L e s s o n 10 marketing

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Marketing includes all the business activities connected with the movement of goods aid services from producers to consumers. Sometimes it is called distribution. On the one hand, marketing is made up of such activities as transporting, storing -and selling goods and, on the other hand, a series of decisions you make during the process of moving goods from producer to user. Marketing operations include product planning, buying, storage, pricing, promotion, selling, credit, traffic and marketing research.

The ability to recognise early trends is very important. Producers must know why, where, for what purpose the consumers buy. Market research helps the producer to predict what the people will want. And through advertising he attempts to influence the customer to buy. Marketing operations are very expensive. They take up more than half of the consumer's dollar. The trend in the USA has been to high mass consumption. The construction of good shopping centres has made goods available to consumers. It provided a wide range of merchandise and plenty of parking facilities.

Active Vocabulary

producer производитель

consumer потребитель

user потребитель

distribution сбыт,распределение

marketing продажа,сбыт,маркетинг

transporting транспортировка

storing складирование,хранение

storage хранение

product planning разработка новых продуктов

pricing калькуляция цен

promotion содействие в продаже (какого-либо то

вара), например, с помощью рекламы

traffic торговля

marketing research изучение рынка сбыта

trend тенденция,общее направление

to predict предсказывать

to influence влиять

Comprehension Questions

1. What does marketing mean?

2. What activities does marketing consist of?

3. What do marketing operations include?

4. Why is it so important for the producer to predict the trends?

5. How was mass consumption possible in USA?

Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1. Choose the necessary word and put it in the sentence.

1. One of the aims of market

research is to indicate new ... among

people. 1 predict

2. Advertising must ... the consumer

and make him buy the goods produced. 2 influence

3. Often marketing is called .... 3 promote

4. In order to sell a new product, a

producer has to consider how to ... it. 4 marketing

5. The goods of this company are not

sold very well, they must think about ... . 5 trends

6. Sometimes it is difficult td influence

... through advertising. 6 distribution

7. If you want to produce something

new, you should start with ..... 7 market research

8. A producer wants to ... the

new trends and then tries to influence

them. 8 product planning

9. ... includes product development

and pricing among other things. 9 consumer