| dc.description.abstract | Successful distribution channel strategy selection, implementation, and management cannot only . help to meet the shopping needs and habits of the target customers efficiently under the cost constraints of the seller; they must also mitigate the disadvantages caused by distribution channel conflicts such as double marginalization. Customer needs analysis plays a relatively small role in product development in these firms. Instead, product development is typically driven by process technology capabilities which often are the result of incremental process improvements. Unlike market-driven firms, where a focus on value (as defined by the customer) drives marketing decision making, marketing decisions in these firms often revolve around pricing issues, such as volume discounts, as the key to increasing the firm's unit sales.
The objective of the study was to establish the effect of marketing distribution channel strategies on a firm's performance among commercial banks in Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was all the forty three commercial banks operating in Kenya. The study used both primary and secondary data to be collected through questionnaires. The data was analyzed and presented using percentages, mean and standard
deviation.
The study found that the branch network, electronic banking and multiple distributions were used by the banks. Marketing strategies being employed by the banks were aggressive marketing, mass marketing and value marketing. The marketing features employed by the banks was close relationships with customers, product specialization, extensive market research, selective distribution, segmentation of market, high quality innovative products and controlled relationship with customers while increased relational norm with channel partners, intensive distribution to a mass market and low behavioral control on consumers were employed by the banks to a moderate extent. The marketing distribution strategies results to increased sales, market share and profits, the bank being able to market changes more effectively and enhanced ability of the bank to generate, disseminate, and respond to market changes. | en_US |
