Case Study Of Kellogg's 4ps

Kellogg CompanyKellogg Company is a multinational Group of company that manufactures delicious and healthy food products. The Company operates with Battle Green, Michigan as headquarters. Kellogg’s produces cereal food products such as the toaster pastries, crackers, cereal bars, frozen waffles, fruit flavored snacks and plenty of vegetarian healthy snacks. They live up to their motto, ‘Nourishing families so they can flourish and thrive.” You can also grab wonderful jobs from their distribution centers located in Chicago, Aurora, Oak Brook and Western Stephenson County etc. in Illinois. You would need to visit the company’s website to find out more about the company.

In 2006, Kellogg’s launches Special K forest berries and Special K honey almond. A year later, Special K Advantage (fibre) appears in Australia. The last flavor is Special K chocolatey flakes, launched in 2009. The packaging has barely changed since its creation: white background, to represent the purity of the product, and the milk, the big symbol in the middle for the product identity, and some flakes on the right side, for the product representation. There has been an evolution of the nutritional information: now the main compositions are on the front side of the package (sugar, fat, calories). It is part of the strategy to position the product as a partner in weight loss. Te product is considered as a good quality, thanks to its characteristics (benefits for the consumer), and the “Our guarantee to you”, a little section on the left side of the box, explaining that Kellogg has a quality system that assures the highest quality standards to deliver the best product to the consumer. The target of Special K is women, from 20 to 40 years old. Women who try to look and feel good, who are working or raising their children, who want to conciliate their activities with their femininity. Women are represented next to the mention “99% fat free”, and on the back side of the box. Usually they are slim, active and happy. The strategy of Special K is to accompany women all day long, with different products, and to propose them to eat cereals not only for

Freeman, 68 F.3d at 289-90. The packaging of “Complete Blueberry and Pomegranate” cereal does provide the qualifying language “Naturally and Artificially Flavored” and “Crunchy Fruit Flavored Clusters.” Compl. Ex. A. Some may argue that these statements adequately qualify the title as depicting the “characterizing flavor” of the product, as in McKinniss. McKinniss, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96108 at *10 (pictures of fruit may depict the “characterizing flavor” of a product rather than guaranteeing fruit in the product). However, the packaging here can be distinguished from McKinniss in two ways, ensuring that the packaging in McKinniss passes the Freeman “qualifying language” test, while the packaging here fails. Freeman, 68 F.3d at 289-90; McKinniss, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96108 at *10; Compl. Ex. A. First, in McKinniss, ingredients were “expressly stated” on the front of the package through the qualifying statement “CONTAINS 5% JUICE.” McKinniss, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96108 at *10. In contrast, the box in question only contains the word “flavored,” which does not necessarily indicate the product’s lack of real fruit to a layperson. Compl. Ex. A. Second, in McKinniss, the “FLAVORED” qualification was capitalized, while on the cereal box here they are small and lower-case. Freeman, 68 F.3d at 289; McKinniss, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96108 at *10;

The production requires low costs and we can adopt technology from other companies. A gluten-free diet is used to be the treatment for celiac disease. People with celiac disease who eat gluten-free Kellogg’s cereal can be a relief of controlling the signs and symptoms and preventing complication.

The marketing mix concept often referred to as the “4Ps” (McCarthy, 1964), as a means of translating marketing planning into practice (Bennett, 1997) is one of the fundamental concepts of marketing theory. Marketing mix is not a scientific theory, but merely a conceptual framework that identifies thee principal

Marketing mix -The marketing mix is commonly used marketing term. Its elements are basic, strategic components of a marketing plan. Which is mentioned as the four p’s, which include Price, place, product and promotion. More recently 3 more P’S have been added to the marketing mix which are people, process and physical evidence this is known as the extended marketing mix.

Mission: Kellogg is a worldwide business dedicated to construct Long-Term expansion in their bottom-line and to ornament its universal Leadership Position by supplying healthful Food Products of better-quality worth.

The purpose of bringing in Special K Red Berries was to extend the existing brand rather than to replace it. If for example half of the consumers of Special K had switched over to Special K Red Berries and there had been little overall growth in consumption, Kellogg’s would simply be competing in its own market. It was important to test that this would not happen.

The marketing mix is a combination of 4 P’s (product, price, place and promotion) that should be used in conjunction with each other to ensure a competitive edge over other companies. ‘The marketing mix is designed to produce mutually satisfying exchanges with a target market’.

They can implement the aggressive pricing strategy to strike the new entrants at anytime as they’ve got the large share of the market. Therefore, the threat of new entrants is low. For Threat of Substitutes, Kellogg is the largest cereal producer in this market and it has the long history and strong brand in the market. So they’ve had a large base of loyal customers who are hardly shift to other substitutes. But on the other hands, Kellogg’s cereal product is mainly to serve for breakfast. So, anything that is popular at breakfast time such as fruits, sandwiches, congee, or other healthy foods may be the potential threat of Kellogg. Therefore, the Treat of substitutes is Medium. For Suppliers power, the raw materials of Kellogg products include sugar, flour, food grain, which the market has many suppliers for providing it. Kellogg can switch to other suppliers easily and Kellogg has better control on the cost and has more bargaining power to deal with the supplier as Kellogg has a large market share of the market. Therefore, the bargaining power of supplier is low. For Buyers Power, Kellogg has done a series of marketing activities to educate the consumers and create product awareness in order to capture customers. Due to the consumer awareness, Kellogg can provide pressure to their

Marketing mix can be describes as "the use and specification of the 4 Ps describing the strategic position of a product in the marketplace… A prominent person to take centre stage was E. Jerome McCarthy in 1960; he proposed a four-P classification which was popularized. (wikipedia.com)" The marketing mix approach to marketing is a model of creating and implementing market strategies. The marketing mix stresses the mixing of different factors in a way that both organizational and consumer or target markets objectives are attained. The 4 Ps of marketing are Product, Place, Promotion and Price. Each plays a key factor in the overall successful marketing of a product or service.

The four P’s of a marketing mix are as follows, product, price, place, and promotion. Each of these offers a marketing parameter for the management and company team to control. With each marketing tool there are decisions that should be met as far as the business is concerned. Therefore, there is a list for each one that should be analyzed to meet the business standards.

The 'marketing mix' is a set of controllable, tactical marketing tools that work together to achieve company's objectives. The marketing mix analysis is also called 4P analysis. This analysis contains a set of controllable strategic tools of marketing which work in simultaneously to attain the objectives of an organization. In this paper we will analysis two organizations with respect to their marketing mix. The companies that I have chosen for this task are Pepsi Co and Coca Cola.

Marketing mix is also called 4P’s of marketing .It can also be used to find existing market strategy. 4P of marketing represents:

The RTE cereal industry has been a highly profitable business. The Big Three gained the first mover advantage since the 19th century, and most of the market share. The rivalry among competing firms was low because the industry was highly concentrated. However, as the increasing sales of small private labels grow fast, the degree of rivalry would increase later. The barrier to entry was high because of the Big Three deterred the new entry firms by taking steps to make the industry unprofitable for the new firms. Whereas, the level