Unilever Bangladesh conducted their Corporate Social Responsibility activities as Lever Brothers Bangladesh in past. And they mainly focus their voluntary activities in three different segments. These are ‘Health-nutrition-hygiene’‚ ‘Education’ and ‘Women Empowerment’. They do some activities in climate change issues also. They said these activities as sustainability and responsible business practice. They conducted some movement about health care and launched ‘Lifeboy Friendship Hospital’
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1. What are the key features of Shakti? What are its positive aspects and what are its drawbacks? Key features of Shakti are: • Shakti is an initiative which empowers women in rural India to become capable of earning livelihood and contribute to their family well being • Shakti involves woman to do door to door selling of the branded products • Shakti enabled large conglomerate to penetrate into the untapped rural market of India. • It involved women/entrepreneur to build relationship with customers
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Introduction to Unilever Unilever is a British–Dutch multinational consumer goods company. Its products include foods‚ beverages‚ cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world’s third-largest consumer goods company measured by 2011 revenues (after Procter & Gamble and Nestlé) and the world’s largest maker of ice cream. Unilever is a dual-listed company consisting of Unilever N.V. in Rotterdam‚ Netherlands and Unilever PLC in London‚ United Kingdom. Both Unilever companies have the
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Policy: 9 4.4 DEMOGRAPHICS 9 4.5 TECHNOLOGICAL 10 CHAPTER 5: SWOT ANALYSIS 11 5.1 STRENGTHS 11 5.2 WEAKNESSES 11 5.3 OPPORTUNITIES 11 5.4 THREATS 11 CHAPTER 6: INSUSTRY ANALYSIS 12 6.1 ICE-CREAM BRANDS 12 6.2 ICE-CREAM PARLORS 12 6.3 INDUSTRY GROWTH 13 6.3.1 Product Life Cycle 13 CHAPTER 7: MARKET FORCES 14 7.1 NEW PRODUCT ENTRY PROSPECTS 14 7.2 RIVALRY 14 7.3 POWER OF SUPPLIERS 15 7.4 POWER OF BUYERS 15 7.5 THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES 15 CHAPTER 8: COMPETITOR ANALYSIS 17 8.1 COMPETITORS OF
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The goal of Unilever Brazil is to target the low income consumers‚ in order to gain market share among this segment they should develop an extension of Minerva brand with a small packaging and a cheaper formulation that maintains a good quality. The low income consumers are the most discerning consumers‚ and when spending from a limited budget they cannot afford to waste money on products they do not trust to be effective . This segment values price‚ effectiveness and fragrance‚ and wash manually
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Overview Consumer behaviour is the process individuals or groups go through to select‚ purchase‚ use and dispose of goods‚ services‚ ideas or experiences to satisfy their needs and desires. Unilever had decided to launch detergents in Brazil basically targeting the low-income consumers living in the NorthEast of Brazil. So the Head of Unilever’s Home Care‚ Robert Davidson appointed Laercio Cardoso for this project as he was from the same country which would be an advantage with respect to knowing
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This case study chronicles Unilever efforts at restructuring‚ divesting‚ acquisition‚ and general streamlining of its worldwide operations. These operations‚ in 2000‚ encompassed 1‚600 brands in 88 countries. These products are mostly food‚ personal care‚ and household products. Around that same year‚ Co-chairmen Niall FitzGerald and Antony Burgmans decided that Unilever needed to make some rather drastic changes in order to remain competitive. More importantly that competitiveness was the importance
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to the growth of the company and Different strategies will enable different companies to reach those goals. Unilever is a company started in 1930 formed of Dutch Margarine Company and British based lever brothers. Unilever holds a wide range of products which include food‚ personal care‚ beverages‚ canned foods‚ ice creams and many more which are worlds best consumer brands. The case study describes a lot of information regarding Unilever’s business strategies‚ key elements of Unilever’s path to growth
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develop appropriate strategies. A global strategy is an organisational plan that takes into account these new global realities. Both Nestle and Unilever have developed global distribution and marketing networks‚ based on their powerbrands i.e. market leading brands that are recognisable in nearly every country in the world. Both Nestle and Unilever have many powerbrands. Key aspects of global strategy include: 1. Treating the global market as the domestic market‚ in terms of attention
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External Assessment Although Unilever’s Path to Growth strategy involves all components of the general environment‚ two segments that are especially relevant are the global and sociocultural segments. A major strength of the company’s global environment is its geographic diversification of its major product markets. In 2003‚ Unilever had sales and marketing efforts in 88 different countries. The key is that it gave decision-making power to its managers in different countries so that they could
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