SWOT analysis: Strengths: Weaknesses: • Unilever’s worldwide establishment • Unconventional marketing strategy • Word of mouth and Word of Mouse free publicity • Campaign has a strong emotional touch • Social responsibility- Dove established self esteem fund‚ which conducted self esteem workshops along with Girl Scouts to improve the self esteem of girls • Dove’s brand loyalty • Best known for functional superiority‚ i.e. beauty bar which does not dry the skin • Changing perceptions of people
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Dove: Evolution of a Brand Question: Imagine you have oversight of Dove marketing management. How would you answer to the comment that Dove started a conversation with consumer “that they don’t have control of”? Is the brand “out of control”? Is Dove making a “risky bet”? Symptoms: ▪ Unilever was the world’s largest producer but lacked a unified global identity. ▪ Problems of control as Unilever has managed brands in decentralised fashion allowing direction to be set by brand
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meaningful unified unit on a global scale. Dove was one of Unilever’s many brands. The first Dove campaign was launched in the 1950s‚ and as mentioned in the case study‚ its message was “Dove soap doesn’t dry your skin because it’s one-quarter cleansing cream”; it was focused on its functional benefits and honesty. And soon Dove became one of the most recognizable brands in the world‚ and was tapped to become a Masterbrand in the year 2000. When Unilever’s Dove launched its “Campaign for real beauty”
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Table of Contents 1. Title: “Effectiveness of Brand Extension in Personal Care Product: A Case Study on Dove of Unilever.” 1.0 Background of the Study Brand is perceived to be in important intangible asset for company which gives company a cutting edge in product market through positioning in consumer mind. To leverage on success of brand‚ companies go for brand extension which is offering different new product in the same brand name. Such brand strategy is intended to be pursued
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control to the company and its portfolio had grown is a relatively laissez-faire manner and that makes Unilever has lacked of global identity. 2) What was Doves market positioning in the 1950’s? What is its position in 2007? In the 1950’s‚ Dove’s position was a functionally superior cleanser than soap‚ centered on science. Today‚ Dove is transforming into a lifestyle brand‚ centered on an emotional connection between consumer/product. In the 1950s Dove’s positioning was based on the functional
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Female ideologies within Dove’s ‘Campaign for Real Beauty.’ Dove’s ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’ attempts to challenge the customary‚ dominant conventions and ideologies of women’s beauty in today’s culture and society. Throughout this campaign‚ Dove aimed to celebrate ‘natural physical variation’ amongst women‚ and intended to help women become more confident in their own bodies. Stuart Hall (1981) defines ideology as the ‘images‚ concepts‚ and premises’ that supply the basis from which we ‘represent
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History • The Dove brand started its life in 1957 in the US‚ with the revolutionary new beauty cleansing Bar. • It is #1 Dermatologist Recommended brand in the US‚ Canada and France strongly endorsed by Dermatologists across the world. • In 1979‚ the phrase “cleansing cream” was replaced with “moisturizer cream” . • Since 1993‚ Indian women have relied on Dove for beautiful skin. Logo • It’s a perfect representation of softness‚ gentleness and sophistication • The image of dove or peace pigeon
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One of Doves direct competitors is Olay. They have six bar soaps and two massaging bath bar soaps. The Olay brand is known as a brand that celebrates beauty outside and within. Their tagline is “Love the skin you are in.” Olay has a bar name Age Defying Moisturizing Bar‚ which helps reveal younger looking skin. This would be a competition for Dove‚ since Dove doesn’t have an age defying bar‚ but instead it has a sensitive skin‚ which is good for those with sensitive skin. Olay though has no variety
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Dove Case study the main problem The main issue affecting the company relates to the real beauty campaign. The campaign was triggered by the quest for a point of view for the dove brand since the functional superiority emphasized in the past was not applicable to all products as it communicated different meaning to different categories. The real beauty campaign risks making dove an ordinary brand thus killing its heritage of inspiring beauty thus impacting on its performance (Deighton 2008).
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Mini Project Report on Dove Shampoo (2010-2012) Submitted By: RESHMA M NATH Under the guidance of Dr. K. Gopalakrishnan Nair Department of Business Administration College of Engineering‚ Trivandrum Department of Business Administration College of Engineering‚ Trivandrum 2011 Certificate Certified that this Mini Project Report titled “Dove Shampoo” is a bonafide record work done by RESHMA M NATH in this department as part Of second semester‚ MBA in the Department of Business
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