Marketing and Colgate

The context analysis is a study of what my company and brand is doing now,

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.

2. Introduction ............................................................................................ 3 2.1 Aims and Objectives.................................................................................................. 3 2.2 Methodology.............................................................................................................. 3 2.3 Description of Organisation ....................................................................................... 4 2.4 Legal Environment .................................................................................................... 5

According to Brazil basic social characteristics, and several other major competitors’ product, we decided our product types covered by the child toothpaste for the kids, healthy toothpaste for the elder, white toothpaste for young people, economic toothpaste for family. Our team pricing standards are to ensure that company earnings, guaranteed price competitive enough in the market, and guaranteed consumers can afford the price.

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,

Colgate as a company strives to be the best company to have the best dental products. In an article from the website live strong Norma Chew wrote, “Colgate Palmolive Company is one of many companies that provide dental care products to the consumer.” Colgate as a company is expanding their products. Colgate was once only known for selling toothpaste, but now they have a wide variety of dental products to promote clean teeth.

This case study is located in the Assignment Section of your Blackboard.  You are to analyze:

Situational Analysis including strengths of the business and further opportunities the business can take, along with

In the United States, research was done and new bottling was designed to optimize the appearance of the new toothpaste. The advertising was also focused on the freshness that result from the

Culture has progressed with many consumer merchandises that have become necessities and transformed into the day-to-day routines of society without having to think twice about it. CP or Colgate-Palmolive, is an icon for the personal hygiene industry throughout the United States, and as a worldwide company has positioned the brand as a most important home care in multiple foreign countries.The CMF line is CP’s most popular brand. The brand was a huge hit because of its individuality and the value that it crafted for consumers was astonishing. Colgate Max combined a new breath-strip and a mixture of therapeutics’, which added to more

This report is concerned with situational analysis in CBA. This analysis is important part of marketing plan.

product segments – Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. The company operates in more than 200 countries and this geographic diversity and balance help to reduce the Company’s exposure to businesses and other risks in any one country or part of the world. The company’s main competitors are Proctor & Gamble (PG), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Church Dwight & Company (CHD) and Clorox & Company (CLX).

This situational analysis includes industry forces, company statistics and financial information, a list of environmental factors that deal with how the company operates, and competitor information.

Preface ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Management Summary .................................................................................................................. 4 Background ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Scope and Objectives ...................................................................................................................... 8 Work

To establish whether JKB is competitively positioned to tackle the evolving and increasing challenging business environment hence recommend the way forward, a situation analysis must be conducted. This analysis aids in collecting essential information about the organization internal and external factors. Keen interest should be placed on these factors since they have the capability of adversely affecting an organization; they can create or on the other diminish, or altogether destroy the chances of an organization attaining competitive advantage.