CP Business Analysis
CP Business Analysis
ON
PRODIP DAS
DEPARTMENT OF
AGRIBUSINESS AND MARKETING
SHER-E-BANGLA NAGAR, DHAKA-1207.
JUNE, 2016
AN ANALYSIS
ON
BY
PRODIP DAS
REGISTRATION NO.: 10-04028
An INTERSHIP REPORT
Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Approved by
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(MD. GHULAM RABBANY) (Sajeeb Saha)
Supervisor Chairman
Assistant professor Assistant Professor
Department of Agribusiness and Marketing Department of Agribusiness and Marketing
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Department of Agribusiness and Marketing
Sher-Bangla Agricultural University
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
CERTIFICATE
I further certify that any help or sources of information, as has been availed of
during the course of investigation have been duly acknowledged.
…….….……….….….
(MD. GHULAM RABBANY)
Supervisor
Assistant professor
Department of Agribusiness and Marketing
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
DEDICATION
All praise goes to God who has given me the opportunity to do this report. It is
a great pleasure for me to express my sincere appreciation to Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University for giving me the opportunity to do this report.
I want to mention the contribution of all those who have inspired, influenced
and guided me to complete this report successfully. First of all, I would like to
express my heartiest gratitude to my venerable supervisor Md.Ghulam
Rabbany, Internship Supervisor Faculty of Agribusiness Management, Sher-e-
Bangla Agricultural University, for his kind and sincere guidance, constructive
criticism and personal supervision all through my work. I wish to acknowledge
my gratitude to all my respected teachers of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural
University, for their suggestions and kind cooperation.
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5.1.3 Positioning Strategy
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5.1.5 Promotional Strategy 32
6.2 Conclusions 36
6.3 Recommendation 37
REFERENCES 38
APPENDIX-I 39-40
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF APPENDICES
APPENDIX
TITLE PAGE
NO.
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“AN ANALYSIS ON MARKETING STRATEGIS OF
C.P. BANGLADESH CO., LTD’’
PRODIP DAS
ABSTRACT
The study designs to investigate the marketing strategy of C.P. Bangladesh Co.,
Ltd .This research is conducted as a descriptive research on selected sample
size and industry members. The marketing strategy of C.P. Bangladesh
includes market segmentation, target marketing, Market segmentation includes
the demographic, psychographic segmentation, behavioral segmentation.
Target marketing includes product differentiation, service differentiation,
Channel distribution, Product distribution system, Image differentiation, quality
policy, ISO certification management, Environment management system. For
Pricing policy they ensure are the low price and high availability. CP places its
promotional activity by advertisements in the poultry Magazines. C P takes
participation in the poultry fair and other events. C P focuses on the direct
customer and tries to keep contact with them directly. Group selling meeting
and seminar is one of the main promotional activities of C P. Along with
various technical knowledge C.P distribute its product information to the
customer and offer various bonus scheme for short period. And a set of
marketing strategies are developed which will deliberately help the
management to overcome the present inefficiencies.
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
C.P. Bangladesh Co. Ltd was established to adapt the changes and meet the
demand of 21st century this farm has a modern poultry processing plant, the
first of its kind in Bangladesh, with the capacity to process 1000 (One
thousand) birds per hour, equipped with modern amenities. C.P has more than
Twenty two different processed and further processed products. Moreover, C.P.
products are the present market leader for both processed and further processed
chicken products. However the level of marketing strategies and practices
required to hold both the market share and profit are quite far behind the
minimum requirements. Specially, this company has no significant promotional
activities in relation to competitors. For this purpose, I has conducted a study
and prepared my internship report on the below topic: “An Analysis on
Marketing Strategies of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd”
Now a day‟s, poultry related business plays a vital role in agricultural sector
Bangladesh. So many people are engaged in this sector and some people are
trying to establish new poultry business. Most of them are not aware of poultry
marketing strategy. This study focuses on marketing strategy of poultry product
of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd. This was finished by looking for answers to the
accompanying queries:
In order to get a clear view of the above questions the investigator undertook a
study entitled “An Analysis on Marketing strategies of C.P. Bangladesh Co.,
Ltd”
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1.3 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the report mainly:
To identify Segment strategies
To identify Target market selection strategies
To identify Positioning Strategies
To identify Pricing strategies
To identify promotional strategies
The findings of the study will help the upcoming poultry business
entrepreneur of our country.
The findings of the study may also be subsidiary to the field of
agribusiness.
The findings of the study will be conducive to accelerate the
improvement in agriculture; the outcomes might also be helpful to the
planners and policy makers of poultry business.
The study might provide idea about the impact of marketing strategy in poultry
business. New entrepreneur want to invest money in livestock sector. The
success of this program depends on the attitude, knowledge of the producrs.
Therefore, the researcher needs to enquire about the impact of poultry product
marketing strategy. So, it is logical to investigate about the impact of strategy
to the entrepreneurs. The findings of the study are therefore, expected to be
conducive to the researchers, academicians and policy makers who are
concerned with of livestock sector. Keeping the above facts in view, a study
has undertaken which is entitled „An analysis on Marketing strategies and
practices of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
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1.6 Limitation of the study
During the study, I faced some limitations. The limitations are
briefly pointed out below:
Time is the first limitation as the duration of the program was of
three months only. Three month time is not enough for such
extensive study.
Another limitation of this report is company's marketing strategies
and practices is very confidential for any firm, for obvious reasons.
So they don't disclose all the information which may make this
report more authentic.
So the industry representatives are always busy with their activities,
which mean they most often has little time to consult.
The data that seems insufficient may be suffering from lack of
reliability to some extent.
The study may suffer for lack of experience.
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significance of your findings in light of what was already known about the
research problem being investigated, and to explain any new understanding or
insights about the problem after you‟ve taken the findings into consideration.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERTURE
Review of literature gives the clear and concise direction of the researcher for
conducting the experiment. In this chapter, review of literatures relevant to the
objectives of this study was presented. This was mainly concerned with
„Marketing strategies and practices of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd. There was
serious dearth of literature with respect to research studies on this aspect.Some
researchers addressed various aspects of the Marketing strategies and practices
of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd.
2.1 General review on poultry industry in Bangladesh
In addition to family poultry production carried out at a small scale, mostly
with indigenous poultry, the poultry sector is producing commercial broiler and
eggs to meet up the demand of the consumers. To make it possible, the
industrial farms are producing grand-parent (GP) stock and Parent Stock (PS)
while the commercial sector is mostly in the hands of small-scale (up to 3000
birds) and medium scale (above 3000 but below 20,000 birds) producers..
Presently, the poultry sector has employed huge manpower (approximately 0.6
million) of both technical and non-technical background workers and expected
to make more room for employment in the future. Nowadays, the commercial
sector comprised of hatchery, breeder farm (both GP and PS), feed mill,
medicines and vaccines manufacturing and/or marketing and laboratory
services etc., each of the components being a specialized venture. The
production of day-old-chicks (DOCs) is currently in big amount and therefore
the chicks are priced higher. Crisis and instability in poultry sector are the
obstacles for the expected growth of the industry.
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Table(2.1): Status of poultry industry in Bangladesh at a glance
Marketing strategy has the fundamental goal of increasing sales and achieving
a sustainable competitive advantage. Marketing strategy includes all basic,
short-term, and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the
analysis of the strategic initial situation of a company and the formulation,
evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies that contribute to the
goals of the company and its marketing objectives. Marketing strategies cover
everything from Pay per click; search engine marketing, public relations (PR),
Engineering with Marketing & the much more.
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2.2.3 Target market selection strategies
According to kotler, elements of the marketing mix are often referred to as the
"Four P's", a phrase used since the 1960's
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2. Price - The price is the amount a customer pays for the product. The
business may increase or decrease the price of product if other stores has
the same product.
3. Place - Place represents the location where a product can be purchased.
It is often referred to as the distribution channel. It can include any
physical store as virtual stores on the Internet.
4. Promotion - Promotion represents all of the communications that a
marketer may use in the marketplace. Promotion has four distinct
elements: advertising, public relations, personal selling and sales
promotion.
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CHAPTER III
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Primary data has been collected by direct interviews and conversations with the
employees within the Dhaka sales office of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd.
The needed primary data has been collected through some interview schedule.
Besides, some data has been collected by conducting in depth interview with
15 Area Sales Manager of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
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CHAPTER IV
ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
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production and distribution, animal breeding and farming, meat processing and
the manufacture of ready-to-eat cooked meat products.
Over 97 years ago, founders of C.P company Mr. Ek Chor and Mr. Siew
Whooy established a small seed shop named 'Chia Tai Cheung' in Bangkok's
Yaowarat area (China Town). After that they started the production of animal
feed and later on initiated livestock farming, processing, marketing and
distribution to become integrated and they had developed into a fully integrated
agribusiness (from seed to feed to farm to food), in 1978 C.P registered under
the name Charoen Pokphand Feed mill Company Limited to production and
distribution animal feed in Thailand.
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4.1.1 CORPORATE INFORMATION
Name of the
Organization C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd (CPB)
Type Multinational Organization
Corporate
Bangkok, Thailand
Headquarters
Vision "Kitchen of the world"
Business categories Agro-business and food
Year of establishment 1921
Operation started in
1998
Bangladesh
International
25 Countries
Operations
Number of employees
500000+ (Approximately)
globally
Number of Employees
4000 + (Approximately)
in Bangladesh
House #28, Alaol Avenue Uttara-6,
Registered Office
Dhaka 1230 Bangladesh.
Contact 02-8919103,8919479
www.cpbangladesh .com
Company C.P.bsite
www.cpgroupglobal.com
(Source: CP Web, 2017)
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4.1.2 Objectives of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd.
Vision is the long term goal of an organization. The corporate vision of C.P
Bangladesh Co., Ltd is: "Kitchen of the World" The company goal is to
become a globally renowned corporation which is strongly committed to fulfill
the longing of high quality food products that are nutritious, hygienic and safe.
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The C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd. has gained the trust of societies locally and
abroad. The organization remains committed to improving the livelihood and
being of the people and aims to play its part in strengthening the growth and
sustainability of the economy, society and environment.. This belief is more
evident for the C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd. which upholds its core values,
inherited from generation to generation, to sustainably advance and grow its
businesses with spirit and integrity they has their most valuable six core values
which are strictly pursue and practices by employees.
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Adopt to change: As the world is full of challenges, businesses
continually face a wide range of changing circumstances, from the
transformation of social conditions, economy, politics, technology,
consumer behaviors etc. Therefore, the key strategy supporting the C.P.
Bangladesh Co., Ltd. growth to become a leading company to this very
day involves its ability to accept changes in order to readily cope with
the changing circumstances.
Innovativeness: Innovativeness means develop new ways of thinking,
search new ways to create added value for organization and customers,
evaluate the efficiency of new methods and result that will lead to
achieving the organizational objectives, evaluate risks and prepare for
risk that may occur during the implementation of new innovations.
Integrity, Honesty & Reciprocity: The C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd. has
for almost a century operated its business based on the value of integrity
and honesty. Integrity, honesty and reciprocity mean respect and abide
by the policy, relevant rules and code of ethics.
Fig (4.4): Business unit location of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd in Bangladesh
C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd. business is spreading business operations all over
Bangladesh. Currently more than 4000 (Approximately) employees are
working in around Bangladesh and conducting various types of agro and food
business operations.
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Table (4.2): Business Categories of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd in Bangladesh
Breeder farm More than Supplies the hatching eggs to the hatchery
business 13 business from different regions of Bangladesh.
Breeder
Farms
4.2.3 Functions:
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CHAPTER V
Segmentation of products.
Target market selection.
Positioning their product.
Pricing strategy of product.
Promotional activity of product
Before segmentation their product C.P segments its business through the year.
This section divides the market into similar groups with common
characteristics so as to identify a lucrative market segment for the products of
C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
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Table (5.1): Market segmentation strategy
C.P Bangladesh limited mainly segments their product mainly on five business
categories. These are
CPB is the pioneer and leader in the production of various forms of livestock
feed such as concentrate, powder and pellet. C.P. has feed mill plants situated
in every region of the country and some over 600 appointed agents/distributors
to help market and distribute feed to small independent farmers across
Thailand. In addition, some portion is sold directly to large animal farms. CPB
pays attention to continuous improvement on production efficiency and product
quality and keeps up-to-date on international requirements and standard. High
quality feed with low feed conversion ratio to help farmers and their farming
costs.
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Corn and soybean meal are main ingredients used in the production of livestock
feed. CPB formulated pellet feed to meet the nutrition requirements appropriate
to each stage of animal rearing and growth. Production processes are computer
controlled to ensure consistency in quality and specified standard. These feeds
are manufactured and packed under the following brands, CP, Hyprovite, Hi-
Gro, Star Feed, Novo, Safe Feed, Erawan, Hogtonal, C.F., and Anvipro. Selling
price is based on production cost at different time of the year and also under
pricing guidelines of the Internal Trade Department of the Ministry of
Commerce.
Fig (5.1): C.P. Feed including Poultry Feed and Fish Feed.
CPB has set up central purchasing unit responsible for procurement of all
ingredients used in livestock and aquatic feed. Our procurement policy is to
purchase quality raw material meeting the required nutrition standard with
priority given to domestic suppliers particularly those situated in close
proximity to our feed mill plants. This is to support our local farmers as
minimize transport cost. Only when domestic supply is insufficient or has
inferior quality, CPB would then seek to imports
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husbandry. Information is disseminated through printed materials and
electronic media via the internet.
CPB is the pioneer and leader in the production and distribution of various
forms of shrimp and fish feed such as concentrate, powder and pellet. Majority
of our aquatic feed is distributed through agents/distributors located in shrimp
farming areas. Some portion is sold directly to large shrimp farms. Soybean
meal, fish meal and wheat flour are main ingredients used in the production of
aquatic feed. Production processes are computer controlled to ensure
consistency in quality and specified standard. These feeds are manufactured
and packed under the following brands, CP, Star Feed, Marine, Hi-Grade,
Novo, Erawan, Turbo, D-Frog, and Safe Feed. As a market leader, CPB‟s
products are recognized by consumers. An important marketing strategy is to
maintain high quality product and consistent excellent customer service.
Production processes are monitored and ingredients are tested to ensure quality.
CPB also provided technical knowledge to agents/distributors and directly to
independent farmers through seminars and academic service centers.
Information is disseminated through printed materials. This is to ensure
sustainability of the industry.
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Breeder Farm Business
CPB is the leader in the research and development field of natural genetic
selection. The objective is to produce quality breed that is healthy, sturdy and
suitable to the farming condition of Thailand. CPB produces parent stocks of
chicken broiler, duck and swine as broiler chick, layer chick, layer, duck and
piglet. The process starts with imported grandparent stocks from abroad. Then
CPB breeds and raises the animals for own use and sales to independent
livestock farmers and agents/distributors. CPB‟s animal breeding farms are
located in various provinces in Thailand. These farms are built based on closed
and evaporative cooling system which is a modern farming system. The closed
system is bio-secure to prevent possible entry of potential carriers. The
evaporative cooling system maintains suitable temperature in the housing unit
throughout the farming period with automated feeding and all computer-
controlled. Price of animal breeder is dependent of domestic supply and
demand as quality of the breed. CPB emphasizes after-sales services and has
branch offices all over the country to serve as academic service centers to
provide and share know-how, technical information, and marketing and
distribution knowledge to farmers.
Hatchery Business
Broiler chick and fresh shrimp raised and harvested from CPB‟s farms are
supplied to company-owned processing plants. Shrimp fries and feed are from
company-owned hatchery and feed mill. CPB employs closed farming system
which is environmental friendly and bio-secure. No antibiotic is used at any
stage of production.
Food Business
CPB adds value to its basic processed meat with additional process of boiling,
steaming, frying, baking or grilling depending on customer‟s requirements.
Products are then packed, frozen and distributed to retailers and wholesalers,
fast food operators and modern trade, e.g., convenience stores, supermarkets
and supercenters. Products are also exported through importers in respective
market. Major export markets are the European Union, Japan and other Asian
countries. More representative offices has been set up and agents appointed to
provide better customer service. C.P. now has presence in the US, Japan, Hong
Kong, China, Russia, England, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark,
Italy and United Arab Emirates, etc. Some of C.P. cooked products are
available domestically and internationally including frozen chicken karaage,
teriyaki chicken, roast duck, frozen steamed chicken breast, green curry
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chicken with rice, soya pork with noodles, egg tofu, meatball and sausage. CPB
produces and brands its products under CP, V Pork, Kitchen Joy, ThaiThai,
Five Stars, BK, and BKP as as private labels. Pricing for private label is agreed
at time when contract is made.
Products under this category are semi-cooked, cooked shrimp and ready-to-eat.
Products are frozen and packed under CP trademark or private labels. They are
distributed domestically through modern trade, convenience store, food service
and CP Fresh Mart, a company-owned distribution channel. Export is done
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through importers. CPB emphasizes production of semi-cooked and ready-to-
eat products depending on customers‟ requirements. Processing methods
include boiling, steaming, and frying and products include shrimp wonton and
cooked shrimp. Major importing countries are the US, Japan, and the European
Union. Modern equipment and technology are employed to meet international
standard and assure quality and food safety integrity of products. Pricing is
negotiated and agreed upon purchase and contract made.
C.P has chosen target markets to co-operate in the interest of overall company
in a socially responsible manner. The total size of the poultry industry in
Bangladesh is estimated at taka 4.29-4.44billion in 2015. The poultry industry
can be divided into three segments. These are
Feed production
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4.00% Market Share % ( Poultry Feed )
2.00% 1.00% 2.00%
C.P.
6.00%
19.00% Aftab
8.00% Kazi
12.00% Paragoan
12.00% Nourish
Brac
Rafid
34.00%
Northern
ACI
Other
Livestock poultry
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Market Share % ( Day old chicks )
C.P.
14% 21% Aftab
Kazi
11%
Nourish
1% Quality
13%
Paragoan
3% 7% Usha
9%
4% 4% A.C.I
11%
New Hope
Other
Home Mix
Processed food
C.P designs the company‟s offerings and image to occupy distinctive place in
the mind of the target market. For positioning in the mind of the target market
C.P has differentiated its variables.
Product differentiation
Service differentiation
Every company in the service market differentiates their service to be the best
service company and capturing most of the market share. C.P differentiates its
service comparing to the other competitors. These are
Ordering ease
Customer consulting & delivery Service
Ordering ease
Ordering ease of C.P refers to how easy it is for the customer to place an order
to the company. So they introduce the online service in case of order. So the
customer can order and receive its product without going to market.
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Personnel differentiation
C.P always gains a strong competitive advantage through having better trained
people. To recruit personnel C.P follows some strategies that are
Channel distribution
C.P achieve competitive advantage through the way they design their
distribution channels coverage, expertise and performance
Distribution of product
With its strong distribution network, C.P has reached almost every corner of
Bangladesh. Their nationwide dealer network, supported by seven sales depots
strategically located in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, khulna, Bogra, Sylhet and
Comilla has an unmatched capability of cater to the needs of the consumers of
poultry products, almost everywhere in Bangladesh
Image differentiation
C.P has taken many powerful marketing strategies to build a high image in the
market. It has strong slogan and symbols to identify image powerfully.
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Media & sponsorship
Media is the mainstream to build and develop image not in our country but also
all over the world. C.P built up its image through advertising, sponsoring
different social and cultural activities.
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Environment strategies of C.P for marketing
C.P is committed to main the harmonious balance of our eco system and
therefore constantly seeks ways to manufacture and produce products in an
ecofriendly manner. From its inception, C.P has played a pioneering role in
introducing new poultry and poultry technologies to the Bangladeshi market;
C.P‟s efforts has established it as the most esteemed poultry company of the
country and has contributed significantly in its growth. C.P intends to continue
its ceaseless endeavors in the future years, and it is expected that such efforts
will contribute immensely to the sustained and growing success of the
company‟s business.
Technology orientation:
C.P has always been the most technology oriented poultry company of the
country. It has the most modern state-of-the-art production facilities installed in
its Dhaka factory. Its Research and Development (R&D) and Quality Control
(QC) departments are equipped with the best technologies in this country. Such
technology driven strategy will definitely assist the future business growth of
the company.
Market responsiveness:
C.P has always tried to respond promptly to market feedback. AS a result, C.P
enjoys competitive advantage over its competitors. It is expected that C.P will
enjoy more growth in the future, if it continues to be so be market responsive.
The fierce competition has also made the industry highly price competitive.
Most of the competitors consider pricing as one of the major marketing tools.
The price strategy of C.P is to offer a high quality product at a competitive
price. They set its price in relation to the value delivered and perceive by the
customer. Because it believes that if the price is higher than the value
perceived, the company will miss potential profits and if the price is local than
the value received the company will fail to harvest potential profits. C.P. has
more than twenty two different processed and further processed products.
These products are sold in two different categories. There are general category
for all consumers and customized category. At present customized products are
sold only to s C.P. Products are priced to capture the higher income customers.
And for such higher quality management, C.P. Five Star food became the
regular customer for processed products of .C.P. Five Star food also has the
worldwide brand image of quality producer.
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Table (5.4): Feed price list of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
Table (5.5): Day old chick price list of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
Table (5.6): Processed chicken product price list of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
Table (5.7): Customized food price list of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
CP FIVE
9 pieces Cut 1kg 225
STAR
CP FIVE
Hot Wings 1kg 220
STAR
CP FIVE
Colonel Meat 1kg 505
STAR
CP FIVE
Zinger 1kg 505
STAR
CP FIVE
Strips 1kg 505
STAR
Source: C.P. Sales Dept
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Table (5.8): Further processed food price list of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd
Fig (5.10) : Promotion strategy and magazine of C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd.
C. P. runs several promotional activities for it dealer all the year round. It
offers different promotional facilities for the dealers providing a target sale.
One of the lucrative offers is the pleasure trip to Thailand for the dealers.
Dealers can stay for at least one in a five star hotels and visit the places of
Thailand.
Strength:
In Marketing
Company and parent group reputation is very high.
Already a market challenger in processed chicken market
Has some reputation in further processed chicken market.
Products are available in key super-malls.
Higher class of A category customers are aware of the products.
In Financials
Financial strength of the company is very strong.
It's possible to make promotional expenses as sales begin.
Cost of availability of capital is low.
In Organization
Management of the company is eager to build a strong
organizational set-up to build up the market.
Skilled and experienced manpower in the production facility exists.
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Weaknesses:
In Marketing
There is a significant confusion raised among consumers regarding c.p.
consumer products and chicken products.
New brand name sub-brand names are necessary and urgent to be
developed.
Only highest category super-malls currently carry c.p. chicken further
processed products and existing product pricing is out of reach of
middle class population due to larger pack sizes only.
Brand perception seeing the current product packaging is worse
compared to the main competitor, Rich brand.
Net proper support from factory. Sometimes products supplied from
the factory do not with the order requirements.
Product size disorders are another important problem
There is no marketing and Branding team in the company.
Paper packs of the key products are hard to store in the refrigerator and
most of the times they are torn.
Product packaging needs an over- hauling to increase its standard, to
meet international and local regularities, and make them attractive to
the end-consumers.
New products need to be launched to meet the need of two segments of
consumers; one for higher class and the other for middle class
population.
Existing geographical coverage is only in Dhaka Metropolitan city.
In Financials
Cash flow needs to be maintained carefully.
In Organization
There is a lacking in current organizational structure as no
personnel except the MD and new GM has been in place and they
are very new to the organization. Organizational structure needs to
be rapidly developed including recruitment, theoretical training and
field training.
Proper organizational set-up is not present in the company for
example, HR department doesn't exist and commercial dept. lacks
manpower and engineering department needs more manpower
having appropriate expertise for maintenance of the cool chain.
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In Distribution
Proper distribution channel is lacking. Existing sales team is already
proclaiming their urge to has more vehicles.
There are only three refrigerated four wheeler vehicles available in the
company. One is engaged for C.P. Five Star food products only. One
has capacity of 1 Metric Ton (MT) they can goods of TK. 2 Lac -2 %
Lac. There are two other refrigerated vehicles having capacity of 1 %
MT. One of which is engaged for supplying products to CP FIVE
STAR. Sales and marketing team collects order from key outlets which
are accumulated and sent to the production department and on the next
day, as per supply of the production dept, goods are supplied to the
outlets and accordingly payments are collected.
There are two other 3 wheeler vehicles that supply frozen goods to
retail outlets. These are ice-cream supply type of vehicles, having
insulated body that can carry goods of around 70 to 80 Kg in C.P.ight
and of around 20,000 to 30,000 in taka amount.
Opportunities:
Government has declared poultry as a thrust sector.
There exists 30% cash incentive from Government for export sales.
There exist only a few key players in the processed and further
processed market.
There exists a huge demand of the chicken products
Areas other than Dhaka are not covered by the competitors other than
few outlets in Shylet and Chittagong.
Poultry market has been growing at the rate of 20% per anum for the
last 15 years.
Recent shortage in fish production in the country as a whole can be
considered as an opportunity to the growth of poultry products.
Threats:
Cash incentive program might be withdrawn by government for
exports.
Many players may enter into the market.
Other potential entrants are Kazi, Crown Foods and Nourish Agro.
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CHAPTER VI
After the whole analysis it is clear to all that C.P. Bangladesh Co.,
Ltd maintain market segmentation includes the demographic,
psychographic segmentation, behavioral segmentation.
Target marketing strategy includes product differentiation, service
differentiation, Channel distribution, Product distribution system,
Image differentiation, quality policy, ISO certification management,
Environment management system
. For Pricing policy they ensure are the low price and high
availability
CP places its promotional activity by advertisements in the poultry
Magazines. C P takes participation in the poultry fair and other
events
6.2 Conclusions
C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd is the only integrated and the largest poultry industry
in Bangladesh that maintains the whole poultry chain in Bangladesh. And this
company has the latest machineries and expertise to provide quality products to
the country as can export in the international market. In Bangladesh processed
foods are getting popularity like other country. And it's a great opportunity for
C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd as its products are processed and further processed
chicken products. There exists a few key players in this industry and the whole
Bangladesh can be a very profitable market for any company
Appropriate planning, effective strategies and timely resource allocation can
bring success for any company. Therefore C.P. Bangladesh Co., Ltd should
develop better marketing strategies and polices to utilize its resources and make
important contribution to the economy. As poultry is one of the most potential
sector of our economy, more contribution of private companies will boost up it
growth as the economy.
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6.3 Recommendation
In this situation there are some critical success factors to resolve the overall
company problems that I would like to suggest on the basis of my personal
judgments.
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REFERENCES
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Appendices -2
SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES
INTERVIEWEE PROFILE
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Address: ___________________________________________________________________
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