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5 C Analysis
Needs
- What needs
does the
product
fulfill?
- How does it
help build
their
identities?
Decision making
process
Demographic
Economic
Socio cultural
Political/legal
Customer
80% want it cheap, moderately priced
Health and fitness is a very strong need among
feamles
Need to look good and feel good
Identity: sports and fitness, healthy, selling the
image of the trim and fit girl
Poor economy in 2001 fueled emergence of Bbrand beverages this is probably cyclical
rather than structural (case written in 2010
where economy rebounded)
Product can be considered a luxury because it
is not a necessity even though substitutability
is low
fashion and taste: consumption growth after
2001 due to concern over health, fitness and
search for natural food
Overall soft drink consumption has decreased,
with powdered juices being the only one that
increased
Water products perceived as higher quality
than soft drinks in general
Increased safety concerns regarding running
water and improved legal conditions
Technological
Natural
Business model
Competitive
strategy
Competitive
advantage
analysis
Company
how does it make money: acquire brands with
global/national scope in its bid of global
strategy
Compete by high quality products
Compete by good/premium quality/all natural
water with health benefits from pure sources
Companys genuine interest in creating
individual and collective wellbeing
Compete with image as health promoter? Low
cost low price, unique superioir, small segment
niche market, superior performance in some
attributes. Is strateygy easuly replicable?
45% share in bottle water industry
Both acquired brands Villa del Sur and
Villavicencio are leading mineral water
MANUFACTURERS
o Technology and expertise
Sustainable? Area unmatched by competition.
Cost advantage in manufacturing
Collaborators
Complementors
Product
competition
Librarian session
1) Market research database: Passport (Euromonitor) consumer
based
2) Secondary: Analysing of some source of data, if data is not original
= secondary source
3) Company website is primary, news article is secondary
a. Secondary sources of infomraton back your primary sources
4) Academic sources: business soruce premier
5) Market research reports: Frost and Sullivan (more high tech based
than Passport)
6) News database Factiva
7) Research reports are dated even if they date 2014, take long time
to collect data
8) If company is in SG, MUST do Factiva search for both company and
market
9) Only way to determine biases is to compare
Email: kahwei@nus.edu.sg for an advisory session