International Marketing #1

To increase your knowledge of the field, interview personnel in two companies in your area that do business outside your home country market. The people you interview may be relatives or acquaintances. The purpose of the interviews is to determine what challenges the people faced in obtaining information outside their home country, what sources of primary and secondary information company personnel typically rely on, how they determine how reliable and representative the information they obtain is, and how information is disseminated to others in their organizations. Be sure to provide two (2) in-depth examples of the types of global market research the company has done. Ask each company representative what global market research projects they are currently working on and what challenges they are encountering. Analyze your findings, and in your paper offer additional suggestions about how you might have obtained information for these companies current or previous global market research projects. Submit your findings in writing.

Your paper should include the following:

1.Describe two (2) challenges that each company has faced in obtaining information outside their home countries.

2.Describe two (2) sources of primary and secondary information on which the personnel typically rely.

3.Describe two (2) ways in which the personnel determine how reliable and representative the information they obtain is.

4.Describe one (1) way information is disseminated to others in the organizations.

5.Provide two (2) in-depth examples of the types of global market research the companies have done.