...MKTG2001 Brand Management Singapore Campus Trimester 1A, 2015 Individual Assignment Cover Sheet Name of Student | Jason Oeij | Student Number | 17554109 | Centre | Singapore | Please attach this form as the cover sheet of your assignment during submission. | Max Marks | Marks Awarded | A clear overview and background information about the brand | 30 | | Identification of relevant strategies (related to Brand Management concepts and theories) that the brand has undertaken | 10 | | Good understanding and application of Brand Management concepts and theoriesProvide strong justification and arguments based on Brand Management concepts and theories | 40 | | Academic references, referencing styleMinimum of 5 ACADEMIC REFERENCES | 15 | | Formatting, structure, grammar, spelling, formatting and presentation of the case study | 5 | | Total Marks | 100 | | Please ensure that your case study is submitted on Blackboard as well as via TURNITIN. Late penalties apply. Brand Reinforcement About Lipton Lipton is a brand that is synonymous with quality, aromatic yet affordable tea. A brand that primarily sells tea and several varieties of tea products. The brand was established in 1893 by then 40 year old entrepreneur, Sir Thomas Lipton, an innovator and the brand was named after the founder himself (About Lipton, 2015). He established a tea packing company called Thomas J Lipton Co, and opened both headquarters and factory in New Jersey. There was a...
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...This title is part of the IDH Case Study Series, published in December 2010. Another title in this IDH Case Study Series is: • nilever sustainable tea, Part II: U Reaching out to smallholders IDH also has a Best Practices Series, whose titles include: • Marketing sustainability • Sustainable sourcing among SME’s • Beyond auditing • Sustainable trading • Retailers and sustainability • Sustainable sourcing and procurement Case study Unilever sustainable tea Part I: Leapfrogging to mainstream Tania Braga, By Aileen Ionescu-Somers and Ralf Seifert, IMD’s Center for Corporate Sustainability Management Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (Initiatief Duurzame Handel) Utrecht, The Netherlands www.dutchsustainabletrade.com office@dutchsustainabletrade.com Foreword A tipping point happens when a critical mass of people begin to shift their perception of an issue and take action in a new direction. As I look across the global landscape, I feel that we are approaching a tipping point concerning global sustainability. It is catalyzed by at least three important realizations by business, government, and civil society: The first is a realization that the world is finite and that a growing population with a higher ambition for living standards will inevitably lead to a world which will be resource and carbon constrained. The second is the realization that to solve the challenges for this future world we need systems solutions. We cannot solve individual problems in silos. The...
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...Unilever Pakistan Limited, formerly known as Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever Overseas Holdings Limited, UK, whereas its ultimate parent company is the consumer products giant, Unilever PLC, UK. Following a series of high-profile acquisitions, including US-based Bestfoods, Unilever's foods business is the world's third largest after Nestle and Kraft. It is a global leader in culinary foods, ice cream, margarine and tea-based beverages. Major brands include Knorr, Lipton and Magnum. Unilever was incorporated in Pakistan in 1948 as Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited and merged with Lipton in 1989 and Brooke Bond in 1997. It became the largest ice cream manufacturers in Pakistan through an amalgamation with Polka in May 1999. These acquisitions have further strengthened the distribution network of Unilever. It is listed on all the three stock exchanges of Pakistan. Currently, the company is the largest fast moving consumer products (FMCG) company in Pakistan. It is engaged in manufacture and marketing of home and personal care products, beverages, ice cream and spreads. Unilever has adapted Unilever global brands such as Lifebuoy, Lux, Surf and Walls to local consumer needs at affordable prices. It has increased its leading market position over the years in most of its core home and personal care and food categories, eg personal wash, personal care, laundry, beverages (tea) and ice cream. Unilever Pakistan has been exporting a range...
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...advertising report required as a component for assessment of our group in the course “ADVERTISING” This report provides an overview of how the advertising plan should be made when a product is being launched in the market. What are the tactics and strategies used in order to implement the overall campaign plan Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding this report. Yours Sincerely Raieef Qureshi INTRODUCTION: Lipton was created at the end of the 19th century by Sir Thomas Lipton. Under the slogan “direct from the tea gardens to the tea pot,” this entrepreneurial businessman wanted to make tea a popular and approachable drink for everyone - with a high quality but reasonably priced product. The Lipton business was acquired by consumer goods company Unilever in a number of separate transactions, starting with the purchase of the US and Canadian Lipton business in 1938 and completed in 1972 when Unilever bought the remainder of the global Lipton business. Over the course of a century, Lipton has become a dominant tea brand in many markets. The brand is well-represented in many...
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...A Marketing Plan for Lipton Ice Tea Institutional Affiliation Date Marketing Plan: Lipton Ice Tea Industry Analysis In 2005, the tea industry reached the $1.7 billion category and it is expected to continue growing indefinitely (Mintel 2005). Market analysts believe the tea industry will continue to boom and is not expected to reach saturation level in the near future. The favorable movement in the tea industry can be attributed to two major factors: a) consumers need for convenience and time-saving services; and b) the positive press given to tea. American lifestyle and work habits have made convenience a necessity. As employers demand for productivity from their employees, consumers are more pressed for time. In addition, the shaky economy has made Americans fear for their jobs; thus, any product that can fill the consumers' need for convenience and speed are almost automatically embraced into the American lifestyle (Mintel 2005). For the last decade, the health benefits of tea have gained wide coverage in the media. Studies continue to show the beneficial properties of teas, with health benefits ranging from lower cholesterol levels to improve arterial health and decreasing chance of cancer. This positive press has definitely catapulted the demand for tea (Mintel 2005). Both the need for convenience and positive press on tea have spurred an increase in sales of tea products, specifically ready-to-drink (RTD) teas sold in single-serve containers (Mintel 2005). Recognizing...
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...to start the transformation on the supply chain, due to the fact that the current supply chain does not yet comply with the “Sustainable Living Plan”. The alignment of the supply chain includes certification of tea production. In order to do that, Unilever worked with local NGOs and Kenyan Tea Development Agency (KTDA). Those parties ensure that the smallholders get educated and certified on sustainable agriculture. This approach makes sure that Unilever’s own production in Kenya and Tanzania as well as the small farmers in East Africa implement the new guidelines and recommendations and have been certified by the Rainforest Alliance. The second issue was how to address this internal commitment to consumers. The global brand director for Lipton Tea Michiel Leijnse, believed that Western consumers had become sufficiently concerned about sustainability. This might help product differentiation. This task was especially complex, because the company’s brand portfolio and the respective brand proposition. However, none of the brand managers liked to ask for a price premium for sustainable tea. The certified tea should instead enhance brand equity and result in higher market shares. Therefore,...
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...This title is part of the IDH Case Study Series, published in December 2010. Another title in this IDH Case Study Series is: • nilever sustainable tea, Part II: U Reaching out to smallholders IDH also has a Best Practices Series, whose titles include: • Marketing sustainability • Sustainable sourcing among SME’s • Beyond auditing • Sustainable trading • Retailers and sustainability • Sustainable sourcing and procurement Case study Unilever sustainable tea Part I: Leapfrogging to mainstream y Tania Braga, B Aileen Ionescu-Somers and Ralf Seifert, IMD’s Center for Corporate Sustainability Management Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (Initiatief Duurzame Handel) Utrecht, The Netherlands www.dutchsustainabletrade.com office@dutchsustainabletrade.com Foreword A tipping point happens when a critical mass of people begin to shift their perception of an issue and take action in a new direction. As I look across the global landscape, I feel that we are approaching a tipping point concerning global sustainability. It is catalyzed by at least three important realizations by business, government, and civil society: The first is a realization that the world is finite and that a growing population with a higher ambition for living standards will inevitably lead to a world which will be resource and carbon constrained. The second is the realization that to solve the challenges for this future world we need systems solutions. We cannot solve individual...
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...Introduction Considered as one of the most renowned brands in the world “Unilever” is among the top grossing consumer goods companies with product sales ranging across 190 countries. As a matter of fact, approximately 2 billion people in the world use a Unilever product day to day. Operating as a dual listed company, Unilever N.V and Unilever PLC is considered to be a single economic entity. Unilever is a benchmark company that many other companies dream of idolizing due to their corporate and social responsibilities and also due to the standards they have set for themselves in the worldwide market. Year | Turnover | Underlying Sales Growth | Operating Profit | Net Profit | Diluted Earnings Per Share | 2010 | Euro 44262 Million | 4.10% | Euro 6339 Million | Euro 4598 Million | Euro 1.46 | 2011 | Euro 46467 Million | 6.50% | Euro 6433 Million | Euro 4623 Million | Euro 1.46 | 2012 | Euro 51.3 Billion | 6.90% | Euro 7.0 Billion | Euro 4.9 Billion | Euro 1.54 | 2013 | Euro 49.8 Billion | 4.30% | Euro 7.5 Billion | Euro 5.3 Billion | Euro 1.66 | 2014 | Euro 48.4 Billion | 2.90% | Euro 8.0 Billion | Euro 5.5 Billion | Euro 1.79 | The above table showcases the overall performance of Unilever from the year 2010 to 2014 as a company. If one were to analyze the statistics that are available within this table, they would be able to come to several conclusions regarding the performance of the company, such as, * The amount of turnover has had its ups and downs throughout...
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...restaurants, café, and banks) where people prefer light tea. It captures 85 % share in the area of India. The service we have in this tea is: Quality, Health Benefits, Organic, and Valuable Price. Market Scope Strategy: Lipton using multiple product strategy. Because it have several types of products like Lipton yellow label tea, Lipton ice tea, and Lipton green tea. Lipton is currently using total market strategy. Their tea bags and tea packs are available in every market. But there is market for ice tea in some parts of country where it is not available. Ice tea should adopt multi market strategy to cover those areas where its demand. Market Geographic Strategy: We are using International Market Strategy to achieve growth objective. Market Commitment Strategy: They are focusing on strong commitment strategy to operate in market optimally by realizing economies of scale. Marketing strategy: Various advertisement means are used by company to advertise their product and they are given below: Print Media Billboards Free samples They are using news papers for advertisements along with others are billboards and banners. So these are means of advertisement which are used by company to advertise their product. The Business Business Detail Products/services: LIPTON® Tea offers you a large selection of ways to enjoy refreshing, great tasting teas. Choice is a wonderful...
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...Introduction Lipton is famous for its various aspects. For instance it focuses strongly on innovation and has become a dominant tea brand. This point is proved by launching the varieties of products ranging from leaf tea to ready-to-drink tea products. Secondly it targets the mass market. Thirdly, due to its size, Lipton is seen as dominant player in the tea market as its size and quantity vary according to the buying behavior of the consumers. Lastly, the Lipton tea company employs professionals in tea growing, Research &Development teams, testing, blending as well as marketing. So to fulfill the criteria of the report, we have chosen Lipton tea as health and wee-being product. The report highlights different marketing theories applied in the case of Lipton. The report also clarifies the position of it in the market. Furthermore it describes where and how the consumers want this product. The report is separated into four parts incorporating primary as well as secondary sources of data. The questionnaire approach is used as primary source of data. Books, journals and online materials are used as secondary sources of data. This report gives some insights on Lipton as a brand of tea. So it can be referred in future for the further research. Most of the information is used based on the past events which can be seen as shortcoming of the report. PART A 1. Introduction to major macro environment forces Macro environment forces can be explained as external environment...
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...Samir Lakhani Stephen Martinek Mahek Parikh Unilever Group Submission Unilever is a consumer goods company that has a variety of product types to serve consumers across the globe. For this case, Unilever’s tea brand, Lipton, is focused on sustainability for the production of their tea production. Sustainability is defined as a method of using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged. In other words, it is focusing on a production method that is sustainable long-term. Currently, Unilever has about 25% of their tea from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, which brought forward gains in the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of tea production. It was one of the few brands of tea that was able to have ethical practices while growing beyond a niche market into a larger market share. However, Unilever is looking to source 100% of its agricultural raw materials sustainably (Rainforest Alliance certified) by the year of 2020. This is a lofty and ambitious goal that requires a supply chain transformation, as nearly 8 million tons of commodities across 50 different crops are required for production. There are multiple reasons for this action: to have ethical production practices, to make their brand favorable to customers, and to increase the longevity of their farms. However, they will bear costs of having to increase the market price and convincing their suppliers to be certified. For example, the firm...
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...Week 2 Assignment: Understanding Effective Money Management Assessment A, Part 1: Creating a Personal Financial Statement - Assets | 1 point | Car: Bluebook value $1250.00Cash: $378.00Savings Accounts: $826.00 | Assessment A, Part 2: Creating a Personal Financial Statement - Debts | 1 point | Rent: $750.00Electric/ Gas bill: $131.75Cable/ internet/ Phone bill: $80.42Credit Card: $31.00Cell phone bill: $72.37 | Assessment A, Part 3: Identify Money Management Tool | 1 point | Explain to Monica how the money management tools were identified. | Students should explain how they evaluated various cash management products and services. | Assessment A, Part 4: Creating a Personal Financial Statement – Steps | 1 point | Drag the steps listed on the right into their correct sequences on the left. When done click the Send button | Step 1: I got all my financial stuff together – bills, loans, bank statements, etc. | Step 2: I balance my checkbook. | Step 3: I decided what were my assets and what were my debts. | Step 4: I enter my assets in the program. | Step 5: I enter my debts in the program. | Step 6: The program gave me a Net worth figure at the end. | Assessment B: Creating a Monthly Cash Flow Statement ...
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...Diagnostic Algebra Assessment Definitions Categories Equality Symbol Misconception Graphing Misconception Definition Concept of a Variable Misconception Equality Symbol Misconception As algebra teachers, we all know how frustrating it can be to teach a particular concept and to have a percentage of our students not get it. We try different approaches and activities but to no avail. These students just do not seem to grasp the concept. Often, we blame the students for not trying hard enough. Worse yet, others blame us for not teaching students well enough. Students often learn the equality symbol misconception when they begin learning mathematics. Rather than understanding that the equal sign indicates equivalence between the expressions on the left side and the right side of an equation, students interpret the equal sign as meaning “do something” or the sign before the answer. This problem is exacerbated by many adults solving problems in the following way: 5 × 4 + 3 = ? 5 × 4 = 20 + 3 = 23 Students may also have difficulty understanding statements like 7 = 3 + 4 or 5 = 5, since these do not involve a problem on the left and an answer on the right. Falkner presented the following problem to 6th grade classes: 8 + 4 = [] + 5 All 145 students gave the answer of 12 or 17. It can be assumed that students got 12 since 8 + 4 = 12. The 17 may be from those who continued the problem: 12 + 5 = 17. Students with this misconception may also have difficulty with the idea that adding...
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...Team B Calorie Count Tool PRG/211 May 5, 2014 Team B Calorie Count Tool PROBLEM STATEMENT Team B was asked to develop a program which would calculate the user’s daily intake of calories and measure those calories against the overall calories expended. The core purpose of this program will do two primary functions. First, it will record the user intake of calories as acquired through meals throughout the day. Second, the user will record caloric output associated with physical activity. This information will be calculated together to determine the caloric surplus or deficit for the user. In order for the program to execute accurately, and provide customized results, the user will be required to input personal data to include gender, age, weight, and height. This additional information is essential to determine the user’s default caloric burn rate, otherwise known as the basal metabolic rate (BMR). The BMR and the calories burned as a result of physical activity will be calculated against the intake of calories to determine the overall success for the user. As the program is executed it must: * Record user name, age, height, weight to enable more accurate calculations * Record the users specific caloric values entered for each meal * Record the user activity and caloric burn values for that activity * Calculate the basal metabolic rate (BMR) for the individual * Subtotal the total caloric values for the day * Combine the physical activity and...
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...Problem Solving with Computing Homework - WEEK 2 [30 points] This is a review of some of the material from Chapter 2 and lectures from class. No credit for answers that are copies or near verbatim transcripts – please use your own words1 and document sources where appropriate. 1 This will apply to all assignments in this class. Answer the following questions: Chapter 2 1. Short Answers [1 point each, 2 points total] 1. What does a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a problem? The first thing that a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a program is to closely relate customer (Interview ) to inquire or gather information about the problem. 2. What two things must you normally specify in a variable declaration? The two things normally specified in a variable declaration are the variable type and identifier. 2. Algorithms / Pseudocode [1 point each, 5 points total] 1. Design an algorithm that prompts the user to enter his or her height and stores the user’s input in a variable named height. Declare height Display “Enter Your Height” Input Height Display “Height” 2. Write assignment statements that perform the following operations with the variables a and b. - Adds 2 to a and stores the result in b. - Subtracts 8 from b and stores the result in a Set b=2+a Set a=b-8 3. Write a pseudocode statement that declares the variable cost so it can hold real numbers. Floating Point-Variable...
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