Overview Toothbrushes, the simplest tool to mouth hygiene health. As a toothbrush manufacturer the emphasis on getting shelf space and sales is at the top of our list. Although our company has seemed to hit a rut, our marketing department will be taking their advertising to a new level. Our product has strong reviews and ratings from the American Dental Association, so quality is not our problem. Because of neither negative nor positive feedback for our toothbrushes, our marketing department will focus on creating advertisements that distinguishes our product from others. Marketing will be focusing on concentration segmentation strategies on the following segments: 18-25 years of age 26-40 years of age 41-55 years of age
With the focus on marketing to these segments, we hope our toothbrushes will be distinguished from our competitors.
Market Segment In order to distinguish our toothbrushes from our competitors our marketing department will be focusing on a concentrated segmentation strategy. According to Marketing91.com, “concentrated marketing is a strategy whereby a product is developed and marketed for a very well defined and specific segment of the consumer population,” (Marketing91.com, 2014). Using a concentrated segmentation strategy will allow our company to cater to the segments needs, while maximizing our per unit profits because of the concentration on one segment.
Market Segment 1: 18-25 years of age The age concentrated segment of 18-25 years of age, are
Also surveys were conducted of mouthwash user’s image of the major brands based on several attributes such as, reducing bad breath, killing germs, removing plaque and others. The results showed that Plax achieved a strong image on removing plaques and healthier teeth and gums, whereas scope scored a weaker image on those attributes.
Dental hygienist focuses on oral health. They clean the patient’s teeth, tell them how they can improve their oral health, and tell the patient about any oral disease that they have or can possibly happen from poor oral hygiene. To become a Dental Hygienist you have to graduate from an accredited dental hygiene program and have a license in the state they have practiced. It takes 2-6 years to become a Dental Hygienist, they make an average salary of $55.307 annually. The dental hygienist work in many places such as: private dental practice, community health centers, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, practice clinics, schools and state/federal government services.
That scene is impressive because the guy falls down while taking the purse out of her mouth. This commercial prove that by using Close - Up, your teeth will be stronger and healthier; you protect your teeth, they protect yourself. This commercial is not only attract women, it attracts all people who want to have a healthy teeth. By pointing that scene, this commercial is successful by proving what is the benefit of using Close-Up toothpaste.
Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP) launched a new toothbrush, Colgate Precision, to the market. But having developed for three years, CP was fiercely competing with other companies in the market. In order to have the power to fight in the highly competitive market with substantial product activity, Colgate-Palmolive Co. was in a problem of considering the how to position its new product--Precision, and to define the market strategy in terms of positioning, branding, and communication strategy. It provided some options with details to the reader, hence, for such purpose, this case would be a decision case, finding the optimum to segment the new product to the target and how it should be marketed.
The current market for retainer cleaning solutions primarily revolves around denture cleaners and select mouthwash solutions. These options are used for cleaning purposes and do not capitalize on the idea of flavoring the retainers, with the exception of Fresh Guard. Fresh Guard’s current offering provides a mint flavor for retainers. That would most likely appeal to an adult audience as research on kids’ palate preferences indicates that milder flavors are more popular with kids (5 Popular Kid’s Toothpastes, 2014). By adding flavors that kids prefer to retainers, Teeth Treat hopes to incentivize younger retainer users to actively maintain their oral health. The flavor would be added to the retainer in the daily cleaning process. Instead of soaking the retainer in denture cleaner, the retainer would be soaked in Teeth Treat. In addition to cleaning and flavoring, this process would help extend the life of the retainer by keeping it moisturized (Downshen, 2013). It would also simplify the cleaning process by removing the need to brush the retainer after soaking. A quick rinse after soaking would be all that is needed for
When one uses Crest toothpaste it could help avoid the feasible need of expensive treatment in the future. The advertisement features a pair of dice that are shaped similar to teeth. If we look at the dice as if they were teeth, the black dots could represent cavities that can occur. The teeth are also not in gums which can also represent what could happen if one does not use this advertised product, then one’s teeth could fall out. The advertisement says, “there are some things you just can’t afford to gamble with.” This refers to the health of teeth, and whether or not one is willing to take necessary care for
In order to market the product into the market successfully, marketers need to have some marketing strategy to enter the desired market and make profit. Market segmentation is the process of dividing a market into subsets of consumers with common needs or characteristics (Schiffman et al., 2011). Understanding the market size and segmentation is valuable, but the keys to effective targeting is to know just how valuable specific consumer groups are, and being able to quantify the impact of consumer trends ( Berry, 1999).
The end of the first year, we had 30% of the products left, in view of the traditional market accounted for 40.5% of the overall toothpaste market, we decided to increase three sales people into traditional sales channels in the next year. Due to the selling of whole market Economy toothpaste are great, we add advertising investment. At the same time, the poor sell of children's toothpaste prompted us to reduce 5 million budgets on its advertising fee. According to the results of marketing, and sales of other companies, appropriate to improve the economy, white, healthy toothpaste price and their allowance, try to stimulate the sales.
This process helps a firm or organisation in focusing its marketing effort towards a specific segment or a group of segments. Depending on the product, organisational goals, the size of the firm and the marketing resources available a firm may target only one ‘niche’ segment or alternatively focus on several related segments. Another method can be to start with one segment and add more when business grows successfully. Large companies often target all market segments and try to serve them by offering a large variety of products to suit all their needs, wants and demands.
By increasing successful and ideal operations and strengthening relationships with their customers, companies existing in this market diminish the significance of threat over newly accepted competitors. Toothpaste companies are still growing strongly, therefore additional firms are trying to enter the market to benefit from the increasing profits. However, most toothpaste companies have already made their name and their customers stay loyal to their brand, therefore it is hard to get into this market. With toothpaste being such a popular item and an essential in households,
Many members of this age group are highly impressionable (Media Smarts, n.d.) and also have a major social media presence and online presence through which they can be reached (Media Smarts, n.d.), making them accessible in a variety of ways. Within the Avalon region of Newfoundland and Labrador, there are many stores where toothpaste can be accessed, either by members of this segment who are purchasing the product for themselves or by people who are purchasing toothpaste for them. For example, in St. John’s alone there are 3 Walmart stores (“Walmart - Find a Store”, n.d.), 7 Lawtons Drug Mart's (“Store Locator”, n.d.) and 6 Sobeys stores (“Store Locator - Sobeys Inc.”, n.d.) and many other store options in the city where toothpaste can be purchased - not to mention the rest of the Avalon
Imagine after years of being dead, a human body is found and all that is really left of them is their teeth. Why? It may be because of the way they took care of their teeth while they were alive and the precaution methods they were educated about. Educating people about oral health is really important because teeth are the strongest bone in our body and they even preserve the most after we pass away, this means it is an essential factor to knowing how to protect them from getting a disease and keeping them as long as possible. Most patients are not aware of diseases in dentistry. Educating the older and the young generation will help to care for their oral health.
Could you identify any product systems in this product mix? Is the toothpaste considered a shopping, specialty or convenience product? At what conditions, could this product considered a business product? With respect to Scope, do you consider it a "star" or "cash cow"? Why? With respect to the product life cycle of scope, what is the current status of the product? What is your marketing advice at this particular product life cycle stage?
Seeing the company records of Canadian Mouthwash Market Shares for past three years, I feel that the performance of scope in market was consistent despite the arrival of new products in market.
Context: In 2009, India was the world’s largest democracy; with a population of 1.16billion growing at 1.4% per annum, the country suffered from a huge disparity in income with the majority of Indian population (78%) living in rural areas, and as many as 80% living under $2 per day. The 78% who lived in rural areas accounted for c. 64% of total expenditures in India. Around 50% of the Indian population did not have sufficient awareness of dental healthcare, and did not associate dental problems with improper care but rather to eating habits or genetics; most of these Indians were using natural remedies as chewing twigs from the Neem tree. Among the remaining population who used modern dental healthcare or a toothbrush, 77% brushed their teeth less than twice a day (recommended usage), and out of the 747.1million brushes sold every year, only 8.6% replaced their brush every 3 months. Cottle-Taylor (CT) enjoyed a large market share in India and focused on toothbrushes. Given the peculiarities of the market, CT decided to focus on toothbrushes where it enjoys larger gross margins by virtue of its existing manufacturing infrastructure that has been built over the years.