Horlicks
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In millions of homes frosted glass jars with blue caps sit perched on kitchen shelves. These are Horlicks bottles – the ubiquitous health drink since the 1930s – now serving the purpose of kitchen containers. In their original avatar, the bottles contained Horlicks, a spoon of which stirred in a glass of hot milk or water was the great nourisher. The basics have not changed since; except Horlicks is now an extended family of health drinks reaching out to more people, under more circumstances and using enhanced formulations. Before Operation Flood, India was a perennially milk shortage land. It was from brands like Horlicks that people received the nourishment that milk would have otherwise provided. Today, the malted milk market is estimated at Rs. 1070 crore (US$ 211.90 million) serving the nutrition and energy supplement needs of children and adults alike. With the impact Operation Flood has had the market for Milk Food Drinks (MFD) should have actually declined. But Horlicks – and several other brands in this space – has been able to re-invent itself and create positioning strategies in sync with
consumer needs. It has, for instance, created new segments aimed at specific consumers: Mothers Horlicks is targeted specifically at pregnant and lactating women; Junior Horlicks has been especially formulated for little children; Woman's Horlicks is for the contemporary woman with a proposition of blood and bone health; Horlicks Lite is for the 40+ adult promising strength and stamina and the base brand Horlicks now has a clinically-backed claim of making kids taller, stronger and sharper. Not only has this strategy grown the market and brought new users into its fold, it has actually rolled back the effects of increased milk supply and competition from other health food brands. Horlicks' success has also been in great measure due to the continuous market track it does. It was possibly the first brand to discern that consumers were veering towards
In millions of homes frosted glass jars with blue caps sit perched on kitchen shelves. These are Horlicks bottles – the ubiquitous health drink since the 1930s – now serving the purpose of kitchen containers. In their original avatar, the bottles contained Horlicks, a spoon of which stirred in a glass of hot milk or water was the great nourisher. The basics have not changed since; except Horlicks is now an extended family of health drinks reaching out to more people, under more circumstances and using enhanced formulations. Before Operation Flood, India was a perennially milk shortage land. It was from brands like Horlicks that people received the nourishment that milk would have otherwise provided. Today, the malted milk market is estimated at Rs. 1070 crore (US$ 211.90 million) serving the nutrition and energy supplement needs of children and adults alike. With the impact Operation Flood has had the market for Milk Food Drinks (MFD) should have actually declined. But Horlicks – and several other brands in this space – has been able to re-invent itself and create positioning strategies in sync with
consumer needs. It has, for instance, created new segments aimed at specific consumers: Mothers Horlicks is targeted specifically at pregnant and lactating women; Junior Horlicks has been especially formulated for little children; Woman's Horlicks is for the contemporary woman with a proposition of blood and bone health; Horlicks Lite is for the 40+ adult promising strength and stamina and the base brand Horlicks now has a clinically-backed claim of making kids taller, stronger and sharper. Not only has this strategy grown the market and brought new users into its fold, it has actually rolled back the effects of increased milk supply and competition from other health food brands. Horlicks' success has also been in great measure due to the continuous market track it does. It was possibly the first brand to discern that consumers were veering towards