Previously yogurt brands were positioned in either Area A or B.
Danone Actimel created a new market with a brand combining
health benefits and taste (Area C)
Danone has four ranges of different products in the mix.
Length: It has 23 items in the market.
Depth: Variety offered to the consumer en each line. Danone has a huge assortment in products lines over 52.
Multiple companies’ supply components go into the final goods sold under Danone Groupe brand names.
Innovative practices in the value chain especially packaging, so that prices are reduced.
A third of Danone’s Yoghurt products are sold at a discount - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-26/danone-finds-yogurt-s-all-greek-as-oikos-chases-chobani.html
Special packaging called “Multipack” containing 4 pieces in one package costing 1 euro - http://www.wne.sggw.pl/czasopisma/pdf/PEFIM_nr_54_2011_s78.pdf
TV/Internet Advertising
Yoghurt - Door to door Marketing - https://www.ifama.org/events/conferences/2004/cmsdocs/Neves1012.pdf
Flavoured water has been gaining ground in many countries. The “Volvic” brand of water was launched in Poland in may 2005. It was commercialized under the name “Zywiec Zdroj” which was already a national leader.
Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX), the world’s leading coffee retailer and roaster of specialty coffees, and Danone (EN Paris:BN), the world’s leading producer of fresh dairy products, today announced a strategic agreement to offer a jointly created and developed selection of new, healthy specialty yogurt products in participating Starbucks stores and in grocery channels. This will advance Danone’s ambition to expand yogurt consumption in the U.S., while growing Starbucks health and wellness offerings for its customers under the company’sEvolution Fresh brand. http://news.starbucks.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=805
India is a huge market for people with deficiencies because of the food habits.
There is also a huge market in India for malnourished children.
Target sports persons
Vitamin tablets from Amway for example are market leaders for therapeutic uses – But its prices are prohibitive.