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Aqualisa Quartz Case Study

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Aqualisa Quartz: Simply a Better Shower

Introduction

Aqualisa is a U.K. based shower manufacturing Company. The Company has been very reputed in the U.K. market for its top quality showers, reliability and great service. It had launched its premium brand Quartz in May 2001. The basic purpose behind launching this brand was to address the concerns of the consumers and the plumbers which perhaps were not satisfied with the existing products in the market.

Aqualisa has three products in shower market segments. This product addresses the issues of lower water pressure and allowing for proper temperature control for water. Generally speaking, due to legacy …show more content…

The Quartz was an example of high technological innovation of Aqualisa which was not present in any other shower making company.
3) The brand image of Aqualisa was very good because of its high quality and innovations.
4) The market share of Aqualisa was also quite high in the UK market. It captured 18% of the total market share and was third largest selling brand in UK.

Weakness:
1) Aqualisa was perceived as an expensive brand. As a result of which the sales were less in the lower segments of the market.
2) The service of Aqualisa though perceived as high quality was actually degrading and about 10% of the products had defects in them.
3) Because of the high R&D cost involved in bringing innovative product in the market, the products were highly priced.

Opportunities:
1) With a strong R&D already present in Aqualisa, the company could innovate further and bring out technologically advanced low cost, low weight and a highly reliable product.
2) With its shower having very less fluctuations in water pressure and temperature, the products could have very high demand in the UK market if marketed properly.
Threats:
1) The main customers for the showers were the plumbers as the end consumer were very heavily dependent on the plumbers. Most of the times, the choice of the consumer was influenced by the plumber. However, the plumbers were usually reluctant to use a new product as they were used to working with the existing

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