Marel Q1 2024 Investor Presentation from May 8, 2024
Bottom of the Pyramid -Strategy-LG Smartphone
1. “The LG Story: Innovate or Die!”
Advisor
Md. Saimum Hossain
Team Member
Md. Mohi Uddin
Bhuiyan
Team Member
Suvro Emmanuel
Rozario
Team Member
Shadman Haque
2. The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the emerging middle-income consumers.
It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time.
- C. K. Prahalad
4. 1960s
Cyclone killed 20,000 people
Indo-Pak War
Consequences of Partition
Ambitious T-701 transistor
radio was a massive failure
Too expensive for mass
market
Not good enough for Niche
Almost shut down company
5. Supplying radios to rural areas
through the government tackled the
crisis
Heading towards Liberation
6. 1970s
Birth of a Nation
A company Made
its presence as a
New Brand
7. 1980s
Intense Political Turmoil
Turbulent economic times in Korea.
Negative economic growth due to Oil
Crisis and political crisis
Intense domestic competition
Protectionist American Govt.
Labor Crisis
8. L.G looked overseas: America , West
Germany and Turkey
Comprehensive design and product
testing Laboratories
Introduced TPC
Overthrew dictatorship to enter the
path of Democracy
18. 4C
Analysis
Consumer
30 million BOP market
Budget friendly smart
phones and electronics
Price conscious
Budget Friendly Chinese
electronics
Making aggressive
headways
Inferior quality to L.G
Competitors
Established Industrial
resources
Top level R&D
Easily penetrable
potential market
Company
Local buyers and sellers
Globalization through
localization
Collaborators
19. How does Success Look Like?
LG
Market
Leadership
Initial
Phone
launch
Spread
word of
Mouth
Potentiality
through
Connectivity
Innovation
will continue
Bangladesh
Better living
StandardConnectivity
Better
Productivity
Phone
Purchase
25. GLOBALIZATION STRATEGIES
L.G expanded into
America, and Europe
Circumvented
protectionist American
Gov.
Took advantage of
cheaper resources and
untapped market
26. Locals know best
Local Marketing, Local product development
Alliance with local distributors
Local employees in high positions and
Globalization
through
Localization
28. Don’t cherish for
UPDATE
Don’t Prefer
BRAND LOYALTY
People don’t have
MONEY
People buy only
CHEAP GOODS
FEW MISCONCEPTIONS
29. They buy
Updated
Affordable Goods
They PREFER
Brand Loyalty
They have little
but greater
portion of MONEY
People buy only
Real-life Useable
GOODS
REALITY ON OUR ANALYSIS