1. Introduction Colgate-Palmolive1 is a more than 200-year-old company that started in New York. Although it has three main product lines namely‚ Oral Care‚ Personal Care‚ and Home Care‚ its flagship brand remains to be Colgate. The success of the brand also relies on the reputation of its company. Colgate-Palmolive now has a global presence with millions of customers. Some of its more known brands include Colgate in the oral care‚ Palmolive in the personal line‚ and Ajax and Softsoap in the home
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What is the main business problem the firm is facing? The main business problem facing Colgate-Palmolive (CP) is deciding the positioning of Colgate Precision. CP has the opportunity to position Precision as mainstream or niche. By our definition‚ mainstream would target engaged brushers (brushing multiple times a day and highly involved in multiple facets of oral hygiene)‚ while niche would focus on customers who have one specific identifiable concern‚ namely gum disease in this case. What are
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is Colgate. Colgate is a division of the Colgate-Palmolive brand that produces soaps‚ detergents and oral hygiene products. Colgate focuses on oral hygiene and is a maker of toothpaste and toothbrushes. Started in 1806 by William Colgate as a soap and candle company. When William died in 1857‚ his soon took over. In 1837‚ Colgate introduced their first toothpaste and was the first to introduce toothpaste in a tube. In 1928 Palmolive-Peet bought Colgate and in 1953 the name changed to Colgate-Palmolive
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partnership of Colgate with Hawley and Hazel‚ a big company selling a toothpaste “Darkie” in the Asian Market. Colgate bought 50% of the company and not received the management right. Colgate wanted to expand the brand all around the world and discovered difficulty of ethic with the brand name and the logo. We will see on this study various aspect of the intercultural management‚ as the Ethic‚ and the various culture is Asia country. I will describe the strategies and the management of Colgate. Ethic
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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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Marketing Mix From a modest start in 1937‚ when hand-carts were used to distribute Colgate Dental Cream‚ Colgate- Palmolive India today has one of the widest distribution networks in India - that spans 5.3 million retail outlets across the country‚ of which the company services 20‚00‚000 outlets directly. Below is the comparison of the retail distribution in 2010 and 2012: Creating Market Awareness: CPIL has been able to increase the sales volume of the toothpaste and tooth powder segment
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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 is focusing on the fact that toothpaste
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marketing strategy for the launch of the new Colgate Precision. The issue can be divided into the following four major areas: 1. Positioning: Which market should be targeted? 2. Branding: Should Colgate make the most of the company’s brand? 3. Communication & Promotion: How does Colgate distribute its advisement expenditures among products? How much should Colgate invest in advertising Colgate Precision? 4. Channel: Which distribution channel should Colgate use? Our team must analyze the two differing
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Therefore‚ Colgate?s core product is a health care product when it sells toothpaste or other products in its new line. The core benefit the product will provide to consumers is total health care. For example‚ Colgate?s toothpaste is an actual product. It?s name‚ ingredients‚ styling‚ features and packaging and other attributes have all been combined carefully to deliver the core benefit ? a convenient high quality way to clean the teeth and maintain fresh breath. I would classify Colgate aspirin
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April 2011 Abstrac t —Cus tomer re lationship management (CRM) has the potential for achieving succe ss and growth for organizations in the nowadays environment of extensive competition and rapid technological developmen t. CRM enables organizations to know their customers better and to build sustainable relationships with them. However‚ CRM is considered as buzzword and it is not understood well. The main components of CRM are people‚ technology‚ and processes. This paper provides
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