Case Study :: Fair & Lovely Group-2 (MM) PGEXP-2012-14 Fairness and Color in Indian History It was way back in the 1970s‚ when Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) launched its first version of FAL. At that time‚ the market was dominated by the cold cream manufacturers‚ such as Ponds and Lakme (HLL was subsequently to acquire these firms). Before this‚ the ’fairness ’ aspect of creams was not directly mentioned‚ though some products did advertise that they
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Introduction Different parts of the world have their own cultures‚ and in these cultures there are certain “cultural norms”. Many people decide they would like to go out of a familiar area to study what these “cultural norms” are‚ but the hardest cultural norms to identify‚ are the ones in one’s own culture. For this experiment‚ I decided to sit at a sports bar and see how different groups of people would react to being at a restaurant with multiple NFL games on different televisions. I predicted
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Today when I was dining with my family in a formal restaurant‚ I broke two of the similar cultural norms. One being that‚ I drank my soup using a fork‚ where the norm is to drink soup with spoon. The second being that I use my knife to eat my cake‚ where it should’ve been eaten using a fork. It might seem that these two actions that violate the cultural norms is small‚ but the reaction that I got from other people is extensive. As I was committing the act‚ I noticed that the surrounding people
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swollen‚ and then expect it to plow a field the next day. Yet‚ this is what the slave owners expected from their slaves. In saying this‚ there has been debate about it being the cultural norm‚ and it is true that this is what many of the slave owners would have been raised to do all of their life. This was definitely the norm for the time era‚ but Mary Prince talks about how different slave owners treated her differently. I’m curious if people would discuss how they treated their slaves‚ and if people
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Ashoke and Ashima’s romance is one whose initiation has no place for individual choice. It is a classic arranged marriage‚ determined by cultural norms of India‚ such as astrological consultation and socio-economic matching. It is a predetermined path‚ but with a stroke of luck they seem to be instantly attracted to each other. There is an unspoken cultural norm in the country that values a parent-child relationship as having greater significance than that of a husband and wife. Hence‚ their relationship
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This week’s topic was how cultural norms can influence behaviors and outcomes. The sociocultural perspective people is the world view people have because of the environment they grew up. There are so many different cultures in this world‚ and because of globalization the differences between the cultures is not something only anthropologist study‚ but because of technology‚ more people get exposed to on a daily basis. Personally‚ when I grew up I did not get much exposure to other cultures and when
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Cultural norms of Jamaica Jamaica is a land of diverse cultures. It has a number of different racial ethnic groups .The largest group however is the blacks or Africans so ’Jamaica’s culture’ is predominantly black. Interwoven is also the European culture which these blacks learnt from their former white slaves masters. You will find Indians living in Jamaica also. Many Indians came to Jamaica as indentured servants and stayed‚ they too have an input in the Jamaica’s culture. There is a thriving
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Cultural factors:- One of the main influences on consumers during the buying process is culture. The most basic wants and behaviors of a person is influenced by his/her culture. As children grow‚ they pick up values and perceptions of the world from family members and people of authority within the community. (Bason‚H 2010).In the past 20 years‚ the UAE has become a melting pot of different cultures from all around the world. In a culturally diverse market such as the UAE‚ patterns arise in the
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There is no doubt that Fair and Lovely is “doing well” financially according to the author. Controlling 50% - 70% share of the skin whitening market in India‚ with two closest competitors sharing 16% of the market. The second fastest growing brand out of 63 brands in HLL’s portfolio with a growth rate of 21.5% per year as of 2002 in a market valued at over $200 million in 2006. Ankita Rao equally acknowledged financial benefits in the skin whitening market when she said “the market-which is set to
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Project Background A friend works with HUL and in one of our conversations there was a casual reference that Fair & Lovely (F&L) as a brand is so huge for HUL‚ that it covers the entire salary cost of the company. We were intrigued by this fact. We checked the HUL annual report and collected some primary data and were surprised to see this was partially true. Employee Benefits Expenses for 2010-11 was Rs. 961.26 Cr and for 2011-12 was 1107.28 Cr. Market share of F&L is on an average
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