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Introduction
Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3
Growth Drivers .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Functional Segementation of Deo Market ................................................................................................ 4
Eva ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Brand Analysis ............................................................................................................................................... 6
Category Analysis ...................................................................................................................................... 6
Competitor Analysis .................................................................................................................................. 7
Spinz ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Fa ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
Rexona .................................................................................................................................................. 8
Customer Analysis ..................................................................................................................................... 9
Choice of deodorants ............................................................................................................................ 9
Frequency of Switching Brands ........................................................................................................... 10
Current Brand usage duration ............................................................................................................ 11
Commercials/Promotional Campaigns recall of Eva ........................................................................... 12
What attracts the customer? .............................................................................................................. 13
EVA Usage Data ................................................................................................................................... 14
Willingness to try EVA range of Deodorants ....................................................................................... 15
Brand Positioning ........................................................................................................................................ 16
Brand Identity ............................................................................................................................................. 17
Brand Personality ........................................................................................................................................ 17
Communication Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 18
Revival Strategy ........................................................................................................................................... 19
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Introduction
Introduction
For most of the year, India is a sweaty, tropical country. But for more than fifty years
after Independence, most Indians did not seem to care. For decades, they could do with
talcum powder to take care of the sweat. Now they do care. They watch television. They
watch foreign channels. They watch glamorous women and women who presumably
smell good. They are learning about sex appeal. In fact, one of the more popular
commercials being aired on cable channels shows a young man sweeping two ladies off
their feet using a combination of dance steps and the fragrance from his perfume.
Deodorants and Perfumes are the major product niches with promising prospects. With
the reduction of tariff on premium fragrances from 30% to 10% in 2005, new brands are
encouraged to enter the market. However, black market, fake goods, and the enduring
popularity of traditional Indian perfumes, such as attar, hamper sales in India.
A large number of customers are moving up the value chain. There are perceptible
changes in consumer behavior, like switching from talcum powder as a multipurpose
product to deodorants and antiperspirants.
It has also been possible to keep prices down in the Indian deo industry because of the
phenomenon of out‐sourced manufacturing. The Government of India has reserved
several items for the small‐scale industry. Units in this segment enjoy tax incentives,
making them attractive destinations for the contract manufacturing route.
This industry has a low entry barrier and competition is severe. In addition to the large
multinational players, there are also domestic and huge unorganized players. In order to
vie for greater market share, companies have been adopting promotion schemes such
as giving out freebies and repacking products in smaller packages to cater to a wider
consumer base.
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Introduction
Growth Drivers
The major growth drivers for deodorant market are:
Customers moving up the value chain
Changes in customer behavior
Effective pricing
Heavy advertising
Rural penetration
Functional Segementation of Deo Market
Deos‐ Cosmetic/kill bacteria
Anti‐perspirants‐Affect physiology of body/plug sweat pores
Body mists‐lightest form of scent
Stick‐ Mix of wax,oils,silicones
Deo‐Spray‐ Aerosol, waterless, contain ethanol & propylene glycol with liquefied
propellants
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Brand Analysis
Brand Analysis
Category Analysis
Deo seems to be the buzzword in the market today. The deodorant market in India is
worth Rs 230 Crore. On an average, deodorants sell at least 5 per cent more than talcum
powders in supermarkets. The success of deodorants in the urban market has
encouraged the leading players in the sector to launch more deo‐related products.
Anything with the deo tag sells fast.
Cosmetics and Toiletries market include deodorant and antiperspirant category. The
fragrance market in India is growing at an annual average rate of 12.17%. Hindustan
Lever is the market leader in the organized deodorant segment — with brand Rexona —
with a significant market share. Still a nascent product category, deodorants have been
in the organized market since 1996.The present Indian deodorants market is growing at
the rate of 16 per cent per annum in volume and value. Of the entire market, HUL claims
a 69‐70 per cent market share. The market faces severe competition from the grey
market, which is said to be valued at Rs 100 crore.
Out of the various formats in which deodorants are available, the deo‐spray category
accounts for 98% of value sales, being preferred over other categories based on hygiene
concerns. Prices have been growing below current inflation levels, and they also
fluctuate because of high competition from low‐ priced brands from grey channel. This
category is highly urban‐centric, with about 90% penetration in urban areas. It is
perceived as a cheap alternative to perfumes. The major players in the female segment
are Fa(Henkel), Rexona(HUL), Eva(TTK‐HC), Spinz(CavinKare).
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Brand Analysis
Customer Analysis
A survey was conducted understand the customer’s perception of EVA. This study was
restricted to only the female segment.
The results of the survey provided some valuable insights into the minds of the
consumer and the way EVA as a deodorant is perceived.
Choice of deodorants
The preferences of the female consumers and their choice are as follows:
Eva occupies the second/third position in the minds of the consumer as is shown from
the previous graph.
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Brand Analysis
Frequency of Switching Brands
The results indicate that the majority of the female consumers are dissatisfied with their
current brand of deodorant and do not have a definite brand to be loyal to. This is very
evident from the fact that the majority of the female consumers have ended up
switching brands frequently in the last one year owing mainly to the dissatisfaction with
their current brand.
Further we also found that given a chance majority of these female consumers are
willing to switch their current brands in favour of experimenting with a new brand. Also
majority of these people have only been using their current brand for a short period of
time. Hence the time required to establishing a bond or loyalty to the brand has clearly
not elapsed.
The satisfaction levels of the customers are pretty low and this is something that EVA
can leverage upon.
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Brand Analysis
Current Brand usage duration
As shown, not many people have actually been using their current brand of deodorants
for more than a year. So it would be relatively easy to convince these people to try out
EVA.
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Brand Analysis
Commercials/Promotional Campaigns recall of Eva
As far as EVA is concerned there are not many Advertisements or other promotional
campaigns that have attracted the customers. The consumers were asked to recall the
number of EVA ads that they had seen till now and not many of them could recall few of
Eva’s ads.
The fact is most of them could not even recall more than 1 or 2 ads or promotional
campaigns of EVA.
This is shown below:
So for the brand to be successful more promotional campaigns or brand reinforcement
is required. Steps to do that would help to strengthen EVA’s position in the minds of the
consumer.
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Brand Analysis
What attracts the customer?
The various factors that enable the customer to switch from her current brand of
deodorant were analysed. The following are the reasons that would enable the
switching process.
The Brand Name EVA can be leveraged so as to attract more and more female
customers to use the EVA range of Deodorants.
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Brand Analysis
EVA Usage Data
The following displays the statistics of the percentage of people who have actually been
exposed to EVA rather used it in the past.
As is shown not many people have actually tried out EVA in the past.
So the major challenge for the brand would be in getting the people who have not tried
out the deodorant in the past to try it out.
But the willingness of these consumers to try out the EVA range of Deodorants was also
measured and many people were in fact willing to give it a shot.
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Brand Analysis
Willingness to try EVA range of Deodorants
As is shown in the graph above a huge majority of people are willing to try out the EVA
brand of Deodorants but there should be a proper trigger or a push to motivate them to
go ahead.
So this is where the challenge of the brand lies ‐ Giving the consumers a reason to
convert to the user phase from the willingness to try phase.
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Brand Identity
The differentiating factor with Eva is its natural freshness and attractive women pitch.
Also the names of the deos are also girly type which appeals more to women. It ensures
its customers that they will definitely get a second look and can turn boys into bees.
Brand Identity
Eva wants to create an identity of ‘Attractive Women’ in the mind of its consumer base.
It also talks about naturally fresh look and feel as it claims to contain the essence of
natural fragrance.
They are trying to give each fragrance a particular personality with lines like, “Did you
know that the scent of grapefruit can make you feel at least six years younger!!”. Also
they try to entice their customers by saying that the way you smell has an effect on the
way you feel.
It is this natural freshness and attractiveness Eva wants to be identified with.
Brand Personality
The basic personality of Eva is young fun loving attractive woman. Eva is like a
friend who helps the consumer get a definite second look from guys and makes
the guys run around the consumer.
This friend personality sits well with the consumers of the youth segment as
youth prefers and wants friends to help them out with all matters regarding guys.
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Communication Strategy
Communication Strategy
The current communication strategy followed by EVA does not create the
necessary impact and affects a buying behaviour with the indented audience.
Media advertisements, either through print ads or TV commercials are widely
used by various competitors of the Deodorant segment but EVA does not use
these tools for communication. Rather they use the PUSH strategy by means of
giving incentives for the store keepers, stockist through various trade offers. A
push strategy may be effective in increasing the sales in a short term but this
does not ensure a long term relationship of the consumers with the brand. The
consumer just buys the product for the offer and there is no guarantee that she
buys EVA again.
Moreover, it was observed in the survey that there was a poor brand recall for
this brand among the respondents. It is evident that the communication exercise
did not achieve the basic objective of getting into the awareness set of the
consumer’s mind. EVA brand has a very poor presence in the online media. It was
seen that even a Google search could not direct us to this brand.
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Revival Strategy
Revival Strategy
From our study itself we found that majority of the population are willing to try
our Eva and in this particular segment there is no brand loyalty as such. This is
where Eva has to cash in. Eva has decent attributes, its positioning is good and it
has tried to create a separate identity for its different fragrances. And for an
industry which stands now at 230 Crore and growing at 15% annually this is
unpardonable. From our view point what Eva has to try to do is revamp its
communication strategy.
Detailed communication plan has to be drawn up with both ATL & BTL in specific.
Brand ambassadors are not required but effective advertisement campaigns have
to be done as brand recall esp. advertisement recall is very low. Majority of the
customers said that brand names and product attributes are the main things they
look out in a deo. Eva possesses both of these the only problem is that it has not
been communicated properly to the consumer base.
All brand communication of EVA should be designed in such way so that,
It creates an impact about the brand and makes the brand well known
among the target group
It uses various channels of communication to build awareness
Creates a platform to enable a two‐way communication
In order to achieve the above objectives, the entire strategy has to shift from
portraying the functional benefits of the brand to emotional
benefits. Advertisements campaigns, contests, advertisement presence in retail
outlets, strong online presence are some areas where Eva can work upon. The
communication strategy has to be designed in a holistic manner so that they
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Revival Strategy
distribute the communication budget in various channels and not concentrating
on the trade promotions only.
“Ask Eva for help” campaign is something that eva can implement with sms
numbers, email addresses, blogs, forums, social networks etc provided to girls so
that they can get help from Eva, their friend, at any time. The positioning of a
friend has to be stressed upon throughout the campaign.
Eva can take a leaf out of the Axe book and create a similar impression in the
minds of the new young females of India. After initially creating the necessary
brand awareness and then following it up with repeated campaigns can enable
word of mouth publicity for Eva, which is the holy grail of any brand. If it is ready
to address its communication issues, Eva has the potential to be the market
leader.
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Revival Strategy