Strategi Pengembangan Usaha dan Komunikasi Pemasaran pada Home Industri Toko Kue Balige, Studi Kasus pada Toba Bakery & Cakes Balige

Abstract

This study titled as Business Development Strategy and Marketing Communication of Bakery Home Industry in Balige (Case Study on Toba Bakery & Cakes Balige). Home Industry Toba Bakery Balige is one of food industries which is engaged on Bakery production in Balige, Kabupaten Toba Samosir, and still one and only bakery that has been running its business by doing its own production. By the look of internal competitive values and business opportunities that this business own in the market, it is necessary and important to implement business development strategy and marketing communication in order to achieve more profit and to wide this home industry business. The purpose of this study is to identify the function of business management, to analyze the external and internal environment of Toba Bakery Balige Home Industry and also to formulate business development planning that based on Strengths, Weakness, Threats, and Opportunities that this business have. Then, later on will be communicated into the business marketing communication. The type of this study is a qualitative study. The data collect in this study by using the these methods; observation, interview with two selective informants by using non-probability sampling technique. The data that have been collected, later on will be analyzed by triangulation resources. The results of this study shows that Home Industry Toba Bakery Balige has a well management business. Toba Bakery Balige also has its competitive strength on the quality of its products. The weakness sits on the employees management. The opportunity of this business is on the large market share. The Threat of this business is on substitution products. Home industry Toba Bakery Balige can apply cost leadership strategy, as its business development strategy by establishing some policies for each business function in order to increase the competitive value and also in order to build a good relationship with the customers, Toba Bakery Balige needs to apply personal selling as its marketing communication strategy, so then Toba Bakery Balige can do an expanding market of its business for all circles without relieve its business image – To serve the best quality and the best services.