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    WELFARE ECONOMICS

    & CES

    Submitted To: - Prof. Pankaj Upadhyay Submitted By: - Kusum Lata

    Section: - FE1

    Roll No: - 18

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    A work is never a work of an individual. I owe a sense of gratitude to the intelligence andco- operation of those people who had been so easy to let me understand what I neededfrom time to time for completion of this exclusive project.

    I am greatly indebted to Mr. Pankaj Upadhyay (faculty, Economics, IIPM) for his constantguidance, advice and help which enabled me to finish this project report properly in time.

    I express my sincere thanks to all Faculties members and Students of IIPM for their generous help in various ways for the completion of this project in time.

    Last but not the least I would like to thank to God for his blessing, without him I could nothave completed the project and thanks to them who are internally and externally involved inthis project.

    Kusum Lata

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    A

    Report on

    Communication strategy of

    Amul the taste of india

    SUBMITTED TO:

    PROF. PANKAJ UPADHYAY

    SUBMITTED BY:

    KUSUM LATA

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    INDEX

    INTRODUCTION 06

    WHY WE HAVE SELECTED AMUL? 07

    WHAT IS AMUL ALL ABOUT? 08

    AMULS JOURNEY TOWARDS EXCEL 10

    AMUL PRODUCTS 11

    ADVERTISEMENT STRATEGY OF AMUL 13

    MEDIA PLATFORMS USED 15

    COMMUNICATION MIX USED ACROSS 27

    CONCLUSION 31

    BIBLIOGRAPHY 32

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    INTRODUCTION

    Advertising plays a very pre dominant role for any Marketer. Goods no matter of how goodquality, they may be are of no use if they are not brought to the notice of the consumer. Advertising can beclassified on the basis of target audience towards whom the advertising is directed .there could be differentset of target audience. These are:

    Consumer(households)

    Industries

    Traders

    Professionals

    Institutions

    In our project we would be solely concentrating on the household sector , this sector dominates any other sector in terms of its goods and services. The complexity of human behavior is onemajor factor which makes a job of Marketer tough.

    The success of any advertising campaign depends on its effectiveness that is how effective itis in stimulating consumer to buy the product or at least give a thought to the product .there are varioustype of advertising media which can be used . But the choice of media is a very critical decision as a

    selection of wrong advertising media can lead to colossal resources and it can even have an impact ongoodwill of a company. The media has to be selected taking into consideration the target audience and as amanager we also to take into consideration the Advertising Budget.

    In this project which has been assigned to us by Praveen Patil we have taken a companynamed Amul and then we have made an analysis of its advertising and sales promotion techniques, thecommunication mix employed by the company for its various product categories and how effective thesestrategies have been in positioning Amul as not only Amul but as Amul The Taste of India .

    The project has offered us enormous scope to enhance our practical understanding of the purpose and significance of advertising and sales promotion as an effective tool of communication mix.

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    Why we have selected Amul The Taste of India?We wanted to take something different. All other companies are primarily companies whose

    object right from its inception has been profit maximization. We are not saying that is not out there to make

    profits but the point we are trying to highlight is that Amul started as a cooperative which took on theresponsibility of rural development through providing source of income to millions of farmers. It is onesuch company which has strongly infused the message of corporate social responsibility right through itstarted functioning. It had spurred the white revolution in the whole country. It has done so much pride toIndia by making it one of the worlds leading producer of milk. Many companies reach zenith but there arevery few of them who adopt a social responsibility in their functioning. Amul is indeed different from allthe other companies because it started its operations at the grass root level that is farmers. There cannot bea more noble cause than this for a company to adopt .Taking this into consideration we decided that we willtake Amul as our subject of study.

    We would like to thank Prof. Praveen Patil who has given us this golden opportunity of penning down our thoughts and views.

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    What is Amul all about?BUSINESS needs ideas, not merely money. Ventures run on just money, but starved of ideas,

    would eventually fall prey to competition and perish. And, if ideas are available in abundance,

    business can overcome other handicaps, including its relative weaker money power, compared to thatof its rivals. The success story of the Gujrat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) proves this point.

    Amul follows a unique business model, which aims at providing 'value for money' products to itsconsumers, while protecting the interests of the milk-producing farmers who are its suppliers as well asits owners. Despite being a farmers' co-operative, Amul has given multinationals a run for their money.

    The Amul Pattern has established itself as a uniquely appropriate model for rural development.Amul has spurred the White Revolution of India, which has made India the largest producer of milk and milk products in the world. It is also the world's biggest vegetarian cheese brand.

    Amuls is Indias largest diary producing company with over half the market leading other nationalcompanies such as Mother Diary and multinational food product companies such as Nestle Indiaand Hindustan Lever Ltd.

    Amul demonstrates how careful and consistent product stewardship combined with a deep andintimate understanding of the market leads to consistent growth and success. The company can

    process nearly 10 million litres of milk each day.

    The company started as the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Federation in 1946,collecting just 250 litresof milk a day. The company was formed to give farmers their due and protect them fromunscrupulous middlemen. Since then the company has come a long way . but one thing is still thesame . that time also it was by and for the farmers and today also its the same .

    In the mid 1950s Amul looked for ways to utilize the surplus milk by manufacturing Butter,Milk,Cheese and other milk derived products.

    It is integrated into the fabric of Indian society ,from its roots in representing small farmers andstruggler or the poor and impoverished in difficult circumstances.

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    The brand name Amul, sourced from the Sanskrit word Amoolya, means priceless. It wassuggested by a quality control expert in Anand . Some cite the origin as an acronym to (Anand Milk Union Limited)

    Amul, a brand owned by the 26 lakh milk producers of Gujarat has once again demonstrated thatwhen farmers are given the instruments of development in their hands, they can work wonders. The

    billion dollar Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, the apex body of 13 district milk producers unions has been instrumental in making Amul a brand to reckon with.

    GCMMF TodayGCMMF is India's largest food products marketing organisation. It is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat, which aims to provide remunerative returns to the farmers and alsoserve the interest of consumers by providing quality products, which are good value for money.

    GCMMF markets and manages the Amul brand. From mid-1990's Amul has entered areas notrelated directly to its core business

    The AMUL experience has attracted considerable interest from the development community predominantly anthropologists, development & agriculture economists, and political scientists. Keyareas of their enquiry have been the role of AMUL in reducing social and economic inequality

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    AMULs Journey towards Excellence

    AMULs journey towards excellence is marked by some critical understanding of the business environmentin large emerging economies like India where markets have to be developed by combining efficiencyrelated initiatives with increasing the base of marginal suppliers and consumers. The essence of AMULsefforts was as follows: 1 It combined market and social development in an emerging economy. It recognized the inter-linkages

    between various environments that governed the lives of marginal milk farmers and the unmet needs of consumers.

    2 It also changed the supply chain paradigm in order to reduce the cost to the consumer while increasingthe return to the supplier.

    34 It realized that in order to achieve their objectives, it had to benefit a large number of people both

    suppliers and consumers. While large scale had the danger of failure due to poor control and requiredmore resources, it also had the advantage of creating a momentum that would be necessary to bringmore people into the fold and thereby help more suppliers and consumers.

    5 It also realized that its goal could only be achieved in the long run and this required developingvalues in people and processes that were robust, replicable and transparent.

    67 It also realized that the cooperative would not be independent and viable in the face of competition if

    it were not financially sound. This implied that AMUL had to develop distinct capabilities that woulddeliver competitive advantage to its operations.

    8 Thus this is a brief overview of Amul The taste of India .

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    9 AMUL PRODUCTS101112 Key information related to Amuls Products :

    ButterLaunched in 1955, butter was one of the first milk products offered by Amul. It was also the first timeAmul successfully challenged the hegemony of an established brand. Amul's earliest competitor, Polsonhad been the monopoly milk supplier to the Bombay Milk Scheme. Amul displaced Polson to emerge asthe undisputed leader in the butter market...

    CheeseGCMMF launched processed cheese in 1959 followed by cheese powder in the early 1970s. In the 1980sthe popularity of cheese increased

    Ghee, Skimmed milk powder and Baby foodAmul launched ghee (clarified butter) and skimmed milk powder in 1955. Amul Ghee was an instantsuccess...

    Milk and UHT Milk Amul was the market leader in the Gujarat whole milk market with a 90% market share in 2002. Apartfrom supplying milk to parts of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, GCMMF also sold milk to the NDDB ownedMother Dairy in Delhi...

    As we can see from the products shown above there is :

    There is product consistency in the product line of Amul as all its products are milk based . Amul deals only in consumer goods and not in industrial goods or any other sector. In 2001, GCMMF entered the fast food market in India with the launch of vegetable pizzas under

    the brand name SnowCap in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. GCMMF was also planning to launch its pizzasin other western Indian cities like Mumbai, Surat, and Baroda. Depending on the response in thesecities, GCMMF would decide to introduce its pizzas in other cities in India.Amul also decided to

    bring into market low cost pizzas, The pizzas were offered in four flavours: plain tomato-onion-capsicum, fruit pizza (pineapple-topped), mushroom and Jain pizzas'(pizzas without onion or garlic). It entered the Pizza business, where the base and the recipes were made available torestaurant owners who could price it as low as 30 rupees per pizza when the other players werecharging upwards of 100 rupee.supplying jain pizzas shows that it was catering to needs of themasses as in India most of the people are vegetarian.

    SOUPSAmul introduced ready-to-use (just pour and heat) soups branded Masti in tetra packs of one liter.To begin with they were introduced in two flavors - Hot n Sour and Tomato. Said Sodhi, It was a

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    test marketing drive in Gujarat and in a month or two it would be introduced all over India. Andthere wasnt much competition for there were not many companies in India that sold ready-to-usesoups.Sodhi added, Soup is a milk product and thats a secret. You will come to know only when youconsume it. Keeping the ingredients a closely guarded secret, the company stated that one of thereasons to launch soups was to utilize the already installed equipment for tetra packaging

    Amul also brought its range of ice creams into the market . the lucrativeness of this sector was verygood and Amul beniffited a lot by entering into ice cream sector.

    Amul is planning to enter into the sector of bottled water.

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    WHAT ADVERTISEMENT STRATEGY HAS BEENFOLLOWED BY AMUL-THE TASTE OF INDIA?

    Before Amul entered the picture, companies used conventional methods of advertising where thefocus was only on the food products and the tone of the pitch was serious. Amul changed the way food productswere communicated to the people in India. It always advertised its mother brand Amul, and not its productslike butter, pizzas, or cheese. It all began in 1966 when Sylvester daCunha, then the managing director of theadvertising agency, ASP, clinched the account for Amul butter. The butter, which had been launched in 1945,had a staid, boring image, primarily because the earlier advertising agency which was in charge of the account

    preferred to stick to routine, corporate ads. The year Sylvester daCunha took over the account, the country sawthe birth of a campaign whose charm has endured fickle public opinion, gimmickry and all else.

    Amul has been consistant over the communication campaign and brand strategy. AMUL has positioneditself as " Taste of India " and have ensured that their communication is in line with their positioningstrategy

    By insisting on an umbrella brand, GCMMF not only skillfully avoided inter-union conflicts but alsocreated an opportunity for the union members to cooperate in developing products

    UMBRELLA BRANDING Amuls advertising strategy has followed the concept of UmbrellaBranding. Amul is the common brand name for most of its products across categories. For instance, theAmul girl has also been used to advertise Amul ghee and milk. Its ad campaign Amul doodh peeta hai

    India, conceptualised & created by FCB-Ulka, was drafted to proclaim its leadership position and wastargeted at people across all income categories. The corporate campaign The Taste of India caters to

    people belonging to all walks of life & across cultures. It is circled around a one day old child who needsmilk as much as to a dead man who needs ghee. Umbrella branding can be a successful marketinstrategy. However, this depends on having a consistent and clear brand identity across the variants. It alsoneeds to be recognized that, while this approach can help kick start variant launches, halo effects arenot guaranteed.

    Halo effects can keep a brand alive in the mind of the consumer by providing reminders of the brandsexistence. But in an active category with specific category functionality, the brand also needs to provideconsumers with reasons to choose their brand over the others.Halo effects on the parent brand

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    Consumer Advertising: This is also called end product advertising .such advertisements are primarilydirected at consumers. These are the advertisements which are most prominent as very substantial portionof the total advertising budget is directed to potential buyers of consumer products through mass media.The fact that the number of buyers of consumer items are generally very large and are widely distributedover a large geographically area further , enhances the importance of consumer advertising as amarketing tool. Amul had resorted to consumer advertising as it s target was the middle class of indiansector.but the point to be noted is that they relied more upon emphasizing their brand rather than single

    product.

    Institutional advertising: institution advertising s also called corporate advertising . its a public-relation-approach advertising. Amul had wanted to build a goodwill for its brand and also it is always expressing aviewpoint on a controversial issue through the use of billboard which we are going to discuss under media

    platform used.

    Indirect Action Advertising : Indirect action advertising as against direct action advertising does not

    attempt to bring about an immediate behavioral response . The purpose of Amul was not to bring about animmediate behavioral response but the aim of advertisements was to create a image in the minds of consumer regarding Amul. Amul wanted to build long term relation with its customers that is why it never adopted practice of aggresively selling the product.

    Pricing strategy adopted: Thus, AMUL adopted a low price strategy to make their products affordable andguarantee value to the consumer. The success of this strategy is well recognized and remains the main

    plank of AMUL's strategy even today. The choice of product mix and the sequence in which AMULintroduced its products is consistent with this philosophy. Beginning with liquid milk, the product mix wasenhanced slowly by progressive addition of higher value products while maintaining desired growth in

    existing products. Even today, while competing in the market for high value dairy products, GCMMFensures that adequate supplies of low value products are maintained. Amul was/is targeting middleclass

    people so it has always been inclined to keep its price low and at same time it assures of reasonable quality.

    Huge ad campaigns are not always necessary, what you need is a genuinely interesting way to interactwith your customers , tell them your story and engage them in a conversation, even if you are sellingsomething that is soo commoditized like butter. Thus Amul believed that huge expenditure on advertisingwas not always necessary , if an Advertisement has creativity and ingenuity it will achieve its purpose for

    which it has been designed.

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    Media Platform Used by Amul ?Media Planning : It is important phase of advertising campaign after creative strategy that is

    preparation of the right message. Until and unless , the message is communicated through the rightmedium to target customers the target is of no use .Amul was also facing the challenge of which advertising media to adopt which should integrate with itsobjectives which were :

    AMULs business strategy is driven by its twin objectives of:

    (i) long-term, sustainable growth to its member farmers, and

    (ii) value proposition to a large customer base by providing milk and other dairy products a low price

    Amul has made the use of following media platforms till know :

    1. Outdoor media : hoardings/billboards2. Broadcast Media : television3. Non-broadcast Media : cinema4. Print media : newspapers ,general interest magazines5. Internet : independent websites ,portals

    OUTDOOR MEDIA : HOARDINGS

    The cooperative has been making extensive use of hoardings for promoting its flagship brandAmul Butter since 1966, and is all set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for thelongest run promotion campaign. The advertisements are in the outdoors category and arecommunicated through hoardings at busy junctions in all major cities across India.Amul had usedoutdoor advertising to a good effect with the middle class people as their targets they were able tocreate an image for their brand in the minds of consumer .

    The ads have a central character a cherubic, wide-eyed, dressed in a polka-dot frock, and blue-haired girl/baby who is perhaps around 4-6 years old. A new ad is apparently created every week and these ads revolve around the latest happening thing (good/bad/ugly) in the country (or localstates) and can be anything associated with politics/sports/movies/people/laws/general events etc.The ads are very creative, witty, humorous, whacky and sometimes controversial but invariablyelicit a laugh, chuckle or at least a smile from almost everyone who understands the context. Theads relate butter to the topic of the ad in a very amazing & intriguing mannerprimarily by

    playing with words. The words can be in plain English or Hinglish. Mascot advertising ( will bedealt with just after this section)Here are a few advertisements which appeared on hoardings :

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    The polka dot frock and blue haired girl .

    This hoarding was released after the success of movie cheeni kum . the chef in the movie is AmitabhBachan and the girl alongside her is the girl whom he calls her sexy. Amitabh Bchan is shown to besuffering from diabetes in the movie as a result of which he should avoid sugar. Amul has used itshoardings to bring the whole episode out by giving it a touch of humour.

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    This hoarding was made after the release of the Shahrukh Khan starrer Om ShantiOm . He was talk of the town and every teenager desired to have body like him , this advertisement alsoadds to the pun.

    Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood superstar sings for Indian Premier League (IPL)music video 'Run Just Run' his franchisee IPL Kolkata Knight Riders cricket team - April '08.the girl withguitar is the Amul mascot girl

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    Harbhajan Singh pet named Bhajji in a disgraceful act of slapping Indiateammate S. Sreesanth in the opposite team after Indian Premier League cricket match at Mohali, India- May '08

    Indian - Dalip Singh Rana popularly known as 'The Great Khali' , a huge andimpressive World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion wrestler - May '08.They are trying toshowcase that to have body like khali eat Amul only.

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    The recent Amul hoardings which projected Akshay Kumar as the number one hero, rated over Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, has raised questions in Bollywood

    The Amul hoardings recently seen across town, created quite a few murmurs in the film industry. Thehoardings projected Akshay Kumar as the number one hero, while the two Khans - Shah Rukh andAamir - are shown handing out buttered toasts to Akshay with the tagline saying, Singh is King.Apparently, this running down of their numero uno position has not gone down well with SRK andAamir.

    Upset at this unwarranted assessment, an industry insider close to both theKhans said, There have been spoofs made on films like Taare Zameen Par and Om Shaanti Om, butwhy are the two actors made to look small in the ad, and on what basis? Whose idea was it to comparethe actors and rate them? We contacted Rahul DaCunha, head honcho of DaCunha Associates, aboutthe concept of this particular ad. He said, For the moment at least, after the release of Sinngh is King,Akshay was considered to be the number one and people too have accepted him as the number one

    hero. Even the newspapers clearly declared him as the number one hero, its not as though its our takeentirely.But its true that there have been rumblings in the industry questioning the

    concept. DaCunha said, Nothing has reached my ears so far. Audiences take such ad campaigns morelike a joke. People have to be sporting enough to laugh off these matters.

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    If we go back to January this year, there was the announcement of the impendinglaunch of Indias smallest (and the worlds cheapest) car. The headline says whether you agree or not (referring to the controversy about whether the car was good for India or not) but the punch lies in the rhymingof the words, Nano and Maano (meaning to agree). As for the sub- head, well!!!

    This one appeared when our hockey team failed to qualify for the Olympics. Thehead line here plays on the word Shock and Chak. Chak De (Go for it!) is a film about hockey and tells thestory of how a not-so-good hockey team overcomes all odds to win the World Cup, and is apparently based ona true story. After the movie there was a lot of hype about it being a great morale booster for hockey in India,

    but finally, it all came to naught and set some heads rolling in the hockey federation of India.

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    Popular movies are used as a theme for the Amul ads quite often. This one is a song from the popular movie Jaane Tu.Ya Jaane Na. Basically the songgoes: Pappu cant dancesaala! (Saala is a colloquial term used to address others and itcan be used in an evil sense, but in this case it is not used that way). And the ad headlinesays, Pappu took a chance khaaliya ! Khaaliya means he ate it.

    The ad about Musharuff appeared during the time when Mush had brieflydeclared Emergency to gag Bhutto and Sharif, but it looks ominous now that Benazir Bhutto is deadand some people suspect that Musharuff had a hand in it. The pun here is on the word Musharaffat asMu means mouth (didnt get this fully) and sharafat means decency and kahan hai means wherehas it gone. Notice the sub-Is

    Outdoor Advertising through Mascot Advertising

    Is there anyone in this country who hasnt seen the Amul ads on thehoardings by the road sides, and not chuckled? The longest running ad, still hasnt lost its charm with itsnever-changing famous moppet in polka dotted frock and a half pony tied up.

    The slogan has always been Utterly Butterly delicious. What is it about theAmul ad that has kept the viewers wanting more? The biggest success seems to be like that of the CommonMan, no particular time or period could have frozen this character. It does not belong to an era. It hasmoved along with time reacting to the new events through time. The answer to the second question is mascot advertising which has been used by Amullike a marketing tool to carve a niche for its brand.

    Mascot Advertising is a very successful concept which is being used in western countries but it is not thatsuccessful in India. Amul had taken a gamble with its Polks dot blue haired frock girl and it has paidthem rich dividends.

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    50 years after it was first launched, Amul's sale figures have jumped from 1000 tonnes a year in 1966 toover 25,000 tonnes a year in 1997. No other brand comes even close to it. All because a thumb-sized girlclimbed on to the hoardings and put a spell on the masses.

    These advertisements had sometimes met up with controversies but still people liked the ;punelement in them. The success story of Amul says one thing to all the other ad campaigns that did not manage to lasttoo long or had to get a whole new look in order to stay in the market. Its a mixture of keeping with thetimes, humor and understanding the need of the hour of the people. Amul boardings are a thing of attractions in India. In India, food was something one couldn't afford to fool around with. It had been taken tooseriously, for too long. Sylvester daCunha decided it was time for a change of image. The imagechangeover was required because the earlier advertisements were very routine and boring .

    This use of mascot as a marketing medium highlights the clever use of topical advertising by GCMMFusing humor, to generate higher brand recall. It out the utility of hoardings as an effective marketingcommunications tool for marketers.

    Where does Amul's magic actually lie? Many believe that the charm lies in the catchy lines. Thatwe laugh because the humour is what anybody would enjoy. They don't pander to your nationality or certain sentiments. It is pure and simple, everyday fun. The Amul girl who lends herself so completely to Amul butter, created as a rival to the Polson

    butter girl. This one was sexy, village belle, clothed in a tantalising choli all but covering her uppregions. "Eustace Fernandez (the art director) and Sylvester daCunha decided that they needed a girl whowould worm her way into a housewife's heart. And who better than a little girl?".And so it came aboutthat the famous Amul Moppet was born.

    Amul ads are iconic, in that they have not changed in all this time. They are as contemporarytoday as they were four decades ago when they created a sensation in 1967. The ads were funny, simpleand on occasion controversial but always they did their job they got our attention!! Amul has used thoardings and advertising to perfection. Taking cues from new films, celebrities, the creatives are fun towatch. More over Amul has sticked with the creative messages throughout

    The Amul girl, apart from promoting a $1-billion brand, has been bringing smiles to millions. Andthis smile has spelt a huge success and changed the livelihood of over 2.5 million Gujarat farmers.

    The sales figures of Amul butter have jumped from a few lakh rupees in 1966 to over Rs 500 crorenow. Apart from rapid growth and trustworthiness, the four-year-old girl has also ensured a virtualmonopoly for Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) that sells Amulbrand of dairy products.

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    This tells a lot about why big marketing budgets, huge ad campaigns are not always necessary, whatyou need is a genuinely interesting way to interact with your customers , tell them your story andengage them in a conversation, even if you are selling something that is soo commoditized likebutter.

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    Online marketing efforts undertaken

    a. Buying Amul Products Online : As a first step towards Ecommerce in India, Amul is delighted tooffer you the cyber shopping experience with a wide range of Amul dairy products in all major citiesof India. You can order your favourite Amul Ice-cream at the new Amul Icecream cyberstore . The"Taste of India" is now a few clicks away from your doorstep.

    Amul Products can now be ordered online on the website of our importer www.kanandairy.com

    The key benefits of BUYING ON-LINE are:

    Products shipped in a Reusable Attractive Styrofoam Ice US $10.00 Retail Value. Receive Free Reusable Ice Pack for keeping food and drinks cold, US $5.00 Retail Value.

    Amul Products delivered at your doorstep overnight, saves time, mileage and parking hassles. Receive Amul promotional items with your package like Amul Recipe Book, Butter Girl

    refrigerator magnet, etc. Receive the satisfaction of Eating pure, full-flavored, quality sealed product manufactured fresh

    in India's most advanced dairy manufacturing facility. Get a free family pass for visiting Amul's Dairy Plant in Anand Gujarat. Special Offers for Party Orders of 1 or more cartons of any single Amul Product. Ask for

    special quote. Makes you directly eligible to enroll for The Fly Me Home Contest Sponsored By Amul and

    many more Internet Promotions in the Pipeline. No Sales Tax for Internet Sales except for Illinois residents at the Present time. Most important, all transactions are powered by AT&T Secure By which ensure complete

    security.

    b. Amul to set up its virtual production facility in Second LifeAmul, which established its presence in Second Life in March by setting up its virtual parlour,is now working to expand its presence in the virtual world.

    Trimensions, a Gurgaon based company, is helping Amul to develop its existence on SecondLife. Rahul Dutta, chairman and managing director, Trimensions, says, Amul is planning tobuy eight-10 islands, equal to 160 acres of virtual land, in Second Life to set up a simulationof its production and distribution facility. The objective behind launching a virtual setup is todemonstrate its functioning to the consumers, and experiment with any change in theproduction or distribution system virtually before executing it in the real world.

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    Screenshot of Amul Ice-cream parlour

    Setting up ice cream parlours on Second Life was actually a pilot project. It will take around six months tolaunch the virtual Amul setup on Second Life. The Amul ice cream parlours showcase topical ads of Amul

    starting from the late 1990s, Amul TV commercials and product displays.Second Life is an Internet enabled virtual world in which users can create their virtual identities. These

    identities can move around, interact and socialise with other users. Members of Second Life can participate inindividual or group activities and create and trade items like virtual property and services with each other. Amember has to pay for the space he purchases on Second Life. Second Life is developed by Linden Lab, acompany based in the US.

    c. Amul.tv.com- It showcases short films and Tvcs related to amul.at this site recipes of favouriteIndian dishes are also given.

    3.Broadcast media: Television

    TV reaches every demographic category and achieves a certain impact with the use of colour , audio andmotion. Amul has aired a lot of advertisements for its various product categories .some of theadvertisements which we had collected are here .

    WHAT WENT WRONG IN AMULS ADVERTISEMENTS AND WHERE POSSIBLY THEYCOULD HAVE MADE A CHANGE

    We are going to discuss this under two heads

    First we would focus on chocolate sector which has not been tapped to fullest by Amul. Amul withits brand name had a huge opportunity to tap Chocolate market but unfortunately it has not yetrealised its potential.

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    Secondly we are going to talk about pitfalls in advertisements in generally all its advertisements.

    What could have Amul done in its advertisements to make its Chocolate sector

    profitable and competitive ? Amul should have use brand Ambassador like Sharukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan etc to attract

    people of all age groups like Cadbury does through its celebrity endorsements.

    Lack of Awareness among consumers : Main product of Amul are Milk, Butter and Cheese. It has pre dominantly been focusing on these products and lucrative sector of chocolates has been ignored.

    Company should launch chocolates in a new attractive packaging to change image of Amulchocolates in consumers mind.

    Products like Milk, Cheese etc have been positioned to such an extent that the chocolates sector of Amul did not get its proper market share and got underpositioned.

    Company should introduce Sales Promotion measures like free gifts with buy of premium packs

    It should work upon bringing out a new theme for its products. for someone you love looksmore like a theme for cards and greetings rather than chocolate. Video of Amul chocolates

    It should work upon improving the taste of its chocolates . instead of using condensed milk for itschocolates it should learn diffirent process of making chocolate.

    It should make advertisements that have strong advertisement appeals. The advertisement appealsshould be such that they lead to brand recall.

    The company should make chocolate of Amul as a memorable experience for the customer.

    What can amul do to make its other advertisements more attractive and appealing to consumers ?

    Advertisement should be made in such a manner that they have a strong brand recall value

    They should have used more attractive jingles in their advertisements.

    Rather than advertisements covering all the products they should focus on single productadvertising. Because if it tries to advertise all its products then it can lead to advertisement clutter .consumer may find it difficult to across this advertisement clutter.

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    As we can see the advertisements are not as humorous and are not having pun to that extent as wecan see in case of Hoardings.

    The advertisements lack the power to touch the heart of the consumer

    COMMUNICATION MIX USED ACROSS

    We have already disussed the role of advertising in case of Amul , now we would like to throw lightupon :

    Sales promotion Direct marketing

    Amul has not really been into personal selling because its aim has been to position its brandand not to approach individual customers. Moreover in case of consumer marketing that is whena product is for the masses then personal selling is not a feasible mode of communicating your

    product concept to the target audience.

    Sales Promotion : The most common objectives of sales promotion are :

    To gain additional market share or additional revenue .To expand the target marketTo inform the customer about the new uses of existing product.To develop favourable customer experience with the product.To gain advantageous shelf-space to supplement advertising and personal selling efforts.

    Thus there can be numerous objectives of sales promotion .In case of Amul following sales promotion techniques have been usedIf a customer makes a online request for products he will receive the following promotional

    offers :

    They also cameup with short movie THE AMUL STORY of 20 mins to promote and showthe life of the employees working in amul and their networks.

    Products shipped in a Reusable Attractive Styrofoam Ice US $10.00 Retail Value. Receive Free Reusable Ice Pack for keeping food and drinks cold, US $5.00 Retail Value.

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    Receive Amul promotional items with your package like Amul Recipe Book, Butter Girlrefrigerator magnet, etc.

    Get a free family pass for visiting Amul's Dairy Plant in Anand Gujarat. Special Offers for Party Orders of 1 or more cartons of any single Amul Product. Ask for

    special quote. Makes you directly eligible to enroll for The Fly Me Home Contest Sponsored By Amul and

    many more Internet Promotions in the Pipeline. No Sales Tax for Internet Sales except for Illinois residents at the Present time.

    These measures are concentrating on goods other than ice cream. The sales promotion specifically adopted incase of ice creams sector:1. On every 1 litre purchase of any Amul ice cream get 25% free.2. 1+1 free Family/ Party pack.3. This diwali they brought schemes of getting cache free with 1litre ice cream which attracted manyhousewives.

    DIRECT MARKETINGAmul "Utterly Delicious" Parlours

    Amul has recently entered into direct retailing through "Amul Utterly Delicious" parlours created in major cities Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Surat. Amul has plans to create alarge chain of such outlets to be managed by franchisees throughout the country. They have created AmulParlours at some prominent locations in the country, which are run by the company or its wholesaledealers:

    1. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation2. The Somnath Temple3. National Institute of Design4. Infosys Technologies in Bangalore, Mysore & Pune5. Wipro campus in Bangalore

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    6. L.J. College, Ahmedabad7. Ahmedabad Airport8. Surat Municipal Corporation9. Delhi Police10. Gujarat State Raod Transport Corporation

    11. Jubilee Mission Medical College, Trichur, Kerala12. Sanjay Gandhi Hospital Parlour, Amethi13. Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata14. Cafe Amul, MDG, Gandhinagar

    "Amul Utterly Delicious" parlours are an excellent business opportunity for investors, shopkeepers andorganizations. In order to come closer to the customer, they have decided to create a model for retailoutlets, which would be known as "Amul Preferred Outlets"(APO).These Amul parlours are unique in the sense that they offer all Amul products under one roof. This directmarketing mesure will surely go a long way in establishing Amul further . even a brand like Cadburys isnothaving any such outlet where all its products are sold under one roof .

    Competitor HLL is also planning to extend Unilevers retail brand Kwality Walls Swirls parlors inaccordance with the growing number of shopping malls in India. Amul parlours There are around 3,000Amul parlours across the country as of now and the Federation intends to take this to number around 10,000 bynext year.

    Sponsorship of star voice of India

    Amul had sponsored the very popular TV show Amul Star Voice Of IndiaWith the clutter of music reality talent hunt shows on television, it becomes difficult to differentiate onefrom another. TALENT is the key which set AMUL STAR VOICE OF INDIA apart from the rest in itsfirst season and brought singing talents like Ishmit Singh Sodhi, Harshit Saxena, Abhaas Joshi, IrfanKhan, Toshi to the forefront. Amul Star Voice of India has served as the ultimate platform for buddingsingers from across the nation to realize their dreams, the show went on to become the most entertainingand involving show to hit Indian television. In keeping with its philosophy of offering engaging anddistinct content, Star Plus now announces the launch of the second series AMUL STAR VOICE OFINDIA with an even bigger bang!

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    GEOGRAPHICAL BASIS OF ADVERTISING

    Regional

    One thing unique about Amul is that the advertisements which are shown on hoardings are never shown onTV.

    Otherwise an epitome of Indias largest food brand, it is interesting to note that the Amul girl has always been flying high on the hoardings but hardly seen on television. General Manager, Creatives cannot beeasily translated from one media to another. The topicals(hoardings) are created in different languages &

    pertain to the geographical region they are put in. Every kind of media has different attributes & Amulneeds to focus upon that particular media, which brings maximum recognition & effectiveness to the brand.Thus to some extent the hoardings have been use for local marketing that is their scope is restricted to the

    particularregion.

    National

    Gujarat continues to be the biggest sourcing point for milk. But now raw milk is also being procured fromMaharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajashthan, Orissa, West Bengal,Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. Thus other cities are also contributing towards Amul. Urbancentres contribute nearly 70% to the companys revenue while the remaining 30% comes from ruralareas

    Rural connect : the cooperative wayCooperatives are deeply entwined with the lives of rural people in India, where there are over 5 lakh

    cooperative societies with membership exceeding 22 crore. Cooperative way is a natural approachfor rural development, as well as for reducing disparities in access to technology. When combinedwith the potential that Information and communication technology offer, cooperatives could ,continue to play an important role in fostering economic productivity and rural growth, with linkagesextending to the grassroots level.Thus it can be said that Amul has a strong basis for ruraldevelopment.

    INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

    GCMMF has a wide range of products in the processed cheese segment. It has also been a pioneer in thespecialty cheese market in the country. Its cheese business grew at 18% in 2005-2006. GCMMF exportscheese to the tune of 600 tons, making it the largest cheese exporter in the country. The export market

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    includes the Middle East, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States of America; countries that have alarge Indian population, and the neighboring countries of Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.

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    Conclusion

    Thus this brings us to the end of our project report. I hope that we have been able to bring forth the point for which we had undertaken the project. They had put much efforts on their creativity.Amul is one of the successful business houses and other companies should learn from Amul that how to dotheir business in a corporately socially responsible manner. Amul has proved a point , Amul uses only 1

    percent of its turnover for promotions .This shows that it is not always necessary to spend millions on promotion when you have creativity.

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