How a New Product, Tiger Tread, was Introduced to the Market

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In today’s world, there are many ways for a company to introduce a new product into the market. Tiger Tread, a new product from the National Chemical Corporation, is a great example. John Webster, marketing director, and Fred Farley, technical director of the company, knew that they had a very special product to introduce.
They wanted to try and introduce the product into two different markets: the industrial and business markets. They had a potential market size of 7 million vehicles and they want to market to the snow belt of America. The snow-belt represents about 50% of the nation. With that being said, the snow-belt market size would be 3.5 million vehicles. As a basis for forecasting the products sales, Webster had reviewed a study about winter driving habits of U.S. drivers. This study indicated that 18% of the cars in the snow-belt area got stuck at least 1 time during the winter. It also indicated that the average driver got stuck 1.6 times per winter. He knew that the study was several years old so he expected those numbers to be higher because of the increase in the production of smaller, lighter cars.
We know that it was going to be expensive to produce the product but we are confident that no matter the cost of production, our sales would greatly succeed the cost. The cost of producing a 5 oz. can was about 75 to 80 cents if they can produce 100,000 per month. If we were to produce 50,000 cans per month, that cost would rise by 5 to 10 cents per can. A 10 oz. can would cost about 25% more than a 5 oz. can would to produce. With those numbers, 100,000 5 oz. cans would cost us about $900,000-$960,000 per year to produce. 50,000 5 oz. cans would cost us $750,000. 100,000 10 oz. cans would cost us $1.125M-$1.2M a year...

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...other way for us to introduce our product can be through the car rental industry. We can use our salesforce to make calls to corporate offices in the snow-belt. Since our product is going to be very inexpensive, we can offer the company some samples. If all goes well, we will then negotiate a price to have Tiger Tread available to all of their customers. This would be a great way for the car rental companies to up-sell the product as well as a great way for us to introduce the product to households. Overall it would be a win-win for us and the car rental company.
By following the strategy that I have given, we can monitor the sale of our product. Once we see an increase in revenue, we can increase our advertising campaign to directly penetrate household markets through TV and/or radio. All of these numbers and strategies seem to line up for a successful product.

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