FROM: Giuseppe Fornaro TO: Edward “Cutting Edge” Barber‚ Head of Gillette Shaving Division RE: Rejuvenating the strategy of Gillette’s razor business Current Strategy Gillette has grown to be a power brand in the shaving industry. Its products are seen as premium quality and are thus sold at a premium price. Gillette’s current business model consists of high spending in marketing and product development (R&D). Gillette’s traditional competitive strategy for razors is to focus technology
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increase total sales and put Gillette Fusion on track to be a $1 billion business in the next few years‚ Gillette Fusion should launch a new advertising campaign and reduce cartridge package prices by 20% with the introduction of a onetime coupon. Explanation The media’s reaction to the “blockbuster” advertisement campaign highlights many of the campaign’s flaws. The campaign focused on the product features rather than its benefits. Due to the ad’s product focus‚ Gillette failed to communicate why
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Gillette PCD: Marketing Planning and Control Situation Analysis: The president of the Personal Care Division of Gillette‚ Bill Ryan‚ is currently faced by a conflict of strategies employed to market their products. Two products have been discussed to show the way the two strategies worked and what results they could manage. White Rain (shampoo and conditioner) launched in 1985 had a market share of 3% in 1986. Right Guard (deodorant) was restaged in 1983 and has a share of 6.5% currently which
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1 Company 3 1.2 Market 3 1.3 Competition 4 2. Brand analysis 4 2.1 Brand attitude 4 2.1.1 The Rossiter-Percy grid 5 2.2 Brand identity 5 2.2.1 Brand Name 6 2.2.2 Packaging 7 2.2.3 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
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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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26-b talks about the fact that Gillette has based its strategy on developing products that use refill blades on a permanent handle. Gillette works to give its blades and especially its handles‚ an aura of class and superior performance. Gillette protects its industry leadership on the back of intensive expenditure in R&D and the careful recording of the experiences that men have using Gillette razors. Armed with its superior knowledge on shavers and shaving‚ Gillette manages to outgun the competition
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Greg Runco Gillette Case Study‚ “I never knew my Fusion had a Precision Trimmer on the back” – 11.5.2012 It has been empirically proven that having too many options makes decision-making harder. In fact‚ some studies show that having to make too many decisions can leave people tired‚ mentally drained and more dissatisfied with their purchases. If you look at the major development milestones of Gillette‚ they occurred in 1903 // 1971 (68 years later) // 1990 (19 years later) // 1995 (5 years
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different questions from the assignment. First‚ the researcher will discuss and suggest some feasible application considerations when developing a new product development strategy for Google Glass. The information which included will be elaborated and discuss with examples. Next question‚ researcher will illustrate how Google Glass better manage innovation within the organization to stay ahead of its competitor in the industry? The information in question related will be discussed and elaborated in paragraph
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1. Should Gillette enter the cassette market at all? Gillette Safety Razor Division (SRD) would be foolish to not enter the cassette market at this time in the game. With the established and well-trusted brand name on it’s side‚ Gillette will be able to exploit the undeveloped marketed to it’s fullest potential. The way that Gillette can accomplish this is by utilizing some of it’s biggest and strongest assets to overcome what the consultants believe are the three major problems in the industry:
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Harleen Parmar Gillette Indonesia Chester Allan‚ Gillette’s country manager of Indonesia‚ needs to decide whether increasing spending in marketing beyond 12% of sales will cause a 20-25% increase in blade sales in 1996. Despite the high market share of 48% and 97% brand awareness (See Exhibit 1) of Gillette-brand blades‚ the company needs to target several factors that hinder its growth by switching rural population to lower priced Gillette blades; targeting 48% of the urban male population
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