ASSIGNMENT 04

G06 International Marketing

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 interview is to determine what challenges they 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 organization. Be sure to provide two (2) in-depth examples of the types of global market research the company has done. Ask each company 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 country.

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

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

4.Describe one (1) way information is disseminated to others in their organization.

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