Edge Razor Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning MBA8145-Marketing Management Alpharetta‚ Summer-2011 GSU Individual Case Analysis Situation at Paramount Paramount had established itself as a global consumer products giant with over $13 billion in worldwide sales and $7 billion in gross profits for 2009 since it’s entry in the market in 1962. In 2009‚ Paramount had established itself as unit-volume market leader in 2009 based on non disposable razor product sales. The Non disposable razor category
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Written Case Analysis: Metric Division Case The Metric Division is a division that is currently undergoing significant change within an organization. They have recently reorganized‚ and are now responsible for an entire product line. Top management has been in place for five months and is now seeking ways to improve the working relationships within the division. Don‚ the national sales manager‚ feels that it would be very informative if all the staff members were interviewed to determine what
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Boeing Co.-Breakeven Analysis The Boeing 737-900ER was released in July 2005 and made its first delivery to Indonesia’s Lion Air in 2007. The price of the 737-900ER ranges from $74‚000‚000-$89‚000‚000 per plane. The purpose of this assignment is to apply breakeven analysis to a project within Boeing using data obtained from the company’s website as well as fabricated information used to apply the tool. The fictitious information was used only because Boeing didn’t provide a breakdown of costs
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Stephannie Niell Case # 14 – Gillette 1. Gillette has successfully convinced the world that “more is better” in terms of number of blades and other razor features. Why has that worked in the past? What’s next? Gillette has had the ability to appeal to men for decades and learn what they need and provide that for them. By “convincing” the world that more is better‚ it was simply done by their marketing team. The marketing team has used not only athletes throughout the decades but the research
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Positioning Clean Edge razor as niche would go nicely with the company’s current portfolio. Looking at the exhibits‚ it is clear that using this marketing strategy would lead to consistently high profit margins. Furthermore‚ Niche positioning will only require $15 million in marketing costs as opposed to $42 million in mainstream. There are some disadvantages to using this market position‚ such as the fact that this would limit the consumer base and there have not been any innovations in their
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Case study: Clean Edge Razor- Splitting Hairs in product positioning 2/12/2013 Group 5 * Radhika Nadkarni * Rishi Ranjan * Sujoy Chakrabortty * Sumanta Chatterjee * Suresh Panigrahi * Problem Statement: ‘Paramount Health and Beauty ‘ Company is launching a new non-disposable razor‚ Clean Edge that boasts about superior performance by utilizing a vibrating technology that stimulates hair follicles and lifts the hair from the skin allowing a thorough shave. This
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What changes are occurring in the non-disposable razor category? Paramount is facing not only the traditional‚ on-going competition from the other long term‚ established companies in the market‚ but faces increasing challenges to its market share from new entrants as well. Traditionally‚ the market consisted of disposable and non-disposable razors‚ but within the last few years‚ a new trend has emerged. As a result of the increased emphasis on esthetic‚ or beauty products for men‚ there has
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current operating procedures and systems on order to see how well they are functioning. In April 2004‚ Sharon Michaels‚ was transferred from the corporate headquarters controller’s office to Waltham Motors as a division controller. Later‚ she was joined by Davis Marshall as the new division manager. Waltham Motors lost a major contract at the end of April 2004. With this loss‚ there was an environment of apprehensiveness throughout the month of May. So in order to analyze results of operations
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Identity Prism 8 2.2.3 Brand personality 9 3. Positioning 10 3.1 Possible positioning statements 11 3.1.1 Comparisons 12 3.1.2 Contrast between two statements 12 4. Celebrity endorsement 13 4.1 David Beckham and Gillette 14 4.2 Other Gillette celebrity endorsers 15 4.3 Match-up hypothesis 16 4.4 Future Endorsement 17 5. Retail Environment 17 Appendices Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1 – Marketing Week Article Appendix 2 – Questionnaires Appendix 3
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Čelebić BSAD 350 – Marketing June 6‚ 2012 Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning Executive summary Paramount is planing to launch a non disposable razor ‘Clean Edge’. This companyis a market leader in the non disposable razor market. Currently it is offering Paramount Pro and Paramount Avail. Neither pro nor Avail has introduced significant technology innovations in the last five years. The non disposable razor and refill cartridge market is divided into three segments
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