Dove was developed in the United States as a non-irritating skin cleaner for pre-treatment use on burns and wounds during World War II. In 1957‚ Dove bar reformulated as a beauty soap bar. In 1970s‚ the company launched promotional campaign for shop’s mildness as found in the study that Dove to be milder than 17 leading bar soaps. Through the years‚ Dove has expanded its product line to body wash‚ facial cleansers‚ moisturizers‚ deodorants and hair care products. In 2005‚ Unilever’s Dove product
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Dove Case study the main problem The main issue affecting the company relates to the real beauty campaign. The campaign was triggered by the quest for a point of view for the dove brand since the functional superiority emphasized in the past was not applicable to all products as it communicated different meaning to different categories. The real beauty campaign risks making dove an ordinary brand thus killing its heritage of inspiring beauty thus impacting on its performance (Deighton 2008).
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Case Study : Dove in global market. ‘We want to challenge the definition of beauty. We believe the beauty have become too narrow in definition. We want to defy the stereotype that only young‚ blond and tall are beautiful’ (Phillippe Harousseau‚ Dove’s Marketing Director) Dove profoundly runs their CFRB (Campaign For Real Beauty) over the world‚ whereby they choose to use real women‚ which define as non-setting up of image‚ or original natural beauty and use in the campaign advertisement‚ focus
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One of Doves direct competitors is Olay. They have six bar soaps and two massaging bath bar soaps. The Olay brand is known as a brand that celebrates beauty outside and within. Their tagline is “Love the skin you are in.” Olay has a bar name Age Defying Moisturizing Bar‚ which helps reveal younger looking skin. This would be a competition for Dove‚ since Dove doesn’t have an age defying bar‚ but instead it has a sensitive skin‚ which is good for those with sensitive skin. Olay though has no variety
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meaningful unified unit on a global scale. Dove was one of Unilever’s many brands. The first Dove campaign was launched in the 1950s‚ and as mentioned in the case study‚ its message was “Dove soap doesn’t dry your skin because it’s one-quarter cleansing cream”; it was focused on its functional benefits and honesty. And soon Dove became one of the most recognizable brands in the world‚ and was tapped to become a Masterbrand in the year 2000. When Unilever’s Dove launched its “Campaign for real beauty”
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CASE ANALYSIS Dove: Evolution of a brand INTRODUCTION Unilever’s Dove is one of the leading companies in the health and beauty industry. Dove has launched an advertising campaign named “The Campaign for Real Beauty” to general the attention of the public in order to change the traditional definition of beauty and improve their brand awareness. Dove took the advantages of new social media by uploading the advertisements on YouTube and allowed people to give comments on the “Real Beauty” story
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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 LIMITED 4 3.1 HISTORY AND INTRODUCTION: 4 4. DOVE 6 4.1 OVERVIEW OF DOVE: 6 4.2 DOVE BAR: 8 5. STP ANALYSIS OF DOVE 9 5.1 SEGMENTATION OF DOVE: 9 5.2 TARGETING
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Question 1 Prior to the launch of “The Campaign for Real Beauty‚” Dove focused mostly on the brand’s functional benefits in its advertising. Dove products were packaged simply‚ and the name “dove” implied purity‚ freshness and cleanliness. It was also very feminine. To customers‚ Dove was viewed not as soap‚ but as a moisturizer because of the brand’s constant emphasis on the one-quarter moisturizing cream added to its beauty bars. Because of this‚ women flocked to the brand in hopes of trading
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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. Initially women in the metropolitan cities will be targeted and thereafter those
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Dove Ad Campaign The image of beauty has been burned into the minds of young adults in this generation through magazines and radio. However‚ in the last decade with the uprising of social media‚ internet‚ and television; the definition of beauty is being redefined. With these new social mediums arising‚ marketing campaigns are becoming more aggressive and targeting a younger audience and influencing their ideas of who they are. Marketing campaigns show only the most beautiful and attractive actors
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