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PRE SENT ED B Y:
Fouzia Kousar
Hafiz Mohammad Tariq
Javad Ali Malik
PRE SENT ED T O:
Mr. Imran Sadiq
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report is about NSW MINT CANDY We have adopted a
filled it out from the target segment, and analyzed it. We find out
candy.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background 5
Positioning strategy 5
Research objective 6
Hypothesis 6
Focus group 6
Questionnaire development 8
Recommendations 29
APPENDIX
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Background
There are many throat clearing candies available in the market and all of them
have unique features. But now we want some more improvement in these
candies therefore we have deciding to establish a new company named “NSW
CO”. We are launching a new pro0duct with the name of “NSW MINT
CANDY”.
Positioning Strategy
The price of the it is set at 50 paisas to project its image as a candy that can be
easily purchased by wide cross section of potential consumers. The purpose of a
single candy pack is also to increase the frequency of purchase as that of a
normal candy. The packing done in fancy wrappers is to further enhance the
image as a cool and fine candy.
Research Objectives
We conduct the research on the basis of following aspect .
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• To identify perception of it on given attributes with respect to its
competitors.
• To find out the perceived positioning of it on key attributes in relation to its
desired position.
In these focus groups, the students were asked to express their views on their
buying habits on candies: their awareness levels, the preferences and
reservations in opting for a certain brand, the perceived benefits associated to
the functional / non-functional functions etc. 2 describes the sequence of
methodologies adopted.
The key findings of these groups are as under. A detailed account of focus group
and retailer in-depth interviews is given in Exhibit 1.
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Wrapping has an impact in projecting the functional value of a candy.
Strepsils has serious kind of wrapping.
Honey Strepsils works, but is very strong.
If the candy is high on mint, it is more effective.
Soothers is generally purchased from the left-over money (the change)
Soothers is bought for change in taste / non-medicated reasons.
Blue color of it gives a cool look.
Blue is a color associated with mint – and mint is perceived both for
medicated and non-medicated purposes. Medicated for the soothing and
curative effect it’s perceived to carry and non-medicated for the sweet
freshening taste it brings.
Questionnaire Development
Questionnaire Design:
The questionnaire was kept ‘closed’ and ‘open ended’ or a combination of both.
‘Closed ended’ multiple-choice questions to limit consumer response to a set of
pre-given variables and ‘Open ended’ to cart wheel any revealing thoughts,
which may also be taken as a proxy for assessing the psycho-graphic profile of
a consumer.
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conducting this study. The sample was drawn randomly amongst student,
professionals, teachers etc., of both sexes, in order to obtain varied responses.
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QUESTIONNAIRE FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS
After the the existence candies we came to know the following findings
TABLE 1
Education %
< 10yrs 6
10-12 7
12-14 22
14+ 65
Gender %
Males 70
Females 30
Occupation %
Student 78
Employed 18
Unemployed 4
Income (Rs) %
<10k 13
10-20k 15
20-30k 24
30+k 48
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<18 15
18-25 57
25-35 28
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COMPETITORS ANALYSIS
Table 1
Flavors mostly liked in Candies (% of respondents)
Mint Fruit Sweet Chocolates Coconut
Very strongly liked (5) 24% 13% 13% 31%
15%
Strongly liked (4) 20% 24% 26% 19%
13%
Total 44% 37% 39% 50%
28%
Table 2
3 Favorite candies (% of respondents)
1st Favorite 2nd Favorite 3rd Favorite TOTAL
Hoest 11% 11% 6% 28%
Hacks 0% 0% 0% 0%
Soother 2% 2% 17% 20%
Strepsils 0% 2% 0% 2%
Mentos 7% 13% 4% 24%
Polo 11% 11% 6% 28%
Vicks 2% 4% 0% 6%
Soft Mint 4% 0% 0% 4%
Eclairs 17% 6% 4% 26%
Misc 35% 33% 31% 100%
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Table 3
Medicated/non medicated
Purchase (% of users)
Medicated Non-Medicated Both Do
not buy
Hoest 33 30 11
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Hacks 11 20 4
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Soothers 24 30 24
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Strepsils 67 11 17
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Mentos 2 60 18
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Polo 4 68 13
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vicks 61 4 15
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Vicks
The users who consider sweetness to be least important attribute buy Vicks most
frequently. This reinforces the medicinal value of Vicks, as evidenced by the
purchase of Vicks due to its throat clearing ability.
Share of Vicks in total value attribute to the mint is relatively minimal, but
within the customer base of Vicks, their preference for Vicks is prompted by its
highly perceived value on mint. Here a possible inference emerges that the
medicinal value of product (throat clearing) and mouth freshening ability is
perceived to be associated with mint. The importance of packing and size in the
purchase decision for Vicks is quite minimal.
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Polo
Polo is not conceived as a sweet candy. If viewed from the weightage table for
different candies on the attributes (shown in appendix B) that out of 176
respondents buying Polo frequently or sometimes, only 22 have high
preferences for sweet in their purchase decision for Polo.
Packing is considered to be an important attribute of Polo if analyzed from the
top two box approaches. Of the 174 respondents buying Polo, 86 give high
preference to the packing attribute of Polo. It shows that the look of the product
and the way of the packing helps inducing the demand for Polo. The concern
with the price is somewhat limited as of the regular buyers, 43% are least
concerned with the price of polo.
The medicinal value attached to Polo is restricted as almost 44% of the frequent
purchasers are less concerned with the throat cleaning ability of Polo. Looked
from the other angle, 40% of the respondents who are rare buyers of Polo also
give least weight age to the throat-clearing dimension in Polo.
This value is attributed to Polo for Mouth freshening is evened out across the
respondents. Amongst the frequent buyers, 50% prefer mouth freshening ability
of Polo.
Strepsils
Srepsils established itself as a typical functional candy with considerably lower
preference for sweet. Also the higher proportion of the occasional buyers also
reinforces the limit of its use to the functional requirements of the consumers.
Herein again, though 48% of the regular and occasional buyers of Stepsils lay
high preference on mint but in contrast, equally higher proportion of
respondents consider mint as of lesser importance. This further makes the exact
differentiation of the functional candies from non-functional on the basis of
mint alone, but unreliable. In terms of throat clearing dimension, however,
Strepsils is rated much higher.
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Hoest
A clear distinction for this brand of consumers, who prefer Hoest more because
of its medicinal value, especially the perceived throat clearing and soothing
effect. The fact is established by a low preference for the attributes like
“Sweetness”, usually related to non-functional candies and a high pick on
attributes such as ‘throat-relieving’ by a majority (58%) regular buyers (frequent
& occasional) of this brand. Interestingly, it ranks only fourth in the mouth-
freshening capacity compare to its competitive brands, illustrated in the
following, indicating that the candy is preferred by brand-loyal customers
who’ve managed to cling on to their age-old choice.
Soothers
Soothers has a split choice amongst its consumers, in terms of their ratings of
brand’s strength on the five key attributes defined above, indicating that it is
perceived as a candy with a bit of both – the functional and non-functional
impact. As much as it would seem to be co-incidental, the statistic given in
Table A reflects that the company’s positioning strategy of placing its brand as a
multi-purpose candy, is holding well with the consumer. The catch however, is
that this is not translating into volumes, as the candy is still being bracketed
largely by a certain class of consumers – sophisticated, well educated and
elegant, usually calling (demanding) ‘Soothers’ by name at the point of
purchase. This class is relatively insensitive to minor place adjustments as it
places a premium in its purchase decisions, is prone to trying out new sleek
brands (innovator / early adapter category), yet is particular about the product
attributes that include functional as well as general attributes. Soothers to them
fairs reasonably well on the functional attributes as shown by the above table.
However, there are certain general attributes such as overall outlook, packing,
that are not valued highly by these customers. One of the findings of the focus
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group, which was translated as one of the major dislikes about the brand was its
perceived stickiness (it melts), packing (difficulty to open) and lack of
handiness associated with carrying a one-off candy. Interestingly, some of these
consumers tag theuropatic value with a ‘Strepsils-like-candy’ – an opinion not
generally shared by a majority of respondents and would rather prefer to eating
a slightly light but handy candy, like Mentos and Polo. The advertisement of
taxi may also not be particularly appealing to them, as they are more attuned to
find and subtle messages.
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any three favorite candies.
4) Which candy/(ies) come in your mind for the purpose of Throat Clearing and
Mouth Freshening?
Hoest
Soothers
Strepsils
Mentos
Polo
Vicks
6) Which of the following do you eat (please tick on the appropriate circle)?
Vicks
Polo
Mentos
Hoest
Soothers
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Strepsils
7) Do you think of Soothers as:( you may encircle more than one)?
c. Mouth Freshening
d. Other
Sweetness
Mint
Size
Packing
Throat-clearing
Mouth-freshening
Overall taste
9) do you think that Soothers packing signifies its functional value(i.e does
it go with its throat clearing/mouth freshening abilities)?
10) What is about Soothers that you particularly like/ don’t like?
LIKES DISLIKES
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Total
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31.6
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Vicks
The users who consider sweetness to be least important attribute buy Vicks most
frequently. This reinforces the medicinal value of Vicks, as evidenced by the
purchase of Vicks due to its throat clearing ability.
Share of Vicks in total value attribute to the mint is relatively minimal, but
within the customer base of Vicks, their preference for Vicks is prompted by its
highly perceived value on mint. Here a possible inference emerges that the
medicinal value of product (throat clearing) and mouth freshening ability is
perceived to be associated with mint. The importance of packing and size in the
purchase decision for Vicks is quite minimal.
Polo
Polo is not conceived as a sweet candy. If viewed from the weightage table for
different candies on the attributes (shown in appendix B) that out of 176
respondents buying Polo frequently or sometimes, only 22 have high
preferences for sweet in their purchase decision for Polo.
Packing is considered to be an important attribute of Polo if analyzed from the
top two box approaches. Of the 174 respondents buying Polo, 86 give high
preference to the packing attribute of Polo. It shows that the look of the product
and the way of the packing helps inducing the demand for Polo. The concern
with the price is somewhat limited as of the regular buyers, 43% are least
concerned with the price of polo.
The medicinal value attached to Polo is restricted as almost 44% of the frequent
purchasers are less concerned with the throat cleaning ability of Polo. Looked
from the other angle, 40% of the respondents who are rare buyers of Polo also
give least weight age to the throat-clearing dimension in Polo.
This value is attributed to Polo for Mouth freshening is evened out across the
respondents. Amongst the frequent buyers, 50% prefer mouth freshening ability
of Polo.
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Strepsils
Srepsils established itself as a typical functional candy with considerably lower
preference for sweet. Also the higher proportion of the occasional buyers also
reinforces the limit of its use to the functional requirements of the consumers.
Herein again, though 48% of the regular and occasional buyers of Stepsils lay
high preference on mint but in contrast, equally higher proportion of
respondents consider mint as of lesser importance. This further makes the exact
differentiation of the functional candies from non-functional on the basis of
mint alone, but unreliable. In terms of throat clearing dimension, however,
Strepsils is rated much higher.
Hoest
A clear distinction for this brand of consumers, who prefer Hoest more because
of its medicinal value, especially the perceived throat clearing and soothing
effect. The fact is established by a low preference for the attributes like
“Sweetness”, usually related to non-functional candies and a high pick on
attributes such as ‘throat-relieving’ by a majority (58%) regular buyers (frequent
& occasional) of this brand. Interestingly, it ranks only fourth in the mouth-
freshening capacity compare to its competitive brands, illustrated in the
following, indicating that the candy is preferred by brand-loyal customers
who’ve managed to cling on to their age-old choice.
Soothers
Soothers has a split choice amongst its consumers, in terms of their ratings of
brand’s strength on the five key attributes defined above, indicating that it is
perceived as a candy with a bit of both – the functional and non-functional
impact. As much as it would seem to be co-incidental, the statistic given in
Table A reflects that the company’s positioning strategy of placing its brand as a
multi-purpose candy, is holding well with the consumer. The catch however, is
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that this is not translating into volumes, as the candy is still being bracketed
largely by a certain class of consumers – sophisticated, well educated and
elegant, usually calling (demanding) ‘Soothers’ by name at the point of
purchase. This class is relatively insensitive to minor place adjustments as it
places a premium in its purchase decisions, is prone to trying out new sleek
brands (innovator / early adapter category), yet is particular about the product
attributes that include functional as well as general attributes. Soothers to them
fairs reasonably well on the functional attributes as shown by the above table.
However, there are certain general attributes such as overall outlook, packing,
that are not valued highly by these customers. One of the findings of the focus
group, which was translated as one of the major dislikes about the brand was its
perceived stickiness (it melts), packing (difficulty to open) and lack of
handiness associated with carrying a one-off candy. Interestingly, some of these
consumers tag theuropatic value with a ‘Strepsils-like-candy’ – an opinion not
generally shared by a majority of respondents and would rather prefer to eating
a slightly light but handy candy, like Mentos and Polo. The advertisement of
taxi may also not be particularly appealing to them, as they are more attuned to
find and subtle messages.
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any three favorite candies.
4) Which candy/(ies) come in your mind for the purpose of Throat Clearing and
Mouth Freshening?
Hoest
Soothers
Strepsils
Mentos
Polo
Vicks
6) Which of the following do you eat (please tick on the appropriate circle)?
Vicks
Polo
Mentos
Hoest
Soothers
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Strepsils
7) Do you think of Soothers as:( you may encircle more than one)?
c. Mouth Freshening
d. Other
11) Please rank the following on the given attribute on a scale of 1…5, 1
being the least preferred & 5 being most preferred.
Sweetness
Mint
Size
Packing
Throat-clearing
Mouth-freshening
Overall taste
12) do you think that Soothers packing signifies its functional value(i.e does
it go with its throat clearing/mouth freshening abilities)?
13) What is about Soothers that you particularly like/ don’t like?
LIKES DISLIKES
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Appendix-B
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