Raymonds Ropes in Farhan Akhtar as Brand Ambassador

In an attempt to boost the sales of its deodorants “Park Avenue”, Raymonds group has roped in Farhan Akhtar, as Brand Ambassador.  The group is of the opinion that Farhan will appeal to young consumers as he stands for substance and integrity and aimed at rejuvenation of brand. 

The deodorants market, which is valued at Rs.3500 crore with more than 1000 brands competing each other. The group want to take the leverage of its brand Park Avenue which has got huge reputation in the grooming sector. However, the group aims to take its market share to new highs from existing seven percent. Moreover, the group plans to enter in to hair care and skin care segments. The deodorants is part of its FMCG segment JK Helene Curtis (JKHC).

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Liril Relaunched

Liril is back with its old jingle.  HUL relaunched its Liril soap, its Iconic brand with its classic jingle and iconic imagery of a girl in a waterfall by Karen Lunel.  Earlier in 1990’s the brand was positioned on various themes and it was diminished. Now the brand is back with its original theme “freshness” and the tagline is “Freshness is back”.  Relaunch of this brand may bring back the memories to millions of customers, but one has to watch as to how well the brand targets the next gen people.

Relaunch of this brand may bring happiness to its once loyal customers, but frequent change of positioning had given a bitter experience to HUL and it was a great learning for brand managers. 

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DOPPLEGANGER BRAND IMAGE

A doppelgänger brand image or DBI is collection of disparaging images and stories about a brand that are circulated in popular culture by a loosely organized network of consumers, anti-brand activists, bloggers, and opinion leaders.

The major motivation for creating a Doppelganger Brand Image is based on the perception that a brand is being inauthentic by claiming to be something that is not or disguising its true nature.

Some of the examples of DBI’s include Pepsi-Colas fat guy and the popular website, PeopleofWalmart.com. There are incidents where DBI affect familiar brands like Starbucks, Apple, and McDonald’s. This DBI even ignores the technological innovations of the parent company. For example, Botox Cosmetic’s, a self enhancement drug helps to remove unwanted facial wrinkles on the face. But negative stories about the drug are well circulated among consumers that it is deadly poison, leads to frozen faces and addiction. Later, the company has come out with a campaign which neutralized the negative brands meaning and gained wider acceptance among consumers.       

LuvIt. Or Not

Global Consumer Products (GCP), led by A Mahendran former MD of Godrej Group, entered the FMCG space with the launch of a new chocolate brand ‘LuvIt’. The chocolate market in India is estimated to be around Rs. 7,000 crore, which is dominated by Mondelez’s Cadbury, Nestle’s KitKat and other small player. Mondelez Cadbury has around 70 per cent share, while Nestle with 18 and Ferrero Group with 8 per cent respectively. The chocolate market is growing at a CAGR of 20 % with new players coming in.

The company has got plans to enter into beverages, personal care and many other household products. The acquisition ‘Cherio’ brand from Goodlife Ind., would enable the firm to enter into beverages segment effortlessly. Moreover, it want to make “Cherio” an umbrella brand for beverages category. The company has got plans to launch packaged drinking water, health- based drinks and dairy-based flavored milks. GCP did not rule out entering into ready-to-eat or cook products, including noodles, and snacks.

Needless to say that GCP has got an excellent and credible team, but the challenge is how the company going to establish its distribution network (pan India), will play key role in the success of the new startup.

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Note: Per capita consumption of Chocolate in India is 200 gm and in the US is 8-10 Kg.

Juzt Jelly: A New Category from Alpenliebe

Perfetti, global manufacturer of confectionary and gum, market leader in candy segment in India, has successfully created new category of jelly confectionery through its brand Juzt Jelly caught the attention of indian consumers. Juzt Jelly was launched as a sub-brand of Alpenliebe. Later Alpenliebe was moved from a sugar candy brand to an umbrella brand endorsing a range of confectionery products from eclairs, lollipops, and jelly.

As it was new category, Juzt Jelly was launched in the market through celebrity endorsement of Bollywood actress Kajol. The brand had the tagline goes like this " mast jelly ". Later the brand has taken aggressive step to animation based campaign themed Jelly ki Duniya, may be with the view of enticing its target customers i.e children. The reason could be that confectionery category consumers are kids.As of now, Juzt Jelly is offered in flavors of strawberry, orange and lychee, moreover, most of its promotions is concentrated on the strawberry flavor only. The launch of the Juzt Jelly made ITC to launch the brand Candyman Jellicious, which further contributed to enhance product category.

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