Service Strategy Environmental Analysis Pestle

Conduct a Service Analysis using PESTLE for the company Sherwin Williams. Powerpoint shows what is needed for each individual section along with a voiceover of the professor speaking about it. Need atleast 3-4 pages in depth for each section of Pestle. (P- Political, E- Economic, S- Social, T- Technological, E- Environmental, L- Legal.)

MAR 5849: Service Marketing

Service Strategy Audit Overview

An environmental analysis is conducted using the PESTEL framework.

PESTEL stands for:

P – Political

E – Economic

S – Social

T – Technological

E – Environmental

L – Legal

Environmental Analysis

Political: These are all about how (and to what degree) a government intervenes in the economy. This can include – government policy, political stability or instability in overseas markets, foreign trade policy

Economic: Economic factors include economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation, disposable income of consumers etc.

Social: Also known as socio-cultural factors – they have a direct effect on how marketers understand customers and what drives them.

Environmental Analysis 1

Technological: Technological factors affect businesses in three distinct ways:

New ways of producing goods and services

New ways of distributing goods and services

New ways of communicating with target markets

Environmental: They have become important due to the increasing scarcity of raw materials, pollution, and the importance of doing business as an ethical and sustainable company

Legal: legal regulations related to health and safety, equal opportunities, advertising standards, consumer rights and laws, product labelling and product safety

Environmental Analysis 2

Each section (PESTEL) will not have the same amount of information

Some sections do overlap, so it is important to distinguish the differences

Political and economic are particularly problematic

This section is only for reporting information about the external environment. Be careful not to discuss how the firm responds to these factors in this section of the paper.

Environmental Analysis 3