U 2011 Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever’s Project Shakti- Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer Riddhi Biswas PGP/14/236 Section E Q1. What are the key features of Shakti? What are its positive aspects and what are its drawbacks? Key features of Shakti: Axiomatic truly ‚ ‘Rural caravan’ of HUL as it can be popularly called is Project Shakti. Untapped and unexplored for years Indian rural market remain unnoticed and undiscovered as par as the business opportunities‚ especially
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Q2. What was the motivation for the Shakti initiative? Was it a CSR activity? SHAKTI is HUL’s sales and distribution initiative that combines social responsibility‚ sustainability‚ and business strategy. India has more than 6‚ 30‚000 villages‚ most of these are ’hard to reach’ and offer relatively lower business potential. Hence‚ reaching them through the conventional distribution system is a challenge. By promoting micro-enterprises‚ HUL’s initiative not only made great business sense‚ but
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THURSDAY‚ MARCH 23‚ 2006 Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever’s Project Shakti Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer Marketing Management (MKG1010) International University of Japan‚ Fall 2005 Nishino Kei Pham Thi Thuy Ha Suwannathat Sanpat Tan Siew Siew Zha Li Executive Summary HLL has enjoyed a competitive advantage as a sole provider of personal hygiene care products before the liberalization of India’s economy. However‚ with the entry of foreign MNC‚ HLL is suffering from stagnant
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Unilever in India – Hindustan Lever’s project Shakti – Marketing FMCG to the rural consumer Summary Hindustan Lever (HLL) formed in 1956 is an Indian subsidiary of Unilever Limited (world’s largest FMCG Company). It was a market leader with a share of 40-45%. HLL’s growth has been related to the political development of the country. The heavily regulated Indian economy between 1947- 1980’s was characterised by License Raj which imposed restrictions on investments by the private players. In 1990
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1. What are the key features of Shakti? What are its positive aspects and what are its drawbacks? Key features of Shakti are: • Shakti is an initiative which empowers women in rural India to become capable of earning livelihood and contribute to their family well being • Shakti involves woman to do door to door selling of the branded products • Shakti enabled large conglomerate to penetrate into the untapped rural market of India. • It involved women/entrepreneur to build relationship with customers
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Project Shakti The Internet Marketing of Project Shakti HUL is India’s largest fast moving consumer good company and is a 51.55 percent owned subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch Unilever‚ a Fortune 500 transnational. HUL employs 36‚000 people and claims to touch the lives of two out of three Indians. The old Shakti Web site gives the following objective: "to create income-generating capabilities for underprivileged rural women‚ by providing a sustainable microenterprise opportunity‚ and to improve rural living
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Project Shakti Case (1-What are the key features of Project Shakti? What do you consider its positive and negative features?) Project Shakti characteristic is to Develop HLL’s brand through local influent people. Its target is India’s rural population and the company attempt to reach it by providing micro enterprise and partner with SHG’s (self-help groups).The company has succeed in creating income generating capabilities. Those features are very positive for the brand and for India’s development
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Project Shakti It was a initiative of Hindustan liver limited company to enter the rural market efficiently along with a social objective of empowering rural women. some key questions regarding this are answered in the following text. this is my perspective. Key features of project "Shakti"? Key features of project Shakti are: Ø It is an effective channel to reach to rural market which is not easily possible with the usual measures. Ø It also carries social objective along with it as it
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Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever’s Project Shakti-Marketing FMCG to the rural Consumer Case Analysis Notes Section E‚ Group 7 Submitted By Anshu Khanna PGP/17/257 Diksha Singh PGP/17/267 Mohd. Shajeer PGP/17/277 Priya Chandak PGP/17/287 Shiji Thilak PGP/17/297 Q1q Q1)How is HUL placed in the Indian Consumer market? Hindustan Unilever Limited is the biggest player in the market share of FMCG sector of the country. The FMCG sector of the country is the fourth largest
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Abhisek Kishor – Section A 1. What are the key features of Project Shakti? Provide access to untapped rural markets and develop HUL’s brand through local influencers. Target customers- Rural population‚ by providing micro enterprise and partner with SHG’s (self help groups) and is aimed at Scaling up its operations. Shakti Vani - trained communicators address congregations to drive
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