Creating an HR that has the ability to recruit and select the right people and the ability to effectively socialize and train employees will allow multinational companies to excel in all business aspects. In this paper we have chosen to explore Procter and Gamble (P&G)‚ a multinational corporation which has lead the way in creating one of the best human resource management systems to date. By using P&G‚ we are seeking to provide an example of how current multinational companies make decisions to manage
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Case #16 Proctor & Gamble: Selling Through Customer Business Development Questions for Discussion: 1.Which of the sales force structures discussed in the text best describes P&G’s CBD structure? In the 80’s‚ manufacturers began to spend money to better understand consumers‚ and P&G more than anyone. However‚ they never really asked‚ if these needs were the same in retailers. It was the period when P&G decided‚ to change the sales department into a more strategic department named Customer Business
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This case details the success of Gillette over the history of the company‚ from its inception in 1901 to the present day. The ups and downs that the company went through over the years and the obstacles it had to overcome to stay at the top of the market in not only the U.S. but worldwide. The company as a whole has faced new competition that sparked a battle that many still remember to this day. Innovative History In 1901‚ during its year of inception Gillette cornered the market for being the
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Case: Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 1.Why did the US organizational structure shift from product grouping in the 1950s to a matrix in the 1980s? Why did the European organizational structure shift from geographic grouping in the 1950s to category management in the 1980s? Why were the two structures integrated into a global cube in the 1990s? As mentioned in the article‚ the US market is a large homogenous one‚ which is characterized by buyers with similar needs and wants
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Identity Prism 8 2.2.3 Brand personality 9 3. Positioning 10 3.1 Possible positioning statements 11 3.1.1 Comparisons 12 3.1.2 Contrast between two statements 12 4. Celebrity endorsement 13 4.1 David Beckham and Gillette 14 4.2 Other Gillette celebrity endorsers 15 4.3 Match-up hypothesis 16 4.4 Future Endorsement 17 5. Retail Environment 17 Appendices Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1 – Marketing Week Article Appendix 2 – Questionnaires Appendix 3
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Nike was formed by $1000 and the handshake of 2 men. Those 2 men were Bill Bowerman‚ the University of Oregon track coach and Phil Knight‚ a University of Oregon accounting student and a middle-distance runner under Coach Bowerman. Bill brought jogging to America‚ and then built an unrivaled track and field program at that university. Bowerman taught his athletes to seek the competitive advantage everywhere - in their bodies‚ their gear and their passion. In 1962 Knight had this you’re-crazy-it-will-never-work-
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success: strategic vision of the business‚ leadership of the management team‚ innovation capability‚ spot-on position and marketing‚ consistent good quality of the products‚ just to name a few. One organization that clearly exemplifies this is Procter & Gamble. With a few annotations and comments‚ the core of them is outlined below: First‚ P&G boasts an enviable stable of successful products. With a clear focus to capture its market share‚ each brand
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Harleen Parmar Gillette Indonesia Chester Allan‚ Gillette’s country manager of Indonesia‚ needs to decide whether increasing spending in marketing beyond 12% of sales will cause a 20-25% increase in blade sales in 1996. Despite the high market share of 48% and 97% brand awareness (See Exhibit 1) of Gillette-brand blades‚ the company needs to target several factors that hinder its growth by switching rural population to lower priced Gillette blades; targeting 48% of the urban male population
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Proctor & Gamble 1. In our opinion‚ we think the answer about product life cycle is not absolutely correct. It is depend on product’s characteristic. 3C product such as eeepc (asus’s product‚ netbook) have quite short product life cycle; Rolex watch have been established more than 200 years. So if marketers want to extend product life cycle‚ they have to do more afford on survey to realize consumer behavior and satisfy their really needs and wants. When the product’s sales shows that it is
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MARKETING ASSIGNMENT: GILLETTE CASE 1. Analyze Gillette’s planning and control systems These two management tools provide the company with the necessary information to run the different SBU’s from a marketing point of view. They are complementary to a such extent that they need each other to be meaningful. The planning system is focused on the creation of marketing strategies and marketing actions to develop the brands‚ based on information gathered a priori. Based on it‚ the company
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