• Cadbury Schweppes was founded in the year 1831 by
George Cadbury.
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…Contiuned • Its revolutionized cocoa started processing from the year 1866 onwards.
• This company originally merged with Schweppes in 1969.
• Currently, this successful company is employing
approximately about 43,000 people worldwide and is the world's fourth biggest supplier of chocolate and sugar confectionery.
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Core Purpose • Cadbury Schweppes core purpose is "Working together to create brands people love".
• The core purpose captures the spirit of what we are trying to
achieve as a business.
• We collaborate and work as teams to convert products into
brand
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Vision • To align with the core purpose, Cadbury India has defined its Vision as "Life Full Of Cadbury and Cadbury Full of Life".
• Cadbury India will participate in many spaces of consumer
life through a cache of product offerings - be it chocolates or snacks or gum.
• They believe that work and fun can co-exist beautifully.
Therefore at Cadbury India, it's all about work hard, play harder!. They bring moments of delight to otheir consumers everyday and every time.
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SWOT Analysis • Strengths: Strong brand names like Cadbury Dairy Milk, Five star and Eclairs. Rich product mix. Support from the parent Cadbury Schweppes.
• Weaknesses: Lack of launch of new brands in Chocolates
segment.
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…Continued • Opportunities: The Indian market and more specifically the urban areas where the penetration of Chocolates is low can be developed as a future market through affordability and availability. Using information and technology to bring efficiency in logistics and distribution.
• Threats: Stiff competition in Confectionery segment. The
company has large exposure to foreign currency exchange rate risk, mainly on account of imported cocoa beans and cocoa butter in US Dollar and Pound Sterling.
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The company's business strategy • Increase the width of chocolate consumption, through low price point packs and distribution focus.
• Increase depth of consumption, targeting regular chocolate
consumers through generating impulse and a dominant presence at Point of Sale.
• Maintain image leadership through a superior marketing
mix.
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…Continued • Be a significant player in the gifting segment, through occasion linked gift packs.
• Build critical mass in the sugar business by introducing
value-added sugar confectionery products.
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BCG Growth-Share Matrix • To begin with, BCG is the acronym for Boston Consulting Group—a general management consulting firm highly respected in business strategy consulting.
• BCG Growth-Share Matrix (see figure 1) happens to be one
of many of BCG's strategic concepts the organisation developed in the late 1970s, and is being taught at leading business schools and executive education programmes around the world.
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…Contiuned • It can be used to classify product portfolio in four business types based on four graphic labels including Stars, Cash Cows, Question Marks and Dogs
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Wednesday, December 8, 2021 11 Principles of Marketing • There are many different features to be looked at when marketing your product to ensure there are no hiccups when releasing a new product.
The following are a list of different things which need to be looked at
by businesses such as Cadburys to ensure success for the new product:
• Understanding customer needs – This can be found through extensive
market research to help the business determine the customers outlook on products and also the new tendency within the market.
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…Contiuned • Understand and keep ahead of competitors – This again can be done through market research to help a business stay above competitors.
• Communicate effectively with customers – This can be done
through varieties of places, the most affective would be through promotional techniques used by the business.
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…Contiuned • Organize functions to achieve objectives – To ensure correct objective have been set, a business must look at the four P’s around the product to make certain that the correct marketing objectives have been set.
• To help us do this we ran through the four P’s of our product,
and then checked to see that we have stated most of the possible strategies for the product.
Aware of constraints – All businesses must be aware of the
constraints they face on there marketing activities, to ensure that they are then able to work there way around it.
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…Contiuned • The above principles of marketing must all be looked and analysed by businesses, to ensure that the launch of the new product runs as smooth as possible.