Reread the Management Focus on Levi Strauss, and then answer the following questions:
a. What marketing strategy was Levi Strauss using until the early 2000s? Why did this strategy appear to work for decades? Why was it not working by 2004?
b. How would you characterize Levi Strauss's current strategy? What elements of the marketing mix are now changed from nation to nation?
c. What are the benefits of the company's new marketing strategy? Is there a downside?
d. What does the Levi Strauss story tell you about the "globalization of markets"?