reorganization? What kind of structure did the company have? Were Unilever’s strategy and structure consistent with each other? What were the benefits of this strategy and structure? What were the drawbacks? For decades‚ Unilever managed its worldwide detergents activities in an arm’s length manner. A subsidiary was set up in each major national market and allowed to operate largely autonomously‚ with each subsidiary carrying out the full range‚ of value creation activities‚ including manufacturing‚ marketing
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CASE: I Playing to a new beat: marketing in the music industry Questions: 1. Discuss the micro and macro forces that are affecting the music industry. Answer : Factors affecting the music industry include the following: • Consumers have created a new value curve for the music industry • Online file sharing and downloading where copyright holders are bypassed has put the traditional business model of the music industry in doubt • Competition for consumers time‚ attention
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study‚ critically examine HUL’s Marketing strategy (STP) for Wheel since its inception and the reasons for the success of the brand. Solution: Wheel Powder was launched by Hindustan Unilever Ltd. in 1987 in response to the success of Nirma detergent powder - a local Indian brand launched in 1977 by Karsanbhai Patel‚ a well known entrepreneur and philanthropist of Gujarat. Nirma was introduced at a price that attracted the cost-conscious Indian consumer. Prior to 1988‚ Wheel had existed‚ for
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the Unilever Brazil case‚ Unilever already had an 81% share of the Brazil detergent market which far exceeds than its strong competitor Procter& Gamble’s 15% share. However‚ it is facing a real threat that P&G Brazil may draw on worldwide R&D and marketing expertise is closing up and will attack in low-income segment in the Northeast of Brazil. What’s more‚ there is no other way to expand Unilever Brazil in detergent market and growing number of small local brands targeted at low-income
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working as junior chemist in Government laboratory. In the night Karsanbhai used to make detergent in the 100 Sq. Ft. back yard of his home‚ using bare hands and bucket. In 1960s and 1970s‚ the domestic detergent market had only premium segment‚ with very few players and was dominated by MNCs. After making the detergent Karsanbhai used to pack it in polythene bag and sold it door-to-door. He priced the detergent at Rs. 3 per kg‚ when the available cheapest brand in the market was Rs. 13 per kg. In
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RURAL INDIA THERE’S an interesting way of putting rural India into perspective. If India’s population‚ as per the 1998 estimates of the United Nations Population Division‚ is 982‚223‚000‚ then rural India‚ taken as 73.3% of India‚ is 719‚969‚459. Divide that by the estimated total world population of 5.9 billion‚ and rural India becomes 12.2% of world population. Forget all of us sitting in the cities (4.4% more) -- 12.2% of the world lives in rural India. Which‚ given our effective lack of
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Nirma Ltd. HISTORY OF DETERGENT- The earliest detergent substance was undoubtedly water; after that‚ oils‚ abrasives such as wet sand‚ and wet clay. The oldest known detergent for wool-washing is stale (putrescent) urine. For the history of soap‚ see the entry thereon. Other detergent surfactants came from saponinsand ox bile. The detergent effects of certain synthetic surfactants were noted in 1913 by A. Reychler‚ a Belgian chemist. The first commercially available detergent taking advantage of
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The year: 1969. Karsanbhai Patel‚ the son of small-time farmer from Ruppur‚ Gujarat‚ tries his hand at making phosphate-free detergent powder out of a small shed in Saraspur‚ an Ahmedabad suburb. A chemist in a government lab‚ Patel’s entrepreneurial instincts drive him to moonlight for work that would soon become his real professional calling: making a low-cost detergent. When it came to giving a name to his labor of love‚ Patel decided to call it Nirma (after his daughter Nirupama)‚ a brand which
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industry. My topic biological washing detergent is one of the products used to help us or make our life much easier. The product uses enzymes to be more efficient. Comparing the biological washing detergent to normal washing detergent‚ there is a huge difference what makes this product so special and efficient. The biological washing detergent cleans in the same as the non-biological washing detergent does. But the only difference is that the biological washing detergent uses enzyme to give additional
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bound substance. Different types of material can be stained by different substances‚ and stain resistance is an important characteristic in modern textile engineering. Various laundry techniques exist to attempt to remove or minimize existing stains‚ and stain removers are an important type of chemical in laundry detergents. Some stand-alone stain removers also exist. In many cases‚ stains can be affected by heat ‚ and may become reactive enough to bond with the underlying material. Extreme heat
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