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MARKETING IN PRACTICE
Submitted By : Fathima Sharmila Khan
CB Number : 003332
Module Lecturer : Miss. Nilusha Gallege
Module Code & Title : BLB10151-2
Intake Code : HF091BA
Date Assigned : 24th November 2009
Date Due : 16th February 2010
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ABSTRACTGonuts with Donuts an infant company in the confectionary industry with the specialization in
donuts. But it has achieved a huge improvement within few months. The main objective of this
marketing plan is to increase the market share by introducing a new product line to the market.
Basic analysis of the marketing environment and the company strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats (SWOT) has identified to figure out the actual position of the company
to implement the marketing plan and achieve the company objectives.
Cupcakes are the new product Gonuts with Donuts expect to introduce to their large customer-
base. Identification of the best segments, how they will be the targeted to produce the product to
the market efficiently and Position a positive image about the product in customers mind etc.
have been proposed through this report.
Marketing mix for cupcakes has been set for a successful product launce. Final part of the report
is the execution of the marketing plan and to evaluate the final outcome key performance
indicators have been established.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTI would like to acknowledge and extend my heartfelt gratitude to our Marketing lecturer Miss.
Nilusha Gallage, for her continues vital encouragement and support to complete this report
successfully and I acknowledge Dr. Mahesha Samarathunga for dedicating her precocious time
on a special citation and referencing work shop, the chief executive officer Mr. Lalin Michael
Jinasena of LMJ group of companies, Mr. Nawal Cassim Human resources manager of Casa
Colombo, Shipping Manager of Adamjee Luckmanjee and sons Ltd Mr. Basheer Ahamed and
the administrative and library staff of APIIT Sri Lanka.
Most especially I acknowledge my family for the love and the endless guidance given for me and
to God, who made everything possible.
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Table of contentABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...............................................................................................................3
Table of content...............................................................................................................................4
List of figures...................................................................................................................................6
List of tables.....................................................................................................................................7
List of abbreviations........................................................................................................................8
Proposal..........................................................................................................................................11
Table of content.............................................................................................................................12
Background-of-GWD....................................................................................................................13
Market-summary............................................................................................................................15
SWOT-Analysis.............................................................................................................................17
Marketing-objectives.....................................................................................................................20
Corporate-objective....................................................................................................................20
Qualitative-objectives................................................................................................................20
Quantitative-Objectives ............................................................................................................20
STP-process of GWD....................................................................................................................21
Marketing-mix...............................................................................................................................24
Product ......................................................................................................................................24
Price ..........................................................................................................................................27
Place .........................................................................................................................................30
Promotion ..................................................................................................................................32
Execution and evaluation...............................................................................................................34
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................36
Appendix A Analysis and wrap up.........................................................................................38
Appendix B Justification of selected segments......................................................................42
Appendix C Effective segmentation ......................................................................................44
Appendix D Positioning..........................................................................................................48
Appendix E Internal and external factors affects the price ....................................................50
Appendix F -Fixing final price ................................................................................................52
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Appendix G -Promotional materials..........................................................................................55
Appendix I Execution and evaluation.....................................................................................64
References .....................................................................................................................................66
Bibliography .................................................................................................................................67
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List of figuresFigure 1 - Product range of GWD
Figure 2 - Segmentation Bases
Figure 3 - Boston matrix
Figure 4 - Demand curve
Figure 5 - Channel levels
Figure 6 - Brief analysis of population and housing characteristics
Figure 7 - House hold income and expenditure
Figure 8 - Census of population and housing
Figure 9 - Proposed Gonuts cupcakes logo
Figure 10 - Proposed promotional materials for children
Figure 11 - Proposed promotional materials for teenagers and shoppers
Figure 12 - Proposed promotional materials for parents
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List of tablesTable 1 - Growth of GWD
Table 2 - Competitors of Gonuts with Donuts
Table 3 - Perceptual map
Table 4 - PLC theoretical versus actual
Table 5 - Competitors price
Table 6 - Outlet placement
Table 7 - Promotional mix
Table 8 - Gantt chart
Table 9 - Fixing final pricing
Table 10 - Costs of ingredients
Table 11 - Promotional budget
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List of abbreviationsCSR - Corporate social responsibility
GWD - Gonuts with Donuts
HRD - Human Resources Department
LMJ - Lalin Michel Jinasena
NGO - Non government organizations
P & S - Perera and sons bakers
PLC - Product life cycle
POD - Point of difference
STP - segmenting, Targeting, and positioning.
VAT - Value added tax
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Proposal
To : Miss: Nilusha Gallage
From : Fathima Sharmila Khan (CB003332)
Date : 16th February 2010
Subject : Marketing Plan for Gonuts with Donuts
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Table of content1. Company background..............................................................................................................11
2. Market summary......................................................................................................................13
3. SWOT analysis........................................................................................................................14
4. Marketing objectives................................................................................................................16
5. Marketing strategy...................................................................................................................17
6. Marketing mix..........................................................................................................................20
7. Execution and evaluation.........................................................................................................29
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Background-of-GWDGWD is an innovative company in the food-industry which brought a new concept to the Sri-
Lankan confectionary market. They have specialized in donuts and have many flavors and
varieties of donuts.
GWD is a member of L. M. Jinasena & Company (LMJ), which is owned by Sri-Lankan
designer Mr. Lalin-Michael-Jinasena. (GWD-corporate-website, 2009).GWD started operations
in March-2009 and achieved a considerable growth within few-months.
The growth of GWD
Then Now
1-outlet 9-outlets
15-employees 62-employees
6-flavours 16-flavours + specials
36000-donut per-month 80000-donuts per-month
3-delivery-bikes 6-delivery-bikes
Table-1-(Jinesena, 2009)
GWD does not have apparent vision/mission statements. According to the CEO it indicates to
promote the brand as a must-have house-hold product with brand loyalty. (Jinesena, 2009)
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Figure-1- (source:-GWD-corporate-website, 2009)
Unless hunting customers for the available product manufacturing products which match the
customers need is effective. (Kotler & Keller, 2006) GWD uses Facebook fan-club as an
equipment to obtain feedback. It indicates they follow the marketing philosophy which is basedon customer needs. Company has to introduce new products to be stable in the unforeseen
market. This marketing plan is to introduce cupcakes since its a new opportunity. GWD expects
to establish new outlets in the local market as well as in the south Asian region.
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Market-summaryThere are many competitors in the confectionary industry but competitors have specialized in
different sectors or combination of different product ranges. GWD specialized in donuts are the
pioneers in this market. Therefore GWD has to compete with all other food manufacturers since
there is a monopolistic competition but as a donut seller it operates as monopoly. The
competition is not based on the products but on special factors of the industry.
Category Participants
Delivery-service Pizza-hut/Dominos/Harpo's-Pizza
Sweets Ice-Cream/Indian-sweets
Savoury-products KFC/McDonalds/Dine-more/Marry-Brown
Bakeries FAB/Green-cabin/P&S/Caravan,
Coffee-shops Coffee-bean/Barista/Cinnamon grand coffee-stop,Physical-Evidence KFC/McDonalds/Pizza-hut/Barista
Table-2-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
Target customers of GWD are,
Shoppers
Office-workers
Students/children
Teenagers
Housewife/mothers (Jinesena,2009)
GWD established all the outlets where the target-customers exist. (Rife-table-7)
The caf-trend, coffee-culture etc. is completely new to the market and adopted from the
western-world.
Donuts are now in the growth-stage of its PLC. GWD can introduce cupcakes and other similar
confectionary products and has the opportunity to expand operations.
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GWD has to face many problems when introducing new products to the market. Local customers
sometimes reject western trends. Growing health-consciousness, price-sensitiveness is big issues
and Sri Lankans prefer savory-foods more.
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SWOT-Analysis
Strengths
Monopolistic-competition - GWD market share is totally capitalised since GWD
initiated donut specialization.
Large-customers and strong-brand - Its hard to overtake the market and to position a
new brand in customers mind.
Customer-oriented-outlets - the location strategy has a very good impact on the
company. All outlets are based on the target customers and its within Colombo area.
Reputed-background - GWD affiliated with LMJ groups. It has leading businesses
therefore it helps to improve the reputation.
Weaknesses
Price-sensitiveness - cannot increase the price due to any changes in production cost
since the demand is elastic.
Limited to donuts - Specializing only in donuts would not help to increase the profits.
Charges on extra-services - GWD charges for the delivery-service.
Narrow-promotions - Uncreative promotions lack the awareness of more customers.
Opportunities
Expanding-operations - GWD can launch new outlets island-wide and in the south
Asian region since there are not reputed donut cafes available.
Increase the product-range - GWD has the opportunity to introduce more products such
as cupcakes, coffee brands sugar-free products etc. and to introduce more seasonal
products.
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Online-purchases - To reduce the waiting time GWD can introduce online-orders.
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Threats
Food-preference Most of the Sri Lankans prefer savoury products more than sweets,
GWD has to put an extra effort to direct the customer to their products.
Fear of international-brands - Donut giants in the world can easily launch outlets in Sri
Lanka. This is a huge threat because GWD is an infant in the donut market.
Imported inputs Special-flavourings are imported and have to maintain the cost
without harming the prices.
Health consciousness - Society has an interest on healthy food consumption.
GWD has to convert these weaknesses and threats to strengths and opportunities respectively.
(Rifer-appendix-A)
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Marketing-objectives
Corporate-objective
Maximise the market share by expanding the business operations.
Create more brand awareness and loyal customers
Qualitative-objectives
Promote the brand name as a house-hold product
Increase the customer satisfaction and brand awareness
Introducing cupcakes to the existing customer base1.
Introducing donuts to new markets. 2
Create a loyal customer-base.
Produce high quality-goods for a favourable-price.
Quantitative-Objectives
Reduce complaints down by 5%.
Increase the market-share by 10%.
Maximise the revenue by 10% by 2012.
Increasing the purchasing-frequency of cupcakes by 10% by 2011.
Establish 4-outlets out of Colombo by 2012.
1 Applying Ansoff matrix Product-development2Applying Ansoff matrix introducing existing-products to the new-markets
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STP-process of GWDGWD concentrates on target-marketing-strategy which is catering different-products to different-
consumer-groups.
GWD has selected the segments based on different variables. There are main four segmentation
variables, Geographic, demographic, psychographics and behavioral (Kotler & Gray, 2006). The
combination of main segments gives a unique segmentation-base for GWD.
Figure 2-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
These selected segmentation bases describes the similarity and the needs of the target market.
(Rifer-appendix-B)
Effective-segmentation contains five-bases. Measurable,-Accessible,-Substantial,-Differentialand actionable (Kotler& Armstrong, 2008)
The above selected customers are large and profitable since they are within an urban area. Easy
access and the characteristics are similar. According to national censors the population and the
income is measurable (Household-Income-and-Expenditure-Survey, 2006/07) since all the above
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elements are effective GWD can easily implement the marketing-mix for cupcakes. (Rifer-
appendix-C)
The selected segments are shoppers, office workers and teenagers/children because GWD can
cater them successfully. These identified segments preferences meet the objectives of the new
product launch.
Jobber states (2007: p301) When market segmentation reveals several potential-targets, specific
marketing-mixes can be developed to all or some of the segments GWD has seasonal-donuts
which bring a special-interest on seasons and savory-products for the people who are not
interested in sweets. Overall GWD represents the differentiated-targeting-strategy.
A successful positioning can be done by differentiating the offerings in the market. GWD has
differentiated the product by specializing in donuts. They have increased the service capacity as
well as pioneers in donuts home-delivery service. Customers have a good-image about GWD
since they produce high quality donuts.
GWDs positioning-strategy is unique selling proposition since they try to differentiate the
products among competitors. (Rifer-appendix-D)
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Marketing-mix
Product
Cupcakes are the proposed new product-line.
Product-levels-of-cupcakes
Core - Satisfying instant hunger/desert/snack.
Basic - Cupcakes/Wrappers
Expected - Delicious/hygienic/readily-available,
Augmented - Home-delivery/High-Quality,
Potential - Star-cupcakes/Fruity-cupcakes.
The customers expect unique-features in every product which comes to the market. GWD
especially concern about cupcakes and the customers have a point of difference about the
product since the positioning is to make the product and the brand more attractive with unique-
features. The product-levels of cupcakes are different from the competitors and it grabs the
attention of the customer.
Cupcakes are available in the market though its new to GWD. Since the concept is already
exists cupcakes are an imitative-product to GWD.
The core-benefit of cupcakes is satisfying instant-hunger or the need of desert/snack. Therefore
this product is a frequently-purchased item in other words impulse/convenience goods.
The profitability and the market-situation change along with the PLC therefore analysis of the
theoretical and actual situation is as given below.
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Theoretical Actual
Intro Growth Intro Growth
Sales Low High High High
Cost High Average Average Low
Competition - High Moderate Moderate
Profit Negative High High High
Demand - High High High
Price High Average Low Low
Table-4-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
GWD stands at the star in Boston-matrix which has a considerable market share with profit
generation.GWD expects to move to the cash cow which generates huge profits at the maturity
stage. To be stabilized in the market new-product-development is required and it has been
proposed to introduce cupcakes.
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Figure-3-(source:-quick-MBA-corporate-website, 2009)
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Price
To achieve company objectives the GWD has to fix a price which is favorable to the customers
and the company. There are many internal and external factors affect the price of cupcakes.
(Rifer-appendix-E)
Pricing-objectives
Attract more customers.
Increase purchasing-frequency.
Increase the market-share through attractive prices.
Create awareness of high quality products for favourable prices.
Compete with the competitors successfully.
Maximize revenue of the organization.
Competitors supply the same product in the market and the prices are competitive since the
elastic-demand. GWD has to face many restrictions when fixing the price. When GWD increases
the price of the product the purchasing quantity of the product is being reduced by a large-
percentage.
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Figure-4-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
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Financial considerations of GWD,
Overall rent should not exceed 10% from revenue.
Food cost should not exceed 30% from retail price.
Advertising cost should be 2%-5% of revenue.
Wastages must be controlled (Jinesena L.M, 2009)
Competitors prices are as given below.
Competitor PricesCoffee-Stop 160.00
Barista 75.00
FAB 55.00
P&S 40.00
Caravan 35.00
Table-5-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
Market penetration-pricing1 is the most suitable strategy since the product is demand-oriented.
The company can fix the price according to profit-oriented-strategy which targets profit.
According to market penetration, final price has been fixed to Rs 60 including 12% VAT. (Rifer-
appendix-F)
1 Setting a low price for a new product in order to attract large number of customers
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Place
Cupcakes will be purchased frequently therefore the location should be easy to access. The
customers need to obtain information about the product, the available verities and GWD has to
respond to continues orders. GWD delivers goods to the customers and the location should be in
the center of gravity point which can easily manage all the orders effectively.
Channel-objectives
To reach the target customers conveniently.
To reduce the waiting time.
To attract new customers daily and increase profits.
To position the location as the favourite place of the customers.
GWD has no intermediaries since they manufacture and directly delivers it to the customer.
Figure-5-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
The distribution strategy of GWD is selective2. Basically they have few outlets only around
Colombo but the objective is to widely distribute the product locally and internationally which is
representing the intensive3 strategy.
Outlet-placement and the target-customers
2 Limited-number-of-outlets3 Many-outlets-to-sell-the-goods
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location Target-customers
ODEL Shoppers/Foreigners/Teenagers,
Alfred-house-garden-Colombo-3 Office workers
Crescat Shoppers/Foreigners
Nawam-Mawatha Office-workers
HSBC call-center Office-workersM.D Gunasena Book-shop Colombo-4 StudentsCartoon-Kids Kids/Shoppers
Table-6-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
To achieve ultimate company-objectives choosing the right channel alternative would be
favorable. GWD currently has the delivery services. Rather than establishing new outlets GWD
has the choice to supply products under the brand-name to selected locations such as hotels in the
short-run. GWD can franchise and maximize the business-operations in the long-run.
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Promotion
To achieve required response from the identified potential customers GWD has to influence the
mentality to purchase the product.
Communication-objectives
Make awareness of the product more in the selected-groups.
Make the product friendly to the target-group. (Must-have-product).
Create a loyal customer base.
Increase the demand through effective-communication.
To achieve objectives an effective message is important to grab the attention. The main message
should be delivered is, quality product from GWD for a fair price. This content is a rational
appeal according to Kotler. (Kotler & Armstrong, 2005)
The structure of this message is to provide a positive stimulus about the taste basically a positive
argument about the product. The format is the usual GWD background and the theme colors. The
brand ambassadors have been chosen according to the target ordinance. (Rifer-Appendix-G)
Major communicating channels are billboards, TV and radio advertisements, newspapers,
Facebook fan-club, free-gifts and email-marketing.
Objective and task method is the most efficient method to establish the marketing budget.
Objectives
Make awareness 25% of target-customers.
Increase the sales by 10% within first 3-months.
Continues improvement in sales.
Tasks
Fixing attention-grabbing billboards at identified locations.
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Free-gifts will be offered to first 1000.
Newspaper articles TV and radio commercials will be published.
Total budget for these communication channels are around Rs 714000. (Rifer-appendix-H)
Promotional mix
Promotional-mix Channels
Advertising TV-commercial/Newspaper/Billboards
Sales-promotion Free-gifts
Direct-marketing Email-marketing/Facebook fan-club
Table-7-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
Proposed evaluation is based on the first three months sales. Expected sales are around100000-
120000 cupcakes per-month. Therefore 25% sales should be achieved within first 3 months.
Proper integration is required to achiever the objectives and to deliver the message.
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Execution and evaluationGWD has to run few test sample rounds. The production will be started after obtaining 97%
positive-feedbacks. Some ingredients would be purchased on an agreement for a fixed price to
avoid cost changes. Human capital will be trained/hired according to the requirement. Lacking
resources such as machinery will be hired. All the tasks will be assigned to the respective
departments with total responsibility. (Rifer-appendix-I)
Gantt-chart
Table-8-(source:-compiled-by-the-author)
To evaluate the success, key performance-indicators have been adopted.
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Overall sales of first three-months should be 25% from the target-audience.
Receive more than 85% positive-feedbacks from the customers within first 6-months.
Evaluating points have been assigned once in a 3-month to observe the progress.
Guidance/training will be provided further according to the efficiency of the process.
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APPENDICES
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Appendix A
Analysis and wrap up
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Appendix A Analysis and wrap up
As according to the SWOT analysis the major weaknesses are,
Limited pricing range
Specialization in one product
Charges for extra services
Narrow promotions
The company has to convert these weaknesses in to strengths and it would be favorable to the
company.
Limited price range is due to an elastic demand. Therefore GWD has restrictions in costing and
setting the final price. To overcome this situation GWD has the opportunity to sign an agreement
with local suppliers to fix the price for a considerable time period or to go for quality substitutes
which can be found easily in the local market. By this company can gain advantages such as
good reputation, high sales etc. in the long run.
Donut is a confectionary product which cannot be used as a regular meal of the day. Therefore
the purchasing frequency is low comparing to other foods. And the Sri Lankan food preferences
are more likely to consume savory foods. To overcome this situation company can increase the
product range and attract customers by promoting and direct the customer to go for donuts or
introduce new products and varieties such as cupcakes etc.
GWD has home delivery service but GWD charges Rs.100 per delivery. Poor analysis of the
market has driven to this situation since the competitors provide the same service free of charge.
Therefore reducing the charge or making it free for the customers would be favorable to the
company.
The main advertising tool is Facebook fan club. GWD does not have a proper ongoing
promotional mix and attractive advertisements. Therefore the company has to concern more on
marketing the product. GWD has the choice to work with an advertising agent to create an
effective advertisement.
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The fundamental threats are,
Sri Lankan food preference
Fear international brands
Imported inputs (cost factor)
Health consciousness
Though Sri Lankans adopt new trends faster the passion of tastes and behaviors cannot be
changed. Most of the local market customers prefer spicy snacks. Therefore GWD has to
position the quality and the taste of donuts in customers mind since anyone would like to
consume delicious food.
There are many donut giants in the world and they have the ability of establishing outlets in Sri
Lanka and Sri Lankan has the mentality of which the international brands are better than local
brands. Therefore it is hard to compete with the well established donut giants. To overcome this
situation the main concept cafe trend should be communicated by influencing the passion of Sri
Lankans by saying GWD is a local company and it would be strength and an opportunity to
promote more products.
Some flavorings and ingredients are imported and the threat is about the taxation policies. High
import tariffs affect the pricing strategy and it is hard to allocate a high price for a convenient
good. If the customer ignores the product because of the low purchasing power it is a threat to
the company. The company has to find out strategies to satisfy the customer for the amount they
pay. GWD has to produce products and make the customers feel comfortable with the product
and the environment. Training the employees and produce a better service would be a
mechanism of grabbing the concentration out of the price since people like to obtain special
services and comfort-ability.
Many companies, NGOs and health authorities have a good concentration about CSR projects.
These organizations constantly conduct work-shops and make the people aware of healthy foods.
The main message of these organizations is not to consume junk foods but a full course meal for
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a day to be healthy. Therefore GWD has to produce quality healthy foods and make the customer
aware about the ingredients and the quality standards.
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Appendix B
Segments justification
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Appendix B Justification of selected segments
Income level affects the buying behavior of people. For an example an ordinary income receiver
would not prefer purchasing a donut for 65 rupees since there are competitors who sell the same
product for low prices. The person should have a good income level to purchase a 65 rupeedonut.
Social class plays a huge role in Sri Lanka and Life style is imperative because GWD has to
identify who likes to consume new products in the market.
The target region is Colombo. The main objective of selecting this geographical region is the
high existence of the target customers and the availability of other infrastructures.
People look for products which satisfy instant hunger and some has an interest in consumingconfectionary products as a snack or as the desert. Specially teenagers, office workers, shoppers
look for celebrating special occasions outdoor and readily available products. Therefore under
behavioral segmentation these factors affect the unique segment.
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Appendix C
Effective segmentation
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Appendix C Effective segmentation
As according to the effective segmentation bases the targeted customers are measurable.
National statistics states that the highest population is in Colombo.
Figure 6 (source: Brief Analysis of Population and Housing Characteristics, 2001)
According to this data it indicates there are 3000-4000 persons per one square meter. The total
population in Colombo region is 2,251,274. The median household income is around Rs 23,642.
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Table 12 (source : Household Income And Expenditure Survey - 2006/07)
The below chart provides the employment critirieas of the population and the highest employed
percentage is in Colombo.
Figure 7 (source : Census of Population and Housing, 2001)
Most of the leading schools privet educational institutes and tution classes are established in
Colombo region and a large amount of students and children are available in the market to cater
the product.
According to these datas the target segments are large and profitable and the income levels are
high comparing to other sectors.
All the outlets have been established within Colombo region and all the outlets are customer
oriented. Therefore the company can easily access the customers and develop the business.
Outlet location Target customers
ODEL unlimited Shoppers, Foreigners, Teenagers,
Alfred house garden Colombo 3 Office workers
Crescat Boulevard Shoppers, Foreigners,
Nawam Mawatha Office workers
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HSBC call center Office workers
M.D Gunasena Book shop Colombo 4 Students,
Cartoon Kids Colombo 6 Kids, Shoppers
Figure 6 (Source: compiled by the author)
The actionability is measured as according to the resources available and GWD deserves all the
required resourses to to impliment the effective marketing mix.
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Appendix D
Positioning
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Appendix D Positioning
When introducing a new product to the market brand positioning is very important to create an
image in customers mind. People constantly looking for new products with new features
therefore GWD has to position their products differently.
Customers of GWD strongly believe they would not be able to purchase quality donuts for a
favorable price from any other place which is called as points of difference (POD). This
differentiation can be take place in main four offerings which is product/service, personal,
channel and image differentiation.
GWD has specialized in donuts and they are the pioneers who specialized in donut production.
GWD has competitive product range comparing to the competitors. As according to their
marketing philosophy for the first time GWD introduced savory donuts to the market and also
they differentiate the product through quality products for a low price.
When it comes to goods versus services cafes stands at the middle since it has tangible and
intangible elements. Therefore GWD has differentiated their service among other competitors.
GWD are the pioneers in donut home delivery service which is totally new to the local market.
Though the crew members are limited for an outlet GWD has trained for customer friendly
employees to gain competitive advantages.
Basically when it comes to channels they have established the outlets which is making easy to
reach the target customers. Unlike other food outlets GWD has not ask the customer to the shop
to consume their products but they have gone near to the customer which is an extra ordinary
marketing effort.
GWD differentiated their image through special physical evidence which makes the customer to
identify the brand easily. There are competitors who follow this tactic but GWD uses this whole
concept for only one product.
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Appendix E
Internal and external factors affect the price
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Appendix E Internal and external factors affects the price
The companys objectives are based on maximize the market share and revenue by producing
quality products to the customers. To achieve these objectives company has to fix a price which
is favorable to the customer as well as to GWD.
Taxes on imported goods would be an issue but the company has an objective to produce quality
products for a low price therefore GWD prices under super value strategy. This strategy help out
the company to create a loyal customer bases since the products can satisfy the customer more
than the amount they pay.
There is a limitation in price adjustments because of the elastic demand and monopolistic
competition. People do not tend to buy convenient goods for high prices since there are suppliers
who sell the same product for a low price. When the price level increases the total demand
decreases from a high percentage.
The price has to cover all the expenses of the company therefore the other three variable of
marketing mix should be taken into account to fix the price of the product. For an example rent,
promotional expenses, value added services etc. are the costs GWD has to hold.
Donuts have been successfully launched to the market therefore customer expectations are high
about the new product lines and the customers think the value they pay is fair but they do not
willing to pay more than a certain amount. There are competitors who sell the product for a low
price and it is a threat to the company.
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Appendix F
Marketing mix Fixing Final Price
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Appendix F -Fixing final price
Main ingredients
Flours 50g 4
Sugar 50g 13Butter 50g 40
1 egg 12
Toppings
Butter 50g 40
Icing sugar 225g 63
Cocoa powder 15g 22.5
Nuttela hazelnut 30g 94
Nuts and flavourings 15g 20
Other
Labour 15
Rent 7
Power 8
Promotions 26
Transportation 15
Other 8
Total cost 387.5
Wastage 5% from cost. 19.375Cost after wastage 406.875
Profit margin 33% 134.26875
Price for 10 cupcakes 541.14375
Price for 1 cupcake 54.114375
VAT 12% 6.493725
Price after VAT 60.6081
Table 9 (source: compiled by the author)
Prices of ingredients
Flour 1kg 78
50g 4
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Sugar 500g 129
50g 13
Butter 200g 160
50g 40
1 egg 15
Icing sugar 500g 140
225g 63
Cocoa powder 50g 75
15g 22.5
Nutella chocolate 371g 116230g 94
Nuts and flavouring (imported) 500 g 1000
15g 30
Labour cost (6 per outlet) total crew 62/9 outlets
Average salary 15000 90000
Labour cost for 10 cupcakes (90000/115000)*10 8
Donuts (Rs 65) 80000 65 5200000Cupcakes (Rs 60 - assumption) 30000 60 1800000
Expected total revenue 7000000
Rent 10% of total revenue 700000
Average rent per outlet 77778
Rent expense for 10 cupcakes (77778/115000)*10 7
Power 15
Promotion for cupcakes (30000) 714000/9 outlet (79334/30000)*10 26Table 10 (source: compiled by the author)
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Appendix G
Promotional materials
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Appendix G -Promotional materials
New logo for cupcakes
Figure 9 (source: compiled by the author)
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Proposed billboard for kids
Figure 10 (source: compiled by the author)
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Proposed billboard for teenagers and shoppers
Figure 11 (source: compiled by the author)
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Proposed billboard for parents
Figure 12 (source: compiled by the author)
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Appendix H
Promotional budget
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Appendix H Promotional Budget
According to the objective and task method the promotional budget has been set. The
communication objectives are,
To make awareness 25% of target-customers. The total target customers are around
100000 120 00. As an average it has been calculated to make aware of 30000 people
out of target customers since the donut production at the beginning per month was around
30000. Therefore at a minimum level GWD has to reach this amount of customers.
To Increase the sales by 10% within first 3 months. GWD has an objective to maximise
the market share. Therefore company has to create a demand for the product and
promotional materials will be used to achieve it.
Continues improvement in sales. Overall company has to achieve the final objective of
the organization. Therefore continues promotion is needed and it will help to increase the
sales constantly.
Tasks
Find the places customers exists to make aware of the product the company has to
figure out where the target customers exists more and visit more.
Fixing attention-grabbing billboards at identified locations a size of 4064mm*3048mm
will be placed at the identified locations to make aware of the product. The size of the
billboard is quite large to achieve the objectives.
Free gifts will be offered to first 1000. As according to the second objective to increase
the sales it has been proposed to offer free gifts for the first 1000 customers since the
brand will be promoted in-between friends by word of mouth.
Newspaper articles will be published. Only on special magazines such as fashion, kids,
business etc. will be published these advertisements since GWD has to reach the target
customers.
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TV and radio commercials will be published to keep continues contact with the
customers.
Additionally Facebook fan club will be updated and emails will be forwarded to the
target customers.
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The promotional budget for cupcakes
Places Quantity Total
Near to children-parks 2 92000
Near to major
shopping-complexes.
4 184000
High ways. 1 46000
Major towns in
Colombo.
2 92000
Free-gifts 1000 100000
Newspaper articles 3 per week 200000
Total 714000
Table 11-(source: compiled by the author)
There are main two children parks in Colombo. (Rajagiriya & Town-hall) Two billboards will be
put up at these two areas. The cost for a 4064mm*3048mm billboard is around Rs 46000. The
expectation from this is to grab the attention of children and parents who visit the childrens
park. Another 4 billboards will be placed at major shopping complexes to communicate with
shoppers, teenagers, office workers etc. Placing a billboard in a high way helps to communicate
with frequent travelers basically office workers and two more major towns has been chosen to
place billboards since all the target customers of GWD is in urban sector.
TV and radio commercials will be used after obtaining a considerable growth in the new productlaunch since spending on these medias is not effective because GWD has only to communicate
to a specific geographical region which is Colombo.
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Appendix I
Execution and evaluation
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Appendix I Execution and evaluation
The departments and assigned tasks
Marketing - Design unique advertisements to reach the customers and constant
observation on sales. Communicate with the communication channel members and
deliver the message properly to the target customers.
Accounts - Provide funds for the required departments to purchase goods and
services on time. Keep proper records of the total income expenses of the new product
launch to evaluate the progress of the company.
Production - Make the production-line clear to produce goods since GWD has to
produce two products without any complaints. Production department has to report
lacking resources.
Operations - Integrate all departments to achieve company objectives effectively and
schedule the process smoothly.
HR - Motivate the employees and provide required training. According to the
lacking human capital HR department has to train or hire new employees.
The Gantt chart represents the total marketing implementation for the first six months.
The performance indicators are to evaluate the progress of the marketing plan.
Overall sales of first three-months should be 25% from the target-audience. Since the
communication objective is to achieve this amount of awareness a successful launch
should be achieved this percentage.
Receive more than 85% positive-feedbacks from the customers within first 6-months.Positive feedbacks are to motivate the employees as well as to improve the product more
according to the feedbacks.
Evaluating points have been assigned once in a 3-month to observe the progress.
Evaluation is important to be up to date since the product is in the introduction level and
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to make profits out of it. Overall GWD is an infant company constant evaluation would
be helpful to develop the concept more.
Guidance/training will be provided further according to the efficiency of the process.
After identifying the success and the failure points GWD has to provide the relevant
guidance and training. GWD also has to purchase required resources to improve the
efficiency.
Final conclusion
The ultimate objective of this report is to introduce a new product line to GWD. The proposed
product is cupcakes. To be stabilized and to increase the market share constant innovation is
appropriate. Therefore according GWDs marketing philosophy they have identified a need ofanother product to cater to their customers.
The main findings are the companys SWOT which helps to identify the background of the
company to position the product. Though company objectives are assigned for the long run by
this new product launch these objectives can be easily achieved.
Marketing mix is to represent the new product more clearly which is about the product, price of
the product place and how it will be promoted.
To obtain the real output the relevant strategies have been adopted and to evaluate the outcome
key performance indicators have been adopted.
There are many opportunities in this confectionary industry. The company has to identify the
need of the customers and to promote the brand successfully with the help of marketing
strategies. The identifying the most suitable segment is important and the positioning should be
attractive and it should grab the interest of the customer about the brand name to be success in
the market.
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