Chapter 3 – Positioning Services in Competitive Markets Achieve Competitive Advantage through Focus * Basic Focus Strategies for Services [Figure 3.1] * Fully Focused – Limited range of services to a narrow and specific market segment. Developing recognized expertise in a well-defined niche may provide protection against would-be competitors and allows a firm to charge premium prices * Market Focused – Concentrates on a narrow market segment‚ but has a wide range of services
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Marketing Case 1 Dove October 20‚ 2011 By Joumana Introduction: Dove started its life in 1957 as a beauty soap bar that was clinically proven to be milder for dry‚ sensitive skin than other leading soaps: half of women have dry skin. In a world of promotion and brand names‚ Dove provides a pleasantly real option for women who appreciate that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Case 1 Dove 1. The market was flooded and jam-packed with beauty products from soaps‚ body washes‚ creams
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INDUSTRY PROFILE Soap in Philippines Reference Code: 0115-0208 Publication Date: April 2011 www.datamonitor.com Datamonitor USA 245 Fifth Avenue 4th Floor New York‚ NY 10016 USA t: +1 212 686 7400 f: +1 212 686 2626 e: usinfo@datamonitor.com Datamonitor Europe 119 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3DA United Kingdom t: +44 20 7551 9000 f: +44 20 7675 7500 e: eurinfo@datamonitor.com Datamonitor Middle East and North Africa Datamonitor PO Box 24893 Dubai‚ UAE t: +49 69 9754 4517 f: +49 69 9754 4900 e:
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Introduction The company Dove has a long history. Dove chocolate is one of the productions that Mars sells in China‚ Mars is a transnational company and it is a biggest pet food company and snack food of the world ‚ Dove enter the China market in 1989‚and ‚and became the chocolate leader brand in1995. “My moment‚ my Dove” is their advertising message. DOVE Chocolate creates chocolate indulgences and only chocolate indulgence‚ careful attention is paid to quality‚ ensuring a silky‚ smooth texture
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Sec QMWA The Dove brand has been a household name since 1955 with its promise of “moisturizer cream” and a product that held up to that promise. The dove bar helped dove grow a consumer base that not only had product loyalty‚ but after a few unsuccessful product lines‚ paved the way for brand loyalty that allowed Dove to become a 2 billion dollar corporation. Every company‚ especially one with the resources like Dove‚ wants to successfully expand to their full capacity. Dove had the ability
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Dove: Evolution of a Brand Question: Imagine you have oversight of Dove marketing management. How would you answer to the comment that Dove started a conversation with consumer “that they don’t have control of”? Is the brand “out of control”? Is Dove making a “risky bet”? Symptoms: ▪ Unilever was the world’s largest producer but lacked a unified global identity. ▪ Problems of control as Unilever has managed brands in decentralised fashion allowing direction to be set by brand
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One of Doves direct competitors is Olay. They have six bar soaps and two massaging bath bar soaps. The Olay brand is known as a brand that celebrates beauty outside and within. Their tagline is “Love the skin you are in.” Olay has a bar name Age Defying Moisturizing Bar‚ which helps reveal younger looking skin. This would be a competition for Dove‚ since Dove doesn’t have an age defying bar‚ but instead it has a sensitive skin‚ which is good for those with sensitive skin. Olay though has no variety
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Product Positioning "Product positioning" is a marketing technique intended to present products in the best possible light to different target audiences. The method is related to "market segmentation" in that an early step in major marketing campaigns is to discover the core market most likely to buy a product—or the bulk of the product. Once segmentation has defined this group ("active seniors‚" "affluent professional working women‚" "teens") the positioning of the product consists of creating
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What is Soap? Soaps are mixtures of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°–100 °C in a process known as saponification. fat + NaOH ---> glycerol + sodium salt of fatty acid CH2-OOC-R - CH-OOC-R - CH2-OOC-R (fat) + 3 NaOH ( or KOH) both heated ---> CH2-OH -CH-OH - CH2-OH (glycerol) + 3 R-CO2-Na (soap) R=(CH2)14CH3 Soap is a cleansing agent created by the chemical reaction
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retardante del vello Dove A. PUNTOS CLAVES DEL BRIEF CREATIVO: 1) Objetivo de comunicación: Dar a conocer el nuevo jabón retardante de vello de la marca Dove al público objetivo‚ con el fin de incentivar la prueba del producto y de que lo reconozcan como la mejor alternativa de compra por ser pionero en esta categoría de cuidado personal. 2) Puntos de diferenciación: Retarda la salida del vello corporal. 3) Promesa: El nuevo jabón retardante del vello Dove le ofrece a la mujer
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