Marketing Case

1. What is the decision facing New Balance?

The issues facing New Balance are

* How to protect intellectual properties when setting up manufacturing units overseas.

* How to stop the Chinese manufacturing unit from producing the Fashion shoe which is being sold at very low price and diluting the brand.

2. What are the alternatives?

The alternatives are:

* Getting into the overseas legal system to enforce the agreement.

* Paying the least amount of $50,000 and making a decision of setting up a price for the Fashion shoes that they cannot be sold for price lower than the standard price set.

* By closely monitoring the supply chain to partially eliminate the problem of protecting the intellectual property rights.

3. What decision(s) do you recommend?

* To get into an agreement with the Chinese manufacturing unit which says that they must sell the Fashion shoes for a particular price and cannot go lower than that explaining them how it is going to dilute the brand and is marked as low-quality shoes when they sells them for a less price.

* Since it already has agreements with companies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, it should set up a manufacturing unit in one of these countries whichever has the lowest production costs while making an agreement that it is not going let the information out and also cannot sell the product for less than particular price.

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