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Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company that owns many of the world's
consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal
care products. Unilever employs more than 206,000 people and had
worldwide revenue of €39.67 billion (just over US$50 billion) in 2005.
The Discovery
The Vaseline® journey started in 1859, when a 22 year old chemist from Brooklyn, New
York named Robert A. Chesebrough, vaselinent to Pennsylvania to investigate an oil
vaselinell. The oil industry was in its infancy, and Chesebrough, like many, was hoping
to earn profit out of it.
While Chesebrough was there, he discovered a gooey substance known as 'Rod Wax' that
was causing problems to the oil rig workers, as it stuck to the drilling rigs, causing them
to seize up.
Chesebrough noticed that oil workers would smear their skin with the residue from their
drills, as it had the property to heal their cuts and burns. He got curious and took some
Rod Wax home where he started experimenting with it. After months of testing, he
managed to successfully extract usable petroleum jelly out of it.
By 1870, Chesebrough was marketing his petroleum jelly product by the name of
Vaseline®, and within ten years, the product's increased exposure and popularity meant
that almost every household in America had a jar of Vaseline®. Chesebrough expanded
his business to Canada, the United Kingdom and various British colonies all over the
world.
New mothers used it as an absorbent shield for diaper rash. Professionals working in
extreme cold vaselineather used it to relieve their dry chapped skin. Even Commander
Robert Peary carried a jar of Vaseline when he travelled to the North Pole; as it was the
only thing that wouldn't freeze in those extreme conditions.
By the late 1880s, Chesebrough was selling Vaseline® Petroleum Jelly nationwide at the
rate of one jar per minute and most medical professionals recognized Vaseline®
Petroleum Jelly as the standard remedy for skin complaints.
By 1911, the company began opening operation plants and factories in Europe, Canada
and Africa for manufacturing and distributing the product.
By the late 1880s, Chesebrough was selling Vaseline® Petroleum Jelly nationwide at the
rate of one jar per minute and most medical professionals recognized Vaseline®
Petroleum Jelly as the standard remedy for skin complaints.
By 1911, the company began opening operation plants and factories in Europe, Canada
and Africa for manufacturing and distributing the product.
By the late 1880s, Chesebrough was selling Vaseline® Petroleum Jelly nationwide at the
rate of one jar per minute and most medical professionals recognized Vaseline®
Petroleum Jelly as the standard remedy for skin complaints.
By 1911, the company began opening operation plants and factories in Europe, Canada
and Africa for manufacturing and distributing the product.
Our mission is to provide knowledge, advice and products that enable everyone to enjoy
great, healthy looking skin every day.
There’s a large set of people who don’t take enough care of their skin. But those who do
rely and trust a brand like Vaseline® for their skin. The brand that has been passionately
studying skin for over 130 years and offering those learnings to us in the form of cutting-
edge products that feel, smell and care for our skin like none other.
What Vaseline do
Vaseline® makes everyday skincare products accessible to people. Vaseline doesn’t
believe in quick-fixes. Vaseline believes that good health is a result of the different
choices that vaseline make each day. Vaseline knows that our products have profound,
multiple benefits that play an important role in the total skin care regime of an individual.
Vaseline offer products, but Vaseline also offers advice. And Vaseline try to share
everything Vaseline have learned over decades about how skin functions and how to keep
it in great condition.
Vaseline® makes everyday skincare products accessible to people. Vaseline don't believe
in quick-fixes. Vaseline believe that good health is a result of the different choices that
vaseline make each day. Vaseline knows that our products have profound, multiple
benefits that play an important role in the total skin care regime of an individual.
Vaseline offer products, but Vaseline also offers advice. And Vaseline try to share
everything Vaseline have learned over decades about how skin functions and how to keep
it in great condition.
We are Vaseline®.
Vaseline Marketing
Marketing can be define as the process of Identifying customers need and to satisfy them
in best possible manner to bring about customer satisfaction/ loyalty.
Marketing mix
The term "marketing mix" was coined in 1953 by Neil Borden in his American
Marketing Association presidential address. However, this was actually a reformulation
of an earlier idea by his associate, James Culliton, who in 1948 described the role of the
marketing manager as a "mixer of ingredients", who sometimes follows recipes prepared
by others, sometimes prepares his own recipe as he goes along, sometimes adapts a recipe
from immediately available ingredients, and at other times invents new ingredients no
one else has tried. A prominent marketer, E. Jerome McCarthy, proposed a Four
P classification in 1960, which has seen wide use.
Elements of the marketing mix are often referred to as the "Four P's":
Price – The price is the amount a customer pays for the product. The business
may increase or decrease the price of product if other stores have the same product.
Place – Place represents the location where a product can be purchased. It is
often referred to as the distribution channel. It can include any physical store as well
as virtual stores on the Internet.
Any organization, before introducing its products or services into the market; conducts a
market survey. The sequence of all 'P's as above is very much important in every stage of
product life cycle Introduction, Growth, Maturity and Decline.
1)Total Moisture Lotion
Beneath the surface, healthy skin is 90% water enabling it to act as a moisture and
nutrient reserve for your entire body. So keeping your skin well hydrated is critical not
only to the wellbeing of the skin, but to the wellbeing of your body overall.
Unfortunately, we lose about a pint of water and vital nutrients from our skin as we go
through our day.
Key Ingredients:
Packs and MRP*: 20ml @ Rs. 6/-, 40ml @ Rs. 22/-, 100ml @ Rs. 49/-, 300ml @ Rs.
119/-
Available At: 100ml and 300ml packs are available at leading mass merchandise stores,
chemist and drug stores and in leading supermarkets, 20ml pack available at mass
merchandise stores and chemist and drug stores.
Aloe Cool & Fresh Lotion awakens skin with a sheer, light burst of hydration and quick-
penetrating conditioners, leaving it smooth and refreshed.
Key Ingredients:
• Soothing Aloe and Cucumber formula - leaves skin feeling cool and refreshed
• Conditioning moisturizers - provide an instant burst of hydration
Packs and MRP*: 100ml @ Rs. 49/- , 300ml @ Rs. 119/-, 400ml @ Rs. 160/-
Available At: 100ml and 300ml packs are available at leading mass merchandise stores,
chemist and drug stores and in leading supermarkets, 20ml pack available at mass
merchandise stores and chemist and drug stores.
When it’s healthy and cared for, our skin has the natural ability to maintain a light tone
and clear texture. Unfortunately, when it’s exposed to the sun, the skin’s natural
lightening processes are interrupted. Pigment producing cells become increasingly active,
tanning the skin, and leaving it several shades darker than it’s supposed to be.
New, Vaseline Healthy White skin lightening body milk works with the skin to reverse
signs of darkening and prevent future pigmentation.
A balanced combination of vitamin B3, yoghurt serum and conditioning moisturizers
hydrate and even out skin tone. Triple sunscreens help prevent future darkening and
encourage the skin to lighten itself.
Key Ingredients
Packs and MRP*: 40 ml @ Rs. 25/-, 100ml @ Rs. 60/-, 300ml @ Rs. 150/-
Available At: 100ml and 300ml packs are available at leading mass merchandise stores,
chemist and drug stores and in leading supermarkets. 40ml pack available at mass
merchandise stores, chemist and drug stores and in leading supermarkets.
Packs and MRP*: 100ml @ Rs. 99/- & 350ml @ Rs. 399/-
Packs and MRP*: 400ml @ Rs. 225/- & 725ml @ Rs. 375/-
Brand Positioning
Positioning “is the act of communicating company’s offer so that it
occupies a distinct and valued place in the customer’s mind so as to create
an enduring competitive advantage.” Vaseline is positioned on the
healthcare platform with a body lotion and a petroleum jelly cream. The
customer always see the tangible attributes like performance level, price,
packaging, product components before buying the product. Vaseline being
the winter cream posses many uses such as pomade for the hair, it is also
used by males as a personal lubricant. Vaseline prices are less as compared
to Ponds, Lakme & Nivea. The brand's range was expanded to Talcum
Powder, but was later withdrawn. A seasonal brand, unlike Pond's, Vaseline
also has a foot care cream, which has remained a niche product with limited
demand during winter.
Segmentation
Market segmentation is the process of disaggregating the total market for a given
product into the number of sub-markets. The hetrogeneous market is broken up in the
process into a number of relatively homogeneous units.
1. Geographic Segmentation.
2. Demographic Segmentation.
3. Psychographie Segmentation.
5. Volume Segmentation.
Distribution Network
HLL's distribution network in rural India already directly covers about 50,000 villages,
reaching about 250 million consumers, through about 6000 sub-stockists.
Advertisement & Promotional Strategy
PLACE
1. Rural Market:
The rural India offers a tremendous market potential. A mere one percent increase in
India’s rural income translates to a mind-boggling Rs 10,000 crore of buying power.
Nearly two-thirds of all middle-income households in the country are in rural India. And
close to half of India’s buying potential lies in its villages. Thus for the country’s
marketers, small and big, rural reach is on the rise and is fast becoming their most
important route to growth. Of the expenditure on consumer goods in rural household 10%
are on cosmetics. Meanwhile, HLL has been introducing new SKUs in its skincare brands
to penetrate the rural market. Last year, it introduced the Vaseline body lotion and
petroleum jelly in the Rs-5 category. "We have decided to introduce smaller packs in the
skincare category to penetrate the rural markets,"
2. Urban Market:
Vaseline found the team of women online, via each of their blog entries on
the topic of dry skin, and recruited them for the four events where Vaseline
will also be offering free samples and skincare advice.
The Facebook page will feature profiles of each of the ‘Dry Skin Patrol’
team members and a forum for dry skin sufferers’ questions. Users will also
have the option to send ‘virtual gifts’ to friends and to request a free sample.
INNOVATIVE WAYS TO REACH THE
CUSTOMER
1. Seminars in Rural Market:
We will conduct a seminar and make people aware of the additional uses and benefits
of the product Vaseline. As one know that from satellite and television people are aware
of the several brands but in order to embed our brand trust in them we will distribute free
sachet of Vaseline (costing Rs. 1 - 2) during the seminar. Through demonstration will
show them how to apply Vaseline in order to get its maximum benefits. This seminar can
be conducted during Melas.
i. Cross Promotion: A small pack of Vaseline can be given free with lifebuoy pack
as lifebuoy has a good mass market in rural areas.
ii. Arrangement providing small Vaseline pack with other toiletries can be made
with hospitality firms.
Any guesses “Thakur kyun ro raha hai aur keh raha hai ki mujhe mere haath lauta de
Gabbar?” Win a goody bag full of product that will care enough for your skin to look
best.
The marketing strategy is intended to promote Vaseline’s new line of ‘highly therapeutic’
body lotions, Vaseline Intensive Rescue, which includes three variants: Intensive Rescue
Repairing Moisture, Intensive Rescue Soothing Moisture and Intensive Rescue Clinical
Therapy.
The focus on eliminating dry skin comes after a survey, carried out by Redshift on behalf
of Vaseline, found that 40 per cent of the 1,017 female respondents felt that ‘dry skin
made activities they like less enjoyable’.
With the ability to ‘accelerate skin’s healing process’ by ‘instantly tripling moisture
reserves without feeling greasy or sticky’, Vaseline claims that its new body lotions will
‘deliver more moisture’ than the existing Eucerin Plus Intensive Repair lotion.
It adds that the Intensive Rescue Clinical Therapy lotion is a ‘prescription strength
moisturizer available over the counter’.
The new brand and Dry Skin Patrol team are part of Vaseline’s target to ‘deliver one
million good skin days’ via its skin care products. The Vaseline brand mission, as stated
on its Facebook page is “to provide the knowledge, advice and products that enable
everyone to enjoy great, healthy looking skin every day!”
The repeated attempt to employ social media marketing comes after Vaseline for men in
India’s controversial Facebook campaign, which gave users the option of lightening their
skin colour in their photos.
Coupon Policies
Vaseline printable coupons offer cents and up to dollars off Vaseline skin
care products. The coupons have expiration dates, so use them in
combination with retailer sales to stock up. You may be able to find retailer
coupons for Vaseline products as well, and retailers may allow you to
"stack" a manufacturer coupon on top of their own coupons. The best deal is
if you can find a manufacturer coupon, a retailer coupon, and a sale (e.g. two
for the price of one) all at the same time. If you hold off to find a deal like
that you may be able to buy these leading skin care products at extremely
low prices.
This is one pair which the industry folks are waiting with bated breath to see. One may
have to wait for a while to see this golden pair's magic on the silver screen, but for now
you can definitely get a glimpse of them in the TVCs of Vaseline which will be broadcast
soon!
Latest ads:-
The Vaseline Men page also includes several fashion tips for men, with new ones being
added regularly. Pankaj Pariha, the man behind the campaign, claims that the response to
the entire Vaseline Men campaign “has been pretty phenomenal”. The application
currently has close to 9,000 active users.
The real problem is a lot more than skin deep. The real problem lies within the society
itself. And until we change our attitudes, blaming a commercial company tending to the
demands of the market won’t get us far.
COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
The major players in skin care segment are Lakme, Ponds, Fair and
Lovely and Vaseline of HLL group with a 50 per cent market share followed
by players like J and L Morison marketing Nivea range of productions,
Godrej, Revlon etc.
Unilever’s Dove brand is going up against sister brand Vaseline with a new
dry skin care range. The Dove Intensive range for extra dry skin is being
launched in January backed by a GBP 4.5m marketing investment. It
consists of a body lotion, hand cream and a body butter.
It is being positioned as an everyday moisturiser for women suffering from
dry skin as opposed to Vaseline, which is aimed at consumers needing to
treat problem dry skin.
The marketing campaign will include TV, print, in-store, online, direct mail
and sampling. Unilever last week announced a ?6m investment into its
Vaseline brand, including new ad campaigns and products.
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and more detailed knowledge about it......
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