Marketing Analysis of POLAR Ice Cream Company BD
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Chapter 1
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1. Introduction
1.1 Historical background of Polar Ice Cream
The polar brand of Ice Cream Came into being in 1987, Dhaka Ice Cream Industries limited
pioneered in the first hygienically produced and packed Ice Cream in Bangladesh, with the
important ingredients mostly from renowned manufacturer of Australia, European etc. Prime
concern of Polar ice cream is the food safety to the valued consumers.
With cold hubs in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chittagong, Comilla, Sylhet, Bogra, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Khulna
and Jessore the distribution of Polar Ice Cream can be found almost everywhere in the country.
For long distance delivery points we have commissioned freezer vans.
Number of Employees : The number of employees in Head Office more than 65.
Company Website URL : http://www.polarbd.com
Year Established : 1987
Ownership Type : Individual (Sole proprietorship)
Main customer : Local customer in Bangladesh.
1.3 Mission
To become a unique organization by producing and selling quality products through continuous
improvement and add value to the stakeholders
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1.4 Objective
The goal of Polar Ice Cream Company is:
1.5 Products
Polar has a lot of variation in designing its products. Products are basically categorized into
main 5 categories.
All of these categories have different tastes of products. Below is a chart of whole products
available in these categories.
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Chapter 2
Segmenting, Targeting & Positioning
2. STP Marketing
STP marketing is a three-step approach to building a targeted marketing plan. The "S" stands
for segmenting, the "T" for targeting and the "P" for positioning. Going through this process
allows a business owner and marketing consultants or employees to formulate a marketing
strategy that ties company, brand and product benefits to specific customer market segments.
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Segmenting
The segmenting step is essentially a brainstorming activity. First to list out all the potential
market segments a company could target in a marketing campaign.
Targeting
When a company has multiple, distinct market segments, they typically need to customize
marketing campaigns that appeal to each. Going through the STP process, the company selects
which segment to target for upcoming campaign.
Positioning
Positioning is how a company aligns its brand or products in the target market. The goal is to
offer something that is bigger, better or more valuable than your competitors to a particular
market segment.
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Once a company has strategized using the STP process, the next step is to implement all
marketing tasks to achieve intended goals. If they want to increase brand awareness within an
emerging market, they would design commercials or ads that introduce their brand and
develop an image. They may pick media commonly used by that target group. For instance,
they would create print, radio, TV, magazine, Internet or other ads that promote their quality or
value to customers.
Market segmentation is the identification of portions of the market that are different from one
another. Segmentation allows the firm to better satisfy the needs of its potential customers.
The process of defining and subdividing a large homogenous market into clearly identifiable
segments having similar needs, wants, or demand characteristics. Its objective is to design a
marketing mix that precisely matches the expectations of customers in the targeted segment.
Few companies are big enough to supply the needs of an entire market; most must breakdown
the total demand into segments and choose those that the company is best equipped to
handle.
In addition to having different needs, for segments to be practical they should be evaluated
against the following criteria:
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• Accessible
• Substantial
• Unique needs
• Durable
A good market segmentation will result in segment members that are internally homogenous
and externally heterogeneous; that is, as similar as possible within the segment, and as
different as possible between segments.
Demographic Psychographic
(What) (Who)
Geographic Behavioral
(Where) (How)
Market
Segmentation
1. Geographic segmentation
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The following are some examples of geographic variables often used in segmentation.
2. Demographic Segmentation
Demographic segmentation consists of dividing the market into groups based on variables such
as age, gender, family size, income, occupation, education, religion, race and nationality. As one
might expect, demographic segmentation variables are amongst the most popular bases for
segmenting customer groups. This is partly because customer wants are closely linked to
variables such as income and age. Also, for practical reasons, there is often much more data
available to help with the demographic segmentation process.
Age
Gender
Family size
Family lifecycle
Generation: baby-boomers, Generation X, etc.
Income
Occupation
Education
Ethnicity
Nationality
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3. Psychographic Segmentation
Activities
Interests
Opinions
Attitudes
Values
4. Behavioral Segmentation
In behavioral segmentation, consumers are divided into groups according to their knowledge
of, attitude towards, use of or response to a product. It is actually based on the behavior of the
consumer.
Benefits sought
Usage rate
Brand loyalty
User status: potential, first-time, regular, etc.
Readiness to buy
Occasions: holidays and events that stimulate purchases
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(1) Age
(2) Family Size
(3) Income
(4) Social Class
Considering the end-users and sales agents/retailers needs in mind, Polar Ice Cream has divided
its market into segments as shown in Table.
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1. Company resources
2. Product variability
3. Product’s stage in the life cycle
4. Market variability
5. Competitors’ marketing strategy
Undifferentiated
Undifferentiated Differentiated
Differentiatedor
or Concentrated
Concentratedor
or Micro
Microor
or
or
orMass
Mass Segmented
Segmented Niche
NicheMarketing
Marketing Local
LocalMarketing
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing Marketing
Marketing
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Targeting Targeting
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1. Undifferentiated Marketing:
Undifferentiated marketing refers to an approach when a firm produces only one product or
product line and targets all of its customers with a single marketing mix. The other term used
for this approach is mass marketing. In Mass Marketing, the market coverage strategy
essentially ignores the market segment differences and goes after the whole market with one
offer. This marketing approach attempts to sell through persuading a wide audience. Usually
the idea is to broadcast the message with an aim to reach the largest number of people
possible. Mass marketing focuses on media coverage such as radio, television and newspapers.
The idea is to maximize the exposure to the product. Examples of mass marketing products are
toothpastes, which are not made especially for one consumer group or segment and are sold in
huge quantities. Other examples are furniture, artwork, automobiles, residential communities,
cola drinks and personal computers.
2. Differentiated Marketing:
The differentiated marketing refers to the approach of the firms, which produce numerous
products with different marketing mixes. These products are designed to satisfy the smaller
segments. In this approach, instead of marketing one product with a single marketing program
the firm approaches the different consumer groups with products customized for each group.
Most companies do this for specialization and to remain competitive. The differentiated
marketing essentially requires market segmentation and incurs a higher production cost,
inventory cost and marketing costs.
3. Concentrated marketing:
The popular term for concentrated marketing is niche marketing. Another term for the same is
"Focused Market". A niche market is a subset of the market on which a specific product is
focusing. Each niche market essentially defines specific product features such as product
design, price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to impact. In
niche marketing, the firm essentially focuses. Niche marketing chooses a small segment
provided it's a profitable segment. This approach is most suitable to smaller firms, which have
lesser resources.
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4. Micromarketing:
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This is the narrowest approach of targeting. It is most effective technique for small business
users to sustain, build and grow their own brand. It targets the potential customer at the very
basic and personal level.
2.8 Positioning
Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image to occupy a distinctive
place in the target market’s mind. A product’s position is the way the product is defined by
consumers on important attributes—the place the product occupies in consumers’ minds
relative to competing products.
The differentiation and positioning a task consists of three steps: identifying a set of possible
customer value differences that provide competitive advantages upon which to build a position,
choosing the right competitive advantages, and selecting an overall positioning strategy. The
company must then effectively communicate and deliver the chosen position to the market.
To build profitable relationships with target customers, marketers must understand customer
needs better than competitors do and deliver more value. To the extent that a company can
position itself as providing superior value, it gains competitive advantage. But solid positions
cannot be built on empty promises. If a company positions its product as offering the best
quality and service, it must then deliver the promised quality and service. Thus, positioning
begins with actually differentiating the company’s marketing offer so that it will give consumers
superior value.
Point of Differentiation:
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3. Channels
4. People
5. Image
6. Benefits
Company should develop a unique selling proposition for each brand & stick to it. Each brand
should pick an attribute & tout itself as “number one” on that attribute. Companies should
position themselves on more than one differentiator. Companies should broaden their
positioning strategies to appeal to more segments.
Value propositions (the whole cluster of benefits the company promises to deliver) represent
the full positioning of the brand
Price Winning
Value
More Same Less Propositions
More More for More More for Same More for Less
Benefits
Losing Value
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Our (brand)
Is (concept)
That (point-of-difference)
Once company has chosen a position, the company must take strong steps to deliver and
communicate the desired position to its target consumers.
Communicating
Chosen
Position Target
Company
Product, Customers
Price, Place,
Promotion
Delivering
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Point of Differentiation
At present Polar Ice Cream Factory markets different types of Ice Cream. To support the
market expansion and customers’ satisfaction, it gives importance to some major aspects.
And the company always tried to be differentiated from others in all those places and those
are shown in figure.
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Distribution
Channel
Convenient Quality of
Price Product
Customer
Variety in
Demand
Product
Focused
Is (concept) = Happiness
Communicating
The Consumer’s
happiness is our
happiness
Target
Polar Ice
Customers
Cream
Delivering
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Chapter 3
Products Levels & Product Mix
3.1 Product
Product is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or
consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
Features
Brand
Name
Augmented
Core Product
Actual Product
Customer
Value
Quality Design
Level
Packaging
Product
Warranty
Support
1. Core Product
The CORE product is NOT the tangible physical product. You can't touch it. That's because the
core product is the BENEFIT of the product that makes it valuable to you. So with the car
example, the benefit is convenience i.e. the ease at which you can go where you like, when you
want to. Another core benefit is speed since you can travel around relatively quickly.
2. Actual Product
The ACTUAL product is the tangible, physical product. You can get some use out of it. Again
with the car, it is the vehicle that you test drive, buy and then collect. You can touch it. The
actual product is what the average person would think of under the generic banner of product.
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The AUGMENTED product is the non-physical part of the product. It usually consists of lots of
added value, for which you may or may not pay a premium. So when you buy a car, part of the
augmented product would be the warranty, the customer service support offered by the car's
manufacturer and any after-sales service. The augmented product is an important way to tailor
the core or actual product to the needs of an individual customer. The features of augmented
products can be converted in to benefits for individuals.
1. Core Product
The core product of the polar is its branded ice creams “POLAR”.
2. Actual Product
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Design or Flavors: Vanilla, Strawberry, Fruity, Doi, Kheer, Pista, Chocolate, Malai, Cake
3. Augmented Product
Polar Provides delivery of their products with their own van and also facilitate their customers
with payment flexibility.
Product mix, also known as product assortment, refers to the total number of product lines that
a company offers to its customers. For example, a small company may sell multiple lines of
products. The four dimensions to a company's product mix include width, length, depth and
consistency.
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The width of a company's product mix pertains to the number of product lines that a company
sells. For example, if a company has two product lines, its product mix width is two. Small and
upstart businesses will usually not have a wide product mix. It is more practical to start with
some basic products and build market share. Later on, a company's technology may allow the
company to diversify into other industries and build the width of the product mix.
Length
Product mix length pertains to the number of total products or items in a company's product
mix, according to Philip Kotler's textbook "Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning,
Implementation and Control." For example, ABC company may have two product lines, and five
brands within each product line. Thus, ABC's product mix length would be 10. Companies that
have multiple product lines will sometimes keep track of their average length per product line.
In the above case, the average length of an ABC Company's product line is five.
Depth
Depth of a product mix pertains to the total number of variations for each product. Variations
can include size, flavor and any other distinguishing characteristic. For example, if a company
sells three sizes and two flavors of toothpaste, that particular brand of toothpaste has a depth
of six. Just like length, companies sometimes report the average depth of their product lines; or
the depth of a specific product line.
Consistency
Product mix consistency pertains to how closely related product lines are to one another--in
terms of use, production and distribution. A company's product mix may be consistent in
distribution but vastly different in use. For example, a small company may sell its health bars
and health magazine in retail stores. However, one product is edible and the other is not. The
production consistency of these products would vary as well.
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Small companies usually start out with a product mix limited in width, depth and length; and
have a high level of consistency. However, over time, the company may want to differentiate
products or acquire new ones to enter new markets. A company can also sell the existing
products to new markets by coming up with new uses for their product.
Depth :
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As all the products are Ice Cream products but with different flavor and taste, besides closely
related with each other in nature, it can be said that there is a close consistency among the
width, length and depth of Polar Products.
PRODUCT MIX
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Chapter 4
Branding Strategies
4.1 Branding Strategy
A branding strategy helps establish a product within the market and to build a brand that will
grow and mature in a saturated marketplace. Making smart branding decisions up front is
crucial since a company may have to live with the decision for a long time.
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Product Category
Existing New
Line Brand
Existing Extension Extension
Brand Name
Multi New
Brands Brands
New
2. Brand extension: If your current brand name is successful, you may use the brand name to
extend into new business areas. For example Virgin Group extending its brand from records,
to airlines, mobiles and banking.
3. Multi Branding: The Company decides to introduce more brands into an existing category.
Kellogg’s for example having a number of brands in the cereal market and the cereal bar
market. Multi-branding can allow an organization to maximize profits, but a company needs
to be weary over their own brands competing with each other over market share.
4. New Brands: An organization may decide to launch a new brand into a market. A new brand
may be used to compete with existing rivals and may be marketed as something ‘new and
fresh’.
As Polar is promoting and customizing new labels of existing products under the existing
umbrella of POLAR brand, we can define Polar’s Branding strategy as Line Extension strategy of
the brand.
4.3 Conclusion
From an extensive marketing analysis of the ideas and marketing concepts at work in the
operation of Polar Ice Cream, it is possible to obtain an insight to the essential marketing
practices adopted by the company.
Evidently by virtue of its unique product attributes, high quality, exquisite and mouth- watering
varieties of ice creams, attractive and distinct packaging, Polar Ice Cream has been able to
ensure marketing excellence and enhance its competitiveness.
References
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On Net References
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1.http://www.polarbd.com/index.php
2. http://www.investopedia.com/
3. www.businessline.com
4. www.papers4you.com
Print References
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