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International Advertising Strategy of Levi Strauss

The problem that Levi Strauss faces is how to create an advertising strategy that can meet the needs of customers throughout the world. An international company selling a stylized consumer product, Levi Strauss has encountered quality problems using its current strategy, but this is symptomatic of not having a unified advertising strategy.

Justification for Problem Definition

Levi Strauss is an international company which has seen its business expand during the last half of the twentieth century. Although the company is best known for the jeans and denim products that it produces, it has been successfully in adding various other clothing lines. Currently, the company uses local advertising agencies and creative personnel to create the advertising campaigns used in various countries. While this means that the campaigns are tailored to each specific market, there are differences in quality and message among the campaigns which the company thinks might be detrimental to its overall objectives.

There are three basic alternatives from which Levi Strauss can choose with regard to its international advertising strategy. It can choose to create advertising campaigns on a local or regional basis using input and control from headquarters; this is the current strategy. The company could also choose to create advertising campaigns locally without input from headquarters, leading to a far more independent campaign which does not have corporate control. Or, the company could use centralized control to create advertising at a single point for all of the international markets.

The primary advantage of the current strategy is that it allows campaigns to be developed on a regional or local basis which take into account the cultural and national differences among the various markets. At the same time, the central headquarters is (theoretically) able to exercise control over both the creative message and the implementation of that mess...

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