Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Case Study By: Melinda Brodbeck and Erin Evans Presented March 5, 2007 SITUATION: The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (CFRB) began in England in 2004 when Dove’s sales declined as a result of being lost in a crowded market. Unilever, Dove’s parent company, went to Edelman, its PR agency, for a solution. Together, they conceived a campaign that focused not on the product, but on a way to make women feel beautiful regardless of their age and size. The following
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Introduction Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage that owns many of the world’s consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever employs nearly 180,000 people and had worldwide revenue of almost €40 billion in 2005. Unilever is a dual-listed company consisting of UnileverNV in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Unilever PLC in London, England. This arrangement is similar to that of Reed Elsevier and that of Royal Dutch
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Chapter- One Introduction 1.1 Introduction Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever employs nearly 180,000 people and had worldwide revenue of almost €40 billion in 2005. Unilever is a dual-listed company consisting of Unilever NV in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Unilever PLC in London, England
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TOPIC BRANDING STRATEGY OF HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED SUBMITTED BY PRIYANKA S. TELANG UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF SAMADHAN KHAMKAR IN THE FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-2010 CHIKITSAK SAMUHA’S S.S & LS PATKAR VARDE COLLEGE OF ARTS COMMERCE & SCIENCE AND V.P VARDE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE & ECONOMICS,GOREGAON (W) MUMBAI -62 1 CHIKITSAK SAMUHA’S PATKAR – VARDE COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMERCE SCIENCE. GOREGAON
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(1340000784) Talita Anggreni (1340001023) TABLE OF CONTENT WHAT LIES BENEATH THE BEAUTY 1 CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND: UNILEVER 2 1.1 Company Background: Unilever 2 1.2 Overview of Unilever Indonesia 3 1.3 Unilever Indonesia Foundation 3 1.4 Overview of Dove Products 4 1.5 Environmental Record 5 CHAPTER 2 CASE STUDY: UNILEVER VS GREENPEACE 7 2.1 Indonesia Palm Oil Plantation 7 2.2 Unilever Palm Oil Suppliers 11 2.3 Environment Destruction Caused by Palm Oil Plantations 14 2.3.1 Deforestation 15
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(FMCG). Unilever has around 200,000 employees in more than 300 facilities across 6 continents. Unilever now has a total of more than 400 different brands around the world, but the company focuses on thirteen of its most profitable brands- so called “one billion-dollar-brands” with an average annual sales exceeding one billion dollars each. Top 25 Unilever brands provide more than 70% of the total annual income. Central issue of the case Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies in
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market is making it more widely acceptable for all demographics of men to use male cosmetic products. In today’s society, men feel the need to look younger and more attractive. The market has grown far from the major competitors including L’Oréal, Dove, and Old Spice to include up and coming companies such as Axe and Diesel. These new companies have taken a modern approach to their advertising using humor and sexuality , while Old Spice still uses its classic “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like”
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to Ask 80 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Brand T RADITIONALLY, the people responsible for positioning brands have concentrated on points of difference -the benefits that set each brand apart from the competition. Maytag is distinguished by dependability, Tide by whitening power, BMW by superior handling. Such points of differentiation are, In many cases, what consumers remember about a brand. But points of differentiation alone are not enough to sustain a brand against competitors. Managers often pay
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nd bubbleWall Street values brands higher than Main Street. Watch out. B 6 Spring 2009 BuBBle John Gerzema “Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.” —Cicero, 106-143 B.C. As we leave behind 2008, the numbers are both historic and dismal. The S&P 500 declined by 38 percent, and almost 2 million jobs were lost. The median home price fell by 22 percent, while almost 7 trillion dollars in market value evaporated from the Dow Jones 5000 Index. Taxpayers funded $700 billion
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Americans opened their edition of The New York Times to find a headline that would send the business and retail world into a spin of excited chatter and speculation - “Abraham & Straus and Filene’s to Unite.” The announcement marked the beginning of the evolution of what was to become one of the largest and most influential corporations in retail history. Federated Department Stores, Inc. (renamed Macy’s, Inc. in June 2007) was born through the combination of Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, Filene’s of Boston
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