars ice cream bar.
The Mars ice cream bar was first brought o...
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