The Globe
Erik Simanis is the managing director of Market Creation
Strategies at the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at Cornell
University’s Johnson School of Management.
To succeed in the world’s poorest markets, aim for much higher margins and prices than you thought were necessary—or possible. by Erik Simanis
ABOVE MightyLight customers in Barmer,
Rajasthan, India
120 Harvard Business Review June 2012
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ost companies trying to do business with the 4 billion people who make up the world’s poor follow a formula long touted by bottom-of-thepyramid experts: Offer products at extremely low prices and margins, and hope to generate decent profits by selling enormous quantities of them. This “low price,
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They also need to raise the price point for a single transaction. This combination of higher margins and higher price points increases the contribution—the amount of money that goes to covering fixed and operating costs— generated from every transaction.
That’s a tall order. But my experience leading businesses in Africa, India, and other emerging economies shows that it can be done. In this article, I will show how to build a margin-boosting platform that can help companies solve the cost problems inherent in bringing needed products and services to very poor markets. A few companies are already using aspects of a platform to improve their profitability prospects, and S.C. Johnson, the householdproducts maker, has launched an integrated margin-boosting platform for selling insecticide in rural Ghana as part of an effort to reduce malaria infection there. Initial results for that venture show the financials moving in the right direction.
Why Low Prices and
Margins Don’t Work
C.K. Prahalad was a leader in focusing corporate attention on business opportunities among consumers at the bottom of the economic pyramid. His view that very-lowincome markets are best reached through the low-price, low-margin, high-volume model has cast a long shadow on corporate strategy in
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• The first alternative we will focus on is the Economic Value to the Customer (EVC). Hence we have to determine the price that will make a risk-neutral customer, who considers only economic benefits, indifferent between buying either our cushion pad or the ones supplied by alternative offers. We first measure the added values of CMI’s pad compared to a conventional one, then we monetize it, and finally decide the amount we are willing to leave on the table in order to make our product more attractive to the customer. The EVC is measured on the basis of both Kendrick and Corey data (see appendix 1). Looking at Kendrick first we found that the EVC was $4.260,4 and after leaving 40% to the customer, we priced the pad at $2.556,24. Based on Corey’s figures, the EVC was $5.712,58 and after leaving 40% to the customer the price was $3.427,49 per pad.
This is because other dealers in the market will get an opportunity to sell their products in the market. Customers can get products locally with the change. Some suppliers can still get a way of working around the pricing issue to increase their sales.
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This causes the price and the quantity move in opposite directions in a supply curve shift. Also, if the quantity supplied decreases at any given price the opposite will happen.
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At the current prices, firms may sell as much product as they want, thereby maximizing profits.