The origin of Kit-Kat are known as “Kit-Kat” as a brand back in year 1911when Rowntree’s confectionery company which is based on the United Kingdom. The brand has also trademarked the terms of “Kit-Cat” and also “Kit-Kat”. In year 1988, Nestle has bought over Rowntree with the exception of United States where it is made under the license by The Hershey Company. Kit Kat is wafer biscuit bar confection which is covered by chocolate. Kit-Kat is now owned by nestle in almost every country but except in the United States due to the license registered but The Hershey Company.
In most of the success company, an integrated marketing communication will help to lead the company into success. Nestle’s Kit-Kat are also one of the company that involved IMC tools. The IMC tools that Nestle Kit-Kat are using the social media network such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instragrams to promote on their product. (Josh Harmit 2012) Besides that, they also involved the broadcast media such as television and also in radio advertising. In TV advertisement Kit-Kat always used the concept of reminding people to take a break with Kit Kat. By using these IMC tools, people will get more attention on the advertisement and will lead to sales promotion that people will consume Kit Kat because they know well of this product and immediately will know when there are a event or any campaign happening.
The main competitor of Kit Kat is Mars which both are also producing chocolate bar. One of the IMC tools that used by Mars brand are is broadcasting advertisement. In 2012, the TV advertising has shows that a person with only a bite of his Mars Bar can do things that not usually been done. Besides that, Mars is giving away 100,000 "official special edition" En...
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...it, you will achieve double on later. Therefore Chupa Chups should continue on it in order to get more people’s attention.
In the conclusion, IMC tools have different ways to advertise a brands and one of the main reason of doing it, that is to increase the brand reputation. Compared to all direct competitor and indirect competitor, Nestle’s Kit Kat should follow the footsteps of other competitors. In the same time Kit Kat should also implement more communication tool that should learn from other competitor mistake and also to be more better in doing advertisement. However, in all the effective tool there will be also some tool that are not that effective when it is been used in a certain situation. Therefore, it will be important for a marketer to identify and select which is the best IMC tool to be used to maximize the outcome of the IMC tool and also the profit.
The Famous Amos cookies sold $300,000 the first year in the business. The very next year he sold $1,000,000 in sales the following year afterward. By 1982 the cookies had earned at least 12 million dollars. The cookies were such a success they were eventually sold in supermarkets across the United States. They eventually went into places like TGI Fridays, Baskin-Robins, and Starbucks. Eventually all good business must come to an end because in 1985, Wally Amos sold the company to the Shansby Group. Though it wasn’t his company still, Wally still was a spokesperson for the company for a year before quitting because of frustration. The company was eventually sold to many companies including President Baker and Keebler. Even though his business didn’t fall through he still didn’t quit. Eventually Amos created another company called Chip and Cookie. The new cookies are slightly different from the Kellogg version or variation and is only ran by Wally himself.
The Hershey Company is the largest manufacture of chocolate and candy in the United States. The Hershey Company produces and sells a wide variety of sweets, including gluten-free and sugar-free sweets (The Hershey Company). Some famous brands produce by The Hershey Company include, Hershey, Reese’s, York, Kit-Kat, Ice Breakers, Twizzlers, Almond Joy, and Mounds (The Hershey Company). Milton Hershey changed the candy making industry by turning his caramel business into a chocolate industry, caring enough to influence his company to help organizations and individuals, and by remaining successful for over a hundred years.
Claire’s Chocolates does not advertise, relying on word of mouth. Their promotional methods, therefore, are based on quality customer service, building customer relationships, high quality products and service delivery (Gronroos, 1994, 4). This creates the experience that makes customers want to talk about their product and this, therefore, creates new customers.
Madelyn McQueen - Twin Falls Idaho Have you ever wondered how the delicious, classic treat came to be? Well, any event you can think of after the date of 1938, the cookie was bound to be there. Several stories about how the country’s favorite baked good came to be, have been spread and believed by thousands. For example, Ruth Wakefield unexpectedly ran out of nuts for a regular ice-cream cookie recipe and, in desperation, replaced them with chunks chopped out of a bar of Nestle bittersweet chocolate. Another story is said that the vibrations from an industrial mixer caused chocolate stored on a shelf in the Toll House kitchen to fall into a bowl of cookie dough as it was being mixed. Sadly, all of these stories are false, says Carolyn Wyman in her recently published “Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book.” In her book, Wyman offers a more believable version of how the cookie came to be. Wyman argues, that Ruth Wakefield, who had a degree in household arts and a reputation for perfectionism, would not have allowed her restaurant, which was famed for its desserts, to run out of such
Vernon Rudolph is the brains behind the Krispy Kreme name. He bought a doughnut shop in 1933 and all the assets came along with the purchase, including a secret recipe and name, Krispy Kreme. Rudolph moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he opened his first Krispy Kreme shop. The business prospered and in the 1950¡¦s over ten other locations were opened. The business was able to produce 500 dozen doughnuts an hour. ¡§Revenues grew from less than a million in 1954 to $58 millions in 1974.¡¨(C-280) The company was bought out in 1976 by Beatrice Foods. This hurt the name and image of Krispy Kreme. Revenues began to fall and customers were not satisfied with the new owner¡¦s changes to the image of the doughnut giant. Then in 1982, new buyers decided to go back to the original image of Krispy Kreme and revenues again began to rise. Revenues gradually rose to $117 million in 1989 and then stayed the same over the next six years.
In todays marketing world there are several types of traditional and non-traditional promotion mix tools to better accomplish your marketing objectives. DJ Jekyll & Mz Hyde, after careful consideration and review have implemented an integrated marketing communications strategy (IMC) to ensure the best possible return on investment (ROI).
Marketing In this day and age is vital for a company to perform at its possible best. Marketing’s main focus is to give great satisfaction to a customer. There are many aspect of marketing, these aspects give marketer’s the tools to help strive for the best possible success they can achieve. They hope that they can create exposure for their brand, product or service.
Nestle has proven success in the past at keeping older brands vibrant in the market while being conscious of sales. Kit Kat is an example of a product that has remained a strong brand for the past eighty years. By implementing a well thought out marketing plan, Nestle will be able to afford to revive an advertising campaign for Natura Roast. It is less expensive to revive an older brand already in the market identifiable by consumers than introduce an entirely new brand into the market. Unlike other new products that are introduced each year, Natura already has loyal consumers and has been a proven success in the coffee substitute industry. With the proper implications and backed by beverage powerhouse Nestle, Natura Roast will be able build upon the 100 years of success for the foreseeable future.
Krispy Kreme is a doughnut company founded, in New Orleans in 1937 the owner, Vernon Rudolph bought the recipe and did not discover the recipe himself they started selling there doughnuts in local grocery stores in the earlier years of the brand. And then expanded nationally by selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the biggest grocery store Wal-Mart which promoted the brand on a national scale as it branched out to other states in America such as Chicago and became big franchisers’. Krispy Kreme had an Economic boom during the 1990’s as they expand out of America to Canada and to United Kingdom, as Tesco gained rights to sell Krispy Kreme’s throughout all their branches in the UK and Ireland during 2006 Krispy Kreme began to show adverts in February advertising more sales for valentine’s day, Krispy has had such a boom that there a stores all around the world such as Colombia and Japan the strategy they used was new product development which involved bringing out new valentine’s day doughnuts which boosted sales during this time period which showed how they tried to expand their business...
Krispy Kreme is a product company and the most profitable part of the business is doughnut sales due to the high volume of loyal customers.
Several facts are changing in today’s marketing communications. More companies adopt the new concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC) to convey a consistent message about their brand and products. Hence, IMC has played a powerful role and developed into a useful strategy for company to reach more customers and build good customer relationships. According to Herstein et al. (2008), IMC is one of a successful strategy that coordinates and integrates all of marketing communication tools to efficiently and economically influence between an organization and its existing and potential customers. Moreover, marketers can combine IMC tools (advertising, sale promotion, personal selling, direct marketing and public relations) rather than separate practices to create values and avoid potential conflicts (Duncan & Everett, 1993). In fast food industry, fast food chains integrate advertising, sale promotion, sponsorship, packaging and Internet to promote their products as well as build brand image (Sperber, 2003; Story & French, 2004; Morrison, 2010). Advertising is most used form of communication and the most frequently utilized medium due to it easily contact the target market, especially on television advertising (Story & French, 2004; Case, 2007). In addition, simple toys and products are typically used by fast food chains in children’s meal to attract children and adolescents.
...e companies because they almost touch all possible medium to communicate their message, even they also tried experimental marketing tool as well. Almost everything was perfect from artist to ad agency, conceptualization to communication tools. According to us it is very much require in communicating the message and Flipkart ad is the perfect example of creative representation. Because creative executions increase the recall value and long term brand awareness, maybe due to content used in communication. According to us they must have to emphasize on radio and paper advertisement and should also increase the TV ad frequency .telemarketing and door2door promotion is the other way out but may be expensive but they want to tap bigger market size they have invest more on all medium because in today’s world customer acquisition is the key of every business success.
When Kraft Foods, launched Jacobs 3in1/2in1 instant coffee, they were introducing a product into an already very competitive and dense instant coffee market. Therefore, Kraft had to find a cheep and affective way to get their product samples out to the current market and a target market that would be open to change and innovation and act as catalysts to promote their new product (primarily young coffee drinkers). Kraft put it’s money into the hands of an up and coming marketing group called YOC, who were convinced that mobile marketing was the way of the future and would work perfectly for their sampling campaign. YOC’s idea was to use traditional media to advertise the product, and placed control directly in the hands of the consumer by letting them order samples of the product for free using SMS from their mobile phones (Wirelessfederation, 2010) Kraft would use Short codes and key words promoted across traditional print and TV ads, inviting consumers to send an S...
Marketing communication assists in the development of brand awareness. This implies that customers will interpret product’s information into how they perceive that product that will subsequently affect a product’s position in the market. Furthermore, marketing communication is used as a means of maintaining existing customers, as well as built strong relationship with all the market stake holders. There are several marketing communication strategies, and the challenge to businesses if finding the right one to use. Choosing the most appropriate marketing communication strategy may ensure a product’s success in the market. More often than not, business will require using more than one strategy to effectively disseminate the massage the company is trying to send. Below is an example of the best strategies for different businesses.
According to Shimp (2007), there are five important factors which determine the purpose of advertisement in terms of marketers’ communication with consumers. He listed these five factors as follows: “(1) informing, (2) influencing, (3) reminding and increasing salience, (4) adding value, and (5) assisting other company efforts.” (p.246). To clarify that, the first most important aspect is informing people which means company needs to enhance the awareness of the consumer about their products by mentioning its advantages and features. Advertising also affect the products in two ways. Firstly, by basic demand, which build consumer desires for old products of the company and secondly, refers to a new brand of the company. In addition, effective advertising can retain consumer’s mind fresh about the image of a brand which develops the trace of the memory where consumers have to choose between two or more products. Moreover, it may change the product quality, create new, well-designed and elegant product and change consumers view towards the product. Lastly, by effective advertising program, company may save money and time as s...