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Switz Foods Pvt. Ltd.: Competing against Its Own Creation
Atanu Adhikari; Seema LallCase IVEY-9B20A030-EMarketing, StrategyIn mid-2019, the managing director of Switz Foods Pvt. Ltd. (SFPL), which owned the Mio Amore bakery brand, faced the dilemma of how to tackle its competition. Under a franchise agreement from 1989–2014, the company had manufactured and sold cakes and other food products in Eastern India under the Monginis brand name. Due to the managing director’s innovative and emotion-centric market positioning, Monginis quickly became the number one bakery br...Starting at €8.20
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Wow! Momo: The Making of India’s Quick-Service Restaurant Giant
Atanu Adhikari; Seema LallCase IVEY-9B20A046-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyWow! Momo Foods Private Limited (Wow! Momo), a quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain, was a Kolkata-based start-up that sold a variety of momos, a Tibetan food. The restaurant’s specialty was a pan-fried variety of momos prepared to suit the Indian palate.Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (C)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1426StrategyEl caso C finaliza la serie proporcionando información sobre cómo Unilever se introdujo en los mercados BOP en Indonesia y Brasil, y amplía el tema más allá para responder a la pregunta: ¿Cómo puede beneficiarse Unilever de las lecciones aprendidas en HLL?¿Ha encontrado Hindustan Lever una nueva estrategia para ganar amplios mercados globales en su esfuerzo por satisfacer las necesidades cotidianas de la gente corriente en todo el mundo? ¿O simpl...Starting at €5.74
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A Foot In the Door: Hindustan Lever Breaks Into the Mass Market
Ellison B.; Moller D.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1390-EStrategyHindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever and undisputed leader in the Fast Moving Consumer Products segment in India, is caught out by the success of a local firm, Nirma, in selling to the bottom of the social pyramid. Having ignored Nirma's activities for several years in the belief that Nirma was targeting a segment that HLL was not interested in, HLL decides to enter the market at the bottom of the social pyramid by developing a totally...Starting at €8.20
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Linc Pen and Plastics Limited: Creating a Brand from a New Product
Atanu Adhikari; Seema LallCase IVEY-9B21A003-EMarketingLinc Pen and Plastics Limited (LPPL) was a 40 year old Indian writing instruments company with a presence in over 50 countries through its sole brand Linc, a value brand that had a brand image of providing good quality products at a low price. Over the past year and half , LPPL had faced margin pressure due to a steep increase in the price of raw materials. In late 2019, Deepak Jalan, the managing director , decided not to disturb the brand equit...Starting at €8.20
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Spencer’s Retail Limited: Store Format and Private Label Decisions
Atanu Adhikari; Seema LallCase IVEY-9B20A077-EMarketing, StrategySpencer’s Retail, a fast-moving consumer goods retail chain in India, had been perceived as an expensive retailer exclusively for high-end consumers. A new sector head took over in 2013 and shifted the store from a positioning statement of “Taste the WorlStarting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424StrategyEsta serie de casos trata de la experiencia pionera de Unilever en la llamada "base de la pirámide" (BDP). La BDP consiste en cerca de 4.000 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza y están excuidas de la economía de mercado. La BDP es un nuevo concepto de dirección que persigue el cumplimiento de un doble objetivo: promover el desarrollo social y permitir a las empresas recobrar los índices de ganancia de doble dígito. Durante casi cien años...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (B)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1425StrategyEl caso (B) describe cómo HLL creó un modelo nuevo de negocio para competir en el mercado BOP y los increíbles resultados que obtuvo. Concluye planteando las siguientes cuestiones: ¿Son sostenibles estos índices de crecimiento? Y si lo son, ¿pueden multiplicarse con la política multilocal y multinacional de Unilever?Starting at €5.74
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424-EStrategyThis case series deals with the pioneering experience of Unilever at the "base of the pyramid" (BOP). The BOP consists of those 4 billion people excluded from the market economy and living in poverty. The BOP is a new management concept that conveys the promise to fulfill a twofold objective: promote social development and allow companies to regain double digit growth rates. For almost 100 years, Hindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever, h...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (B)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1425-EStrategyCase B describes how HLL created a brand new business model to compete in the BOP market and the outstanding results it obtained. It concludes by posing the following questions: Are these growth rates sustainable? And if they are, can they be replicated with Unilever's Multi-local, Multi-national approach?Starting at €5.74