Impact of sales promotion on sales volume‚ in UNILEVER (Nig.) PLC Introduction For years‚ most companies concentrated their promotional functions through the use of sales promotions through mass media advertising. In almost all aspects of marketing communication‚ companies depend on expertise of advertising agencies. Although‚ most marketers have already introduced and used other marketing communication and promotional tools‚ package design firms‚ direct marketing agencies and sales promotion
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Case Study #3: Decision Support‚ Artificial Intelligence‚ and B2C E-Commerce: the Case of Unilever By Dustin Allen MNGT 220-01 November 20‚ 2003 Question #1 Decision support systems‚ simply known as DSS‚ are often narrowly defined as highly flexible and interactive IT systems that are designed to support decision-making when the problem is non-structured (Haag‚ 2004). This definition expresses several keywords: support and non-structured. This means that although DSS greatly enhance
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Supply Chain Management Solution for Hindustan Unilever : Case Study Existing Situation With nearly 1000 products‚ HLL distributes them nationally through a network of four warehouses‚ more than 40 agents‚ 7‚500 wholesalers and a number of large institutional customers. HLL‚ in its endeavor to move from the existing push-based planning system to a pull-based system‚ wanted to build a Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution that would ensure informed decisions are made during procurement‚ manufacturing
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS COMMON SIZE ANALYSIS OF BALANCE SHEET VERTICAL ANALYSIS ASSETS Rupees in thousand Rs. % Rs. % Rs. % NON-CURRENT ASSETS Property‚ Plant and Equipment 649‚333 32.77 620‚702 35.12 300‚726 27.6 Intangible assets 81‚637 4.07 81‚637 4.62 81‚637 7.49 Long term
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industries; they are Unilever Group and Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. In order to see the capital structure debt and equity ratios were calculated. According to calculations Unilever’s debt ratio is 32.49% and equity ratio is 67.51%. Rolls-Royce numbers are 16.81% and 83.19 % respectively. In both cases we see that firms prefer to use their own capital. We cannot tell with certainty why this structure was chosen‚ but we can look for example at the level of liquidity. Unilever has 93% (cash to current
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Broken promises Thanks in great part to its "green" image British company Body Shop has prospered in the 80s. In the 90s the firm tried to increase its world visibility linking its image to Brazil ’s rainforest and approaching the Brazilian Kayapo Indians with a program they called `Trade Not Aid. ’ The association generated a barrage of free and laudatory media stories about the activities of Body Shop. More recently however this image has been bruised. Is the Body Shop social conscience just
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Women as Sex Objects in Axe Body Spray Ads: In present era the media and the advertisers are portraying and delivering a negative impact to our culture. For example the ads of Axe Body Spray. Axe body spray is product of the Unilever. Axe body spray leads the target consumer to believe that by using this product he will be more popular and attractive among the women. So axe straight forwardly portrays and deliver the message that if men going to use this product then women would be willing to
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with the advertising slogan: "Direct from the tea gardens to the teapot." Lipton teas were an immediate success in the United States. Thomas Lipton was knighted by Queen Victoria‚ who made him Sir Thomas Lipton in 1898 at the age of forty-eight.[1] The Lipton tea business was acquired by consumer goods company Unilever in a number of separate transactions‚ starting with the purchase of the United States and Canadian Lipton business in 1938 and completed in 1972 when Unilever bought the remainder
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Segmentation Demographic Middle to High level income adults Benefit Everyone seeks for having pleasure from the icecream Direct Sets of Competition Brand with similar target market and segmentation Panda Magic Golf Bravo Indirect Sets of Competition All other ice creams brands can be seen as indirect competitor of Magnum Even Algida’s Cornetto can be indirect competitor Positioning Map Perceived Quality x Magnum x Cornetto x Bravo
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19th century by Sir Thomas Lipton. Under the slogan “Direct from the tea gardens to the tea pot” this entrepreneurial businessman wanted to make tea a popular and approachable drink for everyone - with a high quality but reasonably priced product. The Lipton business was acquired by consumer goods company Unilever in a number of separate transactions‚ starting with the purchase of the US and Canadian Lipton business in 1938 and completed in 1972 when Unilever bought the remainder of the global Lipton
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