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Case study on coke
1.
2. Coca-Cola India, advertised with the tag line - 'Thanda Matlab
Coca-Cola' was targeted at rural and semi-urban consumers
featuring leading Bollywood actor – Aamir Khan. The idea was
to position Coca-Cola as a generic brand for cold drinks and the
campaign was launched to support CCI's rural marketing
initiatives.
However, the poor rural infrastructure and consumption habits
that are very different from those of urban people were two major
obstacles to cracking the rural market for CCI. The other obstacle
was erratic power supply, preference for traditional cold
beverages such as lassi and lemon juice and price of the beverage
was also a major hindrance.
Therefore this case study discusses the marketing strategy which
CCI adopted to crack the obstacles and emerge as a great market
player in the rural market ultimately increasing the overall sales
volume.
4. Introduction
• The vast size and large demand base of the Indian rural market offers
great opportunities to FMCG companies. A location is defined as
„rural' if 75% of the population is engaged in agriculture-related
activity. India has 450 districts and approximately 6,30,000 villages.
These villages can be sorted on the basis of different parameters like
income levels, literacy levels, penetration, accessibility and distance
from the nearest town.
• In August 2002, around 700 million people, approximately 70% of the
Indian population was engaged in agricultural activity, contributing
1/3rd of the country's GNP. Apart from the fact that the rural
population is very large, it has also grown richer since the 1990s, with
substantial improvements in incomes and spending power. This was a
direct result of very high crop yields due to successive good
monsoons. Tax exemptions for agricultural income have also
contributed to greater rural purchasing power
5. • For all these reasons, rural India is now seen as a vast market with
unlimited opportunities. Therefore it is not surprising that many
companies that market FMCGs of everyday use, have put in place
parallel rural marketing strategies. The biggest brands in India belong
to companies with a strong rural presence. Many FMCG companies
had already hit saturation points in urban India by the mid-1990s. The
late 1990s saw many FMCG companies in India shifting their
emphasis to rural marketing. Companies like HLL, Marico Industries,
Colgate-Palmolive and Britannia Industries took up rural marketing in
a serious manner during the 1990s.
• However, selling FMCG products in rural India was a tough task. It
has always been difficult to gauge the rural market. Many brands
which were well-established in urban areas have not been successful
in rural India. Therefore, it is important for a company to understand
the social dynamics and attitude variations within each village. A
company has to address several problems before it can sell its products
successfully in the rural market.
6. These include:
• • Physical distribution
• • Channel management and
• • Promotion and marketing communication
Amongst these, problems related to physical distribution and channel
management adversely affect the service and the cost of the company.
Typically a market structure consists of a primary rural market and
retail sales outlets. These in towns act as the stock points to service the
retail outlets in the villages. But maintenance of the service required
for delivery of the product at retail level is costly as well as difficult.
Many companies use delivery vans to take products to the customers
in the rural areas as well as to facilitate direct contact with them, for
sales promotion. However, in general, only large companies can afford
to undertake such initiatives
7. • CCI's Rural Marketing Strategy
CCI's rural marketing strategy was based on three A's - Availability,
Affordability and Acceptability. The first 'A' - Availability
emphasized on the availability of the product to the customer; the
second 'A' - Affordability focused on product pricing, and the
third 'A'- Acceptability focused on convincing the customer to buy
the product
• Availability
• Once CCI entered the rural market, it focused on strengthening its
distribution network there. It realized that the centralized distribution
system used by the company in the urban areas would not be suitable
for rural areas. In the centralized distribution system, the product was
transported directly from the bottling plants to retailers (Refer Figure
I).
• However, CCI realized that this distribution system would not work in
rural markets, as taking stock directly from bottling plants to retail
stores would be very costly due to the long distances to be covered.
The company instead opted for a hub and spoke distribution system
9. • Under the hub and spoke distribution system, stock was transported
from the bottling plants to hubs and then from hubs, the stock was
transported to spokes which were situated in small towns. These
spokes fed the retailers catering to the demand in rural areas.
• CCI not only changed its distribution model, it also changed the type
of vehicles used for transportation. The company used large trucks for
transporting stock from bottling plants to hubs and medium
commercial vehicles transported the stock from the hubs to spokes.
For transporting stock from spokes to village retailers the company
utilized auto rickshaws and cycles.
• Commenting on the transportation of stock in rural markets, a
company spokesperson said, "We use all possible means of transport
that range from trucks, auto rickshaws, cycle rickshaws and hand carts
to even camel carts in Rajasthan and mules in the hilly areas, to cart
our products from the nearest hub." In late 2002, CCI made an
additional investment of Rs 7 million (Rs 5 million from the company
and Rs 2 million from the company's bottlers) to meet rural demand
10. Affordability
A survey conducted by CCI in 2001 revealed that 300 ml bottles were not popular
with rural and semi-urban residents where two persons often shared a 300 ml bottle.
It was also found that the price of Rs10/- per bottle was considered too high by rural
consumers. For these reasons, CCI decided to make some changes in the size of its
bottles and pricing to win over consumers in the rural market.
In 2002, CCI launched 200 ml bottles (Chota Coke) priced at Rs 5. CCI announced
that it would push the 200 ml bottles more in rural areas, as the rural market was
very price-sensitive. It was widely felt that the 200 ml bottles priced at Rs. 5 would
increase the rate of consumption in rural India. Reports put the annual per capita
consumption of bottled beverages in rural areas at one bottle as compared to 6
bottles in urban areas.
The 200 ml bottles priced at Rs. 5 would also make CCI competitive against local
brands in the unorganized sector. It was reported that in the states of Rajasthan and
Gujarat the local cola brands such as Choice and Tikli cost only half the price offered
by CCI, which gave them the advantage in garnering the major market share before
CCI came out with Chota Coke. CCI also targeted the rural consumer aggressively
in its marketing campaigns, which were aimed at increasing awareness of its brands
in rural areas.
11. Acceptability
• The initiatives of CCI in distribution and pricing were
supported by extensive marketing in the mass media as
well as through outdoor advertising. The company put up
hoardings in villages and painted the name Coca Cola on
the compounds of the residences in the villages. Further,
CCI also participated in the weekly mandies by setting up
temporary retail outlets, and also took part in the annual
haats and fairs - major sources of business activity and
entertainment in rural India.
• CCI also launched television commercials (TVCs) targeted
at rural consumers. In order to reach more rural consumers,
CCI increased its ad-spend on Doordarshan. The company
ensured that all its rural marketing initiatives were well-
supported by TVCs.
12. • When CCI launched Chota Coke in 2002 priced at Rs. 5, it
bought out a commercial featuring Bollywood actor Aamir
Khan to communicate the message of the price cut and the
launch of 200 ml bottles to the rural consumers. The
commercial was shot in a rural setting.
• In the summer of 2003, CCI came up with a new
commercial featuring Aamir Khan, to further strengthen
the Coca-Cola brand image among rural consumers. The
commercial aimed at making coke a generic name for
'Thanda.' Of the reason for picking up the word
'Thanda', Prasoon Joshi, national creative director -
McCann Erickson, the creator of the commercial, said,
"Thanda is a very North India-centric phenomenon
13. • Go to any restaurant in the north, and attendants would promptly ask,
'thanda ya garam?' 'Thanda' usually means lassi or nimbu pani, 'garam'
is essentially tea. Because the character, in itself, represented a culture,
we wanted to equate Coke with 'Thanda', since 'Thanda' too is part of
the popular dialect of the north. Thus making 'Thanda' generic for
Coca-Cola. With the long-playing possibilities of the 'Thanda' idea
becoming evident, 'Thanda' became the central idea.
• Once we decided to work on that idea, the creative mind just opened
up." Between March and September 2003, CCI launched three
commercials with the 'Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola' tag line. All the
three commercials aimed to make rural and semi-urban consumers
connect with Coca-cola. The first ad featured Aamir Khan as a
'tapori' (street smart); in the ad he makes the association between
Coca-Cola and the word 'Thanda.'
14. • The second commercial in the series featured Aamir Khan
as a 'Hyderabadi shop-keeper'; here again he equates the
word 'Thanda' with Coca-Cola. The third commercial
featured Aamir Khan as a 'Punjabi farmer' who offers
Coca Cola to ladies asking for Thanda. The three
commercials showed progression in associating 'Coke'
with 'Thanda' in a rural/semi-urban context . In the first
commercial the connection of Coke with Thanda was
made, in the second one there was a subtle difference, with
the shopkeeper asking customers to ask for Thanda instead
of Coke, and the third commercial showed that when one
asked for Thanda, one would get Coke. Analysts said that
all the three commercials succeeded in make rural
consumers connect to Coke and increased awareness of the
brand among them. Along with TVCs, CCI also launched
print advertisements in several regional newspapers
15. • CCI claimed all its marketing initiatives were very
successful, and as a result, its rural penetration increased
from 9% in 2001 to 25% in 2003. CCI also said that
volumes from rural markets had increased to 35% in 2003.
The company said that it would focus on adding more
villages to its distribution network.
• For the year 2003, CCI had a target of reaching 0.1 million
more villages. Analysts pointed out that stiff competition
from archrival PepsiCo would make it increasingly
difficult for CCI to garner more market share.
16. Impact of Advertisement On
Rural Market
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