Disney Consumer Products:Marketing Nutrition to Children
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world.But it takes people to make the dream a reality…
History :• 1923-Debut of Mickey Mouse• 1932-Licensing became a formal business unit• 1950-Expansion beyond film and television• 1954-Debut in first television program• 1955-Opened Disneyland in California• 1980s to 1990s-Renaissance of Disney animation• 1984-Focus on entertainment assets• 2004-The obesity epidemic• 2006-Launching the offerings of fresh fruits
Valuation :
In the year 2005,
The Walt Disney Company
was a $32 billion company
along with the net income of
$2.5 billion in the same year
Mickey Mouse :This character has a worth of
$5.8 billion and
almost 96% kids
around the globe are familiar to this character
Winnie the Pooh :This character has a worth of
$5.6 billion and
almost 92% kids
around the globe are familiar to this character
Disney Consumer Products• 2005-Leading Licensor of Character Driven Entertainment brands• World wide retail sales of worth
$21 billion
Problems faced by the DCP :Government imposed rules on Broadcasters asking not to encourage
excessive junk food consumption!
Self-Evaluation and Elevation :All the problems and the challenges the DCP faced, they took them as
new Opportunities and reconsidered its range of food products
Self-Evaluation and Elevation :• IN 2004, DCP BRANDED FOOD PRODUCTS ACCOUNTED FOR LESS THAN
1% OF THE CHILDREN FOOD MARKET
• In winter 2004, DCP conducted research to discover if Disney brand equity would transfer to a line of children food products
Self-Evaluation and Elevation :• DCP discovered that there was a gap between food children requested and foods their mothers are willing to buy for them
• Peer pressure & advertising strongly influence kids. They demand national or character-driven products
Self-Evaluation and Elevation :• Moms associate disney strongly with magic-even when it comes to food
• The products need to make kids feel special and must be non-patronizing and mom-approved
Company approaches towards creating Disney Food Products :• Offer products that already had broad appeal• Take products that were already healthy and make them more “fun”• Use packaging to inspire product sampling
Marketing Strategies :
• To differentiate commodities such as peaches and apples, plu stickers were adorned with Disney characters
• A lunch box program where fruit and vegetables would be packed in 3-ounce bags.
Competitors :
Nickelodeon
• Top rated U.S. basic cable network since 1996• Sales of Darling clementine's increased by almost 25% after the Dora and SpongeBob characters were added to the product packaging• In June 2006,They Extended Fresh Fruit And Vegetable Line To Apples, Pears And Carrots
Competitors :
Del Monte Foods
• Pre-schoolers' consumption of broccoli increased by 28% when branded with a Sesame Street character
Competitors :
Warner Bros.
• Cool cut ready snacks package contained two, 2-ounce packages each of grapes, apples and carrots
Conclusion :It has never been easy for Disney to change the market taste, because it would take a long time to replace the old habit into a new one. So, it is expected that There must be coordination between Disney and its stakeholder to get the objectives done that Disney wants.