INTRODUCTION ABOUT DOVE * In 1955 Unilever ( Lever brothers) introduced Dove * It was introduced as a mild cleansing ingredient in soap category. * It is always positioned as a “beauty bar” * It contains one fourth cleansing cream which moisturizes the skin instead of drying effect‚ an attribute which is not present in normal soaps. * Unilever promoted its moisturizer preposition heavily through advertisements and finally in 1979 its phrase “cleansing cream” was replaced by “moisturizer
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Dove: Evolution of a Brand Introduction Unilever was formed in 1930 when the U.K-based Lever Brothers combined with the Dutch Margarine Unie‚ a logical merger given that both companies depended on palm oil‚ one for soaps and the other for edible oil products. It operated on every continent and described itself as combing local roots with global scale. Positioning In the 1950’s: The first Dove product‚ called a beauty bar‚ was launched in 1957. It would not dry out skin the way soap did. The company
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The Economic environment is a major consideration for any business. According to Kotler et al. (2010)‚ the economic environment is directly related to factors affecting consumer spending and buying patterns. Marketers need customers with buying power in order for any business to succeed. The most affluent group that have the highest income demand the highest quality products and services‚ they’re also willing to pay for it. However‚ due to the world economic slow-down and recession of 2007‚ has
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Disadvantages of Economic Factors of Recycling The environmental factors of recycling are wildly known but little is discussed of the economic factors‚ recycling does provide benefits and adds value to an economy. For example‚ in the United States of America‚ these benefits stem from the jobs‚ products manufactured and sales generated by the recycling industry. National recycling efforts are responsible for maintaining hundreds of thousands of the US every year. The Economic Factors of Recycling
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Dove A Business Management Report Contents An Introduction to Dove In 1957‚ Unilever introduced Dove into the market as a single product: a beauty soap bar. And it was not just ordinary soap‚ but touted as having more moisturizing qualities than the top brands at that time and therefore suitable for dry sensitive skin. And in the 1980s‚ the brand launched a new product line‚ which constitutes of liquid body wash‚ shampoo and conditioner‚ deodorant/anti-perspirants and body
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The aim of all business enterprises is to satisfy the needs and wants of the society. Marketing is a basic function of all business firms. When a salesperson sells washing machines‚ a doctor treats a patient or a Government asks people to take their children for getting polio drops‚ each is marketing something to the target audience. Traditionally‚ small firm owners did not give as much importance to marketing as to other functions such as accountancy‚ production and selling. Training programs‚ enterprise
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of a certain product. Take Dove for example. Prior to 2004‚ this international mega brand used advertising tactics much like many beauty brands in the industry were using- skinny models‚ sexual innuendos‚ and trendy images. 1 But their products weren‟t getting the success they hoped for. Driven by a declining market share and decreased sales‚ Dove decided to take a daring new move and use curvier women in their ads. They called their new campaign the “Dove Campaign for Real Beauty”. The
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DOVE Case * In the 1950s Dove established the market positioning of being unique and differentiated itself from other normal soap bars‚ which leave the consumers with dry skin after usage‚ by coming up with a bar that moisturizes the consumers` skin after usage with inclusion of one-quarter cleansing cream. * It aimed to become a masterbrand in February 2000 to extend its category beyond the beauty bar category‚ such as deodorants‚ hair care products‚ facial cleansers‚ body lotions and hair
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DOVE: EVOLUTION OF A BRAND Ques What is a brand? Why does Unilever want fewer of them? * Definition: A name‚ term‚ design‚ symbol‚ or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. The legal term for brand is trademark. A brand may identify one item‚ a family of items‚ or all items of that seller. If used for the firm as a whole‚ the preferred term is trade name. Why fewer brands? * Global decentralization brought problems of
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George H. Heilmeier George H. Heilmeier was born on May 22‚ 1936 in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. He received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering with distinguished honors from the University of Pennsylvania‚ Philadelphia‚ and his M.S.E.‚ M.A.‚ and Ph.D. degrees in solid state materials and electronics from Princeton University. In 1958 Heilmeier joined RCA Laboratories in Princeton‚ New Jersey. There he worked on parametric amplification‚ tunnel diode down-converters‚ millimeter wave generation
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