Product-Market Analysis

Table 1 shows the market segments attained by each product of the firm. Each cell shows the total sales (turnover), annual growth rate, percentage of contribution to global profits and percentage of participation in that particular market segment (this information is not always available).

TABLE 1. Product-market analysis

 

Product 1

Product 2

Product 3

Market A

A            B

C            D

A            B

C            D

A            B

C            D

Market B

A            B

C            D

A            B

C            D

A            B

C            D

Market C

A            B

C            D

A            B

C            D

A            B

C            D

Total

     

 

A        TURNOVER (total sales of the product in that market segment)

B        ANNUAL GROWTH (average of the last two years of growth in sales of the particular product in that market segment)

C        CONTRIBUTION TO PROFIT (percentage of the profit generated by that product in that market segment relative to the total profit by the company

D        MARKET SHARE (of that product in that market segment)

Yellow-shaded cells are the priority cells. These indicate the product/market pairs, i.e. businesses that today are most important for the SUCCESS of the COMPANY, considering the four factors listed.

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