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Guided By:-
Prof.
Amita Lal
India Leading Emerging Market
BRAND EVALUTION
HISTORY:-
• Launched in 1959 & first in
Indian detergent powder
mkt.
• It was the first Fast Moving
Consumer Goods (FMCG)
for Detergent.
• brand to set up a one-stop
shop - called Care line - for people seeking solutions to their
varied laundry problems.
• Surf was the first brand of detergent that was advertised on
TV. It is advertise on more than 300 channels across the
globe .
• introduced the concept of bucket wash to housewives
hitherto used to washing clothes with laundry soap bars.
Product management of
SURF EXCEL
1. Branding
2. Market Segmentation
3. Positioning and Differentiations
strategies
4. Distribution Channel
Structure
Strategy
• Advertising planning
• Pricing concept and Strategies
• Sales Management
• Marketing Research
Major Players
• HUL ( blue, Quick wash, Automatic)
• Nirma
• P&G ( Tide,Aerial)
• Henkel India (Mir, persil, porwall,
vernel, purex)
• Reckitt Benckiser ( Varnish)
Distribution channel
DEMAND ANALYSIS
Factors affecting demand:
2 . WEAKNESS :-
• No environment friendly as contain sodium and potassium
salts of fatty acids which are less biodegradable than soap.
As compared to NIRMA it is less biodegradable.
• Causes biomagnifications of water bodies which then
degenerates and depletes the aquatic resources as well as
degrades the amount of oxygen which results into loss of
aquatic bodies as well as plants .
• Price is high due t still not reached to mass of customers. But
new marketing and sales innovations have resulted into
greater penetration in to rural market.
OPPROTUNITIES :-
• As its new product SUR AUTOMATIC is based on proprietary
technology after extensive research. It reduces the time taken for
rinsing, reduces the amount of water uses by 40%
• The laundry consumes about 20% of household water so this
technology will make a great impact.
• SURF is coming up with a scholarship scheme like DISHA abhiyan
which provides educational benefits to lower strata of the society.
This has really helped surf to build corporate social image. It
creates brand awareness.
• The detergent market is growing by 9.2% every year so SURF
has great chances to increase in market shares.
• The market penetration of NIRMA is 77% AND surf is 56% but
with repositioning and constant innovation, SURF is emerging as
a market leader.
4 . THREATS :-
• Facing stiff competition with P&G’S ARIEL & TIDE, as ARIEL is
coming up with constant innovative technique.
• In urban India consumers are now being exposed to and trying
several categories such as mobile phones, leisure, durables etc.
so downgrading their FMCG products purchases.
• Rural demands have been dampened by three unusually poor
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