Business to Business Marketing

End Term Project Report: Carrier Air Conditioners

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Prof. Somayajulu Garimella Devdeep Majumdar (014)
IMI, New Delhi Shubham Mukherjee (054)
Wasim Ahmed Ansari (060)
Prakhar Singh (100)
Somil Joshi (113)
 Table of Contents

1. Company background 3
2. Air Conditioning 5
3. Air Conditioner Industry 7
4. Competitors of Carrier India 8
5. Product Line 11
6. Value creation 13
7. Marketing strategy adopted 15
8. Value delivery 17

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1. Company Background

Carrier is a part of United Technologies Corporation, USA. With 2008 revenue of

$58.7 billion, UTC is a conglomerate operating in the high technology space. The UTC
group operates in aerospace & building systems with companies like Carrier (air-
conditioning), Otis (Elevators), Pratt & Whitney (Jet- engines), Sikorsky (Helicopters),
UTC Fire & Security (Chubb & Kidde), Hamilton Sundstrand and UTC Power.

Founded in 1915 by Dr.Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air-conditioning, Carrier

has developed into being the world’s largest provider of air-conditioning, heating and
commercial refrigeration systems (HVACR) with operations in more than 170
countries, employing approximately 41,000 people worldwide and revenues of $14.9
billion in 2008. Over the decades, Carrier name has become synonymous with
reliability, innovation, commitment, superior technology, cutting-edge manufacturing
and world-class performance. It also has one of the most prestigious installation
bases in the world.

Carrier started its operations in India with setting up of companies namely Carrier
Aircon Limited in 1986, and Carrier Refrigeration Private Limited in 1992. Carrier
brought to the Indian consumer, access to advanced technology and air-conditioning
and refrigeration products from the worldwide product portfolio of Carrier. In

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October, 2006, Carrier Aircon merged with Carrier Refrigeration and the name of the
merged entity was changed to “Carrier Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Limited”
(Carrier India).
Carrier India's manufacturing facility at Gurgaon produces air conditioning
equipments including Window Room Air conditioners, Hi- Wall Splits, Slimpak Splits,
Cassette Splits, Ducted Splits and Chillers. It also manufactures Refrigeration
Equipments including Cold chain equipment comprising of Cold Rooms, Truck
Refrigeration & Bus Air-conditioning system, Freezers, Visi Coolers & Super Market
Products.

Carrier's India operation has many firsts to its credit:

 First air conditioning Company to introduce the concept of a Comfort Shop.
 First to develop exclusive dealer networks in the country. Today, there are
over 345 Carrier exclusive dealers in India.
 Setup the Willis Carrier Engineering Centre to provide technological support
to develop new products and upgrade existing ones.

Carrier India pioneered HVAC dealer concept in the country to give an unparalleled
experience to its customers. The Company has built a strong distribution network on
a platform of partnership and trust. The Company boasts of a strong network of over
590 sales and service dealers and 1000 distributors and retailers. The cornerstone of
the Company’s distribution is the Willis Carrier Club Dealer (WCCD).

Willis Carrier Club is a nationwide endorsement of the Company’s best dealers in the
country. This endorsement not only gives unique identity to the dealers, but also
helps drive customer satisfaction through ‘expertise,’ ‘the hallmark of Carrier’, the
inventor of modern air-conditioning. Apart from the national traditional channel, the
Company has also developed relationships with most of the organized retail chains in
the country.

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Carrier is one of the first to adopt the energy efficiency label issued by the Bureau of
Energy Efficiency (BEE) - Awarded the First prize for energy conservation in Consumer
Goods Sector in 2007 & 2008 by the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India

Carrier is committed to the highest levels of quality and service. It is the company’s
endeavour to ensure total customer satisfaction. For this the Company has a network
of over 475 service dealers and 90 service franchisees to provide a range of services.

Carrier India Vision:

 To be recognized as the leader in every segment we operate in by:
 Being ‘customer focused’ in everything we do and following ACE diligently
 Delivering ‘best in class’ quality in the product as well as aftermarket service
 Being ‘environmentally conscious’ in areas of energy efficiency and pollution
 Establishing a performance culture that respects human values & team work
 Remaining embedded in our core values of EH&S and ethics

Thereby growing profitably and ahead of the market every year, making Carrier a
destination of choice for all within HVAC&R industry.

Air conditioning
The air conditioning business segment consists of Residential & Light Commercial,
Building Systems and Services, Toshiba, Totaline and Service. During the year, the air
conditioning segment grew by 26%. The Residential & Light Commercial sales growth
rate was more than the growth rate of Air conditioning segment during the year. The
Company entered into contracts with more than 20 new corporate accounts and is
the preferred supplier for customers in most segments including retail, private
banking and insurance. The Company has increased its focus in retail by appointing
around 300 new outlets during the year and now has a network of over 520 Sales &
Service Dealers and around 1000 distributors and retailers throughout the country.
The Company has an elite club of exclusive dealers named Willis Carrier Club Dealer
(WCCD) comprising its best HVAC dealers in India.

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Under the Building Systems & Services (BSS), the Company has been in the fore front
promoting the green building movement in India. The Company has been part of
some prominent LEED certified buildings in India. The Company maintained its
leadership position in the Commercial market throughout the previous year being
the preferred supplier to some of the large real estate builders. Further, the Company
localized the 39G Air Handling Unit to be manufactured at its Gurgaon factory.
Toshiba sales growth rate was more than twice the growth rate of Air conditioning
segment during the year. During the year, the Company focused on the Toshiba
business as a separate business vertical in the premium market segment. The
Company bagged some prestigious orders from major retail brand chains, IT,
commercial and hospitality segments in the energy efficient Digital Inverter products
and Variable Refrigerant Flow systems. Totaline provides factory-authorized and
other spare parts to dealers, contractors, technicians and other customers. During
the year, Totaline expanded the product range with the introduction of Fractional
Horse Power (FHP) compressor, reciprocating and scroll compressors, new range of
water dispensers, air purifiers, Totaline branded installations and tools for VRF
systems. Totaline stores are truly One-Stop-Shop for parts and supplies in the HVAC
industry. In September, 2007 the Company opened a Totaline store in Ghaziabad. In
R.LC Service, the Company is focused towards quality of field service with faster
resolution time, approach and revenue. During the year the Company launched an all
India Call Centre located at New Delhi with a national no. 1800301. This call centre is
multi lingual with 7 languages - English, Hindi,Tamil, Malayalan, Bangla, Kannada and
Telegu for improved customer communication.
Carrier Care Net, an initiative for standardizing Customer Call Management Process
and monitoring mechanism for enhancing customer satisfaction. It facilitates
monitoring of all the received calls and timely resolution on a daily basis. During the
year the Company laid greater emphasis on training for field employees, providing
them with identity cards, uniforms and tools to enhance customer satisfaction
towards its products and services.
In BSS Service, during the year, the Company has deputed dedicated service sales
personnel to increase the service revenue and added retrofit as a new business
initiative. This has significantly increased the market penetration. Further, in order to

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enhance field service and quality, measures like providing EH&S kits, service vans in
major metres, uniforms and tools to field service staff were initiated.
Air Conditioner Industry:
The size of the air-conditioner industry in India is about Rs 2,000 crore. The industry
can be sub-divided into non-ducted and ducted products. The demand for non-
ducted products -- window air-conditioners and mini-splits -- comes from both
households and corporate. The demand for ducted products -- central plants,
packaged air-conditioners and ducted splits -- is only from the corporate.
Corporate traditionally accounted for about 60 per cent of the total demand for air-
conditioners. Corporate sector is still the major demand driver in this industry but
because of the burgeoning Indian middle class there has been a noticeable jump in
the demand for air-conditioners from the household segment.

Competitors of Carrier India:

Indian air conditioner market is already flooded by players like Hitachi, Whirlpool, LG,
Haier, Samsung, Voltas, Videocon and many more each competing on the basis of
price and features.

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 Brand being used
Carrier
Hitachi
samsung
LG
other

Carrier has played a pioneering role in the growth of air conditioners in India. Carrier
has established itself as the market and brand leader in the Air Conditioner market in
India. The company has built a diverse product portfolio to meet the needs of
different consumer segments, ranging from middle income buyers to high class
buyers, who look for high performance and better quality.
Competitors Analysis –
Considering the competitors in business market, Blue Star, LG, Voltas are some of the
prominent players –
1) LG offers some of the commercial products like Standing ACs and Cassette ACs
but it does not offer any customized cooling solutions like carrier does

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2) Blue star is one of the leaders in business segment and as a necessary evil of
being the leader in the category it offers a wide range of customized offerings like
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a. Central Air Conditioning - The building blocks of Blue Star’s solutions are
its products. The most comprehensive range of air conditioning products
in the country. A wide range of models are available in each product
category to ensure that the air conditioning system design is implemented
without any compromise. All products have been designed on the energy-
efficiency platform, and offer a host of advanced features.
b. Precision Air conditioners - Blue Star's Precision Air conditioners
(generally know as PACs or CRACs) are ideal cooling solutions wherever
continuous, round-the-clock, precise control of temperature, humidity
and filtered air is desired. Modular in design, Blue Star's PCPAs are
manufactured using state-of-the-art techniques from an ISO 9001 plant at
Dadra, under technical collaboration with Eaton Williams of the UK. Highly
energy-efficient and designed for 24x7 operations, using an open-
architecture control protocol, these air conditioners offer very low cost of
ownership and subsequent up gradation.

The offerings of blue star are attractive at the first place but when we analyze the
offerings we can infer that exhaustive customized offering is not provided by any of
the other players. The flexibility of Carrier in offering the customized services even
with non-Carrier products provides it unique advantage and competence which
cannot be replicated in the short run by its competitors.

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PRODUCT LINE:

Air Quality Solutions

Improves the quality of air.

Controls and Thermostats

Innovative controls that manage all aspects of your home comfort.

Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps for Split Systems

Cooling solutions for split systems. Choose a heat pump for A/C and extra heating.

Furnaces for Split Systems

Heating solutions to work with your preferred fuel source.

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Fan and Evaporator Coils

Coils connect to the refrigerant line from Heat Pumps or A/C units. Fan coils add air
flow.

Duct-Free Split Systems

Can't install ducts in your home or room? Consider a duct-free solution.

Packaged Products

Carrier's All-In-One external solutions for whole home heating and cooling.

Room By Room Solutions

Solutions for cooling and heating for individual rooms.

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Boilers

The perfect heat source for your home's radiant heat system.

Generators

When power goes out, your home health and comfort are on the line. Back yourself
up with a state-of-the-art Carrier.

Carrier is famous in India because of its high quality, innovation and ability to cater to
consumers of various strata’s of life. Across the globe, Carrier ship one residential
heating/cooling system every 3 seconds and install a unit every 6 seconds. No matter
what home and office comfort needs, people can count on Carrier to keep them
comfortable.

Creating value: NORESCO

NORESCO, a unit of Carrier Corporation, develops and implements energy, water and
operational improvement solutions with guaranteed performance and savings. For
nearly 20 years, NORESCO has partnered with government clients to reduce energy
consumption by developing and installing performance-based energy and resource
conservation projects that have generated more than $1.5 billion in guaranteed
lifecycle savings. Performance contracting, a core financing approach offered by
NORESCO, delivers facility infrastructure upgrades with guaranteed savings that are
transparent, measurable and sustainable. Use of performance contracting in
conjunction with public funding enables government clients to leverage private
investment to multiply the value of projects. It is estimated that performance

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contracting can produce three to four times the accomplishment of publicly funded
projects, with greater infrastructure improvements, energy and water savings and
regional job creation.

Dome-Tech

Dome-Tech, Inc., a unit of Carrier Corporation, is an energy engineering and

professional consulting services firm that ensures sustainable, high-performance
building solutions; their services focus on reducing energy consumption and climate
impact while providing a productive work environment.

Comprehensive services span both existing buildings and new construction and
include sustainable building consulting / energy modelling, new building
commissioning, building turnover services, energy procurement consulting,
benchmarking and conservation opportunities, existing building commissioning,
energy performance testing, and turnkey project implementation.

Architectural Engineering Corporation

Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC), a unit of Carrier Corporation, is a leading

business-to-business energy engineering firm focused on energy, buildings, and the
environment. AEC offers a comprehensive and innovative suite of professional
services and products that enable AEC’s clients to achieve and maintain peak energy
and environmental performance over the life of their buildings.

AEC’s offerings range from sustainable design assistance for building construction
and renovation projects to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
consulting services and building commissioning, re-commissioning and retro-
commissioning services. AEC also conducts a broad spectrum of energy and
environmental research and development activities, focused on improving integrated
building performance. AEC’s products include software tools for analyzing the energy
performance of residential and commercial buildings, and ENFORMA® Building
Diagnostic, which provides continuous and automated performance analysis of
building HVAC and other energy-using systems.

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Marketing Strategy
The three major components of B2C marketing usually are:
1. All company activities should begin with, and be based on, the recognition of
a fundamental customer need.
2. A customer orientation should be integrated throughout the functional areas
of the firm production, engineering, finance, R&D.
3. Customer satisfaction is viewed as the means to long-term profitability goals.
So what is different in B2B marketing?
1. The technical characteristics of the product are important.
2. These products directly affect the operations and economic health of the
customer.
3. The customer is an organization rather than an individual consumer, or family.
In a typical B2B market the following features of products and services make the task
a difficult one.
1. More complex offerings.
2. Functional vs. Symbolic Attributes
3. Large unit dollar value/Large quantities
4. Custom/Tailored
5. Various Stages from raw material to finished goods.
6. Foundation, Entering, Facilitating Goods
The nature of customer buying behavior is something which marketers need to look
into deeply. In B2B marketing:
1. Group Process is involved.
2. Formal decision process needs to be followed every time.
3. Lengthy hours of decision.
4. Loyalty is of prime importance.
5. Decisions based on risk and opportunity.
Under such circumstances B2B marketers need to follow the below mentioned
processes. At Carrier selling Air Conditioners would involve:
1. Positioning Statement: An important first step in business to business
marketing is the development of your positioning statement. This is a
statement of what you do and how you do it differently and better than your

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 competitors. Carrier as a maker and distributor of various types of ACs would
like to position itself as a first choice for organizations.
2. Developing your messages: The next step is to develop your messages. There
is usually a primary message that conveys more strongly to your customers
what you do and the benefit it offers to them, supported by a number of
secondary messages, each of which may have a number of supporting
arguments, facts and figures. According to the market research and advices
from certain executive batch students we came to know that for Carrier it
would be better to propagate a divided communication strategy to gather
maximum awareness and understanding of the firms interested in its
offerings. It can offer the following combination of communication tools:
a. Advertising (in trade magazines)
b. Public Relations / Corporate
c. Communications
d. Prospects, Leaflets, Catalogues
e. Sales Promotion Trade Fairs / Exhibitions Direct Mail Sponsorship
3. Building a campaign plan: Whatever form your B2B marketing campaign will
take, build a comprehensive plan up front to target resources where you
believe they will deliver the best return on investment, and make sure you
have all the infrastructure in place to support each stage of the marketing
process - and that doesn't just include developing the lead – make sure the
entire organization is geared up to handle the inquiries appropriately.
4. Briefing an agency: A standard briefing document is usually a good idea for
briefing an agency. As well as focusing the agency on what's important to you
and your campaign, it serves as a checklist of all the important things to
consider as part of your brief. Typical elements to an agency brief are: Your
objectives, target market, target audience, product, campaign description,
your product positioning, graphical considerations, corporate guidelines and
any other supporting material.

5. Measuring results: The real value in measurement results is in tying the

marketing campaign back to business results. After all, you’re not in the

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 business of developing marketing campaigns for marketing sake. So always
put metrics in place to measure your campaigns, and if at all possible,
measure your impact upon your desired objectives, be it Cost per Acquisition,
Cost per Lead or tangible changes in customer perception. Carrier can
measure the effectiveness of its marketing strategies by:

a. The profitability from Customer Affinity study, which points to

disconnects between vendors and customers, argues for a new
measure of marketing performance, called customer affinity, which
incorporates critical elements of the customer lifecycle experience.
This way Carrier would be able to incorporate the good elements of a
successful sale and stay cautious of errors committed.
b. A survey of people who read a magazine to evaluate brand recall and
predisposition to your products before and after a series of ads. This
can be done by your marketing team or by companies that offer focus
groups and market research.
c. Increases in levels of brand awareness over time will tell Carrier that
decision-makers are at least hearing something about a client’s brand
– either positive or negative.
d. Positive brand associations will help to determine the ways in which
the brand is perceived and provide guidance as to ways in which
perceptions need to be changed. Levels of brand consideration will
inform us that the brand is at least being considered in the overall
purchase decision. Ultimately, of course, increasing sales and market
share are the best two indications that the brand is healthy.

Value delivery
Considering the wide variety of product offerings in the commercial segments we can
state that value creation can be done in a number of ways in air conditioners market
by carrier India.

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Carrier limited offers a complete solution which is explained below. This system helps
company to offer a complete value proposition to the institution that look for such
solutions. This concept is not only restricted to integrating carrier products but it is
treated as separate revenue earning unit and also respects business for integrating
carrier and non- carrier products as per the institutional customers demand and
requirements.
The Carrier Comfort Network (CCN) architecture is the most advanced technology to
evolve from Carrier's through knowledge of both comfort and control. CCN addresses
a wide range of comfort, operational, air quality and energy management objectives
by allowing separate pieces of Carrier HVAC equipment, non carrier equipment and
related building systems to work in harmony. The Carrier comfort Network's
seamless architecture integrates reliable DDC control technology with high quality
HVAC equipment to deliver maximum operating efficiency and precise comfort levels.
Whether it is a single facility or it is a complete system, whether it is a retail shop, or
it is a comprehensive commercial centre, Carrier offers an economically sound and
efficient solution to create the most comfortable and energy saving indoor
environment.
With every generation, Carrier Corporation has consistently led the industry, not only
in HVAC equipments advances, but also in development of standalone and
networked controls that optimized the performance of Carriers world class HVAC
systems.

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1) Chillervisior System Manager (CSM):centralized control and management of
several chillers automatic switch on/off of chillers for operation balancing
optimizing carrier chiller's efficiency.
2) Comfort Controller 6400: Genral purpose controller :These fileds
installed,general purpose controllers enable noncarrier products or pre CCN
equipment to communicate with CCN. Comfort controllers are ideal for
networking cooling towers boilers and pumps.
3) ComfortView: CCN user interface : Graphic operation realizes the convenience of
building control management system.
4) CCN Web:Web Access Module :with 1E or LAN or P2P ,CCN can be accessed from
anywhere

As we can see that the value offered through these customized solutions is much
more than the value created by selling the individual products. Carrier has a
dedicated team which works with the clients on gathering the requirements from the

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customers, designing the solution and installing the proposed solution at the facility.
This allows the company to offer unique offers to the customers.

Environment Health & Safety (EH&S)

EH&S is a core value in all of Company's business operations. Company believes that
an excellent Company is by definition "a safe Company". Since Company is
committed to EH&S excellence, it implies that minimizing risk to people, plant and
products is inseparable objective from all other Company's objectives. Every
employee of the Company is committed towards a zero accident goal and has taken
full ownership of the EH&S process.
With a combination of commitment and disciplined approach to the implementation
of EH&S Management System at all levels, your Company has made remarkable
improvement in conservation of natural resources and protecting natural
environment.

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