Market Challenger
Market Challenger is a company that sometimes called the “runner up”. They can attack the Market leader and other competitors aggressively in an effort to capture market share, the company is called Market Challenger. Some challenger’s strategies that can attack a market: Setting opponent strategy target.
The first step that must be performed by a market challenger is setting strategic goals and choose the right opponent, for this purpose, the company must conduct a systematic analysis of the competition. Strategic target of the most market challengers are: increased market share that brings higher profitability.
Basically, the market challenger can choose one of three types of companies that can be attacked, namely: market leadership, these companies are the same size but less successful and lack of funds, and smaller regional firms.
Choosing an attack strategy. There are five attack strategies can be selected and conducted by market challenger: Frontal Attack. This attack is done by putting all the power to deal face to face with opponents. Its characteristic is attacking the opponent’s strength rather than the weak point.
In this frontal attack, the attacker would compete against his opponent through products, advertising, prices, so if your opponent is not that strong it will be lost. Usually the one who use this strategy is the strong market challenger.
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