Dove Soap Marketing Plan
Dove Soap Marketing Plan
Dove Soap Marketing Plan
1. Introduction
Dove today is in 80 countries making women beautiful everyday and enabling them to
enjoy their own brand of beauty by providing a wide range of personal care, hair care,
and skin care products. Dove launched first in the US in 1957. Dove is one of the leading
brands of Unilever globally. Dove is known to be a keeper of promises and has given real
products to women all over the world. Dove believes that beauty - feeling and looking
your personal best - is the result of proper care. Dove always aims to deliver products
which tangibly improve the condition of skin or hair and give a pleasurable experience of
care, because when you look and feel beautiful, it makes you feel happier. It’s a feeling
every woman should experience every day. From the beginning Dove has always
celebrated real women at the heart of everything the brand does and believes. Real
beauty embraces diversity - no woman is or should feel excluded from the world of
beauty that the brand represents. Real women are the brand’s true inspiration.
Dove got women to experience the ‘real’ Dove difference, with the Face Test campaign.
Thousands of women across the country put their soap, and Dove, to the test. They all
had the same answer – Dove made their skin soft. Irrespective of seasons, our skin
needs moisturizing. With 1/4th moisturizing cream, Dove bars washes provide a
complete moisture care. With 1/4th moisturizing cream blended with cleansers, Dove
Bar cleanses your skin without drying it, which no soap can promise.
2.1 Product
Irrespective of seasons, our skin needs moisturizing. With 1/4th
moisturizing cream, Dove Bars provides a complete moisture care.
Dove makes skin softer. In Bangladesh Dove beauty bars are available
in three variants in two sizes, 90 ml and 135 ml.
Dove Pink Beauty Bar: Contains1/4thmoisturizing cream richly blended with its
mildest cleansers, no other beauty bar has more skin-natural moisturizers than Dove.
Everyday moisture is the key to beautiful skin.
Dove Fresh Moisture Beauty Bar: Contains an ultra-light hydrating formula and the
crisp, soothing scent of cucumber and green tea. Provides a refreshing, uplifting
sensation for once skin.
2.2 Price
Price is only one P among 4P’s that genrate some revenue for the cpmpany and rest all
incurred some cost of the company. Unilever usually practised value-based pricing
strategy for the products. Dove soap’s 90ml bar’s price 75 taka and 135ml bar’s price is
98 taka. Dove soap’s target consumers are middle to upper-income women.
2.3 Promotion
For the brand recognization and sales promotion Dove use different types of media for
promotion and advertisement such as Print Media, Broadcasting Media, Display Media
and Internet Media. Dove telecast advertisement in Radio, Television, Billboards,
Newspapers, Magazines, Facebook, Twitter etc. In the Television ads Dove shows “Dove
is better than soap. And you can prove it. Wash one side of your face with soap. Use
Dove on the other. Feel the moisturizing, softer, smoother Dove difference. You'll never
wash with soap again.” So Dove told us that Dove is a better than a soap. It’s not an
ordinary soap. It’s totally different than others. Sometimes dove give various sales
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promotions to the customer via Facebook, Twitter, Television and Radio. They give
discounts and other free items with every purchase or bundle purchase of Dove soap.
2.4 Placement
Dove soap follows common distribution system. That means company to wholesaler to
retailer to consumer. It has made his strategy like that in every small or big shop
customer will be able to find out the product. Unilever has mass distribution channel
whole over the country. So in every small or big shop, super shop has Dove soap is
available. This distribution network directly covers cities million consumers.
3. Competitive Analysis
There are very few competitors of Dove soap are available in the market. Dove is a
higher quality and costly than other local soaps. Dove soap’s competitors are Lux,
Sandalina, Olay and Nivea. Lux is Dove’s internal competitor which is also owned by
Unilever Bangladesh Limited. Sandalina is a local soap which can be a tough competitor
for Dove. Now-a-days Olay and Nivea give a tough competition. Olay and Nivea is
imported soap.
4. SWOT Analysis
The SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat) analysis is a useful tool for an
industry. An internal survey is required for strength and weakness and an external
survey is required for opportunity and threat. Dove soap’s SWOT analyses are
summarizes.
4.1 Strengths
4.2 Weaknesses
1. High level of competition.
2 .High levels of expensive advertising needed and maintained.
3. Special offers counter vigorous on growth.
4. Soap bars undergo from ageing image.
5. Some products are seen as a compassion product not essential use.
6. Widespread distribution and snitch loyalty means that market growth is difficult.
7. Some consumers are let down on performance.
4.3 Opportunities
4.4 Threats
7. Olay, Nivea both are getting stronger as they grow and their market is also expanding.
Dove develops its marketing objectives very carefully as it is devoted to expand the
definition of beauty for all women for the reason that they believe real beauty comes
from your inner self. All successful marketing strategies were basically due to wisely
planned marketing objectives of Dove which we are going to discuss here. Our main
target customers are women. Now we will target male consumers also. The main
objectives are:
6. Marketing Strategy
Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, including Evolution. Dove’s marketing strategy is based
on positioning of product differentiation. Dove is better quality soap. Unilever usually
practice value-based pricing. Dove soap’s price is higher than other brands soap and
competitors. So our target consumers are middle to upper-income women who need a
better quality soap for both body and face. Usually other brands soaps are not good
enough for our face as our face skins are very sensitive. Dove is a right choice for our
face and also for our body.
Positioning
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We are positioning dove as the high quality, moisturizing soap which can be used
anywhere in body and face. Everyone can use dove soap easily even if they have very
sensitive skin. This differentiates dove soap by other brands soap.
Dove has a strong brand image whole over the world. Everyone knows about the Dove.
For creating awareness among people and sales promotions we will use all kind of media
such as Print media (Newspapers, Magazines), Display media (Bill Board, Signs),
Broadcasting media (Radio, Television), and Online media (Company Websites,
Facebook, Twitter, Google ad-sense) etc. for advertisement. We also use short time sale
promotions like buy 3 get 1 free bundle offer, 10-25 % extra free, 5-10 taka discounts,
free other Unilever products such as mini packs of Sunsilk shampoo, vaseline etc. We
start Dove campaign for women. We use door to door marketing, free sampling and
feedback and arrange several seminars in various places and colleges and universities.
We also try to sponsor some reality shows where women will be highlighted. At last, we
are planning to make Bangladeshi model and actress Joya Ahsan as our brand
ambassador. We are making agreement on it. These attempts will help us to achieve our
goals and objectives.
7. Action Program
Dove soap is a renewed soap and most popular in the world. Dove soap launch many
years ago in our country. Everyone knows about it very well. For reorganization and set
up in our consumer minds we will start our promotional activities. For year 2014, we
divide the year by 6 steps and take step for 2 months. The action programs we will use
over the year to achieve our goals are summaries below.
January-February
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We will start door-to-door campaign for Dove soap. We will visit a particular area for
advertisement of dove. We also visit some colleges and universities. We will create buzz
marketing by giving free samples to product user, opinion leaders in the society.
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
We will sponsor a reality show or some short films and drama serials. Sponsor a show
can be a great and big advertisement for our product.
November-December
At the end of the year we will sign Joya Ahsan as our brand ambassador. We will make
some new television ads where Joya will be shown on those ads telling our consumers to
buy Dove soap because she also uses it.
8. Budgets
Based on the assumption Dove soap’s budgets are created. Break even analysis and 2
years income statements are given in this section.
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Total Revenue
2564 2 345
Sales Volume in Unit (Thousand)
Expenses
Cost of materials 9,480,000 7,790,000
Purchase of stock-in-trade 2,485,000 2,690,000
Changes in inventory 95,000 (307,000)
Employee benefits expenses 1,200,000 1,010,000
Finance costs 16,000 11,000
Depreciation 233,500 229,000
Other expenses 6,250,000 6,110,000
Total Expenses 19,759,500 17,533,000
9. Controls
Controls help management access result after the plan is implemented identity any
problems or performance variations and initiate corrective action. We are planning tight
control measure to closely monitor quality and customer satisfaction and relationship.
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We will take some survey about our product and also take customers feedback. By
customer’s feedback and survey we can know about our current market position and
how can we improve our product or any other problem the customer may face. By
customers feedback we can take some step for eliminating our problems and improving
our product.
10. References
http://www.unilever.com.bd/brands/personalcarebrands/dove.aspx
http://www.hul.co.in/brands-in-action/detail/Dove/303749/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53673615/Marketing-Plan-Unilever
http://www.assignmentpoint.com/business/project-report-on-unilever.html
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11. Appendix
Why: The No. 1 soap that tops all is Dove. While readers generally love all the Dove soap
products, readers say this one takes the cake: "This is an amazing bar! It's very
moisturizing and safe to use ANYWHERE on your body because it's unscented and
formulated for sensitive skin. Dove makes this high quality soap for such a cheap price it
just has to be one of my faves!" Another says, no matter what she tries, she "always
comes back to this." Considering how many "started using this after my doctor
recommended it," readers say, "hats off to Dove for creating such an incredible product!"
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