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Britannia Khao World Cup Jao - Review
Britannia Khao World Cup Jao - Review
Britannia Khao World Cup Jao - Review
COMPANY PROFILE :
Britannia Industries Limited (BIL) was established in 1981. It started as a small bakery and today has become the largest bakery in private sector. In 1998-99 it attained a Turnover of Rs 10300 million which was a 21% rise from the previous years.
4 Ps of Britannia :
PRODUCT : BILs main concerns were Biscuits and high protein food items. Biscuits : 85% Breads : 6.5% Others : 8.5%
PRICING : Tried to set a Premium Image as per Pricing. POSITIONING : Consumers looked upon BIL as a CARING Brand. BIL found that consumers were Health conscious so they formed their positioning Platform HEALTH. With this they came with the slogan Eat healthy, Think Better. PROMOTION : BIL used various strategies for Promotion, one of the Most Prevailing once has been at the time of World Cup 1999 when BIL came with contest Britannia Khao, World Cup Jao. Well further discuss the same.
Spolsorship Key Facts : 4 Official Sponsors : Pepsi, Vodafone, Emirates Airlines and Nat West bank. Total Adv Time of Telecast to Official Sponsors : 60%
Pepsis spent to be 1 of the 4 major sponsors was $3.5 million, and apart from that another Rs. 500 million was expected for non-media promotional spending. There were lot others who came with the promotional schemes, contests, events, capitalising on world cup fever. Brand like Phillips, Britannia and Sumsung were expected to run ad burst worth Rs. 300 million each.
c. 1000 cricket bats. d. 10,000 wrist watches. e. 100,000 f. 4,00,000 Tiger cashew Badam biscuits (75gm). Chekkers biscuits packets (14gm).
CONCLUSION :
1. The four major sponsors spent far more for promotion, which still does not assure the sales, but BILs strategy was targeted directly on Sales, as one has to purchase the product to take part. 2. The Scheme was very successful as it lead to a Sale rise of 37% that year. 3. BIL was able to link it emotional via using Health and Care as their prime Positioning Factors. 4. Via this scheme BIL, which was known as a Biscuit Brand was able to promote its Other products too. 5. BIL successfully used the TOOL of Ambush Marketing and gave one of the Most successful campaigns in its History.