1.Describe 3 factors you should consider in determining your organisation's readiness to undertake international marketing
2. Relationships are important, in different ways, when doing business in most countries, but are
they as important as is sometimes claimed?
3. Why would you create an international marketing plan and what should be included in it?
4. Briefly outline the effects of culture on a targeting strategy to be implemented.
5. How would you assess the risks of doing business in Mexico as compared to the United States?
Practical Insight: A Brief Profile of Mexico
Mexico is a country of contrasts. After tu
ulent economic and political fortunes in the 1980s and 1990s, Mexico’s economy had been progressing quite well until the world financial crisis and recession of XXXXXXXXXXThe country was also the world’s fifteenth largest merchandise exporter with 2 per cent of world trade in 2007. After a period of excessive dependence on oil revenues, state- owned industry, and international loans, Mexico has created a more open free-market economy and modernized some of its manufacturing industry. It is also a member of NAFTA, the largest free trade area in the world, and has been able to attract inward investment from the United States and to a lesser extent elsewhere, particularly in the automotive, chemical, and food processing industries.
Despite these successes, Mexico has large inequalities between rich and poor, some sectors of industry are still relatively underdeveloped, and drug trafficking and its associated violence are deeply rooted in some parts of Mexican society. The country was also at the centre of the ‘swine flu’ out
eak in early 2009, which caused considerable disruption to its economy as well as to the everyday lives of its citizens. Mexico offers a low-cost location with close access to the US market, but also stands at the dividing line between development and underdevelopment, both in an
economic sense and in its location between the United States and Central America.
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