More than 1500 Wholesalers an 1.3 Million retail outlets
Faith and trust
Example of marketing brilliance for Competitors
65 % of Glucose Biscuit market.
RURAL MARKET OF PARLE-G
Parle G is concentrating heavily on rural marketing to have high
growth rate in rural areas
Rural market penetration is 50 65%
Parle G market reach very high due to distribution network
Consumer psyche: Recognize Not as Parle G but as .. biscuit ka
puda.
Parle G is increasing awareness to know parle G as brand
Target young generation, i.e. school going children
Parle G is a market leader in glucose biscuit category in rural
marketing Positioning of parle-g in rural market
Parle-G the company has used channel and image differentiation
tools in rural market
Parle G by far has the most intensive distribution coverage as
compared to any other biscuit company in Indian rural market
Also the name PARLE has an image that generates respect and a belief of good quality in the minds of the buyers
The value-for-money positioning helps to generate large sales
volumes for the parle-g
Positioning parle-g firmly in the consumer mindset was easy because
of healty and nutrious quality biscuits
The success of Shaktiman from Parle-G again has tremendous scope
in retailing, merchandising and event marketing. May be this was a deliberate strategy from Parle to reposition its biscuits with a shakti (power) aura against the much hyped biscuit brands.
Parle-G eventually might use the Shaktiman umbrella strategy to
replicate the success for its other brands in these markets. Parle G has adopted the Market Penetration strategy i.e. low price along with capturing of a large market
Also they focus on providing good quality products at the same
time, which means it uses the value pricing method.
The value-for-money positioning helps generate large sales
volumes for the products.
Parle G is available in Re 1,Rs 2, Rs 4 to Rs 25 packet Profit margin
for distributors is 4% and for retailers is 10- 12%