Head of Gillette Shaving Division RE: Rejuvenating the strategy of Gillette’s razor business Current Strategy Gillette has grown to be a power brand in the shaving industry. Its products are seen as premium quality and are thus sold at a premium price. Gillette’s current business model consists of high spending in marketing and product development (R&D). Gillette’s traditional competitive strategy for razors is to focus technology and marketing on increasingly sophisticated blades. In other
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Comp 1 3/12/2013 The Razors Edge The Razors Edge was a story created in 1944 and two years later was transformed film (in 1946) and redone in the mid-1980s. It is a captivating story of a man’s quest to find the meaning of life. The movie brought you to many places and left me questioning many actions‚ only to find the answer of why he did it shortly after his actions. This movie has many meanings‚ it makes you think‚ it gets under your skin‚ and it really makes you think about how you live
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Study Gillette Fusion: Building a $1 Billion Brand Q1. Key Milestones Gillette dominates 70% of global razor market; their strategy is to keep on producing new products‚ developing new innovations‚ and remaining as the market leader in men’s grooming market. Gillette introduced its first razor in 1903; by 1971‚ they invented Trac II “the world’s first two-blade razor”. Comparing to the original one-bladed razor‚ the two blades work better. Then they came out with Altra‚ the razor with
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Case study: Clean Edge Razor- Splitting Hairs in product positioning 2/12/2013 Group 5 * Radhika Nadkarni * Rishi Ranjan * Sujoy Chakrabortty * Sumanta Chatterjee * Suresh Panigrahi * Problem Statement: ‘Paramount Health and Beauty ‘ Company is launching a new non-disposable razor‚ Clean Edge that boasts about superior performance by utilizing a vibrating technology that stimulates hair follicles and lifts the hair from the skin allowing a thorough shave. This
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2.2 Brand identity 5 2.2.1 Brand Name 6 2.2.2 Packaging 7 2.2.3 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
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A price control is either a price ceiling or a price floor. Essentially a law is passed that controls a maximum a product can sell for (price ceiling) or the minimum a product can sell for (price floor). A negative effect of a price ceiling‚ for example on prescription drugs‚ would be that drug companies would possibly produce less than they currently do because it wouldn’t be cost effective to make more. With the economy on the downward slope there has been a lot of discussion on the rising price
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Authors: Ingrid Bernier and Elise Meyer Supervisor: Jean-Charles Languilaire Level: Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration‚ Marketing Key words: Culture‚ international marketing‚ marketing strategies‚ standardization and adaptation Purpose: Compare two strategies‚ standardization and adaptation‚ to show how companies manage cultural differences. Method: Our research method is a descriptive one. Then‚ we collect data from secondary sources such as the books‚ articles‚ journals and studies
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Gillette Cassette Case Study‚ 1/9/11 In 1970 Gillette Razors was dominating the manufacturing and distribution of men’s and women’s razors‚ blades and other toiletries. Their distribution to 500‚000 retail outlets in the US and the strong relationships of their sales team with chain retailers and wholesale distributors made them well-positioned to enter the emerging market of blank cassettes. Based on the research they received from their consultants‚ Gillette was smart to seriously consider
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Gillette is going to choose a strategic option for Fusion and Fusion Power‚ its new breakthrough offering‚ which are following the MACH3‚ the former successful exiting offering‚ in order to increase sales of Fusion and Fusion Power of which sales are flat 10.6% in 1st quarter to 10.8% in 2nd quarter‚ which is little bit disappointing‚ compared to the MACH3 (See the Exhibit 1.) Decision I strongly recommend that Gillette should launch new advertising campaign with a promotion campaign‚ in order
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Occam’s Razor is the basis of my “why” theory. These items are not tools‚ and not necessarily ritual items‚ and definitely not natural fractures. The bottoms of the stones were intentionally manipulated as-well allowing the stone to sit accordingly‚ perfectly displaying
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