Shell Truck Marketing Communication Strategy

Document from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 73%, University of Leeds (Business School), course: Shell, language: English, abstract: Shell is a company providing different products and services for the CRTmarket. This highly competitive market, dominated by Q8, reduces Shell s sourcesof profitability and therefore Shell launch a major campaign to develop a strongerposition. The campaign will target existing and potential fleet managers and drivers. The concept is to drive the fleet manager to the EuroCargo exhibition in Cologne,major place of meeting for the European companies in the transport sector with amultistage Direct Marketing process. To back up this campaign, specialisedmagazines and sponsorship of events and traffic radios are planned before and afterthe trade-fair. This event will also correspond to the launch of the new brand(TranShell) specially build up for the CRT market, in order to add some values(flexibility, integration, expertise, etc.) necessary to this B2B sector. Finally, the effectiveness of the campaign will be maximised by usingon-going and post campaign measurement methods. This campaign is the Shell sfirst step to offer a fully integrated provision of solutions by developing innovativeproducts and services.