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According to industry data, while value growth achieved by the industry in the first nine months of
the financial year 2009-10 slowed down to 9.3 per cent compared with the 15.2 per cent growth Telepresence
recorded in the comparable period of the last year, Dabur, with a growth of 19.4 per cent in the nine
months of 2009-10 outpaced market growth, while CavinKare, with brands such as Chik and
Meera, too registered a 11 per cent growth. Market leader Hindustan Unilever's growth in shampoos
this fiscal was, however, slower than the market at 7.8 per cent.

In fact, Johnny-come-lately brands from ITC such as Fiama di Wills, Vivel and Superia, with a
growth rate of 10.5 per cent have outpaced category growth in the first nine months of this fiscal.
ITC's brands also carved out a two per cent share of the market.

Dabur's COO, Consumer Care, Mr V.S. Sitaram, says that the company's brands have seen 20-30
per cent growth rates for the fourth year in a row. “We have stuck close to our strategy of offering
shampoos which are natural products. Plus we added more variants to our Vatika range — earlier
we had only two variants but added root strengthening and hair fall control shampoos.”

Vatika also had a packaging makeover and extended the brand to hair oil as well, which Mr Sitaram
says made it a complete hair care brand. “Lots of brands talk about being natural and herbal but
when it comes to Dabur there is more credibility in the market because of our strong heritage and
consumers accept that message from us,” he adds.
Hit by food inflation

CavinKare's Executive Director, Mr Ramesh Viswanathan, says the slower growth in the shampoo
market this fiscal was due to the spiralling food inflation, which impinged on disposable incomes,
as well as the delayed monsoons last year. The company's brands still grew better than the last year
– growth at 11 per cent the first three quarters of this fiscal bettered the 8.1 per value growth in the
comparable period last year (see table).

Given the lion's share of the market HUL has, even though its growth was slower than the others, its
value share of the market only dropped marginally from 46 per cent to 45.4 per cent. Dabur
increased share from 5.6 per cent to 6.2 per cent, while CavinKare too saw a marginal increase in
share from 11.1 per cent to 11.2 per cent.

The Rs 2,200-crore market for shampoos also includes Rs 600 crore of anti-dandruff shampoos.

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CavinKare to distribute Adidas, Jovan products

30 Jan 2009
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Chennai-based FMCG major CavinKare has entered into a distribution deal

with Paris-based international fragrance marketer Coty to market and

distribute two of its brands across India. As part of the deal, CavinKare will

distribute Coty’s Adidas and Jovan range of personal care products. Adidas

men’s range comprises deodorants, shower gels, perfumes and after-shave

lotions, where as Jovan range include fragrance and personal care

products.

Addressing the media, Venkatesh Babu, regional managing director — far

east export, Coty Beauty, said, “There is a huge potential in the personal care segment here. The alliance will help in

increasing the accessibility of Adidas products in India, which is a fundamental part of our Asian strategy.”

CK Ranganathan, CMD, CavinKare, said, “CavinKare mainly addresses the mass market. The strategic alliance will

help us get into the premium segment, where we did not have presence.”

CavinKare is expecting a turnover of Rs 500 million in the first year and holding around 10 per cent share of the deo-
spray and fragrance market in India, which is estimated to be Rs 3 billion.

However, the company plans to cut prices of its personal care products at around five per cent anticipating acute

competition in the market. "Competition will drive prices down. By the end of the year, prices could be lower by as

much as 15 per cent," concluded Ranganathan.

— IndiaRetailing Bureau

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CavinKare to take on fast food MNCs in India, abroad

14 Aug 2009
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The Chennai-based company that was among the first to popularize the

sale of shampoos in sachets plans to take on fast food multinational

corporations (MNCs) such as McDonald’s Corp. not just in India, but also

overseas with a multi-cuisine fast food restaurant format that it is currently

testing.

Considering most Indians spend far more on food than on personal care,

India has a potential for 500 restaurants, said C.K. Ranganathan, chairman

and managing director of CavinKare Pvt. Ltd.

While CavinKare invested nearly Rs75 lakh for the first restaurant it opened a month ago, the cost for each additional

restaurant is likely to come down to Rs60 lakh, he added. The restaurants are branded CK’s Foodstaurant, like

CavinKare, a play on the name of the founder.

CavinKare, maker of shampoos, fairness creams as well as pickles and juices, started life as Beauty Cosmetics.

Ranganathan’s brother C.K. Rajkumar is known as the man who launched the sachet revolution in India when he

started selling a brand of shampoo, Velvette, in sachets. Ranganathan followed suit with his own shampoo-in-sachet

offering, Chik.

The menu for the chain in India will be a combination of Indian fare such as idlis, dosas and sandwiches, and

American favourites such as burgers and fries, but the restaurants will take on a slightly different avatar overseas. “In

Italy, we could be selling a combination of pasta and burgers, while in Taiwan the restaurant menu will feature

noodles, dumplings as well as fries and burgers,” said Ranganathan.

In July, the Chennai-based company decided to study the fast food business by opening its first restaurant in

Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry).

“Food is very localized and something that works in Chennai may not work in Mumbai or Delhi,” said Anand Shah, a

research analyst with Angel Broking Ltd.

Delhi-based fast food chain Nirula’s planned to go national with its restaurants two years ago, but is yet to be

successful, Shah said. “So, it is very easy to say (you want to build a national or international chain), but it is actually

very difficult to implement and expand.”

The family-owned CavinKarelogged sales of Rs700 crore in 2008-09 and expects to nearly double its sales to Rs1,500

crore in 2009-10, excluding the expected sales from the restaurant business. Ranganathan declined to give any sales

forecast for the fast food business, but said that a chain spread over a state such as Tamil Nadu could yield Rs1,000

crore in annual revenue. More financial details of the privately held company weren’t available.

Through the 1990s and 2000s, CavinKare has held its own—and even won some skirmishes—with Hindustan

Unilever Ltd (HUL), India’s largest consumer goods company. HUL posted a net profit of Rs2,115 crore on sales of

Rs16,476 crore for the year ended March 2009.

“You need to be right on two counts to unsettle a leader—product innovation and pricing. CavinKare worked well to

get both of them right,” said Nikhil Vora, an analyst with IDFC-SSKI Securities Ltd.

Still, that may not work in the fast food business.

“CavinKare’s expertise is in consumer goods, so I don’t understand the logic of them moving into the fast food

outlets,” Angel Broking’s Shah said.

Source: Mint

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India's CavinKare targets 10pc market share in beauty

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Fast-moving consumer goods major CavinKare is targeting a double digit share in India's
toiletries and cosmetics market and has planned to focus on "non-southern markets" (from its
Chennai-based headquarters) in fiscal year 2010-11, a senior company official said today.

To consolidate its presence in the country, the company launched an upgraded version of its
popular face cream, Fairever.

The company currently has a market share of 7 percent nationwide and Fairever ranks second
after Hindustan Unilever's cream, Fair and Lovely, said CavinKare India's executive director
Ramesh Viswanathan.

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CavinKare eyes bigger share through improved Fairever

By S Shyamala May 10 2010 , Chennai

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FMCG conglomerate CavinKare targets 10 per cent market share all over India for its fairness cream
Fairever. The firm launched an improved variant of the cream, which trails Hindustan Unilever’s Fair &
Lovely in the Rs 1,800-crore Indian skin whitening products market.
“We are at seven per cent to eight per cent market share nationally and 20 per cent in south India. With
the enhanced Fairever, which is part of our Rs 600-crore personal care portfolio, we are aiming to raise
our market share to 10 per cent nationally this year,” said Ramesh Viswanathan, executive director of
CavinKare.

The firm will spend close to Rs 10 crore on advertisements this financial year and it started airing
commercials during IPL 3 to capture maximum attention across India, he added.

Apart from improved ingredients, the company has chosen a vertical packaging format and has
introduced a fairness indicator that will measure the quantum of fairness improvement with time. The
product is priced at Rs 7 for nine gm, Rs 37 for 25 gm, Rs 68 for 50 gm and Rs 102 for 80 gm.

Vineet Trakroo, vice-president, marketing of CavinKare said in a statement: “Retail displays and good
packaging will help us to reach out to even non-users. Our brand ambassador Asin, who has been with
us for three years, will play a key role in the growth of our brand across the country.”

CavinKare has businesses across the personal care, foods, dairy and beverage segments with a turnover
of close to Rs 900 crore. The firm sells brands including Chik, Meera, Nyle in the shampoo category;

Spinz in deodorant; Fairever and Fairever Fruit in fairness cream; Ruchi and Chinni’s in masalas, pickles
and snack, and Indica in hair colours.

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CavinKare eyes 4% of skincare market

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Saturday, March 21, 2009 2:35 IST

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The company launched Fairever Fruit, a new variant of its Fairever fairness cream, in the national market
on Friday.

Ramesh Vishwanathan, executive director, CavinKare, said, "Within four months of Fairever Fruit's launch in south India,
we have gained 2% market share in the skincare segment. Our aim is to bag a share of 4% by next year." CavinKare will
invest Rs 10-14 crore to market Fairever Fruit.

A television commercial starring actress Asin and made by ad agency Grey Worldwide India, will launch next month.

Last month, CavinKare forged a strategic alliance with international fragrance marketer Coty Inc to market the Adidas
brand of deodorants in India.
The company presently has the Spinz range of deodorants and in another three months, will market and sell the Jovan
Musk brand in the country. CavinKare hopes to corner a 10% share of the deodorant market.

The company is also extending its food offerings -- the Ruchi and Chinni brands of pickles and snacks -- and its Maa fruit
drinks to the national market. It has already established the brands in south and east markets.

After its Rs 30 crore acquisition of a dairy unit in Kanchipuram near

Chennai, it is finalising a deal with another unit in Tamil Nadu.
CavinKare is looking to acquire more dairies in the south first and across the country later.

"The dairy business will be a large contributor to our revenues as it is a high-consumption product. We are aiming at a Rs
1,000 crore business from our dairy segment in another five years," Vishwanathan said.

CavinKare has already launched its own milk products and will soon roll out flavoured milk and curd products.

Rural sales contribute 23% to its total sales. Organised retail stores, which account for just 5% of sales, have been
experienced a slowdown in the last 3-4 months.

However, the company is looking to take its presence to 15,000 retail stores this year.