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" Focal, Natural Deodorant Stick That Controls Your Sweating and Body Odor
" Focal, Natural Deodorant Stick That Controls Your Sweating and Body Odor
NATURAL DEODORANT STICK
“ Focal, natural deodorant stick
that controls your sweating and body odor.
Alcohol, oil, and fragrance free
”
By
Grade 12
Nattawadee Lotharukpong (
Lamour
)
Peerapat Lertvivattrakul (
Flook
)
For Introduction to Marketing
Miss Piyawan Sunasuan
Mahidol University International Demonstration School
Word Count:
2863
Table of Content
Content Page
Introduction 1
Product Description 3
Environmental Analysis 5
Consumer Analysis 7
SWOT Analysis 8
Marketing Focus 9
Distribution Channels 10
Financial Information 12
Marketing Plan 14
References 16
Introduction
Have you ever walked in the Sun, and before you can get any further, noticed an
odd smell? The smell that is quite unpleasant that can possibly repel people around you
away have you been aware of it? This situation might happen in any other countries, but
in Kenya, in which lacks of an access to basic necessities especially clean water, people
see that body odor as a common culture. Why? Because not everyone there gets an
opportunity to take a shower according to a number of reasons.
The inability to access clean water sources has been one of the most dramatic
issues in Kenya. They have encountered water crisis for years and do not have a means
of approaching bathing. To demonstrate, Kenya has encountered water crisis for years
according to natural disasters flooding and droughts for instance , inability of
government to distribute water equally, and increasing demand of water due to the rapid
growth of population. Because of this, 17 million people which are considered 43% of
population in Kenya do not have access to showering, meaning that the hygiene
coverage in Kenya is terribly low.
In general, not bathing for only one day affects your body to produce unpleasant
smell according to bacteria on the skin that reacts with sweat and becomes certain acids.
Not only this will result negative effects to your mental health losing your confidence,
body odor
but it will also ruffle feathers of people around you. Although is not a huge
issue among Kenyan themselves, they even need to take it as a consideration when it
comes to tourists who are unusual with this odor culture. Thus, we proudly present our
deodorant product called “
Focal
” the natural deodorant made in Thailand that will make
Kenyan confident even unbathed, and nonusers satisfied being around them.
The target region for our market entry is Kenya. To be specific, we currently aim
to distribute the sale of “
Focal
” into the capital, Nairobi which there are approximately
3,138,369 people living here, and also into rural areas in the future.
Marketing Goals
Shortterm goal
We hope to sell
812,400
bottles of Focal over the next year (2017) in the areas of
Nairobi, Momsaba, and Kimusu at a product price of
69 THB.
Longterm goal
We hope to sell approximately over
10 million
bottles of Focal through
convenience stores, pharmacy, and supermarkets in Kenya within 2026 (10 years).
Product Description
Focal is a natural deodorant stick that effectively protects sweating and body odor
without leaving stains. Its delicacy is a stress protection without harmful and
unsupportingskin ingredients such as alcohol, oil, and fragrance. This product does not
only offer consumers only confidence, but also healthcare from pullutiously selected
ingredients from nature; it is made of Aqua, Ammonium Alum, Propylene, Glycol,
Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Allantoin, Niacinamide, Diazolidinyl Urea, Iodopropynyl
Butylcarbamate. To demonstrate, a combination of these natural ingredients will benefit
consumers unlike other big competitors such as Nivea and Rexona, because without a
whitens armpits and lowers cancer risk
composition of alcohol, “Focal” truly .
Although “Focal” has never entered Kenyan deodorant market, and deodorant
made from natural ingredients has not yet been introduced to Kenya, it will be able to
take an advantage over other competitors by excluding the use of alcohol the main
ingredient that causes dark armpits and breast tumours possibly, oil the ingredient that
leaves deodorants stains on shirts, and fragrance the ingredient that causes irritation
and allergy. Instead of using alcohol to kill bacteria on underarms, a special property of
Ammonium Alum
helps prevent the sweat that reacts with bacteria on the skin not to
break down into certain acids the acids affect peculiar body smell.
Most of other deodorants require alcohol such as benzyl that is widely used in
Nivea products to help reduce bacterial growth in the armpit. Instead, Focal uses
Ammonium Alum
whose ability is to decrease the growth of bacteria that is equivalent as
alcohol but better for consumer’s health in a long term. To illustrate, alcohol used in other
deodorants such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, and benzyl are in a group of parabens. After
parabens have been used in cosmetic industry especially underarm deodorants for
almost 70 years, there has been a number of research that portrays the threat of the use
of paraben or alcohol in deodorants; it is linked to breast cancer. In the study, it is said
that when we apply deodorant consisted of alcohol, the substance disturbs body’s
hormonal balance and estrogen that develops the tumour formation.
Other explicit advantages that consumers will have from “Focal” is, without using
fragrance and alcohol, it prevents allergy and dark spots on underarms. Because “Focal”
is not composed of perfume that irritates the skin that possibly causes allergy, and is
made of natural substance Ammonium Alum that does not contains chemicals which is
able to react with the skin to cause discoloration.
Environmental Analysis
On the other hand, “Focal” is a newly established brand in Thailand, and has not
been introduced to Kenyan deodorant market or any international markets. There are
several wellknown deodorant brands in Kenya such as Nivea, Henkel, and Rexona.
According to the statistic from Euromonitor International, Nivea has the largest value
share of 27%, Henkel has 17%, and Rexona has 16%.
Thus, it will be quite aggressive and difficult in order to compete with a popular
brand like Nivea. Including to the fact that these brands have been integrated in Kenya
for a longer period of time, they have diversified different categories and purposes of
each product. For instance, Rexona provides a variety of products such as shower clean,
powder, and deodorants including spray and rollon types. And all of these products are
widely accepted due to Rexona’s reputation that it is world’s No.1 antiperspirant which
makes their products even more reliable. Another example is Nivea, they may not offer a
diversity of product categories but what an outstanding about this brand is they offer
various purposes of deodorant products. To imply, Nivea distinguishes deodorants for
men and women that further provide different objectives of use such as Dry Comfort,
Silver Protect, and Whitening.
Furthermore, since these companies have been started for a long time, they also
have developed their deodorant products to be 48hr Protection, while “Focal” proffers
only 24Hr Protection.
Nonetheless, price of “Focal” is at 69 THB (60ml.) which is more affordable than
other brands: price of Rexona rollon starts at 6575 THB (40ml.), Nivea rollon starts at
80110 (50ml.), and the price of Henkel rollon is unknown.
Consumer Analysis
The target market of “Focal” in a longterm investment is people living in Kenya
who are confronting water scarcity and do not have access to bathing. Currently, we plan
to distribute the sale of “Focal” through Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya. We
arrange to present and sell the product in the capital first because although the
percentage of population that can approach to clean water in the city is more than other
areas, there is still a high number of people that do not have an access to it.
The living in Nairobi, however, is overrated than the rural areas. This implies that
most of population in the city have more jobs and are middleclass workers, meaning
that there will be a higher potential for these people to buy “Focal”.
According to Focal’s price 65 THB per stick that is more affordable comparing
to other deodorants such as Nivea and Rexona, will enable our consumers whose per
capita income is 1,337.9 USD or 45,360 THB (3,780 THB/Month) approximately to
consume this deodorant product in a long term. In addition, the increase of per capita
income and population growth have influenced an expanding working class consumer
base for deodorant in the earlier period, and guaranteeing further growth for the
deodorant business.
Therefore, “Focal” will help Kenyan who are struggling with an access to bathing
feel confident and comfortable throughout the day, and most significantly help enrich
sanitation of Kenyan with extra advantages: soothe, smooth, and beautiful underarms.
SWOT analysis
“FOCAL”
Strengths Weaknesses
● Made of natural ingredients ● Lesser protection hours [Focal
● Extra skincare guarantee soothe, 24Hr., Nivea and Rexona 48Hr.]
smooth, and beautiful underarms ● Not wellknown
● Decrease breast cancer risk ● Not have strong consumer base in
● Better and safer for consumer’s Kenya
health in a long term ● Less variation of product choices
● Cheaper
Opportunities Threats
● Enter the deodorant market with ● Competitors have been wellknown
something new for a long time
● If people buy and try “Focal” and it ● Competitors’ consumer base is
is as effective as advertised, they much larger
will continue to consume it and ● Only 60% of Kenyan use
more people will buy it. deodorants
● Cheap and efficient product
expands the opportunity more
easily than expensive product like
Nivea
Marketing Focus (4Ps)
Product
Focal, a natural deodorant stick that effectively protects sweating and body odor
without leaving stains. By using this product, the consumers does not only give
consumer confidence but give them healthcare from pullutiously selected ingredients
from nature. Our product help enrich sanitation of Kenyan with extra advantages: soothe,
smooth, and beautiful underarms.
Place
The main target place where we distribute our product is Kenya’s people who are
confronting water scarcity and do not have access to bathing. We will focus distributing
our product in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. The population in the capital city is
overrated than rural areas which means we will get higher sales from higher population
in Nairobi.
Price
We set a price of Focal the natural deodorant stick in 69 Baht, which is around
194.8 Kenyan Shilling. This price is affordable for those people in Kenya due to the
average of Kenya’s cost of living. Comparing Focal with other deodorant sticks in Kenya,
Focal product is reasonable and cheaper: Nivea rollon starts at 80110 (50ml.), Rexona
rollon starts at 6575 THB (40ml.), and the price of Henkel rollon is unknown.
Promotion
We offer our customers to get a free tester of our product according to our
freshness of our company’s name in Kenya.
Distribution channels
Focal’s production is in Thailand. Therefore, as a company, starting a new
business in an undeveloped country costs a lot more than importing products in Thailand
because most of necessary materials are available here which can decrease the cost of
production. Also, operating a business that has never entered Kenya will be a new
experience, which comes with unexpected problems. Therefore, we will always have to
be prepared for consumers that have different cultures and perspectives towards
businesses and products.
Transport through shipping lines would be the best way to deliver the product from
Thailand to Kenya comparing to other type for transportation such as highway, railroad,
and air freight. Kenya is not a landlocked country, shipping product to Mombasa port can
save our transportation cost and time. Even though air freight required less time to
distribute but the cost were so much higher that reduce the profits off. The size of cargo
that available for shipping overseas are 20ft, 40ft, & 60ft container. In this case, we use
40 ft container instead of a 20ft container because it help us reduce the transportation
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cost when there’s a lot of product need to be ship. One 40ft. dry cargo has 67.70 m or
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67,700,000 cm. And one package of focal require the volume of 250 cm. Therefore,
one 40ft cargo can deliver around 270,800 Focal package with the price of $1987.
At Mombasa port, Kenya, Focal will be distributed to “Tuskys” the largest
supermarket chain with high credibility and reliability in Kenya and Uganda. The product
will be delivered from Mombasa port to Tuskys warehouse which located in Nairobi by
railway and later spread out among 52 Tuskys branches in Kenya. Choosing the railway
as a transportation from Mombasa port to Nairobi can save time and cost comparing to
transporting by the cargo. Also, transporting the container through railway can help us
avoid the problem of overweight container when it’s on the highway.
Selecting to import Focal through shipping would be the best way to distribute the
product because the route from Mombasa port to Tuskys headquarter were very short.
Therefore, shipping a container from Thailand and deliver it by railway would be the
easiest and safest for our products
Then, after product becomes wellknown, Focal will be distributed to other
supermarket such as Naivas Limited, Ukwala Supermarket, Nakumatt and Carrefour. By
expanding to those supermarket, Focal will be easier for customer to find and also wider
the consumer target group since Focal will be available everywhere in Nairobi.
Financial Information
Cost
● Initial price: 60 market price,
50 THB from industry
(
x812,400
) =
40,620,000THB
○ https://smelink.net/company/primacarecoltd.html
● Sea Freight Container 40FT (x3): 1,987USD or 65,571THB/each(x3) =
196,713THB
● Railway from mombasa to nairobi : $ 750 each = $2,250 per 3cargo =
76,360
THB
● Advertising (social media and model):
○ Social media
■ Primary: via
● Facebook:
600,000 THB
/1Y
● Twitter: 600,000KES or
1,198,422 THB
/1Y
● Presenters:
500,000 THB
/1Y
● Import tax 12.5%
= 43,191,495 + import tax = Final
= 43,191,495 + (40,620,000 x 12.5%)
= 48,268,995 BHT
Income
● Consensus
= 56,055,600 48,268,99
=
7,786,605/1Y
Market pricing
Principle Price : 58.8 Baht / each
Selling Price: 69 Baht / each
Profit Margin : 20%
The reason why we sell Focal at this price is because the cost are lower and the
quantity is greater comparing to other brands of deodorant stick such as Nivea and
Rexona.
Marketing plan
Primarily market plan would be advertising Focal through social media such as
Facebook and Twitter because more than 30% of their population have an access to
social media and these two applications are the most popular ones.
To promote our product, we will invite wellknown people or celebrity that are
widely accepted and admired in Kenya to be product’s presenters through the ads on
social media. Those presenters should be able to represent themselves as a hygienic
person. Advertising through social media would help spreading the name of the brand
out and become commonly known among Kenyan population. Basically the content of
advertisement is about using Focal would help the consumers get rid off smell, raise their
confident and protect their hygiene. The main role of advertising through social media is
to make Focal become wellknown and change the perspective of Kenyan that not taking
bathe can preserve their unique smell. Therefore, the odor is less harmless to foreigner
and also lift up their hygiene standard.
The advertisement will be based on engaging Kenyans to have a better hygiene
which leads to confidence and better wellbeing, if they buy “Focal”.
It isn’t about promoting our product, but on the other hand, help Kenyan by lifting
up their life quality since they have a better hygiene and prevent themselves from
diseases.
Secondary market plan is to promote Focal through billboard around the ‘Tuskys’
supermarket in order to remind consumers about our product, make them feeling
interesting in it and want to try Focal once. The billboard should look interesting with
warm tone color. Therefore, capture consumer attention with their willingness to try the
product.
Among those billboards, another type of advertisement is ‘Radio’. Some rural area
in Kenya do not have accessibility to internet and other type of social media. Therefore,
radio is their predominance media where they listen to and receive the daily news from.
By advertising through radio, the presenter should has an enthusiastic voice to
encourage listener to buy and try the product once. The content of advertisement would
be about the benefits of using focal as a deodorant stick and why a person should buy
and have one.
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