Industry guru, Philip Kotler, defines it as: ‘The management process that identifies, anticipates and satisfies customer requirements profitably’, while the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the United Kingdom describes Marketing as ‘the right product, in the right place, at the right time’. Modern day marketing is frequently used as an all-encompassing term covering a variety of related disciplines such as market research, advertising, public relations, customer relationship marketing, etc.

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