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Nestle India Limited (NIL) is the Indian subsidiary of the global FMCG major, Nestle SA.
Nestle India Ltd. Introduced Maggi Brand to the Indian consumers with the launch of Maggi
2 Minute Noodles, an instant food product, in 1982. With the launch of Maggi noodles,
Nestle India Ltd. created an entirely new food category - instant noodles - in the Indian
packaged food market. Nestl, which world knows as cautious and conservatory company is
a Swiss originated 140 years old Multinational. The man at the helm is Swiss national Carlo
Donati, an all inspiration and image of the company. His philosophy isbottom line dictating
top line based on delegation and decentralization. It resulted from a merger in 1905 between
the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company for milk products established in 1866 by the Page Brothers
in Cham, Switzerland and the Farine Lacte Henri Nestl Company set up in 1867 by Henri
Nestl to provide an infant food product. Nestl Indias business objective and that of its
management and employees is to manufacture and market the Companys products in such a
way as to create value that can be sustained over the long term for consumers, shareholders,
employees, business partners. The product mix of Nestle India consists of milk products and
baby products (42.5%),beverages (29.3 %), processed foods (14.4 %), chocolate and
confectionary (13.8 %).Nestle India plans to expand business into similar and diversified
product categories. With an Employee strength of over 3000 and turnover of US$ 497 million
in 2003, Nestle India is one of the leading companies in the FMCG space in India. The
company is acknowledged among Indias most respected companies and among the top
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THE COMPANYS HISTORY
Year 1870
The Swiss Julius Michal Johannes Maggi (1846-1912) inherited the family business: a mill
Year 1886
Several women were factory workers, thus the time available for housework and the
preparation of meals was considerably reduced, and working class families suffered from
poor nutrition. In view of this state of affairs, the doctor Schuler recommended the wide use
of dried vegetables: peas and beans, given their rich nutritive value. Julius Maggi produced
appliances for roasting and grinding these vegetables, to make flour from peas, beans, lentils
Year 1900
At the Universal Exhibition, Maggi won several medals and grand prizes. Jules Magi set up
home in Paris. The French head office was on the Placede lOpra, and the factory on the
Boulevard Arago. Maggi now had depositories in Paris, Berlin, Singen (Germany), Vienna
and Bregenz (Austria). A number of advertising texts written by Franck Wedekind had strong
military undertones:
Year 1947
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Year 1948
Sopad took over from Nestle to handle production and marketing for Nestle and Maggi
products in France. Maggi now had eleven factories throughout the world.
Year 1982
Nestle India Ltd. Introduced Maggi to the Indian consumers with the launch of Maggi 2
Minute Noodles, an instant food product, in 1982. With the launch of Maggi noodles, Nestle
India Ltd. created an entirely new food category -instant noodles - in the Indian packaged
food market.
Year 1984
Eating habits changed, and Maggi adjusted their products, with low fat Bouillons, Bouquet
Garni ("a little extra to add taste and give your dishes a festive look!"), and "Soupes
Moulines", a new line to add to their "Soup Time" range. The ad announcing the new
"Maggi souffl mix" had two sections: on the "BEFORE" page, a man disguised as a oriental
wise man levitates a magnificent ouffl, on the "AFTER" page, the same man holds the
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BRAND STORY
Launched in 5 flavors initially Masala, chicken, Capsicum, sweet & sour, and Lasagna
Maggi had to fight hard to be accepted by Indian consumers with their hard-to-change eating
habits. The packaged food market was very small at this time, Nestle had to promote noodles
strategy to attract motherson the convenience plank and lure kids on the fun plank.
Gradually ,the market for instant noodles began to grow. The company also decided to focus
on promotions to increase the brand awareness. In the initial years, Nestle promotional
activities for Maggi included schemes offering gifts (such as toys and utensils) in return for
empty noodles pack. According to analyses the focus on promotion turned out to be the single
largest factor responsible for Maggis rapid acceptance. Nestles Managers utilized
promotions as measured to meet their sales target. Gradually ,sales promotion became a
crutch for Maggi noodles sales. Later manyof the Maggis extensions also made considerable
use of promotional schemes. The focus of all Maggis extensions was more on below the line
associated itself with mainstream television programme and advertised heavily on kids
programme and channels. After its advertisements with taglines likemummi bhookh lagi
hai,bas do minute and fast to cook good to eat Maggis popularity became highly attributed
to its extremely high appeal to children. As aresult, Maggis annual growth reportedly
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MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES 4Ps EVALUATION
Price
Considering the price points in the market for maggi, it should continue to position
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Product
Quality
Models and sizes
Packing
Brands
Service
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Promotion
Many consumers are not aware of the fact that packaging contributes substantially to
our current standards of living. Its state-of-the-art packaging that has made certain
items conveniently available to the general public and easy to handle. In the past
hundred or so years, the demands producers and consumers place on packaging have
were the primary functions served by packaging, today, it also acts as a brand-
defining marketing instrument as well as an innovative and practical shell with ever-
highly popular TV cooking series. At the same time, the number of pre-cooked, easily
retail outlets. Whether discounter or gourmet store, all retailers know the value of
packaging solutions, which often merely need to be popped in the oven or microwave,
adds to the basic functionality of the product through providing additional benefit to
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the consumers and second would be when it enables trials and increased usage by
fully packed seasoning tastemaker at affordable price. The beliefs associated with a
brand constitute the brand image, and the customer may have uninformed beliefs
which are likely to generate a negative image about the brand. The marketer must
ensure that consumers have all relevant and correct information about the brand to
facilitate formation of a positive brand image. Certain beliefs develop dare neutral and
product.
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It is integration of all marketing tools, approached and resources within a company which
maximizes impact on consumer mind and which results into maximum profit at minimum
cost.
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Promotional tools of communication
workingwomen. However, the sales of maggi was not picking up despite of heavy
positioning the magi product as a convenience product for mother and as a fun
product for children. The maggi Tagline, Fast To Cook Good To Eat was also in
keeping with its positioning. They promoted the product further by distributing free
Communication.
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Different communication media used by Maggi
TV Ads:-
Initially maggi was targeted at the workingwomen and later the upper middle class
kids. Maggi was a sponsor for Hum Log, a popular television show on Doordarshan,
Indias sole channel in 1984. Maggi is now targeting its products at the entire family
and not only kids. Maggi has recently launched Main Aur Meri Maggi campaign in
Print Ads: -
Maggi does not focus heavily on print media. During its launch since its initial target
audience was mother and kids. Some adv in the print media were used to highlight the
convenience factor of maggi. Recently maggi came out with advertisements in some
weekly magazines for its new atta noodles and rice noodles varients. Maggi rice
noodles mania had the highest column centimeter in print among the instant food
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Sales Promotion: -
7%discount on 6-piece pack (56MRP), 5 rupee discount on 8-piece pack(78MRP). These are
promotional schemes given to retailers. Magg i is coming up with schemes like giving one
soup pack with 8-piece pack. Inpast company had promotional schemes like 4 piece pack
Display: -
Large pack sizes at the top with decreasing pack sizes as going downward. This is because
that for a retail outlet the more value is generated large pack thus they try to project big size
at convenience place.
Public Relation: -
The Maggi Club the children under 14 were invited by press adv and distribution of leaflets to
become a member of maggi club any sending logos cut from 5 empty maggi wrappers. Maggi
projected it as maggi clubbers are fun lovers and intended to use it as reference group. Benefit
offered tomaggi- clubbers are various games like snap safari game, Cap and masksets, travel
india game, Disney today comic. To obtain each gift themember has to send 5 wrappers as
purchase proof. Some special privilegeswere given to regular members time to time like,
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Result of PR Activity: -
Getting closer to regular customer boosted the sales. Making valuable direct marketing database.
Recently, again, they have started maggi fan club. This time it is operating online and they are
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SALES AND MARKETING CHANNEL
Marketing channels
The focus of our market channel analysis is limited to culinary products, asmaggi falls
Strategic intent selling and promotion form the strategic intent for this distribution
channel
Channel Type Maggi followed a market type channel for its culinary products
A hybrid strategy involving both a push as well as a pull strategy is used by maggi.
The push strategy employed through setting targets at various levels of the distribution
channel and a pull strategy is exercised through aggressive advertising and in store
promotion
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.Marketing Channel flows: -
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MARKET PENETRATION STRATEGIES
Maggi started with promotional campaigns in the school to see the reaction of
Though Maggi has been successful every time, there were times when it faced challenges.
Sales saw decline in 1990: The Company saw a decline in the sales in 1990. When the
company tried to find out what the reason was, they came to know that there was
some thing wrong with the formula that spoiled the taste. So the formula was changed
noodle offering by any company Top ramen entered the market as a competition. This
was a big challenge for Maggi. Though Top Ramen couldnt do well in India.
New product launched in market but failed- Nestle decided to expand its offerings by
offering Dal atta noodles & Sambhar flavor noodles. But these products were not
welcomed by the people the very special taste of Maggi was still ruling the consumer
Maggi launched some new products: Ketchups, Soups, Taste makers etc. but they
Health is the flavor of the season. Food companies in India are growing aware of the
increasingly changing consumption trends and taste preferences among the Indian junta. No
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surprises, but this is the reason more and more companies are coming up (or are actually re-
marketing) with products that are healthy. Take for example Coke and Pepsi; both have
already started looking into the non-carbonated drinks category section. Maggi first
introduced in the market Maggi Atta Noodles which it claimed was a healthy food as it
Nestle India, in an effort to carry on with its trend of providing the Indian consumers healthy
food recently introduced a range of Healthy Soups. The entire range consists of the
following; maggi tomato, mixed vegetable, tomato vegetable ,mushroom, chicken, sweet corn
chicken and hot and sour vegetable. The product is priced at Rs 25 for 70 grams
.Maggi became successful because it understood consumers . The brand never wanted to
change Indian consumers habit. It did not had ambitions about changing Indians breakfast or
dinner preferences. What Maggi did was to slowly attach itself to Indian consumers need
without disruption
.Maggi was also closely watching consumer preferences. When consumers wanted healthy
food, Maggi launched Atta Noodle variants that was healthy . More importantly this move
addressed the concerns of Homemakers. The brand extended itself to multiple segment but
Maggi over these years have made lot of mistakes. It made mistakes because the brand was
willing to experiment. More importantly the brand learned from those mistakes and corrected
itself .Maggi also invested heavily in brand building. The campaigns for one of Maggis
products were always there in the media which kept the brand fresh in the mind ofthe
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Maggi is one packaged food brand that has only seen its popularity grow in the past many
years and the secret to the success is that instead of trying to change thefood habits of
consumers, it has tried to align itself with local tastes and preferences with the fast to cook
To commemorate its successful journey through a quarter of a century in the worlds largest
consumer market, the brand, last year, launched an innovative campaign inviting its loyalists
to share with it their Maggi stories and promised to broad cast them to the world at large,
thereby, making them the superstars overnight. Along with television commercials, which
aired individual consumer stories of their lasting memories of Maggi, the brand displayed
pictures of these loyal customers on the Maggi packs. Nestle also introduced a website Me
The company also rewarded its consumers by adding to the Maggi portfolio, thathitherto had
sauces and soups in various flavors, a range of prepared dishes andcooking aids such as
Maggi Bhuna Masala and Maggi Pazzta. So far focussed on urban consumers, the company
also made a pitch for rural consumers by launching Maggi Rasile Chow noodles at an
inviting price of Rs4. Again, local tastes andrecipes have been at the core of all these
marketing innovations.Creating delight and happiness in everyday meals is not just about
providing tasty food. It is about providing taste and health in a convenient combination, says
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DEMOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOGRAPHY OF CONSUMERS
Demography: -
1) Age and sex: people of different age groups consume Maggi products. Children, teenagers,
adults as well as old people consume them. Both genders male and female consume them.
2) Income: - Maggi products are available at reasonable prices. So the lower, middle as well
3) Religion and nationality: - Maggi products are famous and are consumed by people of all
Psychography: -
1) Attitude: - Consumers of maggi have a positive attitude towards the product, which makes
2) Lifestyle:- Lifestyle determines the way of living of people. It describes how a consumer
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CONCLUSION
The food processing business in India is at a nascent stage. Currently, only about10%
of the output is processed and consumed in packaged form thus highlighting huge
potential for expansion and growth. Traditionally, Indians believe in consuming fresh
stuff rather then packaged or frozen, but the trend is changing and the new fast food
generation is slowly changing. Riding on the success of noodles, Nestle India, tried to
make extensions of the Maggi brand to a number of products like, sauces, ketchups,
pickles, soups, taste makers and macaroni in the mid-1990s. Unfortunately, the
macaroni and pickles didnt pick up as expected. The soups and sauces did somewhat
fine, gathering considerable sales volumes and have a satisfactory presence even
today. Maggi Noodles itself faced a bit of difficulty with respect to taste, and
nearly lost its position in the minds of Indian consumers in the late 1990s. When
Nestle changed the formulation of its tastemaker, the ominous packet that came along
with Maggi Noodles, a major chunk of consumers were put-off and sales started
dropping. Also, Maggis competitor Top Ramen took advantage of the situation and
started a parallel aggressive campaign to eat into Maggis market share. Butthe
company quickly realised this and went back into making the original formula coupled
with a free sampling campaign. This helped Maggi to win back its lost consumers and
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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WEBLIOGRAPHY
www.nestle.in
www.maggi-club.in
www.indianjournalofmarketing.com
www.careerdynamo.com/marketing_journals.html
www.wikipedia.com
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