CENTURYPLY is undoubtedly one of the major furniture brands in India. Century Plyboard stayed away from TV advertising from the last four years, before it came back on TV with its new TVC on the World Anger Day - 28th Aug, 2012. In this blog post, we shall evaluate this TVC from Century Plyboard and understand if …
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CDM launches a new TVC before Friendship Day
For years, Cadbury Dairy Milk (CDM), India's favorite chocolate brand, has been trying to be the symbol of celebration and expression of every sweet moment in your lives. In continuation of its pursuit, Cadbury Dairy Milk celebrates the beginning of new friendships with its latest TVC, ‘nayi dosti ka shubh aarambh’. The TVC showcases the first magical moments …
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AdStock GRPs
AdStock is a simple mathematical model of how advertising builds and decays. It is invented by Simon Broadbent as he studied Milward Brown’s ad awareness data. AdStock helps to: Optimize your advertisement scheduling Used in marketing-mix modelling to come up with advertising ROIs, etc. Helps you decide when to be off-air and when to be …
Lucky Goldstar (LG) India
LG stands for Lucky Goldstar - the product of a merger of two South Korean commodities businesses - but over the decades with a steady stream of innovative consumer electronics and home appliances, consumers concurred with the conglomerate's backronym that Life is Good. LG Home Appliances (HA), the arm of the Korean giant, which makes …
Television Advertisements – Clutter breakthrough and Brand Relevance
Before reading this article, just close your eyes zeroing your mind for a moment and recollect three television advertisements. Write down a few details of each of the television advertisements you could recollect. Of all the numerous advertisements I’ve watched, I could recollect only three advertisements: The old Nescafe advertisement The recent Flipkart’s advertisement of …
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Working Capital Management and Profitability
Working Capital is the total of the amounts invested in current assets of the company. Net working capital results from the deduction of current liabilities from current assets; Working Capital Management consists of determining the volume and composition of sources and uses of working capital in such a way that would increase the wealth of …
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No ‘One India’ in Advertising
Not many people would argue about the diversity of the culture in India. This is the country where the language and the taste of water changes every 100 km. The question is - how does this diversity affect the marketers to communicate their products? How does an advertiser look at this diversity? Is there a …
Impact of GST on Supply Chain
To understand how Goods and Services tax (GST) will help companies optimize their supply-chain, one needs to understand a little bit taxation and the existing warehouse strategy. Let us take the example of a company whose manufacturing facility is present in Delhi, and it moves its goods down to South India. As the company sells …
Packaging gaining more importance
Although advertising can be a highly effective means of communication for those consumers who are exposed to it, it is becoming extremely difficult to reach with increased media fragmentation and costs of TVCs. Advertising on TV is a very costly affair and is done only when other vehicles cannot attain the objectives. Increase in Modern …
How promotions help in range management issues?
Product Range Management A product range is the total product offering expressed in terms of width and depth. The width of a product range depends on the variety or number of types in a product category. The depth of a product range refers to the amount of choice offered in terms of product and brand …
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How is Intel promoting Core?
The heart of a computer is the processor and that is what Intel makes. Let us see how Intel is constantly reminding the consumers about what they build and inspire them to engage with their technology. In a bid to engage consumers and promote its i5 processors, Intel is doing a range of promotions. Objective: To …
Promotions: Maggi Club
Maggi Noodles was launched in 1983 as a tasty treat for children, with the brand communicating a strong fun element. The packaging was bright, innovative, and attractive. The brand appealed to mothers as it was very convenient, taking only 2 minutes to prepare, and the price is very affordable. Maggi was a big success. But, …
Promotions: Mattel Hot Wheels Driving License
Hot Wheels die-cast metal cars were launched by Mattel in India in 1990. They were positioned as high speed international cars for boys 3-12 years old. By 1992, the brand has attained about 10% share with competition largely coming from smuggled goods of MatchBox and Corgi from Hongkong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Mattel faced two main …
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Google and P&G on ZMOT
According to Proctor & Gamble shoppers make up their mind about a product in three to seven seconds, just the time it takes to note a product on a store shelf. This time lapse is called (by P&G) “first moment of truth” and it’s considered the most important marketing opportunity for a brand. The term "First …
Promotions: Horlicks Jug
During the early 90's, the brand Horlicks faced a problem in West bengal. Though the brand is well known and the consumers are buying it, the consumers are not buying the 1Kg pack and are repeatedly buying the 450gm size pack. Though the 450 gm size pack helped gain new users (trials), the repeat purchase …
Promotions Management
Every promotion has an objective to increase sales, brand-building, building added values to the brand, increase purchase frequency, introducing a new sample product, etc. Based on the objective to be achieved, category/brand managers and key account managers develop and implement a promotional programme that gives the maximum return on investment and maintains the trade-off between …
Push vs. Pull and how promotions may take your market share down?
Based on a set of factors mentioned below (not comprehensive) the managers decide to go for a PUSH or a PULL strategy. In practice, generally both PUSH and PULL strategies are used in combination to achieve the objective. 1. Product category 2. Consumer Behaviour in the category and the interaction 3. Competition Promotions and Marketing …
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Cross-selling and Up-selling
A happy customer is the top priority of every retailer and along with it attached is the need and want of extracting a larger share of wallet (SOW) from these customers, in a way that their happy status quo is not disturbed. Helping retailers balance this well, are tactics like Cross-selling and Up-selling. Cross-selling and …
Front-loaded and Rear-loaded incentives in marketing
In marketing, there are different types of promotions that are provided to consumers and trade partners. Broadly, they are divided into two categories: front-loaded promotions and rear-loaded promotions.For example, when using price packs, direct mail coupons, FSI coupons or peel-off coupons, consumers obtain an immediate benefit upon purchase or a front-loaded incentive. However, when buying …
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Share of Assortment
Assortment Share or Share of Assortment is the number of SKUs of a brand (or company) available in a store (or channel) as compared to the total number of SKUs of a brand (or company) in the respective category. So, it gives the share of the SKUs of your brand (or company) present in the …
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