Creating more of a yogurt market is in the United States is a top priory for the firms feature success. The yogurt category is not as popular in America as other reagos of the world and with a market growing by 15-18% per fiscal year there leaves an enormous market to be taped into. Keeping up with global compotation, and still providing industry leading products is a challenge management must contend with. Product diversification; and first to market product placement will give the edge to Dannon over rival firms. If the company decided to take more time in developing a domestic market in the US there could be large net gains for both the company and …show more content…
The global business is focused on fresh dairy, bottled water, medical nutrition and baby nutrition. Dannon manufactured and marked fresh dairy products in the US and abrde and was seen as the number two player in the domestic yogurt market. The company has expanded into different segments such as drinks, kids, light core, proactive health, indulgent. Dannon leaded the industry in Proactive Health category with 40% of the 1.1 billion coming from there Activia Brand. Over the past couple of years The Dannon Company has seen the US as an emerging market and is looking to capitalize on the new market. With a strong marketing campaign the industry leader looks to make a big push on the new market. The current growth of the US market is at 3.7+ billion growing at about 1.5% per year leaving a huge resource to tap into.
Production of mass quantities of yogurt in a fast and cost efficient manner, high employee morale, global power house, health promotions,