developing a differentiated (new) position in the mind of stakeholders and competitors. This may involve radical changes to the brand’s logo‚ brand name‚ image‚ marketing strategy‚ and advertising themes. These changes are typically aimed at the repositioning of the brand/company‚ sometimes in an attempt to distance itself from certain negative connotations of the previous branding‚ or to move the brand upmarket. However‚ the main reason for a re-brand is to communicate a new message for a company‚
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Introduction Ranbaxy’s Laboratories Limited’s (Ranbaxy) profile as a pharmaceutical company underwent a sea change during the period 1985-1995. During this period Ranbaxy diversified into different products‚ markets and in general over the ‘value curve’. Its export sales grew from 7.45% of total sales in 1985 to 42.4% of total sales 1995. The growth in the foreign markets was primarily led by bulk drugs and intermediates‚ which constituted 80% of the foreign sales in 1995. Driven by the vision
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Question 1: Analyze the reasons that impelled Dabur to refine its Ayurvedic image to that of a herbal FMCG company? Answer: Dabur India Limited started as a medicine manufacturer in 1884 by Dr S K Burman in West Bengal. It was started as a proprietary firm for the manufacture of Ayurvedic drugs. Daburinitially used to send medicines to villages in Bengal by mail.The company marketed an allopathic drug‚ Plagin‚ to combat the then prevalent epidemic of plague. In 1896‚ Dr. Burman set up a small
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when they become pregnant and there is no freedom of association. This research focuses on Nokia and aims to find out whether the conclusions of the SOMO report and the publicity that followed afterwards had any harmful effects for the reputation of Nokia among consumers in The Netherlands. The target groups of this research are consumers and potential consumers of Nokia between the age of 18 and 65. Nokia is the largest supplier of a wide range of mobile phones and its goal is to have the best quality
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dominating the global market‚ Nokia is finally challenging its status quo. This day saw Nokia Music Store opening its door to music lovers in Australia – the eighth media store after Britain‚ Ireland‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Finland‚ Netherlands and Singapore. The Nokia Music Store contains millions of tracks from both global and local artists and users will be able to download songs to their computer supported by Windows XP or Vistas PC and transfer them to their mobile phones be it Nokia or other brands. Songs
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1. What Nokia should do next http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=2&sid=a1606512-2fe5-4502-b82f-c6387f85f619%40sessionmgr10&hid=21&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=90188081 In the end‚ I decommissioned my £10 Nokia 1100 out of vanity three years ago. It had survived countless mishaps‚ including one memorable death-defying dive into a cup of hot tea. Unlike my iPhone‚ its battery could trundle along for at least a week and no app could be more useful than its built-in torch
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iPhone a success‚ Apple has to take into consideration on the repositioning of the iPhone. Apple wants to reposition the appeal of the iPhone in order for the iPhone to attract new market segments. Apple is reconsidering the place/distribution of the iPhone‚ tax ramification for on-line purchases‚ evaluate consumers level of involvement for the iPhone‚ post decision making process‚ and finally how to measure the success of the repositioning of the iPhone. Positioning Positioning the iPhone was a
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Nokia Corporation[3] (Finnish: Nokia Oyj‚ Swedish: Nokia Abp; Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnokiɑ]‚ English /ˈnɒkiə/) (OMX: NOK1V‚ NYSE: NOK) is aFinnish multinational communications and information technology corporation headquartered in Keilaniemi‚ Espoo‚ Finland.[4] Its principal products are mobile telephones and portable IT devices. It also offers Internet services including applications‚ games‚ music‚ media and messaging‚ and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through
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In may 1992 the finnish company Nokia started to focus on telecommunications‚ and they are selling the first GSM-mobilephone. The companies goal in 1994 was to sell about five hundred thousand mobile phones. The goal was pulverised by selling more than twenty million mobile phones. Today‚ Nokia is a world leader in digital technologies‚ including mobile phones‚ tele-communications networks‚ wireless data solutions and multimedia terminals. In 2007 Nokia was worlds number one manufacturer
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Innovate Or Die Ask a European about Nokia and a faraway look will come into their eye‚ a wistful tone creep into their voice. During the late 1990s and early 2000s the 147-year-old Finnish company became a global technology star: the world’s No. 1 mobile maker and the first brand of phone everyone owned. In some emerging markets‚ so the story goes‚ the word ‘Nokia’ became a generic term for ‘mobile phone.’ But becoming synonymous with phones is where it all went wrong. There can be little doubt
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