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Marketing Project Report
Introduction:
In this report, we are going to talk about the marketing plan of one of
Egyptian companies which is corona which is considered as a heritage in
Egypt. The company has seen major success in its first 50 years of
operations but unfortunately lately, the company has been suffering from
quality, marketing and financial problems that affects the financial
position of the company and at the end we will mention our suggestions to
enhance the marketing plan of the company. But still Corona has a great
opportunity to conquer the chocolate market due to the historical
background of the company as it is known for its nostalgic portfolio as well
as the large segment the company is targeting.
History of Corona:
The Alexandria confectionary and chocolate company – corona was
established in 1919 by Tommy Khresto, to become the first confectionary
and chocolate company in the Egyptian market. The company was
nationalized in 1936 and became the icon of the public sector in sweet
snacks and soon it became close to all Egyptian consumers. corona then
was privatized in 2000, bought by one of the private leading private
holdings which is Samy Saad group holding company that has diversity
within the Egyptian market and beyond. Now Corona is known with its
nostalgic portfolio within many snacking categories with famous brands
like: chocolate Rocket, Bimbo , cocoa , wafers , biscuits , candies, toffees
and gums
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Mission:
We pledge to provide the Egyptian market with high quality portfolio of
biscuits, chocolate , cocoa and jelly , while promoting our consumer to
build delightful moments of joy . in our opinion, this mission statement is
somehow myopic because it is product oriented and focuses only on the
products of the factory.so we suggest a more market oriented mission
statement which is “we always deliver our brand with their nostalgic
identity mixed with a modern twist.”
Vision:
To be the challenger Egyptian confectioner producer, with a strategic role
in middle east and Africa, and to make Corona become a future umbrella
mega brand in Egypt and beyond.
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Chairman
Basel Sami Saad
General Manager
Engineer Mourad
Samy
the company is a corporate between engineer Sami Saad (own 70% of the
assets) and the government (owns 30% assets as labor). The company
operates a factory in Alexandria and has 13 distribution branches in Egypt
covering 35,000 outlets. now the total employees number is around 600
employees at different levels and different locations
Competition:
corona faces direct and indirect competition concerning the direct they
are factories that produce the same products that corona produces
whereas for the indirect competition it includes competitors that don’t
produce the same product as the company but it produces products that
take from the market share of the company
first the direct competition:
Corona products Competitor products
Corona chocolate bar Galaxy, Cadbury, Mars.
Cocoa powder Nesquik ,Dream cocoa powder,
Hintz cocoa powder
Bimbo Ulker, Lambada
Wafer Shamadan, lambada.
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Second the indirect competition: includes jelly beans mini cakes such as: Todo and Twinkies
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these strong media events has a strong impact and huge media coverage
and reflects a positive image which will help by participating to strengthen
the image of the brand and have a better consumer perception. They also
created a football league among teenagers between “12-15” which helped
them push corona’s image to younger generations.
Personal selling: this depends on the skills of their workforce. so, the
seller promote the product through their attitude, appearance and special
product knowledge. They aim to inform and encourage the customer to
buy or at least try the product. They also rent potential places inside the
stores or shelf places in key account customer stores
Sales: the main objective for sales promotion is to acquire a huge sales
volume, making their selling offers for hyper markets a lot more attractive
to push it forward over their competitors and innovational sales promotion
techniques that increase the desire for their chocolate. some of the sales
tactics done by the company is that they made a new product called
chocolate bites which is an item which will be conducting more market
presence as it is going to be distributed to cashiers in hyper markets and
used instead of money change this would definitely ensure that people
would see corona more often and memorize their name. they also put
selling chocolate machines in railway stations and super gets, kiosks in
front of schools and entertaining places, offers with the beginning of the
schools (with each large bar of chocolate a gift corona branded: pens
erasers ,colored pencils) However , sales promotion doesn’t generate
loyalty by any means but generate huge sales volume which is not only
the main target that they seek their main purpose here is to be able to be
seen by customers way more often .
Advertising: By making TV, radio, print ads to remind their consumers of
corona and always keep them in touch with the brand and with the
message they want to deliver. the total budget for advertising is 7,250
million pounds
Television: 5 million pounds (3 million ads +2 million cost of creating the
Ads)
Print: 1.25 million pounds
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Dog�
Cash cow�� (Rocket chocolate,Flavored
(Original bimbo, Butter chocolate , chocolate,lux cocoa)
Cocoa powder,Negrita,Mary Biscuits )
high low
Relative Market Share
Question Marks:
They are newly launched products that the company would decide
whether to develop them and grow them into stars or whether to phase
them out they have high market growth rate and low relative market
share. Companies should invest heavily in stars in order to figure out
whether they will move leftwards and turn into stars or whether the
investment won’t pay off and drop in the dog quadrant so they need to
figure this out as fast as possible. after analyzing corona’s SBUs we found
that there are new version of Bimbo recently launched such as the: Bimbo
Negrita , Bimbo Chocobite and bimbo extra chocobite. They are also
considered as line filling as they are a sort of development to the old
authentic bimbo that people are familiar with for the hope of reviving the
old Bimbo and repeating its cycle again turning it to a star. Another
question mark is a newly launched chocolate called “Magic” this chocolate
mainly targets lower income groups it is about 30 gms chocolate for 3 L.E
so this is considered line stretching as it aims at targeting new segments.
Another question mark is the Corona Crispy chocolate which is similar to
the milk chocolate but with crisps inside to add a more modern twist to
the original chocolate. The last question mark is the new hazelnut
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large market share and generate quite good sales for the company. The
last cash cow is the Mary biscuits which is plain tea biscuits there are
many local and international brands producing this product under the
same name as well “Mary”. In our opinion Corona must focus more on this
product by adding new flavors and focusing more on its quality in order to
keep it in the cash cow stage as long as possible and to milk them as
much as they can before they eventually move to the dog quadrant.
Dog:
They are low growth rate low market share products that generate the
cash only needed to maintain themselves an example for this is Rocket
chocolate when launched in its early stages rocket was very popular and
loved by people but now its sales has dropped a lot in our opinion this
drop in sales is obviously because of some defects in the product itself so
we suggest that Corona carry out market surveys in order to spot out what
is wrong with product and modify it and if the trials were in vain we
suggest that they divest this product because it creates a burden over the
company and doesn’t generate much revenue. The second dog is the
“Sando” flavored chocolate by this product corona wanted to compete
with the international chocolates such as “Ritter sport” and “Lindt” by
making flavored chocolate but obviously the trial wasn’t successful
enough because they couldn’t make it with the standardized taste of the
flavored chocolate so people don’t buy them as much as they were
expected to be bought the flavored chocolate dropped into the dog
quadrant very fast and it didn’t even pass by the star or the cash cow and
it dropped in the dog quadrant after it was launched . The last dog that
the company already got rid of is the “LUX” cocoa which was a cocoa
powder produced to target lower income segments at lower quality than
the original cocoa powder but it didn’t actually face a promising market
and it wasn’t successful so the company decided to divest it this dog also
didn’t pass by the other stages the star and the cash cow but it
immediately dropped from the question mark to the dog directly so the
company phased it out as soon as possible.
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support the new brand image, implement contracts with the potential
wholesalers to be their distributors for the small groceries all over Egypt.
Supply chain :
The company gets its packaging material, flour and sugar from local
suppliers whereas the cocoa and the dairy products are imported to
ensure their quality. In addition to this Corona has its own cocoa bean
processing facility so it imports the cocoa beans because Egypt’s climate
is not suitable for growing the cocoa beans which means more costs over
the company. then the raw materials are processed by machines supplied
by El Tarek machinery corporation.LTD. They get from them all the
machines the printing machine, the blowing film machine, the sealing and
cutting machine, recycling machine and punching machine. After the raw
materials are processed into finished products they are packaged, the
packaging materials are mainly purchased from local firms in Egypt then
they are transported to the 13 distribution channels that we mentioned
before covering 35,000 outlets around Egypt. Through direct distribution
through key accounts as the hyper markets and super markets and
indirect distribution through warehouses.so this is the journey of the
product from the raw materials till it reach the final consumer.
STP
Segmentation:
Corona uses multiple segmentation bases in an effort to identify smaller
better-defined target groups they use:
Demographic Segmentation: Firstly, they segment by age regarding
the Jelly category they have two products one for the kids from age 2
years to 10 years called “Gummies” and other mint jelly especially for
adults called “Valda”. Another example of age segmentation is the spread
chocolate they make two types the first one is the hazelnuts spread
chocolate made for the adults and can be used for household purposes
and mainly target the house wives there is also another version of the
spread chocolate made for the school kids that contains vitamins to
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promote proper growth of the kids. They also segment their market based
on the income they produce high quality products for high income
customers with high prices such as the spread chocolate , Mint chocolate ,
and the Sando flavored chocolate they also produce lower quality
products at lower prices for low income customers such as magic
chocolate which costs only 3 LE and “lux” cocoa powder another type of
income segmentation is that they produce small sizes of the original
chocolates at lower prices so they would be able to target lower income
classes .
Psychographic segmentation: Corona also segments its market on
psychographic bases according to the lifestyle and personality. corona
produces different chocolate flavors and types that suits different
personalities and life styles such as the mint chocolate the strawberry and
lemon chocolates. they also made lite chocolate which is a sugar free, low
fat chocolate produced to target the segment of people who are following
a diet and want to be healthy so this type is designed for people with
healthy lifestyle. They are targeting Egyptian people who support the
Egyptian products and those who love old nostalgic products and this is
quite obvious in their slogan""طعم حبيناه و بنعيش معاه.
Behavioral segmentation: Moving on to the behavioral segmentation
the first one is the Occasion segmentation such as back to school
corona offers certain promotions and promo packs at the times of back to
school it also gives away pencil cases and other stationary carrying the
logo of Corona this is also used to push corona’s image to younger
generations. Corona also segment the market based on the User status
they made a product for first time user which is the chocolate bites which
is going to be distributed to cashiers in hypermarkets and used instead of
small money change at a price of one pound so it is produced mainly to
allow users to try the chocolate and turn the first-time users into regular
users of the product. They also segment the market based on the usage
rate into light, medium and heavy users of the product this is obvious in
the different sizes of the chocolate they offer some sizes are suitable for
family use others for kids’ others for adults and so on. we can consider
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also that Corona segments the market based on the Benefits sought
they produce another type of chocolate called the coverture chocolate
which is a cooking chocolate that is used in making cakes and other
bakery so it mainly targets house wives and young mothers. Corona also
provides two types of Cocoa the first one is drinking chocolate powder
that is used to make hot chocolate and the second type is the raw cocoa
powder which is used in household purposes such as bakery and sweets
and not used for drinking as chocolate drink so each product gives a
different benefit
Jelly: Gummies jelly for kids, Valda jelly for adults.
Age
Spread chocolate: Hazelnut spread chocolate for adults and mothers, spread chocolate for
Demographic kids containing vitamins.
Higher income class: high quality expensive products as: Mint chocolate ,sando chocolate
Income
Lower income class: Magic chocolate for 3 pounds and “lux” cocoa
Personality Different flavors of chocolate to fit different tastes and preferences of people
Psychographic
Lifestyle Light chocolate for people who follow a healthy lifestyle
Occasions Back to school they offer promotions and giveaway stationery for school kids
Raw cocoa powder for household use and bakery, drinking chocolate powder for chocolate
Behavioral drinks
Benefits sought
Dark chocolate for people who are allergic to lactose in milk so they can eat chocolate
Usage rate Different sizes of chocolates for light, heavy and medium users
Chocolate bites used at the cashiers to be given instead of change produced to attract non
User status
users and turn them into first time and current users
Targeting:
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flavors” so this is the set of benefits that corona promises to deliver to its
customers to satisfy their needs so this is the way they want to be
positioned and perceived in the minds of the target consumers
Marketing Environment:
The marketing environment consists of the actors and forces outside
marketing that affects the marketing management ability to build and
maintain successful relationships with target customers. The marketing
environment is classified into Microenvironment consists of the actors
close to the company that affects its ability to serve its customers.
Consists of: the company, suppliers , marketing intermediaries ,
competitors , publics and customers. Regarding Corona the top
management is considered really weak because there are some
management positions that are currently vacant which would negatively
affect the company and its strategic planning as currently the company
has vacancy in the position of the CFO and the HR manager. Regarding
the finance of the company it is quite deteriorated Workers claimed that
upon Privatization Company owned 1.2 M L.E unpacked products, 1M L.E
raw materials and 2 M L.E finished products. They also claimed that
Samcrete withdrew 7 M L.E from depositors of Corona and reinvested in
other companies. Third claim was Samcrete took a loan 25 M L.E for
Corona but reinvest in other companies. Regarding the research and
development, the company decided to sell some assets for product
development and human resources, in return Corona started a new quality
system that comply with ISO 9002 requirements, and hired good calibers
in the market. The second component of the microenvironment is the
suppliers regarding the local suppliers they don’t form a threat over the
company but with international suppliers their might be a threat due to
the high exchange rate regarding the competitors of corona the main
competitor for the milk chocolate is Cadbury , for the cocoa powder is
nesquick ,for bimbo ulker and regarding the wafer the main competitors
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brand. The last sociocultural trend is the increase in birthrates last years
in Egypt which means larger market which means more demand. One of
the natural factors is that Egypt environment is not suitable for cultivating
the coco beans which will lead to importing the raw material which means
increased costs over the company so this has a negative impact on the
company.
Website:
Corona has a website but it doesn’t offer any services it is a sort of
building awareness about the brand as in the website they mention the
history of the company , the product categories and some recipes to be
tried using Corona products in our opinion Corona must use its website
more wisely for example by offering job opportunities ,by giving their
consumers the chance to write their suggestions and complaints on the
website by showing their financial position sales, revenues in order to
attract investors .
Pricing:
Corona adopts different pricing strategies for each product category
regarding the biscuits and the cocoa powder the company sets low prices
for high quality products so it follows a penetration strategy in order to be
able to compete with its strong competitors in this area. Regarding the
chocolate, we see that it adopts skimming strategy as it offers low quality
relative to other competitors such as Cadbury and galaxy at high prices so
we suggest they lower the price in order to be able to cope with their
competitors. Corona adopts a premium pricing strategy with one product
which is the mint chocolate which costs 22 pounds but in exchange for
that price it is a very high-quality chocolate and it is known for its
prestigious positioning. The company adopts economic pricing strategy
with some of their products in order to be able to reach lower income
segments as it sets low prices for low quality in return such as “magic”
chocolate and “lux” cocoa powder.
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Promotional tools:
Sales Promotion:(A total budget of 6.45M EGP)
Objective:
The main objective for sales promotion is to acquire a huge sales volume,
making their selling offers for hyper market a lot more attractive to push it
forward over their competitors and innovational sales promotional
techniques that increases the desire for their chocolate and drives
consumers for Corona this will all be responsible for 36% of the total
target sales revenue and increasing brand awareness by 16%.
Sales tactics:
Their tactics here are divided into two parties B2B and B2C:
- Starting with B2B Promotions on large quantities that is estimated at
10% discount on quantities of 100k and above which will give us a
competitive advantage over our competitors to have more presence. (This
will stand for 1.2M EGP of their sales budget) (This will achieve a sales of
13% of the total sales volume during the whole year)
- "It takes one Pound to touch happiness" It is a new innovative
promotional idea with which they are trying to increase the level of desire
to their chocolate and making a lot more attractive for kids and teenagers
where you put a one pound coin into a machine and press a button that
drops liquid chocolate straight into your mouth. (They will be operating 5
machines at a total cost of 500k EGP) including all expenditures as this
will make a huge drive for kids to remember the experience of using
Corona for further purchases in the future as it will be located mainly in
mall kiosks and hyper markets we believe (this will push our sales by 7%
especially among younger generations).
- Chocolate bites are going to be another item with which we will be
conducting some more market presence and holding Corona's name at the
mind of our consumers continuously as it is going to be distributed to
cashiers in hyper markets and used instead of small money change it will
be a one chocolate bite at a selling price of half a pound. This will be a
great tool that people get to see us way more often and memorize our
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name and try consequently to push Corona into people's preferable list
(this we believe will increase our brand and product awareness by 5%)
Moving along to B2C offers that we believe are very critical and crucial for
large quantities selling mainly in large events like New Year’s Eve,
Valentine's day, Mother’s Day, summer vacations and Egyptian valentine's
day.
- Offers of buy 3 get 1 free which in events (They this believe will make
them acquire a sales volume of 7% of their total target quantity alone in
these main events). (This will cost them 4M EGP for extra gifts on 2.5M
chocolate bar).
-Sales Promotions and presence in summer vacations is very important
since their message is to deliver happiness and they need to be there
where people are most happy. There are free giveaways of chocolate bar
through promotional kiosks in summer vacations like Alexandria, Ras El
Bar, North Coast and Hurghada. People will need to like our face book
page as well for an extra gift of Corona Pencils or an extra Corona bar or
some school items to attract children and it will be done though lottery for
better excitement (These kiosks with the giveaways will hold 750k EGP to
distribute 200K chocolate bars at a cost of 2 EGP each and the additional
gifts) (This will contribute by at least 4% of total sales volume)
Sales promotion does not generate loyalty by any means but generates
huge sales volume which is not the only main target that they seek, their
main purpose here is to be able to be seen by customers way more often,
they need them to buy their chocolate and go around with it and their kids
and the family and everyone gets to see that you are eating Corona as
this will drive more desire and need for Corona chocolate later and
showing our customer our presence and that we are everywhere since
through their survey they have noticed that almost all of the kids who did
the survey had no clue what Corona is and never heard of and adults had
never heard about Corona for at least over a year which was kind of
shocking and they wanted to change that.
Publicity & public relations:(A total budget of 3.42M EGP)
Objective:
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Through Publicity they would like to show their new strong financial
capabilities and to be seen way more and pushing a positive feedback to
12% of the total target market through contribution in social
responsibilities and having a stronger and a firmer company image by
having articles written about Corona in newspaper.
Publicity tactics
- Sponsorship of big time media events like "The voice kids" as these
strong media events has a strong impact and huge media coverage and
reflects a positive image which will help by participating to strengthen the
image of their chocolate and having a better consumer perception. (The
show will help contribute with 8% of our total sales volume) (sponsoring
the show will cost 2M EGP)
- Creating a football league among teenagers between "12-15" which
will help us to push corona's image to younger generations and keep
reminding their target customers with their name which will lead them to
branding Corona eventually. (The football league holding will cost 500k
EGP) (will contribute with 2% of total sales)
- Again, with pushing corona's name and brand and awareness through
their target customers by giving away pencil cases which will be seen in
school by other classmates from similar and close age range. (The
giveaways will cost 450k EGP for a cost of 50 EGP per case) (will
contribute with 2.25% of total sales)
- 48 articles written a year by 4 a month that will cost about 480K EGP and
that will contribute in brand awareness and promotion by 6% and will be
mainly be in El- Ahram and El-Shabab magazines as these newspapers
have a direct relationship with our direct market.
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Our opinion:
To an extent, Corona does believe in marketing. But not as much as it
should. Corona is more of product oriented, it develops a product, launch
it into void, then see what does its consumers think about it. At this age &
time, all company should be consumer oriented, identify what the
consumer want & work towards providing that for its consumers. For
example, the new types of Bimbo that are produced. Corona launched an
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extension for its famous product Bimbo into the market from some time,
but up till this point I haven’t heard anything about it from anywhere. If it
wasn’t for the meeting we had with their marketing manager, we wouldn’t
have known anything about its existence.
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