Due Diligence Performed by Omar Fahmy : Company Overview Colgate Palmolive was incorporated 1806 in New York City by soap and candle maker William Colgate. Colgate now is a leading multinational firm, operating in 200 countries and territories, within the personal, oral & home care and pet nutrition industry. It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and it employs 38,600 people. Colgate is traded in the New York Stock Exchange with “CL” as its ticker symbol and is a component of the
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must be different from other group members, otherwise, it will NOT be marked) | /4 | Late? | | Total out of 50 | /50 | Introduction The industry that my group is working on is the cleaning products industry. In specific I am talking about Colgate-Palmolive which is a globally diverse corporation that is involved in many different aspects of business including a personal care division, an oral care division and a home care division. I will be analyzing a product that is included under the home
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INTRODUCTION Business knows that they cannot appeal to all buyers in their markets or at least not to all buyers in the same way. Buyers are too numerous, too widely scattered and too varied in their needs and buying practices. Hence, many companies today are smartly moving away from mass marketing into target marketing in which they identify market segments, selecting one or more market to enter and developing products and marketing mixes tailored to each market. Example of companies that had
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Manila University, one of the more prestigious private schools in the Philippines. He once headed Aluminum Container, Inc. which was the major supplier of the collapsible aluminum toothpaste tubes that were formerly used by local manufacturers of Colgate-Palmolive, Procter and Gamble and the Philippine Refining Company (now Unilever). However, technological innovations and the environmental concerns over aluminum materials prompted the multinational companies to make use of the plastic-laminated toothpaste
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comprised of Unilever products -> promotion: advertise on radios, magazine, daily press, billboards -> cost 10% of annual turnover product -> philosophy: high quality, premium-priced finances competitor: P&G, Colgate Palmolive; Tata, Godrej -> HLL people: operations innovativeness culture Problems for HELL Issue of HLL insufficient to offer products to a majority of potential consumers living in remote villages (half of Indian population) -> they are
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The Marketing Mix - Colgate Herbal White Toothpaste The Product Product variety - Colgate Herbal White is part of the range of toothpastes offered by Colgate Palmolive in India, which is led by Its flagship brand Colgate Dental Cream (CDC). The brand was launched in 2001 and is essentially targeted at traditional consumers who seek natural ingredients (such as in semi-urban and rural towns) Quality – Being a popular segment product and an offering by Colgate-Palmolive quality parameters
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threats). * A good fit maximizes a firm’s strengths and opportunities and minimizes its weaknesses and threats. Accurately applied, this simple assumption has powerful implications for the design of a successful strategy.” Colgate-Palmolive Company (Colgate) is one of the leading consumer products company in the world. It offers products in various categories including oral care, personal care, household surface, fabric care and pet nutrition. The company has operations in over 200 countries
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HIMALAYA HERBAL TOOTH PASTE Submitted to- Submitted by- Dr. D.D Swain Bibhu Prasad Rath Date-27/09/2012 DECLARATION I, Bibhu Prasad Rath, student of the International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar, do solemnly declare that the case write up on the “HIMALAYA HERBAL TOOTH PASTE ”, is of my own and that it is neither submitted to any other University or published anywhere
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Colgate rethinks a supply chain By Peter C. Witton How do you eliminate waste and wring out costs when your operations are spread over 57 sites in 11 different markets? ColgatePalmolive met this challenge in Asia with an ambitious overhaul of its regional supply chain and information systems. 70 Outlook 2000, Number 1 W hen it comes to toothpaste in China, Colgate is the market leader, according to a recent AC Nielsen Media International survey on China’s emerging consumer
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Supply Chain Strategy of Colgate Palmolive Toothpaste Objective : 1. To know the supply chain strategies used by the Colgate Palmolive ltd. 2. To know the distribution channels of the Colgate Palmolive toothpaste. 3. To study the supply process of Colgate Palmolive from supply of raw materials till supply to retailers. Introduction: The distribution strategy is concerned with the product or service placement. Broadly speaking, there are two categories of issues and decisions
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