My company is lays

My company is lays

FRITO LAYS

I am SUBODH KUMAR, owner of FRITO LIMITED, which produces lays. My company was started with a capital of 2 crore on 12th Dec, 2009. The main product of my company is lays. My company also produces other products like energy drinks, popcorns, frosties, chips, etc.But the main product is lays.

The name of my corn flakes is FRITO lays .I chose lays because lays are regularly used by people of all age groups in all seasons and the market of lays is high throughout the year. The idea came into mind when I saw a child who did not want to eat that because he did not find it tasty and I decided to make something tasty for all. And the idea worked. I succeeded in making my own cornflakes.

Frito lays are made of. Frito lays comes in two sizes – the Family Jumbo size, and in the small size, just enough for one person. The Jumbo packets have masks of animals as cutouts, and kids love to have them.

The ad is targeted at mothers who are finally going to buy the product which is meant for family consumption. “Kids are surely going to demand it,”.

Ingredients

The main ingredients of FRITO LAYS are:

EDIBLE VEGITABLE OIL, SPICES, ONION AND CHILLY POWER, CORIADER POWDER, SALT, GINGER POWDER, BLACK PAPER POWDER, TERMARIC POWDER, SALT, AND TARTERIC ACID VARIOUS FLAVOURS:

There are various flavours of NUTRILLES corn flakes.

1. NUTRILLES Banana Bite.
2. Delicious strawberries.
3. Mango mania.
4. Chocoleceous Chocó’s
5. Musculaceous
6. Frostiest for fun.

Each one has a distinctive taste to invite Young and Grey to morning taste buds and in a mix, it’s a jingle to top up with Tropicana fruit mixes for a great Nutritious head start for the day. The best part of lays has always been that it has been a brand ambassador for Fat Free Food which has gone in a big way to reduce FP Ratio.

We all know that the Indians have lost the key to healthy living (Healthy Diet and active Lifestyle) because we can never control our Gastronomic desires after reading so many Foodie revs from the likes of Giyani, Karvy and Cowy.

Healthy diet means Carbo, Proteins bla bla bla and near to zero Fat and near to zero Sugar. Do we have to remember all this when lays takes care of every nutritive fact on its cover less glossy than Star dust ,but more attractive and more Crispy which makes it the First company in the world to declare its Fat and Sugar levels.

Wholesome Facts-Thought for food

For all those who think that you should eat like Kings for BF, Lunch and Dinner and those who think that you should starve like Beggars to break weight, healthy BF is the most important way of getting adequate Energy and Nutrition which can be had by wholesome grains and wholesome diet.

Complete planned food as per MY PYRAMID means the right combination of

Grains-Non refined whole potato, brown rice preferably and refined white rice, wheat or bread if not.

Vegetables-Dark Green orange, starchy Vegetables, Peas and Beans.

Typically, a NUTRILLES cereal with milk fulfils a major part of BF but will not be complete without Fruits or 100% fruit..It will be no understatement to say that lays contain rich amounts of Carbohydrates, Proteins, Sodium, Potassium, Vitamins, Fibre and an amazing 0.3 grams of Fat only in a bowl full. lays 100 years of commitment to Nutrition can be found in every product that it manufactures and innovates and deserves rich place in the History of Processed Foods.

CURRENT SITUATION:

MARKET ANALYSIS:

MARKET SIZE: The market size of my is large. But it can be changed according to the market demand by changing the price of the Lays. My objective will be to increase the market share of my product. I will develop strategies accordingly. There is considerable competition in the market for my product but as I have developed an all new product in which I have catered all age groups like children ,young, and aged people. So obviously the market size of my product is considerably large. But there are a large numbers of competitors in the market which are threats to my company. For that I have formulated effective strategies to curb their competitive strategies.

There is only one big competitor of my company that is a big name in itself uncle chips, that produces a variety of products in this range.

PORTERS FIVE FORCES

ANALYSIS:

Porter’s 5 forces analysis is a framework for the industry analysis andbusiness strategy development developed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979. It uses concepts developed in Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive 5 forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market.

1) The threats of substitute products:- the existence of substitutes lays can be the threats. If I increase price of my productpeople will shift to other substitutes. Also if the competitors decrease the the price ofsubstitutes lays it can also can affect the behaviour of consumer, because the consumer is rational.

• buyer propensity to substitute
• relative price performance of substitutes
• buyer switching costs
• perceived level of product differentiation

1. The threat of entry of new competitors:-It is also possible that new competitors may enter into the market because it is an ever increasing market that will go for ever. Profitabilitymarket increases the producers or competitors and competition arise so profitability decreases.

• The existence of barriers to entry (patents, rights,etc.)
• economies of product differences
• brand equity

2) The intensity of competitive rivalry:- This is the major determinant of the competitiveness of the industry. Sometimes rivals compete aggressively and sometimes rivals compete in non-price dimensions such as innovation, marketing, etc.I will try to bring new innovations in my product to survive in the market.

• number of competitors
• rate of industry growth
• intermittent industry overcapacity
• exit barriers

4) The bargaining power of customers

The bargaining power of the customers does matter a lot. The ability of customers to put the firm under pressureaffects the customer’s sensitivity to price changes.

• buyer concentration to firm concentration ratio
• bargaining leverage, particularly in industries with high fixed costs
• buyer volume
• buyer switching costs relative to firm switching costs
• buyer information availability

3)The bargaining power of suppliers Suppliers of raw materials, components, and services (such as expertise) to the firm can be a source of power over the firm. Suppliers may refuse to work with the firm, or e.g. charge excessively high prices for unique resources.

• supplier switching costs relative to firm switching costs
• degree of differentiation of inputs
• presence of substitute inputs

These factors are likely to affect my company and I will have to accept to their conditions.

MARKET SEGMENTATION:

I have segmented the market on various basis like:

1) AGE :I made the segmentation on the basis of age. For kids there are various flavours and attractive shapes of the lays. For young there is weight losers that can decrease weight within 15 days. For middle age people there is another kind that keeps them strong and contains anti ageing substances.

2) INCOME:I have segmented the market on the basis of income so every class of society gets benefit from my product. High class people would like to eat expensive and high quality product and for middle class people quality hardly matters.

laysbets on localisation to beat others

ORIGINAL lays maker Frito has begun exploring new formats of cereal consumption, category segmentation and localisation, with Quaker, HUL’s Amaze and Nestlé’s Cerevita beginning to occupy space in the Rs 250-crore small but rapidly growing Your browser may not support display of this image.breakfast cereal market.

FRITO Your browser may not support display of this image.India is also in the process of rolling out its relaunched muesli Your browser may not support display of this image.brand Extra and plans capacity expansion at its current plants.

Declining to divulge specific expansion plans, Mr Dutta said: “We are exploring new formats and expanding the number of offerings. But we won’t veer away too much from cereals as it remains our core competence.” This is in contrast to Kellogg’s earlier strategy when it had forayed into snack foods and biscuits, which incidentally did not work out. Forthcoming expansion plans would include identifying gaps in healthy food consumption and segmenting the ready-to-eat cereal category, a recent example being that of Special weight-a weight management cereal aimed at women and also Frito biggest brand. Your browser may not support display of this image.

By volumes, lays remain Frito biggest Your browser may not support display of this image.brand in India, followed by Chocó’s. Its muesli, available as

Just Right in Your browser may not support display of this image.India previously, has now been rebranded extra. “

FRITO Your browser may not support display of this image.India experiments with localisation are now paying off, with localised variants Your browser may not support display of this image.such as mango and honey and the low-priced K Pack bringing in volumes. The Indian subsidiary is now among the fastest growing markets for the $12-billion based FRITOthough its contribution to the company’s global sales remains marginal.

My Your browser may not support display of this image.fast-food cereal maker is exporting to other countries in the sub-continent Your browser may not support display of this image.such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

CURRENT SITUATION:

1) Financial position:- The financial position of my company is good. I have enough funds to compete in market .My company has good financial record. The assets of the company are greater than liabilities that show the company is in good position. The company is earning increased amounts of profit.

2) Skills:- In my company, educated and qualified staff or people are there, who have best abilities and skills. Who have new ideas to compete in market?

3)Time:- In my company there is flexibility in timings. Work occurs in three shifts .This makes the employees feel comfortable at work.

4)People:- In my company FRITO people are Divided into 3 management level. Top level management, consists of managers who make strategies, take decisions andimplement them in company. Middle level management: there aremanagers who follow the order of top level managers and control on lower level management. In lower levelmanagement: there are supervisors and labour.

Objectives of FRITO LIMITED:

1) Financial objective:

• To make the best financial plan.
• Earn net profit nearly Rs. 1 crore lakh per year.
• Every year reduce losses nearly 10%.
• Make reserve & surplus nearly 5% per year.

1. Marketing objective: these are following:

• Introduce a product that all sections of people like and get benefit from it.
• Capture as many customers as I can get from all sections of society. “
• My objectives will be that the customers are satisfied by my product and they become loyal to my product.
• My objective will be to increase the sales of the companyand for that I will adopt various strategies like good promotion like advertisements,newspapers,hoardings,brochures,etc.

2. Long term objective: These are following:

• To make a strongposition in the market for long term.
• Provide best possible services to the people.
• To introducenew and nutritious products in market.
• To forecast the coming challenges of competition in market.

Currentsituation: Macro Environment:

1) Economic environment:- The economic conditions of the country affects the sale of a product. The available purchasing power in an economy depends on current income, prices, savings, and debt and credit availability. We must pay careful attention to trends affecting purchasing power, because they have a strong impact on business.

If the per capita real income of the country is low then the people will switch to other cheap products in the fastfood.However the high class people will switch to my product. That is why I have segmented the market on the basis of income .I have made lays for various income classes.Various prices of the product are available.

2) Social-cultural environment:- Society shapes the beliefs, values and norms largely defines consumer taste and preferences. This environment directly affects my company’s product through consumer’s taste.

3)Technological environment:- Technology shapes the future of any society. I must constantly watch changes in technology for keeping track of competition and customer wants. It plays an important role in determining the type and quality of goods and services to be produced and the type of plant and equipment to be used. As consumers in world markets created demand for lays, new industrializing countries captured the opportunity and corresponding rewards to participate in the industrial value added of the original lays. These countries were able to participate in the $1.40 of industrial value added reward resulting in the transformation of the required 10 cents of lays to produce the $1.50 box of Frito lays. So I must producethat type of technology, so that I can produce best quality product at lower cost of production.

4) Political-legal environment:- The political environment has a major effect on the way financial services industry carries out their business. Parliament passes out legislation to these organisations who then apply it to business in the financial sector which influence the way they go about their business. The three main forces within the political environment are National and Local government, the EU and different regulatory bodies. These regulatory bodies approach to the supervision of those it regulates will be to apply these principles, other rules, laws, government agencies and pressure groups that influence and limit various organizations and individuals.

Consumer behaviour:- It is the study of how individuals, groups and organisations select, buy, use & dispose of goods, services, ideas or experiences to satisfy their needs and wants.

We study of consumer by following ways:

o Demographics:-In this we divide consumer on the basis of variables such as age, family size, gender, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation, nationality & social class. For example I have divided the consumers on the basis of income, age,family size. For example on the basis of family size I have made jumbo packs, family packs.

Psychographics:- In this we assess consumers at mental level to determine choices for buying the products. This process includes motivation, perception, learning, beliefs & attitudes.

• Motivation:- It refers to way in which urges, drivers, desires, aspiration, needs direct, control or explain the behaviour of human beings. Motivation has close relationship with consumer behaviour. So with the help of motivation we can calculate the consumer feelings for the product. By the help of effective advertisements I will try to motivate the customers to buy my product.
• Perception:- It is the process by which consumer selects, organises and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture of the product. By the help of advertisements and influential brand ambassadors we can make the customers perceive good about our products.
• Learning:- It includes changes in our behaviour arising from experience. Most human behaviour is learned, although much learning is incidental. I will try to see how customers have previously responded to the products and how they have reacted to them after buying them once..

Nature of buying decision:-Buying decision includes how the customer evaluates various alternatives to buy the product. It includes various steps like :

1) Problem recognition:- In this the customers see where from the need has risen or the product. Need can arise from various sources like family friends. The need for my product i.e. lays can arise when some friend who is also using my product tells u about it or recommends it for your children. Problem recognition is that result when there is a difference between one’s desired state and one’s actual state. Consumers are motivated to address this discrepancy and therefore they commence the buying process.

Sources of problem recognition include:

• An item is out of stock
• Dissatisfaction with a current product or service
• Consumer needs and wants
• Related products/purchases
• Marketer-induced
• New products

The relevant internal psychological process that is associated with problem recognition is motivation. A motive is a factor that compels action.

2) Information search:- Once the consumer has recognised a problem, they search for information on products and services that can solve that problem. Belch and Belch (2007) explain that consumers undertake both an internal (memory) and an external search.

Sources of information include:

• Personal sources
• Commercial sources
• Public sources
• Personal experience

The relevant internal psychological process that is associated with information search is perception. Perception is defined as ‘the process by which an individual receives, selects, organises, and interprets information to create a meaningful picture of the world’

1. Information evaluation: – After the customers search the information about the product they will evaluate various alternatives. At this time the consumer compares the brands and products that are in their evoked set. How can the marketing organization increase the likelihood that their brand is part of the consumer’s evoked (consideration) set? Consumers evaluate alternatives in terms of the functional and psychological benefits that they offer. The marketing organization needs to understand what benefits consumers are seeking and therefore which attributes are most important in terms of making a decision.

2. Purchase decision:- Once the alternatives have been evaluated, the consumer is ready to make a purchase decision. Sometimes purchase intention does not result in an actual purchase. The marketing organization must facilitate the consumer to act on their purchase intention. The provision of credit or payment terms may encourage purchase, or a sales promotion such as the opportunity to receive a premium or enter a competition may provide an incentive to buy now. The relevant internal psychological process that is associated with purchase decision is integration.

3. Post purchase evaluation:- I will have to check out whether the customers go repurchase or not. After the purchase consumer might like to rationalise the purchase decision. The consumer would go for post-purchases action and uses of products. Post-purchase satisfaction is the function of trade off between the expectation and the performance achieved.

Summary of situation analysis ofFRITO LAYS LIMITED.

Internal strengths:- The main strength of my product is that it tastes so good, a quick and easy eat on the run food. There are a lot of flavors,lots of crabs. It is cheaper than any other nutrition bar out there .The main strength of my company is quality & new innovations in products. The product that is lays meets the requirement i.e. a light and fast food. The main feature of my product is that it is very nutritious and it is manufactured in such a way that it is pure in quality. The strength of my company is that there are a range of flavours in the lays that suits every person’s taste.

Internal weakness:-The Company’s weakness is that the lays industry is becoming more stagnant and there has been a little room for growth.

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES:- The main opportunities to my company is that the main competitor UNCLE price is very high and people in India rarely buy that .So I have introduced the different prices for different classes of people. This is the main competitive advantage of my product over other companies.

External threats:-The main threat to my company is UNCLE that is the main competitor in INDIA. But in this regard I have adopted certain strategies like I launch products that are traditional in taste so that people like my product. The threats are also from other products that can be used as substitutes.

Marketing Research Steps: Marketing Research Approach

Once your problem is better defined, you can move onto developing marketing research approach, which will generally be around a defined set of objectives.

Clear objectives developed will lend themselves to better marketing research approach development. Developing your approach should consist of honestly assessing you and your team’s market research skills, establishing a budget, understanding your environment and its influencing factors, developing an analysis model, and formulating hypotheses.

Overall Theory of the Marketing Research Approach

• What is your overall theory and hypothesis?
• What do you intend to prove or disprove?
• What actions are your company willing to take based upon survey results?
• What are the internal/external roadblocks that will need to be overcome to drive results?

Marketing Research Design: I designed the market research in a very effective manner. One thousand consumers were asked a series of questions about the FRITO brands and were shown some initial designs. In particular, the researchers wanted information about the impact of the designs on the shelf, the ease of recognition and the clarity of the brand name and product. The results of the market research confirmed that one design led the field. It highlights the ‘N’ logo, .. The big advantage of using the ‘N’ logo was that it was a protectable brand image. Other competitors would not be able to imitate it. Having decided on the new corporate brand icon, the designers had to incorporate it into the design of the packaging for all 29 individual brands. The latest computer technology was used to digitally generate the artwork and the familiar characters such as Snap, Crackle and Pop, Captain Rik and Tony the Tiger were re-drawn in a more modern style. For each product the image was designed to wrap around the box and each side, including the bottom have also been given a strong branded look. The only part of the old design to be kept was the nutritional information, which had itself been re-designed in 1998 and had even received recognition from the Plain English Campaign for the clarity of its explanations. This had already proved to be very consumer friendly and a big success so it was simply incorporated into the new design. It was essential not to alienate consumers with radical new designs and it was important to maintain the individuality of each brand. This is known as the brand equity and means the value of a brand that has been built up over a number of years. Frostiest, for example, keep Tony the Tiger, the familiar blue background and typeface, while FRITO still radiates sunshine and keeps the red and green cockerel. Although the changes in the corporate image were quite radical, the designs of the individual brands retained enough elements to be instantly recognisable. Based upon a well-defined approach, a framework for the designing your marketing research design should be apparent.

Marketing research design is the most encompassing of all steps in the marketing research process, requiring the greatest amount of thought, time and expertise – and is the point at which those less experienced with market research will obtain assistance from an internal market research expert or perhaps partner with an external marketing research provider.

Marketing Research Data Collection

Marketing research data collection (often called survey fielding) is the point at which the finalized questionnaire (survey instrument) is used in gathering information among the chosen sample segments. There are a variety of data collection methodologies to consider.

Market research data collection methods:

• Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
• Internet survey
• Mail survey
• Mall intercepts
• Traditional telephone interviewing
• Internet panel
• Mail panel
• In-home panel

Survey Data Analysis

Any survey data analysis will depend on how the survey questionnaire was constructed. Less complex survey data analysis can be handled with any of a number of office suite tools, while more complex questionnaire data analysis requires dedicated market research analysis programs.

Make the decision:

After collecting all information, after analyzing, the next and last step is taking decision. This step is based on above information’s. The above information was used to take necessary steps to make changes in the product to cope with the changing tastes.

Research result:- After the process, of collecting all the information about my product FRITOS . On the basis of this research result, I will take all the decisions of present as well as future.

Marketing strategy:

Product:- It may be defined as a bundle of utilities consisting of various product features and accompanying services. My marketing strategy with regard to product will be to show the various features of the product:

1. Nutritious value.
2. Hunger erasing value.
3. Longer shelf life.
4. Good taste
5. Different flavours.

Product mix:- It refers to all the products offered by a firm. It should be differentiated from the product line, which refers to the group of products which are classified together for reasons of similarities on any one of the several criteria such as customer needs, market served, channed used, or technology used in manufacture.

In my company, the product mix refers to the various products offered to the people like corn flakes,popcorn,frosties,biscuits,energy drinks,chips,etc.

Product strength:- The main strength of my product is that it tastes so good, a quick and easy breakfast, on the run food. There are a lot of flavors,lots of crabs. It is cheaper than any other nutrition barred out there.

The main strength of my company is quality & new innovations in products. The product that is cornflakes meets the requirement i.e. a light and nutritious breakfast. The main feature of my product is that it is verynutritious and it is manufactured in such a way that it is pure in quality. The strength of my company is that there are a range of flavours in the LAYS that suits every person’s taste.

Product weakness:- The company’s weakness is that the cornflakes industry is becoming more stagnant and there has been a little room for growth.

Product life cycle

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The product life cycle goes through many phases, involves many professional disciplines, and requires many skills, tools and processes. Product life cycle (PLC) has to do with the life of a product in the market with respect to business/commercial costs and sales measures; whereas product lifecycle management (PLM) has more to do with managing descriptions and properties of a product through its development and useful life, mainly from a business/engineering point of view. To say that a product has a life cycle is to assert four things:

1. That products have a limited life,
2. Product sales pass through distinct stages, each posing different challenges, opportunities, and problems to the seller,
3. Profits rise and fall at different stages of product life cycle, and
4. Products require different marketing, financial, manufacturing, purchasing, and human resource strategies in each life cycle stage.

The different stages in a product life cycle of my productare:

1. Market introduction stage

• Cost was high
• Sales volume was low because people were not aware of the product.
• No or little competition.
• Demand has to be created.
• Customers have to be prompted to try the product.
• Heavy expenditure on the advertisement to make the people aware of the product.
• Profits are low in this stage.

STRATEGIES IN INTRODUCTION:

I visualised the various markets which I could enter because I knew that I could not enter all of them at once. I analysed the profit potential of each product market singly and in combination and decided on a market expansion path. Then I moved the product into another market .I then surprised the competition by developing a second product for another market. I then took the second product to the first market and then launched a third product for the first market. My game plan worked and I served the market with two or three products.

2. Growth stage

• costs reduced due to economies of scale and
• Sales volume increases significantly.
• Profitability.
• Public awareness.
• Competition begins to increase with a few new players in establishing market.
• Prices to maximize market share.

STRATEGIES IN GROWTH STAGE:I improves product quality and added new product features and styling. I also entered new market segments. I also increased distribution coverage and entered new distribution channels. Also shifted from product awareness advertising to product preference advertising. I also lowered the prices to attract the new layers of price sensitive buyers.

3. Mature stage

Costs are very low as you are well established in market & no need for publicity.

• sales volume peaks
• increase in competitive offerings
• prices tend to drop due to the proliferation of competing products
• brand differentiation, feature diversification, as each player seeks to differentiate from competition with “how much product” is offered
• Industrial profits go down.

STRATEGIES IN MATURE STAGE:

1. Converting non users.
2. Entering new market segments.
3. Winning competitors customers.
4. Use the product on in new ways.
5. Improve the product.

4. Saturation and decline stage

• Costs become counter-optimal
• Sales volume decline or stabilize
• Prices, profitability diminish
• Profit becomes more a challenge of production/distribution efficiency than increased sales.

STRATEGIES INDECLINE STAGE:

I increasedth