Group: The Grey Warden
Sem2 - 2010
Marketing Plan
Close-up
Bui Minh Hoang s3256231
Nguyen Minh Vu s3255214
Hoang Thi Mai Huong s3275008
Do Thanh Phuong Thao s3255388
Huynh Le Minh Nhat s3300531
PhanThi Ha Phuong s3299578
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Close-up toothpaste is one of famous products at Unilever Company in Vietnam. The slogan of Close-up is “long lasting fresh breathes to get people closer”, so the special feature of close up is breath freshness. Although Close-up has been in Vietnamese market for a long time, it has not been very popular. The aim of this marketing plan is helping Chose-up become a market leader, building strong relationship with customer, developing new market in school and increase profit to 20 million dollars. Close-up has been sold all over Vietnam and the market share of this product is 25% at the moment. However, it has not use promotion absolutely such as advertising and services after sale. Base on the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat, the marketing plan gives some ideas to make Close-up become more popular. Close-up toothpaste provides mostly for youth and people who have from average to high salary in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh cities. Unilever will introduce new product of Close-up in the future such as new flavor and new size of toothpaste. The price of our product still follows the same for more strategy. It has physical and bundle price.In the future, Close-up will open more outlets and expand more distributors focusing mainly in Ho Chi Minh City. Close-up also has to make some activities to attract customer such as discount, advertising and make some events. Some action programs are created to manage time and achieve them in one year from January to December 2011.
Contents I. URRENT MARKETING SITUATION: 4 1. INTRODUCTION: 4 2. MARKET SHARE: 4 2.1. MACROENVIRONMENT: 5 2.2. MICROENVIRONMENT: 5 II. SWOT ANALYSIS: 6 III. PRODUCT OBJECTIVE: 8 IV. SEGMENTATION, TARGETING AND