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Tic Tac Marketing Strategy

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Tic Tac is one of the largest breath mint market, which has been there in the industry for more than 50 years now. Their product line is far away the most sold in the world due to their bigger and multiple factories and employees worldwide. As stipulated in the article, in 1969, Tic Tac gave to their customers the catchy jingle which was a huge success. In the 1970s, they extended their product line by adding the cinnamon-flavored red mints and the tangerine-flavored orange mints. The Ferrero group introduced their new product with its iconic flip-top packaging. Tic Tac continued to offer more flavors to their customers, which in 1980 introduced the 1 and 1/2 Calorie Breath Mint followed by the spearmint and wintergreen. Last but not least, in the early 2000s, Tic Tac decided to increase the width of their product mix with even more flavors by creating Tic Tac Bold which came in mixed fruit flavors. Although, they have been dominant all through their existence, they recently have been overtaken by other breath mint competitors such as Everest, Cool Chews, Icefresh, Blitz, Ice Chips, Cool Blast, Ice Breakers and Altoids with their the "curiously strong" mints in the metal container from Callard & Bowser-Suchard (Charles W. Lamb, Joe F. Hair, Carl McDaniel, 2011). The Ferrero Group felt the need to overcome their competition by presenting something new to the market, which would attract new and more consumers. They reinvented themselves again with the introduction of new

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