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CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Acknowledgement
Marketing Strategy Advertising Campaign of Bisleri Packaging and Distribution Marketing Mix Competition in Market Product Profile Manufacturing Objective METHOD OF STUDY Research Design Tools and Instrument Used for the Study Procedure and data collection RESULT AND DISCUSSION Findings and Statistical Analysis SWOT analysis Conclusion Recommendation Limitations Bibliography
Annexures
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The accomplishment of my research was possible only due to the cooperation, coordination and united efforts of different individuals, several sources of material, knowledge and time. Pertaining to this I therefore take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude to entire staff and employees of the Bisleri Ltd.
I am very grateful to Mrs. Harpreet Kaur (Faculty) for his guidance and encouragement for his Kind Cooperation. The moving spirit behind this research was all of them, without their constant encouragement and support this research would not have been a successful outcome.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
TITLE: ANALYSIS OF MARKETING STRATEGY OF MINERAL WATER INDUSTRY [A CASE STUDY OF BISLERI] Rationale of study:
Water is the most important liquid in the world. Without water, there would be no life, at least not the way we know it. In today's living condition, the need for Pure Drinking Water is becoming the issue for the common Man. Eighty percent of the human metabolism consists of water. This is the reason why 90% of human diseases are water borne.
Objective:
The objective of research are as follows : To determine the market share of Bisleri Brand of Bottle Water. To find out the preference level of respondents regarding Bisleri Brand of Bottle. To assess the brand awareness of the Bisleri in the Mineral Water Segment. To Study the brand positioning of Bisleri.
Importance:
1) This report is useful for the researchers who are willing to do research on the Mineral water Industry and its present competitors in the market. 2) This report shows the problems associated with the Mineral water industry in the market as it helps in removing these problems. 3) This report can be useful as a secondary data for Mineral water industry. 4) This report helps in knowing the current and future scenario of Mineral water industry. 5) This report helps in knowing market position of different Mineral water industry.
Research Methodology:
The research conducted by Exploratory Research this type of research is Qualitative and Quantitative. Qualitative refers to the characters of the data or process by which the data are gathered. The research process consists of a series of closely related activities. Why a research study has been undertaken. Why a research study has been undertaken, how the research problem has been defined, in what way and why the hypothesis has been formulated, what data has been collected and what particular method has been adopted and a host of similar other question are usually answered when we talk of research methodology concerning a research problem or study.
Sampling:
The data was to be collected only from the Consumers and Retailers. A questionnaire Consumers. A decision has to be taken concerning a sample unit before selecting the number of samples. It may be geographical as well as individual. was prepared and interviewing with Retailers and
Size of Sample:
This refers the number of items (Outlets) to be selected from the finite universe to constitute a sample size. The survey was conducted of 50 outlets.
Analysis:
The data was tabulated manually and was also analyzed manually excel was used to make graphs and pie chart. According to market share figure, Bisleri is the leading brand which 55.45% market share. While Kinley 23.33%, Kingfisher 3.97%, Aquafina 13.95% and others 6.30%. 1. 80% retailers prefer to sell Bisleri brand because of demand, brand and profit margin. 2. Bisleri is the most selling brand in the specific region it is at 45% selling among the competitors. 3. Retailers those are selling Bisleri brand of bottle water is 50%.
4. The company has recently launched Bada Bisleri, Same Price at Rs. 10/- for 1.2 Ltrs means 2% extra.
Conclusion:
The players who will endure will be those who have a strong regional presence. Take the case of Team, which enjoys immense popularity in TamilNadu. Similar brands with a regional presence are Siruvani, and Koday. Thus, new players will be looking for a distinct positioning. One such brand is Pepsis Aquafina, the largest selling bottled water brand in the US. After its successful test launch in Mumbai and Bangalore, Aquafina was released in Chennai, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Pune. Pepsi has invested over Rs.5 crore in the new Aquafina water project in Maharashtra, which is the only Aquafina plant outside the US. According to Deepak Jolly, executive vice president, corporate communications, Pepsi Foods Ltd. Aquafina will be helped by Pepsis network. Moreover, Aquafina will be served absolutely chilled. That makes sense too, since surveys have indicated that an overwhelming majority of the bottled water that is consumed in India is by people who are traveling.
Recommendations :
liter, as the perception of the people is that mineral water cost Rs. 10 per half Lt.
Awareness programs at health club, schools & Nursing homes. To win over the consumer belief and faith over the genuity of the
product.
INTRODUCTIO N
INTRODUCTION
Water is the most important liquid in the world. Without water, there would be no life, at least not the way we know it. In today's living condition, the need for Pure Drinking Water is becoming the issue for the common Man. Eighty percent of the human metabolism consists of water. This is the reason why 90% of human diseases are water borne. There are 3 types of water impurities, which are root cause of water borne diseases. 1. Microbiological-Bacteria / virus. 2. Dissolved impurities - chemical. 3. Imbalance of Mineral Content. There are rapid changes that are taking place in our environment since long and the air and the water pollution is on an increase. The main source of drinking water is river and downstream which also have not been able to escape the pollution. When a consumer became aware of the problems caused by water pollution the market saw an advent of ceramic water filters, which filters the dust and suspended particles but dissolved impurities and microbiological impurities are not cleared out. The mineral balance is also not maintained.
1980's witnessed more changes by a tap attachment wherein Iodine resin is used to filter the water. It deactivates microbiological impurities to an extent but has side effects due to iodine and it does not take care of dissolved impurities mineral balance. Late 1980's witnessed Ultra Violent based purifier, which filters dust and deactivates bacteria to a great extent. It maintains the odor and color of water but does not clear out the dissolved impurities and mineral particles. Thus came advent of mineral water. Historically, the need for purified water within Indian homes had been kept down to a minimum. Essentially, there were three types of water that was used for different purposes. The first type was used for rinsing. The second type, which was used for cooking, was cleaner and kept covered. The third type was the cleanest drinking water and was very often boiled before use. Since an average family needed a small quantity, not more than five or six liters a day, boiled and filtered water had been a convenient solution for some time .The fallouts were obvious. It was very difficult to convince the people that purification system was worth the price. There was no visible way to demonstrate the benefit. The otherwise somnolent market began to change once companies like Eureka Forbes targeted the office segment, while the mineral water players went after travelers. Ion Exchange was the only company, which had
any measure of success in entering homes with Zero-B. But clean drinking water returned on the national agenda a little later. Around 1989, drinking water became an issue again. Around early 1990s,Time did a story on India as a key emerging market and that was the trigger for all the players eyeing this market.
rivers were polluted a long time ago. Now considerable efforts are made to clean all major European Rivers. The Rhine River, the Thames, the Loire are clean enough to allow several species of fish to thrive. As always, large companies with considerable cash reserves dominate the market. Groupe Danone, a French conglomerate, markets Evian, Volvic and Crystal Springs; Nestle, a Swiss food multinational with headquarters in Montreux markets Perrier, Nestle Pure Life and San Pellegrino. Not to be outdone soft drink giant Coca-Cola joined the cause with filtered tap water and positioned their brand as pure, safe, life-style water. Coca Cola markets Dasani and Pepsi Cola Aquafina. When it comes to mineral water, Voss (Norway); Tynant (Ireland); Vitel, Cathledon, Volvic, (France); Appolinaris (Germany), Spa (Belgium); Gasteiner (Austria); San Benedetto, San Pellegrino, Aqua di Nepi, Lete (Italy), Ramlosa (Sweden);Borsec (Romania) stand out. They display distinct taste profiles that spring and filtered waters lack, but tend to be more expensive. When it comes to consumption, Canadians consume approximately 30 litres per capita, Italians 158 litres, French 133, Dutch 119, Germans 101 and Americans 76. The low per capita consumption can be attributed to the illusion that tap water is safe. In reality, only large cities control tap water quality regularly and vigorously and treat it appropriately for safety. In small communities, scarce financial resources and lacking expertise often make tap water safety questionable. Since the introduction of PET bottles (polyethylene terephate) bottled water consumption increased by 16 percent in five years and continuing growth of the market is forecast by the Canadian Bottled Water Association in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The question for restaurant patrons remains whether to ask for bottled or mineral water, or demand ice water.
It all depends on the situation. You can ask politely for ice water, if that is what you prefer, or a glass of wine, or beer. The cost is almost the same for all the three, or you can complain to management that prices charged for bottled water are ridiculous as is the case with wine.
A few years back, the mineral water market had been crawling at the rate of 3-4%, or even a lower figure. Indians carried drinking water in earthen pitchers, plastic or PUF bottles. But increasing cases of typhoid and other waterborne diseases began to be reported. In addition to this, liberalization happened and the mineral water industry began to be stirred and shaken. The market started growing an astounding rate of over 100% per annum. The fact that there were very few players in the market meant that their business grew by leaps and bounds. The market today has grown to Rs11bn. The organized sector -branded mineral water -- has only Rs5bn of market share. The rest is accounted for by the unorganized sector, which is dominated by small regional players. The market is still growing at a rate greater than 80% per annum. In the branded segment, Parles Bisleri is the market leader with a share of more than 45%. Parle Agros Bailley comes a close second with market share of 15%. Other major players in the market are Yes
of Kotharis, Ganga of T-Series, Himalayan, Hello, Nestls Pure Life, Pepsis Aquafina, Coca-Colas -Kinley Prime, and Florida etc. Sensing the opportunity that this segment holds, MNCs began to draw up plans to enter the market. Today the market is proving to be yet another battlefield for an ongoing battle between the Desis and MNCs. Last year the industry had around 170 brands. This figure is over 300 presently. The major foreign players are Coca-Cola promoted Kinley, Pepsis Aquafina, Britannias Evian, Nestls Perrier, Herbert sons and Danone International.
COMPANY PROFILE
The origins of Bisleri lie in Italy, and the brand owes its name to founder Felice Bisleri, an Italian entrepreneur. In 1967, Bisleri set up a plant in Mumbai for bottling and marketing mineral water, which was first of its kind in India. However, it didnt work well. Among other reasons, the fact that the Indian consumer was unprepared to accept bottled mineral water was responsible for its failure. Consumer mindsets were more geared towards boiling water at home. In 1969, Parle bought over the Bisleri brand. In those days Bisleri water was available in glass bottles. Parle's taking charge of Bisleri did not make a dramatic difference to the brand's fortunes immediately. While it did gain in terms of visibility and reach (piggybacking on Parle's existing distribution network), efforts to expand the bottled water market were not exactly painstaking. Parle at that particular time was interested in making soda water and not mineral water. There were just minor initiatives on part of the company for making mineral water, as it was not considered to be a very profitable business at that time as people still considered boiling water to be a safer and better than mineral water. Moreover they were not ready to pay for a commodity like water, which was so abundantly available. In 1972-73 Parle changed the packaging of its bottled water to plastic bottles and that significantly made a difference in the sales. The buyers, then, were mainly the upper class - the trendy people. In 1993, Coca-Cola bought Parles soft drink brands- Thumps-up, limca etc. While Coca-Cola actually bought over Parle's beverages, it agreed to a settlement that allowed the multinational to bottle and distribute
Bisleri soda for a time frame of five years. The charge of Bisleri water, however, remained with Parle. The upsurge in the sales of Bisleri started from this point as Parle sold off its stable of brands to CocaCola. This was the time when it started concentrating on making Bisleri a success in the domestic mineral water market. The reason why Parle chose to retain the Bisleri name was that Parle saw a fairly lucrative business of mineral water in Bisleri's equity. The real shift in companys policy towards mineral water industry came in 1998,although the conscious efforts had already been started in 1994. This change was primarily because of the fact that the people, at this time, had started becoming more health conscious.
MARKETING STRATEGY
MARKETING STRATEGY
It is complete and an unbeatable plan designed specifically for attaining the marketing objective of a firm. The marketing objective indicate what the firm want to achieve. The marketing strategy provides the design for achieving them the linkage between marketing strategies and over all corporate success is indeed direct and vital. Realizing the marketing objectives is the purpose of two generic categories .
Different firms adopts different strategy stances as their situational design differBroadly strategy stances can be classified under three heads1- Offensive StrategyOffensive Strategy also known as confrontation strategy , is a strategy of aggression. A firm that is not presently the leader usually employs it, but it aspires to leadership position in the Industry.
2- Defensive StrategyThe leader who has the compulsion to defend his position against the confrontation of powerful existing competitors or to dislodge the leader from his topmost position usually employs it.
3- Niche StrategyA firm pactising the niche strategy neither confronts other nor defends itself. It cultivates a small market segment for itself with unique products / services supported by a unique marketing mix.
Formulating the Marketing StrategyFormulating the marketing strategy consists of two main steps1- Selecting the target marketIt doesnot fully bring out yhe import of the inseperable linkage between the two. When the selection of the target market is over an important part of the markting strategy of the firm is already determined, defined and expressed. 2- Assembling the marketing mixAssembling the marketing mix means assembling the four ps of marketing in the right combination.
The firm has to find out how it can generate the best sales and profit. It plans different marketing mixes with varying levels of expenditure on each element and tries to figure out the effectiveness of each combination in terms of the possible sales and profit.
The ad campaign of Aquafina emphasized as 70% of your body is water and thus give your body the purest water. The ad showed young vibrant models and created the atmosphere of youthfulness. Water, Pepsi claimed, was no longer a simple beverage, but was something highly fashionable. They complimented it by giving their bottles an attractive look. This soon caught the eye of the consumer. All these factors made Pepsi the biggest upcoming competitor of Bisleri (whereas Kinley lagged behind the race, showing a doctor advising a family to take Kinley for pure water not a very attractive ad campaign). Bisleri, to counter-attack the new Feel-Young fever had to even bolder steps. They first changed their base line from Pure and Safe to Play Safe. They tried a brand new ad campaign to catch the fancy of consumer. The new ad showed a young romantic couple on a marooned island, when the girl seductively attracts the guy and he follows her in trance. The moment he gets hold of her, she whispers something in his ears. The next few shots show the guy looking for something in frenzycan not find it.rushes towards the chemists shop.buys something (keeping the audience in suspenseor rather implicitly pointing for ). The girl opens it and.POOF.takes out a bottle of Bisleri and quenches her thirst. Caption: Play Safe. This campaign was to catch the attention of youth and a new Indian society which is supposed to be not-so-prudish. Thus Bisleri has taken a very bold step. The T.V. ads have been complimented by print ads also. The company has to focus on the marketing management of the product. In light of the challenge in front of the company and its current strengths and position, we have incorporated the marketing mix to counter the marketing strategies of the competitors by developing its own marketing.
A drop-dead gorgeous body flexes its muscles on the screen. This starkly arresting black and white image is then splashed with water. A voice-over informs you that 70 per cent of your body is water. Why not give it the purest. Aquafina Bottled water from Pepsi. This kind of advertisement campaign used by the competitors is giving the company a tough time. The competitor, Pepsi, is utilizing the brand image built by it and is again targeting the Generation X maintaining the company image. Its an unusual ad for this category. Till now, most marketers have focused on educating the consumer on how bottled water is a safer option, with the lead of course, taken by the popular national brand Bisleri. But Pepsi chose to junk this approach and it could well afford to. Bisleri, after all, had already done most of the hard work needed to build the bottled water category. What Pepsi needed was to establish its brand in this crowded, fragmented market. Our task was made easier because was made easier because Bisleri had concentrated on educating the consumer, instead of building its own brand values," says Rohit Ohri, vice president and client services director, Hindustan Thompson Associates Limited (HTA). We wanted the imagery to posit~on Aquafina as a youthful, premium and fun brand," says Vibha Rishi, executive director, Pepsi. The idea, she says, was not to objectify bodies so that one could drool over them. "Instead, we are talking about your body and the need for each one to take care of his or her body." The ad copy, which spoke of the water
content in our bodies, was actually trying to establish how important water was to our well- being and how we need to continuously replenish it. While the thinking was clear that the imagery had to be built in and around purity, HTA did toy with a couple of other ideas and situations. Initially, the idea was to focus more strongly on the fun aspect and create a story line complete with a smart idea and a twist at the end. "But we gave it up because we felt that the story might take the mind away from the purity aspect that was a must to highlight," says Ohri. So HTA adopted a minimalist approach and created a film with little clutter and no props, which tried to capture the emotion of "feeling good about yourself'. While the film and the imagery are completely the work of HT A, the strategic thinking comes from the Mother Company in the US. Aquafina, in fact, is the largest-selling bottled water brand in the US with a 12 per cent market share, and India is the first country outside of the US where Aquafina is being bottled. Even in the US, the ad talks of the percentage of water in our bodies, but the handling is a little more serious. For example, the film will show an emotional moment where someone starts crying, and then you will hear the voice-over, "85 per cent of your eyes are water. "There is no internal law that forces us to follow the international positioning. But seeing the quality of thinking that has gone into this, we decided to stay with this positioning, though the statements here are quite different," explains Rishi.
Aquafina, like all offeFings that come from the Pepsi stable, also imbibes the core values of the mother brand. It addresses the Pepsi-user base, largely the youth, and like Pepsi ,it is also being positioned as a hip brand. But Aquafina is a lot that Pepsi is not. It is a little bit older, mature and affluent, and not as mass based as Pepsi. Pepsi's role in the communication is that it is the source of credibility for the product and, of course, establishes the youthfulness of the brand. But Aquafina is a brand in its own right and with each piece of communication, its personality will emerge," feels Ohri. But while Aquafina is being given a distinct identity, it is also being targeted at the Pepsi consumer and is addressing their need for safe and reliable drinking water. Will this not cannibalize Pepsi sales? "Water does eat into the cola market," agrees Rishi, "but we can't build a business for Pepsi based on people's lack of access to safe drinking water. How can any business be built on deprivation?" Both will have to co-exist and carve a market out for themselves, And~ while Pepsi targets the 18-25 year olds, Aquafina also includes the 30-somethings together with the college crowd. Like Pepsi, Aquafina too is looking to command a premium without being unaffordable. It is being positioned as a premium product, not via pricing, but in imagery and packaging. Priced at Rs. 10 in Delhi for a 750ml. bottle, it is priced marginally higher than the competition that gives you one liter for Rs. 10. The swirl shaped PET bottle resembles the Pepsi family and is sturdier and more hip than most others in the category that take their design cues, it seems, from the one liter refined oil bottles in the market. The decision to break the norm and come up with a 750 ml pack size was more driven by
the fact that water is fundamentally consumed on the go and the 750 ml size is easy to carry around. "It is ideal for an half-an-hour in the sun, one liter gets too bulky," says Rishi. Pepsi's future plans at the moment don't include commg up with size variants. They have also ruled out the possibility of catering to the bulk market, which actually constitutes 30 per cent of the total bottled water market that stands at 70 million liters annually, and is growing anywhere between 30 and 50 per cent. Pepsi, obviously, is looking for a big slice of this burgeoning market, but as Subroto Chattopadhyay, executive vice president, marketing, Pepsi, says, "We have a building blocks approach, first we have to build the brand, and then the volumes. Bisleri is tackling the situation by building the brand on the purity plank. Akin to brand building in soft drinks, an aggressive print-and-TV campaign is being backed by hoarding, point-of-sale material, and every interface with the consumer is being used as an opportunity to reinforce the message. For instance, all the vehicles used for supply have been painted in bright blue, bear the Bisleri logo and sport catchy baselines like . "Play Safe".
Packaging
Variety is spices of life. Today for any business organization to be successful it has to provide its customer with the differentiated product that is a value buy for them. In order to cater to yhe changing needs of the customer the business has to continuously come out with the variants of the products so that it can target the maximum segments. Today Aqua Minerals offers a variety of packaging options: 1 lit, 2 lit, 5 liy, 20 lit. The 5 litre bottles account for 35 % of sales showing a growing health concern among the Indian society. 1 litre bottles account for 30% of the share . The 2 litres bottle introduced to slowly and steadily replace the conventional 1 litre bottle. The 5 litre packs, launched in dec 1999 in Goa, now available everywhere.
Distribution
Its obvious that availability holds the key to the market .For any product to be successful yhe distribution system has to be really good. Large tracts of the country have not been explored by the national brands, which explains the proliferation of smaller brands. Bisleris strategy is to build a direct distribution system at an all India level that means serious investment In company owned trucks and carts, this
would make it the largest fleet owner in the country. Bisleri has around 80,000 retail outlets in the country with about 12,000 each in the delhi and Mumbai. It is intended to be increased this no. to 10,00,000 in order to expand brands reach. The company will invest approximately Rs.200 cr. to procure 2000 trucks and hire same no. of sales people . the company plans to have its own distribution network in places where it has its own plant
MARKETING MIX
MARKETING MIX
The set of controllable tactical tools- product, price, promotion, and place (4 Ps), that the firm blends to produce the response it wants, in the target markets.
The 4Ps
Produ ct
The main product of the company is the mineral water by the name of Bisleri Mineral water. Other than mineral water the company has also the soda water under its brand name called the Bisleri Soda Water. The concept of bottled mineral water was introduced in India, first by Bisleri, and that is the reason, it has become a generic name for the mineral water. Bisleri has become a perfect synonym of the mineral water for the Indian consumers. The main challenge facing the company or any other player in this mineral water industry is that there is no scope of invention and
innovation in the product, which can be added as the additional benefits of the product.
It is just water after all. This is what the Indian customers think of the bottled water. If we are talking about a product like television we can think that the innovations could provide extra benefits derived from the product. For example other than its core usage the product can provide for Internet facilities using conversion.
Place
Place stands for the company activities that make the product available to the target customers. To make the product available to the target consumers a good distribution network has to be there to support the good quality of the product. Here in the case of the mineral water industry the distribution network is the important factor in being competitive and the catch lies in making water available to maximum number of places in the country.
DISTRIBUTION NETWORK:
The small-scale players built their sales by piggybacking on the generic category built up by Bisleri. Its a battle that Bisleri can win by
sheer distribution muscle. One of the reasons why Bisleri is running strong in this industry is its strong distribution network built over the years since its inception. Further, Bisleri plans to increase its distribution network over the southern and eastern region, where it is behind popular brands like Team in Tamil Nadu and in Andhra Pradesh.
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Promotion Modern marketing calls for more than just developing a good product, pricing it attractively, and making it available to the target customers, companies must also communicate with their customers, and what they communicate should not be left to chance. A Companys total marketing communications program- called its Promotion Mix consists of specific blend of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations tools that the company uses to pursue its advertising and marketing objectives.
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN:
While designing the advertisement campaign, it is necessary to keep in mind the opinion leaders. Youth are the opinion leaders of the present time. And thus it becomes necessary to design the campaign keeping the youth in mind. The opinion leaders would further trickle down the message to the less active members of the society. This is exactly what Bisleri is doing. Bisleri has started an advertisement campaign stressing the point of purity and flaunting the
patent right the company has over the breakaway seal. The company has tried to put the message across louder, by using the ad campaign that catches the eye of everyone, specially the youth.
Apart from a high dose of investments on expanding bottling capacities and an ad budget thats risen six-fold over last year, if Bisleri wants to penetrate every possible segment of the market, it can do that by
introducing more pack sizes and establishing the brand strongly with trendy new packaging. Apart from creating consumer pull with campaign, the company, to increase its sales would have to do the sales push as well. For that it would have to give the retailers and other stockiest high trade margins and incentives for keeping the product. This is very important in case of this product because consumers would take up what is available to them at ease and whatever retailer is giving.
COMPETITION IN MARKET
COMPETITION
The mineral water market is set to explode and hit the Rs.2,000-crore mark in the next couple of years. This is drawing the big guns attention. First Britannia launched Evian. And recently, soft drinks giant Pepsi entered the fray with Aquafina. Now, Nestle too is reportedly planning a foray. Meanwhile, Parle Agros Bailey has been growing steadily. Small local players too are breathing down Bisleris neck riding on better trade margins and intensive distribution (in their respective areas of operation). The competition facing Bisleri can be categorized into a few brand names like Parle Bailey Pepsi Aquafina Coca Cola Kinley With Parles Bailey being the main competitor and second in market share in the organized market, Bisleri faces tremendous competition from the unorganized sector.
Aquafina
The advantage for Aquafina is that though there are over 300 labels of bottled water in the Indian market, few can be called brands. It is necessary to remember that every product with a name is not a brand; even Bisleri has become generic to this category. It does not have any emotional values attached to it. So there was no difficulty for Pepsi in creating space in such a market, which is completely different from the soft drinks market, where it will be very difficult for any new player to find a slot. So the creative team at HTA virtually had an empty canvas to work on. And it came up with a campaign that did have people talking. First, a series of teasers, followed by a film that showed healthy bodies and youthful people and, of course, lots of water. Although Aquafina is only available in a 750 ml pet bottle, the pricing, at Rs.10, is competitive. And it is safe. In addition to the tamper proof seal, there is a reliable method of checking whether the bottle has been refilled. The date of manufacturing has been written on the cap as well as on the bottle. Thus a person who is refilling it would have to find a matching cap and bottle, the probability of which is very low.
PRODUCT PROFILE
Its a compliment being generic to the category, but its not very good when consumers think any mineral water brand is Bisleri Bisleri, a product established in India by Ramesh Chauhan, Chairman of Parle Aqua Minerals has become a generic brand. Bisleri was the first marketed bottled water in a totally virgin market. The brand has become synonymous with mineral water; consumers accept any brand offered by the retailer when they ask for Bisleri. So far Ramesh Chauhans Bisleri enjoys the largest market share of 56% in the Rs1100 crores mineral water markets and is growing at the rate of 180% per annum. Annual sales of Bisleri have touched Rs400 crores. In seventies, 'Bisleri' was the only mineral water, which had national presence, and the sale was to the tune of approximately one hundred thousand cases valued at about Rs.60 lacs.
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MANUFACTURING
A quick look at Bisleri's manufacturing reach indicates that it is represented across the country North accounts for 35% of sales for the industry, West accounts for 30%, South 20% and the East 15%. In order to be available in untapped areas Bisleri has setup 16 plants located all over the country - three-fourths of which are company owned. The balance is run by franchisees. Bisleri has 5 plants in the North, 5 in the West- two of which were setup in the last year at Ahmedabad and Surat, 4 in the South and 2 in the East. The company has bottling units located in Chennai, Bangalore, Goa, Calcutta, Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Indore and Nepal. The new plants are being set up in states like Kerala, Orissa, Bihar and North Eastern States, which hitherto have been unexplored by the company. It is also changing its production strategy and shifting to a 10-hr production schedule with sudden increase in demand planned to be met by additional production. Bisleri has planned to expand its operations by investing Rs.60 crores in the upgradation of facilities. The 120-bottles per minute (BPM)
capacity of the 16 units across the country will be increased to 240 BPM. Conscious of the environmental implications of its PET bottles, the company is to set up recycling plants at Delhi and Chennai, each with an outlay of Rs.50m. These will process 500 kg of PET per hour. The processed material will be an input for polyester yarn manufacturers. In centers other than Delhi and Chennai, the company will set up crushing units to crush the used PET bottles. The company's expansion plans will see its water bottling capacity go up from the present 400 million liters to 500 million liters. Parle Bisleri Limited (PBL) is planning to invest Rs 200 crores to increase its bottling capacity and double its turnover. The expansion will also increase the number of company's bottling plants from 16 at present, to 25. The company will set up all the new plants as green field plants. It doesnt have any intentions to acquire any existing plants.
The bottled water market share of major brands is Bisleri (51%), Bailley (17%), Yes (11%) followed by Kinley (10%), Aquafina (4%). Drinking water filled in hermetically sealed containers of without further treatment various
FACTS
Bottled drinking water samples of some top brands Bisleri (Parle Bisleri Pvt. Ltd.), Bailley (Parle Agro Pvt. Ltd.), Aquafina (Pepsico India Holding Pvt. Ltd.), Kinley (Hindustan Coca Cola Beverage Pvt. Ltd.) and of other less popular brands like Best, Royal Aqua, Seagull etc., which were being sold and manufactured in Mumbai and nearby areas like Pune and Daman, were purchased randomly. All the samples were purchased from retail outlets in the market and from railway station and were checked for proper seal, date of manufacture and batch number.
Even the top brands, which claim to use treatment methods like purification filtration, activated carbon filtration, demineralization and reverse osmosis were found to contain residues of pesticides. It might be due to the reason that the manufacturers may be by-passing the raw water after partial treatment and remixing it with the fully treated stream so as to cut down the cost of treatment. On the basis of the results different brands can be rated in terms of total organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides from least to most contaminated as-
OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the marketing strategies of the company with To determine the market share of Bisleri Brand of Bottle Water. To find out the preference level of respondents regarding Bisleri Brand of Bottle.
To assess the brand awareness of the Bisleriin the Mineral Water Segment. To Study the brand positioning of Bisleri.
RESEARCH METDHOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN
MEANING OF RESEARCH DESIGN The formidable problem that follows the task of defining the research problem is the preparation of the design of the research project, popularly known as the research design. Decisions regarding what, where, when, how much by what means concerning an inquiry or a research study constitute a research design. A research design is the arrangement of conditions for collection and analysis of data in manner that aims to combine relevance to the research purpose with economy in procedure. In fact, the research design is the conceptual structure within which research is conducted; it constitutes the blueprint for the collection, measurement and analysis of data. As such the design includes on outline of what the researcher will do from witing the hypothesis and its operational implications to the final analysis of data. More explicitly, the design decisions happen to be in respect of : (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) What is the study about ? Why is the study being made ? Where will the study be carried out ? What type of data is required ? Where can the required data be found ? What periods of time will the study include ?
(vii) What will be the sample design ? (viii) What techniques of data collection will be used ? (ix) (x) How will the data analysed ? In what style will the report be prepared ?
Data compilation is an intermediate stage between data collection and analysis. Data compilation involves classification and summarization in order to make data amenable to analysis. In dealing with any problem, once the sample has been selected the data must be collected from the sample population. There are several ways of collecting appropriate data which differ considerably in context of money cost, time and other resources. They can be broadly classified in to two categories.
QUESTIONNAIRE TECHNIQUE
The method of collecting data mailing and personally distributing questionnaire to the respondents is the most extensively employed technique in various economical surveys. This method is quit popular, particularly in case of big inquiries. A typical questionnaire consists of a number of questions arranged and printed in definite order on a form or a set of forms. The questionnaire is given to the respondents who are expected to read and understand the questions and write the response in the given space meant for the purpose in the questionnaire.
RESEARCH DESIGN :
The research design which has been used in the project report is descriptive in nature.
SAMPLE DESIGN:
The sample design which has been use in this project report is simple random sampling.
SAMPLING UNIT :
A decision has to be taken concerning a sample unit before selecting the number of samples. It may be geographical as well as individual. Here all NCR region has been taken as a geographical unit and retailers as an individual unit.
SIZE OF SAMPLE:
This refers the number of items (Outlets) to be selected from the finite universe to constitute a sample size. The survey was conducted of 200 outlets.
FINDING
After the tabulation and analysis of 50 respondents from Ghaziabad city:He following findings are obtained: 1. According to market share figure, Bisleri is the leading brand which 55.45% market share. While Kinley 23.33%, Kingfisher 3.97%, Aquafina 13.95% and others 6.30%.
2. 80% retailers prefer to sell Bisleri brand because of demand, brand and profit margin.
80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% KEEP Other brands Dont keep any Brand Bisleri
3. Bisleri is the most selling brand in the specific region it is at 45% selling among the competitors.
45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Bisleri Kinley Aquafina Kingfisher Others
4. Retailers those are selling Bisleri brand of bottle water is 50%. 5. The company has recently launched Bada Bisleri, Same Price at Rs. 10/- for 1.2 Ltrs means 2% extra. 6. There is discrimination in the prices of distributor or the prices at which retailers directly purchase from the market. 7. Most of the customers first ask for Bisleri bottle water just because of its Generic name not because of brand loyalty.
WEAKNESS-:
one liter packs which accounted for 50 per cent of the companys turnover has come down to 30 per cent. The two-liter packs, which have practically disappeared from the shelves, have come down from 20 per cent to five per cent. The growth has come from the 500 ml and the five-liter category, which account for 15 per cent and 36 per cent of turnover respectively. Earlier, Bisleri was selling at a premium of Rs.12 for the same size. But beginning last year, it has been selling its one- liter bottles at Rs.15 each. Aqua Minerals attributes the Price slashing to retailer margins being on the higher side earlier. The competitive Rs.15 price tag has been working well for the brand. In what could be a masterstroke, Aqua Minerals is testing out the possibility of mass marketing 20-litre Bisleri bottles for an MRP of Rs.40. That works out to Rs.2 a liter. If the logistics, manufacturing and distribution do fall in place, it could change the face of the purified water market for keeps.
OPPORTUNITIES
So far, Chauhan has not used the franchising route very aggressively unlike Parle Agros Bailley which has grown very fast using this route. He has around six franchisees in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Goa and Rajasthan. We shunned this route so far because in most areas where we had no presence, it was imperative that we did it ourselves. Now for further expansion we can afford to use the franchisee route.
THREATS
Bisleri will be taking the packs back and refilling them. But the packs cannot be sterilized since the material used is PET and cannot withstand high temperature. So how can he ensure purity?
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
The players who will endure will be those who have a strong regional presence. Take the case of Team, which enjoys immense popularity in TamilNadu. Similar brands with a regional presence are Siruvani, and Koday. Thus, new players will be looking for a distinct positioning. One such brand is Pepsis Aquafina, the largest selling bottled water brand in the US. After its successful test launch in Mumbai and Bangalore, Aquafina was released in Chennai,
Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Pune. Pepsi has invested over Rs.5 crore in the new Aquafina water project in Maharashtra, which is the only Aquafina plant outside the US. According to Deepak Jolly, executive vice president, corporate communications, Pepsi Foods Ltd. Aquafina will be helped by Pepsis network. Moreover, Aquafina will be served absolutely chilled. That makes sense too, since surveys have indicated that an overwhelming majority of the bottled water that is consumed in India is by people who are traveling.
With the big players, who have the support of the financial muscle and a large consumer base in other categories with them, like Pepsi, Britannia, Nestle and Coke the battle is the tougher arena of brand
building. All the multinationals are looking at high-octane advertising targeting specific consumer segments. Sensing troubled waters ahead, Bisleri is busy working on a strategy to soak up the competition and protect his water kingdom.
Strategy which the company could adopt, are as follows: 1.The soft target
Selling bottled water requires constantly expanding the market. The company should also target the market for soft drinks. All the soft drinks addresses three issues: fun, thirst and refreshment followed by status to some degree. The thirst and the status value of the mineral water are well accepted. There is very little the mineral water brands can do to add the fun element around the product. Again here, it becomes important for the company to have a good distribution network. It should be understood that if the mineral water is easily available everywhere then it can be said with confidence that it would be able to replace the soft drinks as thirst quencher. If we try and look at the reasons that why consumers buy soft drinks as thirst quenchers: we would find the answer as that either water is not available or if it is available then safety is not assured. Therefore, backed by a good distribution network mineral water industry can grow at a rapid rate.
RECOMMENDATIO NS
RECOMMENDATIONS
liter, as the perception of the people is that mineral water cost Rs. 10 per half Lt.
Awareness programs at health club, schools & Nursing homes. To win over the consumer belief and faith over the genuity of the
product.
Display of hot and cold dispensers and bottles at places like
hotels, clubs and airports where upper class group visits, as they are the potential customers. Place like departmental stores, petrol pumps and super bazaars can also be considered.
The company should organize camps at various part of the city
also road show to bring about the difference between mineral water and filter/purified water and to tell the people how mineral water is more hygienic than filtered water/purified water.
To aware people the cost benefit analysis to the customer of how
the mineral water would cot less and benefit more, because people using purifier system cost too much.
LIMITATIONS
LIMITATIONS
A small segment of the market has been covered only, so the conclusion cannot be generalized. The data collected cannot be free from errors, since some of the respondents failed to give correct information. Study accuracy totally based upon the respondents response. Stipulated short span of time for survey.
BIBLIOGRAPH Y
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Philip Kotlar
India Today Annual Addition 2004 Business Today, Business World August 2004
ANNEXURES
QUESTIONNAIRE
1. Which brand of bottle water do you sale more? a. Kingfisher b. Kinlery c. Aquafina d. Bisleri e. Others 2. What is your monthly sale? ________________________________________________ 3. Which brand of bottle water do you prefer to sell more? ________________________________________________ 4. Why do you prefer to sell more this particular brand? a. Easily available b. More demand c. Quality Factor
5. Generally which brand of bottle water customer demand? ________________________________________________ 6. Frequency of services no. of days] between two service of the company/WD in the area / market? Bisleri Aquafina Kingfisher Kinley Others
Q. 7 When you talk of drinks, what brands come to your mind? ____________________________________________________ Q. 8 Whether the customers are already aware about this product? ____________________________________________________ Q. 9 Which are the brands available in your shop? ____________________________________________________ Q. 10 Number of buyers who buys this brand per day? a) 0-5 b) 5-10 d) 10-15 e) Above 15
Q.11 Are you satisfied with the current margins on this brand? Yes / NO ____________________________________________________
Q.12 Whether you are getting any complaints from customers, specify?
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