INSTITUTE FOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT MARKETING MANAGEMENT PROJECT REPORT CATEGORY- SOAP COMPANY- HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED BRAND- DOVE SUBMITTED TO: Dr. H. GAYATHRI SUBMITTED BY: (SECTION – A‚ Group-6) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INDUSTRY 3 1.1. INDUSTRY OVERVIEW: 3 1.2. MARKET PLAYERS UNDER FMCG IN INDIA: 2 1.3. MARKET SIZE: 3 1.4. FMCG GROWTH LADDER AND FUTURE OUTLOOK: 3 2. SOAP INDUSTRY IN INDIA 3 3. HINDUSTAN UNILEVER
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of Indian women‚ with much more liberalisation coming in. This was a time when the Indian woman was aware of herself. HLL already had a major presence in the Home & Personal Care’ sector with products like Liril‚ Pears‚ Lifebuoy‚ Rexona‚ et al. Dove’ was introduced into the Indian market‚ targeted at women who were now recognising that beauty is "not just how you look‚ but more about how you feel". The target segment for the research would be generally women in the upper-middle and higher class
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Dove did what it does best all over the world - not use supermodels to endorse the brand. Rather it got real women who used the product to give testimonials of their experience with the brand. In India‚ Dove’s brand team in the 1990s‚ led by Harish Manwani‚ now Unilever’s president ‚ Asia‚ Africa‚ Central & Eastern Europe‚ decided to adopt the same line of thought for the Indian market too. "In some ways the brand was the opposite of Lux‚ the beauty bar of film stars. Dove showed beauty in ordinary
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to the quality of the Dove Beauty bar‚ its evolution and its strengths and the threat faced by the competitor. Dove brand evolved in early 1957and is owned by Unilever. Dove came up with the different strategy and that is the Real Beauty concept. They emphasized that beauty of a women is not the outer beauty but the actual beauty is her inner self. There ads included normal ordinary women who were not only slim trimmed and toned but they were fat‚ simple and aged too. Dove differentiated its beauty
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Dove: Evolution of a brand Case write up Sources: Dove: Evolution of a brand‚ Harvard Business School case 9-508-047‚ 2008; Dove`s big ideal: from real curves to growth curves‚ 2009 (IPA); Social Media‚ Harvard Business School case 9-510-095‚ 2011 Question 1: How did Dove`s brand positioning change from the mid 2000`s? Functional era Prior to the establishment of Dove as a Masterbrand in February 2000‚ the brand was positioned differentiated in the health and beauty sector. The brand
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The aim of all business enterprises is to satisfy the needs and wants of the society. Marketing is a basic function of all business firms. When a salesperson sells washing machines‚ a doctor treats a patient or a Government asks people to take their children for getting polio drops‚ each is marketing something to the target audience. Traditionally‚ small firm owners did not give as much importance to marketing as to other functions such as accountancy‚ production and selling. Training programs‚ enterprise
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2.2 Pricing Strategy 2.2.1Factors affecting pricing decisions (Types of market) The internal factor that affects the pricing decision of Dove is based on marketing strategy‚ objectives and mix. The Dove Company mostly is working on the market of women’s personal care. Dove has a large range of products from soap to hair shampoo. The company strategy and objective is to have a high level of segmentation to answer to the many needs of the women’s personal care market and to widening stereotype view
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Dove Dove Soaps Dove Hair Care Dove Body Lotion Dove Deodorants Dove Face Care Dove Hand Wash History Dove 50 years ago‚ it was a beauty bar offering a revolutionary new formula containing 1/4 cleansing cream. It
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SAKSHI GUPTA Selection Of The Product The Product chosen by me is Dove Company is Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) Company Profile HUL is India’s largest FMCG Company with a span of over 75 years. Having 35 brands spanning 20 distinct categories such as soaps‚ shampoos‚ detergents‚ cosmetics‚ toothpastes‚ skin care‚ deodorants‚ tea‚ coffee‚ ice cream‚ packaged foods and water purifiers‚ the Company is a part of the daily life of millions of consumers across India. Over 16‚000 employees
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“I think Canada was just really ready for it‚” says Aviva Groll‚ group account director at Ogilvy‚ who has worked on Dove since 2004. “There was a lot of support internally at Unilever‚ it struck a chord… [It was] a time of great experimentation and great leadership that allowed that to happen.” Groll also notes that having the budget available and co-operation amongst the product categories to allow for a campaign centred on the brand as a whole meant everything fell into place for a Canada-first
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