CHAPTER 1
COMPANY PROFILE
Business Name: Lamoiyan Corporation
Business Address: Km. 15 West Service Road, South Super Highway, Paranaque City
Email: info@lamoiyan.com
Telephone number: 823-8072 to 79
GENERAL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES Lamoiyan Corporation is a 100% Filipino-owned company with 27 years of manufacturing excellence.
They are the first Filipino company to succeed in entering the local toothpaste industry, which was then controlled by multinationals, with their own brand of toothpaste,Hapee.
Lamoiyan Corporation began their operations with a work force composed of less than 20 and at the present time has over a hundred and sixty employees. Lamoiyan Coporation was able to maintain a steady quality standard with the help of the technical assistance of Okina Co. Ltd ever since their official launch in March
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Hence, the name of the company. It was through her that the founder had based his values and principles which not only applied to him but also in the business. Through these principles, he realized that the size of the market was too small, despite it being the practical option at that time. With bulks of leftover supplies and equipment from his former business, Mr. Pedro decided to form another option himself which is to venture into the toothpaste industry. With the help from a Japanese company and $20,000, Hapee toothpaste was born.
In less than 20 years, the advances of Hapee into the market threatened the two giants, Colgate and Close-Up. And in 1996, they successfully took control of more than 15% of the market. At around 2007 to 2008, a project lead by the Senior Marketing Manager of Hapee Toothpaste at that time, Mr. Jun Amistoso, in which the company launched a campaign lead by Ms. Lea Salonga as a role model of world-class quality. At the present time, Hapee toothpaste is being exported to different countries such as Papua New Guinea, Middle East, Hongkong, and
Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP) launched a new toothbrush, Colgate Precision, to the market. But having developed for three years, CP was fiercely competing with other companies in the market. In order to have the power to fight in the highly competitive market with substantial product activity, Colgate-Palmolive Co. was in a problem of considering the how to position its new product--Precision, and to define the market strategy in terms of positioning, branding, and communication strategy. It provided some options with details to the reader, hence, for such purpose, this case would be a decision case, finding the optimum to segment the new product to the target and how it should be marketed.
Currently, the company is operating in more than 17 countries and has at least 70 facilities. They have provided approximately 20,000 individuals with employment.
It did, however, have a “professional dentist” advising his patient to use that particular brand. The “dentist” repeatedly stated that Colgate Dental Cream proved with scientific evidence that it stops tooth decay “best.” The dentist continues to say that no other toothpaste has “proved so completely” with dental research that Colgate stops tooth decay and bad breath. Again, just like the Pepsodent commercial, we see that scientific formula (though we have not been told how or with what) Colgate leads to physical attraction and kissing. In this commercial, an explanation of anything is not needed, because there is a supposed trusted professional telling the audience that the evidence exists. Use the toothpaste that has backed scientific research and get the
Euthymol toothpaste was marked by Warner-Lambert, but now it is distributed by Johnson and Johnson. J&J is an American public company. It was founded in 1886, there are three founders, they are Rober Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson
This report analyzes the organisation White Glo’s and their marketing of their new whitening toothpaste Charcoal. White Glo was established in Australia in 1993 and is today one of the leading whitening toothpaste company in Australia and a global leader within teeth whitening products. It can be purchase in bigger supermarkets and pharmacy’s in Australia such as Coles, Woolworths, Priceline Pharmacy and chemist warehouse. It is also available globally in other countries and through the company’s website. The product has strengths such as clinical benefits that not all competitor has and weakness such as the color of the toothpaste. It also has opportunity, like being different from other competing product. There are some threats such as the
The end of the first year, we had 30% of the products left, in view of the traditional market accounted for 40.5% of the overall toothpaste market, we decided to increase three sales people into traditional sales channels in the next year. Due to the selling of whole market Economy toothpaste are great, we add advertising investment. At the same time, the poor sell of children's toothpaste prompted us to reduce 5 million budgets on its advertising fee. According to the results of marketing, and sales of other companies, appropriate to improve the economy, white, healthy toothpaste price and their allowance, try to stimulate the sales.
As seen in exhibit 2 as well, the company’s unit share and dollar share steadily increased minimally from 2005 to 2007. Unit share increased from 21% to 21.3%, while dollar share increased from 15.7% to 16.1%. Similarly, US sales increased in HPL’s Target Markets for skin care, oral hygiene, personal hygiene, and hand and body care from 2003 to 2007, making the package more appealing to the company. With HPL’s sales into its retail channels increasing from 2003 to 2007, in addition to the increase in sales, label shares, and such aspects as revenue, it is evident that the company’s financial performance for the past few years has been favorable.
By increasing successful and ideal operations and strengthening relationships with their customers, companies existing in this market diminish the significance of threat over newly accepted competitors. Toothpaste companies are still growing strongly, therefore additional firms are trying to enter the market to benefit from the increasing profits. However, most toothpaste companies have already made their name and their customers stay loyal to their brand, therefore it is hard to get into this market. With toothpaste being such a popular item and an essential in households,
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Context: In 2009, India was the world’s largest democracy; with a population of 1.16billion growing at 1.4% per annum, the country suffered from a huge disparity in income with the majority of Indian population (78%) living in rural areas, and as many as 80% living under $2 per day. The 78% who lived in rural areas accounted for c. 64% of total expenditures in India. Around 50% of the Indian population did not have sufficient awareness of dental healthcare, and did not associate dental problems with improper care but rather to eating habits or genetics; most of these Indians were using natural remedies as chewing twigs from the Neem tree. Among the remaining population who used modern dental healthcare or a toothbrush, 77% brushed their teeth less than twice a day (recommended usage), and out of the 747.1million brushes sold every year, only 8.6% replaced their brush every 3 months. Cottle-Taylor (CT) enjoyed a large market share in India and focused on toothbrushes. Given the peculiarities of the market, CT decided to focus on toothbrushes where it enjoys larger gross margins by virtue of its existing manufacturing infrastructure that has been built over the years.
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