Cadbury – The Chocolate Brand Bringing Moments Of Joy Across The World
Cadbury, formerly Cadbury’s and Cadbury Schweppes, is a multinational British confectionery firm wholly owned by Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods) since 2010. The organization was founded back 196 years ago, in 1824. It is the second-largest confectionery brand after Mars, Incorporated in the world. Headquartered in Uxbridge, West London, it operates worldwide in more than […]
Brand | MDH Spices – The Classic Rags To Riches Tale
Mahashian Di Hatti Private Limited, infamously known as MDH is the second-largest player in the spices industry with a 12% market share next only to Everest. MDH currently operates 15 factories that together produce and sell 64 different kinds of spices. In the year 2020, the company reported a net income of Rs 420 crore. […]
Brand | Colgate Palmolive – Smiles All Around
“Sparking Optimism in Everyone, Everyday”, With this mission in mind, Colgate Palmolive, through its persistence efforts positioned itself in such a manner that the people in India started calling toothpaste Colgate. That is indeed the power of Marketing! More than 200 years old, the company Colgate-Palmolive, focussed in the Personal Care business, has its Oral […]
Brand | Wendy’s – The Secret Sauce To Social Media Strategy
The first Wendy’s restaurant was started in 1969, in Columbus, Ohio. By the 1980s, it had become the nation’s third-largest hamburger restaurant chain, following only McDonald’s and Burger King. The founder of the company was Dave Thomas, who would become as well known as a philanthropist as he was as a businessman. Thomas got his […]
Featured Startup | Big Basket- India’s Grocery Marketplace
India’s online grocery delivery market is projected to see a 76% year-on-year rise in revenue in 2020 to $3 billion in volume. As the COVID-19 shutdown and quarantine steps compel Indian customers to change their shopping patterns, websites such as BigBasket, Amazon, JioMart, and Grofers have benefited from this situation. Although these businesses have been […]
Brand | Future Retail- The Strategies That Make India’s Leading Retailer
Future Retail Ltd was earlier known as Pantaloon Retail Ltd. This is one of Future Group’s flagship companies, which deals with broader operations like department stores, supermarkets, and specialty stores for electronics and home furnishing & decor. Future retail started as Manz Wear Pvt Ltd in 1991. Future Retail Ltd is a part of Future […]
Brand | Ratnadeep Retail – The Growing Retail Juggernaut With 100 Stores
India’s food & grocery market doubled from $300 billion in 2013 to $600 billion in 2019. In this period, growth was driven by traditional retailers – popular local corner shops that offer an assortment of products. In the lead up to 2024, researchers from RedSeer Consulting and BigBasket Brand Intelligence expect another ~$200 billion jump […]
Brand | Costco – The Retail Champ With A Cult Following
Founded in 1976, Costco Wholesale Corporation operates as a wholesale retail club with a distinctive annual membership model which sets it apart from other traditional retailers such as JC Penney and Target. Deriving its revenues from annual membership fees, Costco has been able to compete aggressively on price and has become known for providing a […]
Brand | IKEA – More Than Just Selling Furniture, It’s An Experience
IKEA was founded in 1943 by a 17-year-old Swedish boy named Ingvar Kamprad. Initially, he was selling Christmas greeting cards, seeds, and pens from Kamprad’s family farm. From his childhood, he had entrepreneurial instincts. As he identified people’s needs, he attempted to satisfy them by selling low price products which ultimately gave growth to Kamprad […]
Featured Startup | Pepperfry – Bringing Furniture To Your Doorstep
Pepperfry has changed the world’s view of furniture shopping. Far from the old days when it was a long and tedious task, Pepperfry has converted it into something much more enjoyable and comfortable task. This innovative idea of an online furniture store came to the founders over just a lunch, when they had no idea […]
Walmart – Inside The World’s Largest Retailer
Walmart is the world’s largest corporation. Walmart is a company that most Americans are familiar with, a company with stores that offer everything a person could need at discount prices. What began as a company based in a small Arkansas town has grown to be the largest private employer in the United States. Walmart Inc. […]
Marketing Strategies Of Home Depot
Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank co-founded Home Depot on June 29, 1978, after being fired from Handy Dan, a small chain of home improvement stores. Their vision was to offer “warehouse stores filled from floor to ceiling with a wide assortment of products at the lowest possible prices” along with superior customer service provided by […]
Case Study | IKEA “Glocal” Marketing Strategy In China
It is well known that for the past few decades, companies have been trying to design an effective marketing strategy for the global market while also catering to local needs and demands. This sort of strategy is called “Globally local” or “Glocal”. Thus companies take into consideration of local cultural, social, economic and linguistic factors while […]
Brand | Knorr – HUL’s Power Brand Adding More Taste In Your Life
Carl Heinrich Knorr founded Knorr in 1838, where he started to experiment in his Heilbronn factory in Germany with different kinds of dried vegetables and seasonings and tried to find out ways to preserve their flavors and food values. Thus, this German food brand was started with a mission to bring better and more flavorsome […]
Marketing Concept | Crowd Logistics
Traditionally, the delivery of parcels is performed by a person/agent who is hired by a company on a contract basis or a regular employee. However, the concept of Crowd logistics or Crowdshipping is outsourcing delivery to a large & undefined group of people in the form of freelancing. For example, a person can make a delivery […]
Brand | Amazon – Delivering A To Z Of Business And Success
Amazon is an American multinational company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, US. It provides an array of services that span from the online retail, AI assistant provider, cloud computing service provider, live-streaming services, music, and video streaming, game streaming, and also web services among almost an uncountable industries and services, it has managed to enter into. […]
Brand | Nestlé – The Global FMCG Brand Providing Good Food And Good Life
Rarely do we come across a brand that impacts our lives every day in uncountable ways. One such brand is Nestle. It is currently the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics. As of 2019, Nestlé employees over 291,000 in 187 different countries with sales of $92.6 billion (In CHF). […]
Brand | Alibaba Group – Creating A Brand While Disrupting Trade And Technology
The world began to notice it some time ago when a Chinese e-commerce company created the world’s largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in September 2014, priced at USD 25 billion. Jack Ma, the company’s billionaire chairman, started the company in 1999 in his apartment in China as Alibaba.com. Today, Alibaba Group is a set of […]