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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introduction Gillette know men in their grooming needs but not for woman. Men have been scraping their beards and moustaches off since the invention of dating‚ and had been using a variety of single edged razors‚ including the so-called "safety razor"‚ which had been introduced by Gillette in 1901. A mere 70 years would pass before the Gillette people could improve on things with the introduction of the Trac II razor‚ the first two-bladed cartridge. The theory was‚ that the first blade would
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PRACTICAL III: THE BEHAVIOUR OF AMINO ACIDS IN SOLUTION Abstract In this practical the acid-base behaviour of amino acids was assessed. Amino acids are amphoteric. They have the basic (amine) and the acidic (carboxylic) functional groups. These show the same type of equilibrium reactions that all weak acids and bases undergo‚ and the relative amount of each can be altered by adjusting the pH of the solution. For this practical glycine was used as a model to show this unique nature of
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ABSTRACT One of the most difficult marketing decisions facing companies is how much to spend on promotional schemes. John Wanamaker for a departmental store magazine‚ said‚ "I know that half of my advertising is wasted but I don’t know which half." Thus it is not surprising that industries and companies vary considerably in how much they spend on promotion. Promotional expenditures might amount to 30-50% of sales in case in cosmetics industry and only 10-20% in the industrial equipment industry
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Gone those days where brands were limited and their tag lines were enough for the publicity‚ for e.g. “Thanda matlab coca- cola” this tag line of coca cola helped a lot in terms of profit maximization and brand building.As the time passes a cut throat competition is taking place and every one is trying to put their product superior than their competitors. For this‚ they have endorsed the celebrity in advertisement to make their product popular as well as unique. The use of a celebrity in an advertisement
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of the field removed the difficult at all crucial junctures. Consumer Buying Attitudes toward Counterfeits: Factors Motivating the Buying Behavior Zahid Iftikhar‚ Anam Munir‚ Jannat Arif Butt Abstract The purpose of this article is to know the factors that motivate the customers to buy local cosmetic products. The authors made the conceptual framework and a questionnaire was adopted to know the consumers buying behavior to buy local cosmetic products with respect to purchase intention. Questionnaire
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Renting vs. Buying Composition and Communication II/ COM/156 April 09‚ 2011 Carrie Kendall Why would anyone want to use their hard-earned cash to pay for a landlord’s mortgage when you could be using the rent money to buy a home of your own? (Hang) “People who are looking to buy their first homes typically keep renting during slow real estate markets in hopes that purchase prices will drop‚ and the current market is no exception.” (Tedeschi) In today’s market we see the prices of homes dropping
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Greg Runco Gillette Case Study‚ “I never knew my Fusion had a Precision Trimmer on the back” – 11.5.2012 It has been empirically proven that having too many options makes decision-making harder. In fact‚ some studies show that having to make too many decisions can leave people tired‚ mentally drained and more dissatisfied with their purchases. If you look at the major development milestones of Gillette‚ they occurred in 1903 // 1971 (68 years later) // 1990 (19 years later) // 1995 (5 years
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28-02-78 Gillette Indonesia Marketing Plan Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 3 2. Situation analysis 4 2.1. Market summary 4 2.2. Market demographics 4 2.3. Market needs 5 2.4. Market trends 5 2.5. Market growth 5 2.5.1. Competition 6 2.6. SWOT analysis 6 3. Marketing strategy 8 3.1. Marketing objectives 8 3.2. Target markets 8 3.3. Positioning 8 3.4. Marketing mix 9 3.4.1. Product 9 3.4.2. Place 9 3.4.3. Promotion 11 4. Gillette Indonesia:
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Sethi Gillette Case Study: In 1985‚ Gillete entered in the Indian shaving blade market through a joint venture company called ISPL with the House of Poddars. The Malhotras were the market leaders and shrewdly implemented the stock push strategy and thus‚ enjoyed around 80% of the share. The primary product was the carbon steel blade which was very cheap and was of an inferior quality as compared to stainless-steel blades. The other competitor was Wiltech which was facing heavy losses. Gillette believed
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