CASE STUDY: SENSODYNE OVERTAKES COLGATE IN SENSITIVE CATEGORY INTRODUCTION The sensitive toothpaste segment accounts for less than 10% of the country ’s Rs 5‚400-crore toothpaste market at Rs 470 crore‚ but is growing at 50% a year. Oral care giant Colgate Palmolive‚ which controls about 53% of the country ’s toothpaste market‚ has been selling its Sensitive brand in India since the last seven years. India had very low levels of awareness on the condition of tooth sensitivity. Over the past
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Pricing Strategies in Software Platforms: Video Consoles vs. Operating Systems Operating system platforms charge high prices to the users and subsidize developers. However‚ video console firms charge low prices to users and make profits on the developers’ side. When setting prices‚ developers may be constrained by one of two margins‚ the demand margin and the competition margin. What margin is binding depends on the number of applications in the market and on the level of substitutability among
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Pricing Pricing is the process of determining what a company will receive in exchange for its products. Pricing factors are manufacturing cost‚ market place‚ competition‚ market condition‚ and quality of product. Pricing is also a key variable in microeconomic price allocation theory. Pricing is a fundamental aspect of financial modeling and is one of the four Ps of the marketing mix. The other three aspects are product‚ promotion‚ and place. Price is the only revenue generating element amongst
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systemic change. These cases study provide students with the discipline’s defining conceptual frameworks and the technologies used in x organizational development. Greater emphasis is on understanding the relationship between the OD practitioner’s (like Colgate-Palmolive and Marks & Spencer) role and key players in the clients system as the OD cycle unfolds. Students would experience the practitioner’s "mind set" as they are challenged to frame organizational issues and identify how to enter and intervene
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Joseph Guy The Marketing Mix: Wal-Mart’s Price Marketing Strategy Over the past twenty years one company has dominated the discount retailer market. It has been hailed as the most admired company in America twice in the past five years by Fortune magazine. As of 2006 the company employed 1.6 million people that worked in one of their 6200 facilities worldwide. Despite this company’s unmatched success‚ it has been demonized by many in American culture‚ often being depicted as a destroyer
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Executive Summary This case study focused on the Microsoft Corporation and charges made by their competitors‚ the Federal Trade Commission‚ and the Department of Justice of antitrust violations and a monopoly of the computer operating systems and applications software‚ software development tools (e.g.‚ programming language software)‚ and hardware peripherals (e.g.‚ Microsoft Mouse) that Microsoft specializes in. It focused on numerous issues that would lead one to believe that Microsoft was in fact
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sensitivity triggers. Product Characteristic: Category: Toiletries Packaging: Paper box Pricing range: Rupees. 50 to 200 Unit per sale: A tube in 50gram and 120gram Storage: At room temperature Shelf life: 24 months. Key challenges for brands: - Since a long time‚ toothpaste in India was just meant to clean one’s teeth and have a ring of confidence in the personality of the user‚ and Colgate still is the market leader in the toothpaste segment. The competition among the oral care manufacturer
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contents: The scope of this Penetration test will include a fully intrusive without compromise attack and penetration test on the e-commerce web-based application server and cisco core backbone network that will be during the hours of 2:00am – 6:00am on Saturday and Sunday only. There will be no compromise on the extraction of information. A compromise can be involved only with Written Client Authorization Only. We will apply a full system backup prior to attack and penetration attack in the event of
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psychology at the University of Utah whereby Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas‚ Arlington. Altman and Taylor developed this theory to provide an understanding of the closeness between two individuals. Apparently‚ social penetration is defined as a process that moves a relationship from non-intimate to intimate. The theory states that this process occurs primarily through self-disclosure and it is guided by the assumptions that relationship development is systematic and predictable
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Colgate Palmolive Case Problem/Opportunity Richard Werner has to decide which marketing strategy to use with an increase in marketing budget will grow the market share of Colgate The marketing strategy/plan needs to increase overall profit for 2013 Analysis Strengths Big brand awareness‚ #1 in the market share (have 32.4% of market) It is a staple category for most retailers allowing them to get into more stores and offer more promotions as it increases the revenues for the stores Have very good
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