CASE STUDY: THE LIRIL GIRL [pic] The icon who had held her stead for an astonishing 30 years is the Liril girl. Shrinking attention spans and shifting trends notwithstanding‚ she continues to epitomize exuberant freshness. The ubiquitous waterfall has morphed into a glacier. The signature tune Laa la la la laa has been tweaked to Uff yu maa. Why‚ its not even the customary lime-green anymore. Variants like Icy Cool and Orange Fresh have brought in new hues. But the effervescence of the Liril girls
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B OSTON C ONSULTING G ROUP (BCG) G ROWTH -S HARE M ATRIX MS-Excel & MS-Word Templates User Guide In the early 1970’s the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) developed a model for managing a portfolio of different strategic business units (SBUs) or major product lines. The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a four-cell (2 by 2) matrix used to perform business portfolio analysis as a step in the strategic planning process. . www.business-tools-templates.com 11/1/2009 © Copyright Business Tools & Templates
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THE BCG MATRIX Introduction: * Imagine that you’re reviewing your organization’s products. You need to decide which ones you should focus investment on. * One of the products is doing well financially. However‚ demand has fallen‚ and this trend looks set to continue. * Another product is also doing well‚ but it’s in a new market‚ and needs a lot of cash to support it. Should you continue investing in it? * And another product is barely profitable‚ although its market is growing
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of us. By questioning assumptions during every point of the product or service development process‚ we can entertain new ideas and possibilities. Mattimore tells the story of his colleague Gary Fraser‚ who took over the oral care business unit at Unilever‚ and had to take on two much larger‚ deeply entrenched competitors in the toothpaste market‚ Colgate and Crest. He couldn’t compete with them head-to-head from a product standpoint‚ and couldn’t
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369082 91.17% VAIBHAV BEDI V/S HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED (Consumer Protection Act.) Posted on May 28‚ 2014 by TEAM BBA Vaibhav Bedi‚ 26 years old resident of new Delhi filled a case against the Hindustan Unileven Ltd. (HUL) in consumer court regarding cheating and mental harassment via companies product ‘AXE deo’. In this case‚ Hindustan Unilever Ltd is a reputed company in FMCG sector having wide variety of its product. Company also groom the
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The ultimate fast follower Samsung is better than anybody else at learning from its competitors. "A market reader is sort of the classic fast follower‚" explains Barry Jaruzelski‚ senior partner at Booz&Co and the co-author of the Global Innovation 1000. "It doesn’t mean they ignore their customers‚ but they’re very attuned to what competitors are doing and what other people are bringing to market first and observing what seems to be gaining traction‚ then very rapidly coming up with their own
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Pepsodent was launched in 1993 in India and since then the brand has raised the benchmark on Oral Care solutions in India. Unilever is a leading manufacturer of oral care products in over 50 countries around the world. Around four billion people; that means approximately 70% of the world’s population‚ have access to Unilever Oral Care products. Pepsodent was launched in 1993 in India and since then the brand has raised the benchmark on Oral Care solutions in India. Pepsodent has a range of toothpastes
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Introduction: The BCG Matrix and the Product Life Cycle are two important tools that relate to different aspects of a product’s performance: • The BCG looks at market share and market growth and how they impact on cash usage and generation. • The PLC looks at sales/revenues over time and levels of profitability. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix Businesses must keep their product offerings relevant and profitable to stay in operation. The Boston Consulting Group developed a tool‚ called the BCG matrix
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BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP MATRIX ( BCG ) This technique is particularly useful for multi-divisional or multiproduct companies. The divisions or products compromise the organisations “business portfolio”. The composition of the portfolio can be critical to the growth and success of the company. The BCG matrix considers two variables‚ namely.. N MARKET GROWTH RATE N RELATIVE MARKET SHARE The market growth rate is shown on the vertical (y) axis and is expressed as a %. The range is set somewhat
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SKILLS DICTIONARY MARKETING APPENDIX (2nd version) Issued: November 2000 Introduction This Appendix replaces the original Professional Skills Dictionary - Marketing Appendix issued by Unilever in 1996. A summary of the new Marketing Professional Skill Areas is provided on the following page‚ complete with definitions and a list of Skill Sub Areas. Subsequent pages of the Appendix provide more detail on each Skill Area. Each page
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