3. Turnover
Rs. 1,776 crores
Customer base
15 million
Presence
550 cities and towns in
India
Globally across 35
countries
Market share
53%
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Asia’s largest direct
sales organization
7000 Direct
Personnel
6. KRAs
• Understanding water purifier market
• Understanding the purchase process
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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• Prepare the questionnaire and conduct the consumer
behavior survey
Visiting outlets
Interacting with customers
7. CHALLENGES
• Understanding the nature of work
• Hesitation in talking to the customers
• Number of customers interviewed
• Permission from the outlets for research
ACHIEVEMENTS
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• Overcoming the challenges
• Confidence in approaching customers
• Successful completion of consumer behavior research
8. RESEARCH FINDINGS
• WATER PURIFIER 76% BOIL WATER24%
• 24% people switched brands major reason – “bad after sales service”
• 84% people conducted research before purchase
• Customers were concerned about the taste of water from water purifier
while purchasing it.
• 80% of the customers found the taste of the water from water purifier better
than the tap water.
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OBJECTIVE- Understand the purchase pattern
9. RECOMMENDATIONS
• Create awareness about the contamination of water
• Focus on after sales service
• Designs of water purifiers
• Online shopping- developing market
• Create awareness about the technologies like RO, UV and UF
• Better training of ISP’s.
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10. LEARNINGS
• Importance of after sales service
• Purchase of purifiers differ according to water quality and
water supply of different areas
• Distribution plays an important role
• ISP is a strong influencer
• Impurities that a drinking water has
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Contaminated water: Water contamination is the biggest and most persistent problem in India affecting thousands of lives, especially children
Chemicals-pesticides-rust-heavy metal salts
River water: waste disposed from factories
Ground water: pesticides and fertilizers
Municipal corporation: not updated water purification systems, who knows what happens to the water by the time it reaches out home
Boiling water:
Kills bacteria & viruses
Does not remove pesticides, rust, heavy metals, arsenic, flourine, etc.
UV: removes bacteria and viruses
RO: removes dissolved impurities
Need for water purifiers
Eureka Forbes: which is a part of Shapoorji Pallonji group of companies was founded in 1982
Asia’s largest direct sales organization
Presence- 550 cities and towns- 35 countries
Customer base- 15 million
Market share- 53%
Tunover Rs. 1,776 crores
Understanding water purifier market as a whole
Preparing questions
Eureka Forbes:
A new, revolutionary technology that uses refrigeration technique optimized to condense water from atmospheric air
Generates 120 litres, 500 glasses of drinking water every day
Technology designed and developed in collaboration with WaterMaker
Aquaguard Canter to demonstrate use of this technology at 16 locations in Mumbai