...Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning 1) What are Paramount’s key strengths and weaknesses? What is its competitive advantage? Strengths * As of 2009 the company’s two products, Paramount Pro and Paramount Avail allowed it to capture the unit volume market leader position with a 23.3% retail unit share. * Paramount was a global consumer product giant with $13billion in worldwide sale and $7 billion in gross profit in 2009 * Paramount is a respected brand in the industry Weakness * The industry market is divided into 3 segments value, moderate and super premium, Paramount only had products for two of the segments. Paramount Avail was a value offering while Paramount Pro was a moderate offering. * Neither of the company’s products had introduced significant technology innovations in the past five years. The company’s main competitive advantage would be the new product Clean Edge. Clinical trials indicated that the product achieved a 25% increase in hair removal versus the other leading non disposable razor brand. The trials also proved that the product had benefits overall skin condition by improving skin tone and skin texture. 2) How is the non-disposable razor market segmented? Explore consumer behavior for non-disposable razors? The industry expert divided the market into three segments based on price and quality: value, moderate and super premium. Product benefits and consumer behavior also play an important role in production...
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...11/12/14 Clean Edge Razor Case [pic] Table of content 1. Executive Summary………………………………………………………………….3 2. Problem/Issue Statement………………………………………………………..4 3. Situation Analysis…………………………………………………………………….4 4. Alternatives……………………………………………………………………………..8 5. Evaluation of Alternatives………………………………………………….…….8 6. Recommendation(s), Action Plan/Implementation…………………..9 7. Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………11 1. Executive summary As a marketing advisor, my role is to analyse the Clean Edge Razor Case in terms of the inner and external situation, the alternative solutions and assess each solution, then give recommendations on which alternative solution to choose, what the advantages and disadvantages are. Finally, suggest implementations that should be taken in order to achieve the goal. www.termpaperwarehouse.com/print/Clean-Edge-Razor-Case/244312 1/9 11/12/14 Clean Edge Razor Case As a leader in the heath product and grooming manufacturer company, Paramount is introducing a more technologically revolutionary nondisposable razor into the super-premium market to maintain market share. However, there are many competitors in this segment and Paramount is considering the proper the positioning method to choose to gain the most market shares. Both niche positioning and mainstream positioning have pros and cons. Niche positioning focus on specific group of male that are very concerned with the functionality and the messaging of the razor. They seek superior...
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...Occam’s razor William of Occam was an English Franciscan philosopher who lived in the 13th and 14th century. His most famous concept is his theory of Occam’s razor. Occam’s razor stated that “entities should not be applied unnecessarily” It says that when you have a couple of different possibilities to the same problem, the simple solution is usually the correct one. Now, Occam’s razor is used daily and most people don’t even know it. An example of a casual situation in which William of Occam’s theory would be applied is this: someone wakes up and he notices that one of his socks is missing, so he thinks about how this happened. Either he got hot last night and kicked it off while he was sleeping, the dog came and pulled it off, or option 3; a Victoria’s secret model came over and wanted to give him a foot rub after his long day at work. Option one makes the most sense to him because it has happened before, but option two can also be a possibility because the dog sometimes gets out of his kennel, and no matter how much me may want to believe option three, off the bat it is the least likely out of all of them. You go downstairs and see that the dog is sleeping soundly in the kennel, so that rules out option two, therefore leaving option one as the primary solution. When using Occam’s razor you take out all of the other possibilities to find the simplest most logical solution...
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...Alternatives……………………………………………………………………………..8 5. Evaluation of Alternatives………………………………………………….…….8 6. Recommendation(s), Action Plan/Implementation…………………..9 7. Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………11 1. Executive summary As a marketing advisor, my role is to analyse the Clean Edge Razor Case in terms of the inner and external situation, the alternative solutions and assess each solution, then give recommendations on which alternative solution to choose, what the advantages and disadvantages are. Finally, suggest implementations that should be taken in order to achieve the goal. As a leader in the heath product and grooming manufacturer company, Paramount is introducing a more technologically revolutionary nondisposable razor into the super-premium market to maintain market share. However, there are many competitors in this segment and Paramount is considering the proper the positioning method to choose to gain the most market shares. Both niche positioning and mainstream positioning have pros and cons. Niche positioning focus on specific group of male that are very concerned with the functionality and the messaging of the razor. They seek superior shaving experience and consider shaving as daily grooming ritual. Mainstream positioning focus on a broad market and target at the consumers that have ordinary shaving needs. However, the key issue is that mainstream positioning may cause cannibalization effect, triggering decline in sales of the...
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...Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning Group AE1: Abhinav Singh (14S601) Anima Tapadiya (14S607) Dushan Garg (14S616) Niharika G (14S628) Raviteja Palanki (14S636) Prem Sharath (14804) Q.1. What changes are occurring in the non disposable razor category? Assess Paramount’s competitive position. Changes occurring in the non-disposable razor category: Consumers are increasingly becoming aware of technology and are demanding for technologically advanced and innovative razors. The market is growing at the rate of 5% approximately from 2007-10. Every player in this market is planning to increase the advertising media expenditure which translates to say that the market is being tapped to its full potential. Also, distribution outlets are responding to the increasing demand by increasing the shelf space. To cater to this increasing demand, 22 new stock keeping units were introduced between 2008 and 2009. Initially, the distribution of non-disposable razors was limited to traditional food and drug stores. But over the years from 2007 to 2010, the distribution started to shift towards mass merchandisers and club stores. Paramount’s Competitive position: Paramount presence is in the moderate and value segments. Paramount’s products Pro and Avail were currently not able to cater to the demand for technologically advanced and innovative products. Paramount also faced competition from substitute products like disposable razors, electric razors, depilatory...
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...Executive Summary We are 3+2 group,introduce team member Timber, Jie,Penny ,Helen , and Stella. We’ll present the marketing strategy for the innovative product Clean Edge razor. Now let’s begin. Our presentation outline are: Paramount Health and Beauty Company Ultra thin five blade and vibrating technology- technology leading position 2011 - Introduce new Clean Edge target at niche market 2012 - Sunset Avail 2013 - Cut Clean Edge price to occupy mainstream market 2013 - Introduce Clean Edge Plus target at niche market to increase market share 2014 - Technology leading position in market, to achieve 472million annual revenue, and 32% market share in US non-disposable razor market. Our 推出新产品定位niche 2年后降价定位主流市场 并推出plus a new non disposable razor Clean Edge with cutting edge technology to improve men’s shaving experience by the use of leading vibrate technology in the super premium segment. 1. 我们的新产品有CE ultra thin five blade and vibrating technology, technology leading position 2. 我们将于2011推出CE,target at Niche market 3. 我们将于2013 cut CE price,to occupy mainstream market。 4. 同时我们将推出CE Plus,我们的客户是(高端客户),在市场保持领先地位share。 5. 我们的总体目标是2014年达到XXX. Our principle is technology leading, 1. 现在市场中super占最大。 2. 同时social是最大的消费群体。 3. 所以,我们决定将我们的主要客户定位在xxxx上。 1. 我们现在主要的竞争对手有XXXX。 ...
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...Examination Project By Virtual University Dear Informative Friends: This survey is about the Razor of the company namely Gillette. The purpose of the survey to analyze the marketing strategies of Gillette Razor. This is an examination research project which is assigned be the Virtual university. The people who are selected for the participation of this survey are of great importance. In the selection educated people is considered as a criteria to participate in it. Your sincerely, Umer shahzad MBA (final semester) Virtual university Questionnaire 1) How often do you shave? a) Daily b) After two days c) Weekly d) Forth nightly 2) Which type of shaving instrument you use: a) Razor with disposable Blade b) Disposable Razor 3) Have you shaved with Gillette Razor? a) Yes b) No 4) Which Gillette razor you use? a) Blue II b) Mach 3 c) Fusion d) Fusion Plus 5) To use Gillette Razor is easy? a) Strongly Agree b) Agree c) Neutral d) Disagree e) Strongly Disagree 6) Do you agree that Gillette’ Razor has a positive psychological factors on consumer? a) Strongly Agree b) Agree c) Neutral d) Disagree e) Strongly Disagree 7) Gillette makes its different brands so good that it always in accordance to its target...
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...Gillette Indonesia Marketing The marketing plan appropriate for Gillette Indonesia would be to focus on the higher-end razors as they are probably already purchasing the low-end razors. With constant competition from cheaper-made shaving products, Gillette should find a way to fight dirty campaigns. In other words, razors are nothing more than sharp steel and by using a quality blade over the cheap ones, people can avoid razor cuts that can cause tetanus and various other infections. To receive good healthcare treatment in Indonesia usually requires money. With the average person making less than $10k per year, constantly going to the medical clinic for treatment for tetanus, will not suit their pockets well. The marketing can focus on good quality razors saving lives and money by minimizing the trips to the medical clinic. This would be an easy marketing technique because the World Health Organization (WHO) has already approved Gillette as one of the safest razor blades made. The WHO has recommended Gillette as a healthcare hygiene product because Gillette is actually used in hospitals across the world as a shaving tool before surgery. Another campaign should be made to use clean shaved men to represent sex-appeal. Make beardless men look more attractive by society standards. Don’t just make them look good on television, but rather make society love them. Show these men wealthier, happier, and even more attracted by the opposite sex. Gillette can even go as far as having...
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...Executive Summary Gillette has been the leading brand in men’s grooming industry. The competition in the razor industry is becoming more intense since the start of online retailing of razors. With competition heating up Gillette has to find a way to cater to consumers. Gillette merged with P&G in 2005, which instantaneously became a competitive advantage. Gillette uses its aggressive advertising to compete with customers and keep its market share. The company will introduce a new women’s razor to put more emphasizes on women. The company will use aggressive advertising and survival pricing, to target low to moderate income women. The company projects that this product will bring in $20 million in sales after launched and increase Gillette’s overall market share. Situation Analysis The Internal Environment Review of marketing goals and objectives Whether a customer uses electric or disposable razors, Gillette hopes to give their consumer the best shaving experience possible. Gillette has a strong market background which helps with identifying customer trends and promotes new product development. This is why Gillette’s shaving products are in its maturity stage. The company has been in the industry for more than 100 years and has high sources of equity (Gillette, 2015). The company’s current marketing goal is to continue to differentiate its strategy by innovation and marketing products in an unusual way. Gillette’s primary focus has been on the extension of its...
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...MANAGEMENT BRIEF - GILLETTE - THE SENSOR RAZOR LAUNCH. 15 August 1992 The Economist (c) The Economist Newspaper Limited, London 1992. THE BEST A PLAN CAN GET Our second case study involves one of the most successful launches of a consumer product in decades: Sensor, Gillette's high-priced, high-tech razor. In April 1990 Gillette's Bruce Cleverly made one of the hardest decisions a marketing boss can ever face: to pull an expensive television-advertising campaign off the air. Hard, but in this case, enviable. The advertisements in question had not been attacked as misleading; they had caused no offence; they had not failed to stir consumers. Far from it. Mr Cleverly was forced to stop advertising his company's newest product, Sensor, because demand for the high-tech razors was so intense that the company could not produce them fast enough to meet it. In America and Europe, pre-launch publicity had consumers clamouring for Sensor weeks before it arrived in shops that January. When it arrived, many retailers could not keep the razor and its premium-priced blades in stock for more than a day or two. Gillette vastly under-estimated its product's potential. The company's most optimistic pre-launch projections were for the sale of 18m razors and 200m blades in 1990. The actual totals were 27m and 350m. Sensor grabbed 7% of both the (at the time) $850m American blade market and the $1.1 billion European one, and an astonishing 42% of the $150m combined American and European...
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...First mover: advantages and risks The Gillette Company has a long history of being 'the first to market...' in its own areas of operation. Its achievements include producing the first successful: • safety razor 1901 • twin bladed razor 1972 • twin bladed disposable razor 1976 • pivoting head razor 1979 • pivoting head disposable razor 1980 • razor designed specifically for women - Sensor 1992 • triple blade razor - Mach 3 1998 • battery powered razor - M3Power 2004. As well as being first to market, Gillette has also continuously produced products which feature improvements to existing technologies, including 3 bladed disposables and ergonomically superior handle developments, including Sensor, Venus Divine and M3Power. This timeline above also demonstrates how the speed of innovation has accelerated with shorter and shorter gaps between new introductions and superior products. Being 'the first to' can bring advantages known as 'first mover advantages'. These include being able to generate initial consumer interest via both media investment and accompanying press and PR coverage. This then leads to the main retail stores displaying the products in-store and supporting the products with powerful promotional campaigns. For as long as products remain the only one of their kind available, the 'first mover' can establish loyalty and reputation in its brands before potential competitors get going or catch up. A Brand is thus created. There are risks to being the innovator...
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...Dollar Shave Club University of Maryland, University College CMST 301 01/31/2016 Introduction & Synopsis In The New York Time article written by Dahl titled “ Riding the momentum create by a cheeky video” the author presents a founder of a Dollar Shave Club company which is based in Santa Monica, California. The company sells shaving razors to man based on a monthly subscription. Michael Dubin was the founder and he used digital media to achieve a goal of getting more customers but also to get investments from big companies. The prices range from a $1 to $9 a month based on what type of razor blade customer chooses. The idea of selling razor via subscription came to the owner Michael Dubin because he have heard of many man complain of the prices of razors in stores. At the begging of launching his business, he spent months driving down San Diego to connect with bloggers to spread the word. However, it was difficult and he decided to make a video to tell the story of buying a razor via subscription. After launching his video on YouTube it has been seen almost 10 million times. In the first 48 hours of launching the video, he had 12,000 orders placed. After the launch of the video the business kept growing, Dubin struck a deal with many investors, which helped him, grow the company. Today the business is valued at $615 million, what started, as a video ad now is multi million-dollar company. With the use of digital media, Dubin was able to...
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...simple and easily accessible. Let’s take the example of shaving. There are major differences in the behavior of customers in emerging and developed markets. Companies catering to these markets such as P&G often have to adapt to these difference. For example in the US the new Fusion Pro Glide with five blades is the top selling razor of P&G’s Gillette product portfolio priced at around $4. However this product does not address the needs of Indian customers. Most Indian people still shave with double-edged razors while balancing a hand held mirror. P&G realized that in order to enter India they had to investigate the needs of the Indian BoP customers. They sent a research to India to observe the shaving behavior of Indians and to understand the role that shaving plays in their daily life. P&G found out that Indian customers need a simple razor that can use without running water and which limits the risks of cuts while shaving. After conducting this research they introduced a simple razor called the Gillette Guard. It has just one blade, can easily be cleaned without running water, is safe and costs a fraction of the price of the Fusion Pro In fact, the razors and blade cartridges sell for about $0.30 and $0.10, respectively. To market the Gillette Guard, P&G focused on Indian kiranas, or local shops, since thisiswhere BoP customers preferto shop. For their promotion P&G used a local approach with ads and TV spots hosting...
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...Group Assignment (Gillette Case Study) Submitted to: Mr. Syed Ahmed Submitted by: (Group Members) • Saima • Maria Memon • Kashif Soomro • Jawaid Shaikh 1. How is the Gillette Series being positioned with respect to (a) competitors, (b) the target market, (c) the product class, (d) price and quality? What other positioning possibilities are there? a. Premium to competition b. The Best a Man can Get" - not the most convenient or cheap at all, but the most value added products, building on the popularity of sensor. c. Differentiated on functional attributes through innovation d. Price premium at an index of 110 to 120. There are many other positioning possibilities for a Brand. Gillette can position the various products it has separately, or treat Gillette as a master Brand. If Gillett is one Brand, then the positioning should be the same as for the other series of men’s grooming products. However if it breaks it into categories, then there is a shaving line, and then a deodorant line, and it can get into an aftershave line as well, unless it wishes to keep it aligned with the shaving category. In this scenario there can be 3 distinct positioning that Gillette can take up in the consumers’ minds. 2. Is Gillette making the best use of the brand equity that has been created with Sensor? Given that Gillett is attempting to make a name for itself and that Sensor has been its biggest success, it makes sense to use the impetus of that to tie into the rest of its...
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...Innovation May Not Be Enough 1) Evaluate product innovation at Gillett throughout its history. Has Gillett been a victim of its own success? Has product innovation in the wet-shaving market come to an end? In 1901 King C. Gillett invents the safety razor complete with disposable blades, the start of a business dynasty. From 1901 to 1938, Gillett receives its patent and introduces a blue and thin blade. From 1946 to 1969 Gillett offers the first blade dispenser, develops the first adjustable razor with three settings, adds a super blue blade w/silicone coating, introduces a coated stainless steel blade, and adds a platinum chromium coating. During the 1970’s Gillett produces the Trac 2, Good News, and Altra razors thus continuing the innovation and their market share moving forward. During the 1980’s Gillett continues its leading edge technology by producing the first razor and disposable razor with a lubricating strip and a razor with spring mounted twin blades. The 90’s stalled somewhat but the introduction of the Mach 3 was a huge product announcement. From 2000 – 2009 Gillett enhanced the features of the Mach 3 and entered the post shaving product market. In 2010 Gillett introduced the Fusion Proglide which completes the razor advancement and innovation at Gillett. On the acquisition side Gillett went on a product development campaign which included selecting a number of key products associated with different market arena’s that ultimately drove Gillett’s overall profit margins...
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