GREEN MARKETING- A CHANGING CONCEPT IN CHANGING TIME.

-: Prof. Moloy Ghoshal

(This research paper titled, has already been published by GHS-IMR, Kanpur for it’s
esteemed management journal “IMR-Mgt- Speak., Vol 2, No-1,Jan-June 2008” issue. )

Abstract:

Although environmental issues has influenced all activities but very few academic

disciplines have inculcated green issues into their literature. Even till dated it has not

been inculcated a must be taught subject in all most all management and related higher

education level but one business area where environment issues have received a great

deal of importance is marketing. Smart business houses have accepted green marketing as

a part of their strategy. Though our understanding about green marketing still in the stage

of infancy, in this paper the author is trying to identify key ideas in relation to promote

green product that may be most relevant to both scholars and the practitioners of green

marketing.

This paper will attempt to introduce – the terms and concept of green-marketing; about

the importance of green marketing; examine some reasons that make the organizations

interested to adopt green marketing philosophy; it also highlights some problems that

organization may face to implement green marketing and it’s managerial implications

along with few case points. Last but not the least the paper “Green Marketing – A

Changing Concept In Changing Times”, is a conceptual paper on green marketing, which

is an emerging area of interest. There is a need of paradigm shift in the way the

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management institutes and business- houses think about their role in attaining sustainable

development.

1. Introduction

1.1 What is Green Marketing?

Environmental issues have gained importance in business as well as in public life through

out the world. It is not like that a few leaders of different countries or few big renowned

business houses are concerned about the day to day deterioration of oxygen level in our

atmosphere but every common citizen of our country and the world is concerned about

this common threat of global warming.

So in this scenario of global concern, corporate houses has taken green-marketing as a

part of their strategy to promote products by employing environmental claims either

about their attributes or about the systems, policies and processes of the firms that

manufacture or sell them. Clearly green marketing is part and parcel of over all corporate

strategy; along with manipulating the traditional marketing mix(product, price, promotion

and place) , it require an understanding of public policy process. So we can say green

marketing covers a broad range of activities. Different writers has given different

definition about green marketing which tried to cover all major components of green

marketing

According to Polonsky(1994)- green or environmental marketing consists of all activities,

designed to generate and facilitate any exchange indented to satisfy human needs and

wants, such that the satisfaction of these needs and wants occur with minimum

detrimental impact on the natural environment.

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Mintu and Lozada(1993) defined green marketing as the application of marketing tools to

facilitate exchanges that satisfy organizational and individual goals in such a way that the

preservation, protection and conservation of the physical environment is upheld”.

According to Stanton and Futrell(1987)-all activities designed to generate and facilitate

any exchanges intended to satisfy human needs and wants; therefore it ensures that the

interest of the organization and all it consumers are protected, as voluntary exchange will

not take place unless the buyers and sellers are mutually benefited.

The definition also includes the protection of natural environment by attempting to

minimize the detrimental impact, this exchange has on the environment.

This second point is very important for human consumption by its very nature is

destructive to the natural environment. To be more accurate products making green

claims should state they are “ less environmentally harmful” rather than “ environmental

friendly.” Thus green marketing should look at minimizing environmental harm, not

necessarily eliminating it.

The industrial houses has recognised that the entire system of production and

consumption determines environmental quality. Environmental impacts are a function of

the way services are provided and the way goods are produced, delivered, used and

disposed off. Production and consumption are considered together because gains made by

controlling, reducing or minimizing pollution from production can be soon overshadowed

by the impacts from concurrent increases in the scale of demand for those services and

goods from growing consumer base.

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So we can see that green marketing encompasses a broad range of activities including

product modification, change to production process, packaging change as well as

modifying advertising.

1.2 Importance Of Green Marketing:

Since early 1990s, a major concern on ecological impact of industrial house on

environment has been surfaced on marketplace. Not only the relation between human,

organization and natural environment being redefined ,but the implication thereof are

being interpreted; because of these, new perceptions are being formed or re-evaluated on

issues like environmental friendly products, recycle ability, waste-reduction, the cost

associated with pollution and the price value relationship of environmentalism. Pressure

from various stakeholders, Govt., environmentalists, NGOs, consumers is placed on

businesses, which in turn keeps them under constant and relentless watch in their daily

operations. A direct result can be seen in developed and developing countries where

Govt. became more strict in imposing regulations to protect environment; at the same

time, the consumers of these countries are being more and more outspoken regarding

their needs for environmentally friendly products, even though questions remain on their

willingness to pay a higher premium for such products!

So in this era where consumers determine the fate of a company, green marketing

imparts a proactive strategy for these companies to cater the market by imparting nature-

friendly products/ services which otherwise reduce or minimize any detrimental impact

on environment.

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A green- marketing approach in the product area promotes the integration of

environmental issues into all aspects of the corporate activities; from strategy

formulation, planning, re-engineering in production process and dealing with consumers.

So to remain competitive within the challenge thrown by the environment protectionists ,

the companies will have to find answer through their marketing strategies, product&

service redesign, customer handling etc. in this endeavour the companies may go for new

technologies for handling waste, sewage and air pollution; it can go for product

standardization to ensure environmentally safe products; by providing truly natural

products.

In this regard the companies should be concerned with what happens to a product during

and after its useful life. Companies may manifest this concern through experimentation

with ways to reassess and redesign the product life stages. Life cycle reassessment

focuses on environmental consideration in product development and design, including

energy and material inputs and out-puts in production, consumption and disposal of

products. We would than be able to manage the life stages of a product in an

environmental friendly and eco- efficient manner. Eco-efficient refers to the proper

thinking for the use or consumption of natural resource so that nature is afforded an

opportunity to renew itself.

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The life stage of product would include the following:

Stage- I Development stage: traditionally characterized as the acquisition of

raw materials, component parts, and subassemblies. The alternative
approach advocated here encourage manufacturer to check the
environmental programs of suppliers, to require minimal packaging
of inputs, and to consider sources of materials that could be easily
replenished or are recyclable.
Stage-II Production stage: manufacturing companies are encourage to
reduce emission, toxicity and waste , and to conserve water and
energy. They are also encourage to seek and develop alternative
uses for waste products, to revise the manufacturing process, to
minimize waste generation, to minimize energy use or to attempt to
find alternative sources of energy.
Stage-III Consumption stage: minimization of packaging, conservation of
energy and minimization of waste from product maintenance and
service are strongly urged.
Stage-IV The final stage of a product is its disposal, green marketing
introduce the concepts of reuse and recyclability, in addition to the
concept of waste reduction.

Table-I

Thus the mammoth like challenge of green marketing is to meet the unlimited wants of

consumers within the constraint of limited resources by introducing modern management

tools like TQM, 6-Sigma, 4Rs(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recovery) principles in

production processes of companies. Currently our concern is with the total yield of

production and product marketing processes including waste and pollution.

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1.3 The change in managerial perspective:

Traditional Marketing vs Green Marketing

Criteria/Goals:
1. Customer satisfaction 1.Customer satisfaction,
2.Orgnisational goal 2.Orgnisational goal,
3. Eco-system compatibility.
Decision making frame of reference
1.Immediate channel network 1.*PSLC: cradle to grave,
2.Fragmented thinking 2. Integrated thinking,
3.Non-boundary spanning 3. Boundary spanning,
4 Short term orientation. 4. Long term orientation.

Philosophical Basis:
1. Anthropocentric 1. Bio-centric,
2. Ecosystem an open sink. 2. Ecosystem physical
limiting factor; eco cost must be paid.
Ecological accountability/responsibility
1. Limited product risk 1. Product risk,
2. Local/regional/national 2.Global/international,
3. No/underpaid ecological costs 3. Full accounting of
ecological cost,
4. Individual organization alone is responsible 4. PSLC members are
mutually responsible,
5. A public sector responsibility 5.Both PSU & private sector.

General tools/ approaches:

1.Use planning to minimize the cost of local
waste disposal.
2. Re-active approach to waste management
3. Iso-located department functions
4. Focus on industrial function
5. TQM
6.Use of strategic alliances to accomplish
traditional goals
7.Focus on tangible goods,
1.Use PLC assessment & environmental
audits,
2. Pro-active approach,
3. Use of cross functional team,
4. Focus on processes,
5. Total Quality Environmental Mgt,
6.Use of strategic alliances to accomplish
sustainable goals,
7. Focus on “products as services”.

Source: ‘Marketing Management’ by Dr.Rajan Saxena, pg no 657, 1st edition, Tata-Mc Grow-Hill Pub. Co.
Ltd, New-Delhi.
*PSLC: Product System Life Cycle.

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2. Why Are Firms Using Green Marketing?
Firms may choose to green their systems, policies and products due to economic and non-

economic pressures from their consumers, business partners, regulators, citizen groups

and other stakeholders(non market environment).some other reasons may includes:

#1.Some scholar claim that green policies/products are profitable: green policies can

reduce costs; green firms can shape future regulations and reap first mover advantage.

#2. Now a days firms are becoming more concerned about their social responsibilities

(S.R). They have taken S.R as a good strategic move to build up an image in the heart of

consumers. Even the socially responsible firms are getting leverage, whenever they

intend to enter into foreign countries. There are example of firms like ITC, HLL(Surf-

excel) who are heavily promoting them as an environmentally concerned firms, where as

there is example of firms who are working in this direction in a silence manner like coca-

cola, who have invested corers of money in various recycling activities, as well as

having modified their packaging to minimize it’s environmental impact. While being

concerned about the environment coke has not use their concern as a marketing tool.

Another big organization who is also working in this field without claiming any credit is

Walt Disney World (WDW).

So we can see that firms in this situation have taken two perspectives: (1) they are using

green marketing as marketing tool; (2) they are working in this field without promoting

the fact.

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#3. Change in customers attitude: with increasing concern about environment, consumers

attitude towards firms having green policies or green products are becoming motivating

factor.

# 4. Governmental pressure: in all most all civilized countries Govt. has the law to

protect the consumers and the environment from the harmful goods or byproducts and

ensure through law that all types of consumers have the ability to evaluate the

environmental composition of goods. Govt. established several regulations to control the

amount of hazardous waste produced by firms and many by-products of production are

controlled through the issuing of various environmental licenses, thus shaping the

behaviour of organization towards more socially responsible one. In some countries govt.

has designed guidelines in such a way that consumer would have appropriate information

which would enable them to evaluate organisation’s environmental claims.

#5 . Competitive pressure: competition is the integral part of business; and you can not

over-look any competitive action taken by your competitor. So to be in the market you

have to have a vigil over your competitor’s move for marketing it’s products. Some firms

ahs taken green-marketing as a strategy to build up it’s image rather than inculcate it as a

part of the policy and work silence. In some instances this competitive pressure has

caused an entire industry to modify and thus reduce it’s detrimental environmental

behaviour.

#6. Cost or profit issue: firms may also use green-marketing in an attempt to have an

control over the cost associated with waste disposal. therefore firms that would able to

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introduce green-marketing by not inculcating or lesser use of harmful ingredients would

able to reduce it’s operating cost to an considerable extend.

In other case the firm may attempt to find end-of –pipe solution, instead of minimizing

waste. Take the example of China and Denmark;

In China organic waste from thousands of small straw pulp mills is used as agricultural

fertilizer.

In Kalundborg , Denmark, a coal-fired power station, an oil refinery , a plastic board

factory, a pharmaceutical plant and the municipality have created an ‘industrial

symbiosis’ by exploiting each other’s waste streams.

3 Some Problems With Going Green:

#1. No matter how noble the objective is; the firms working in the direction of green

marketing, have to have encounter a number of problems. First of all the firms must

ensure that their move in this direction will not create any confusion in the mind of

consumers or industry and do not break any of the regulations or laws dealing with

environmental-marketing. Companies green marketing claims must-

clearly state environmental benefits;

explain environmental characteristics;

explain how benefits are achieved;

ensure comparative differences are justified;

ensure negative factors are taken into consideration;

only use meaningful terms and pictures.

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#2 Another problem the firm may face is that, those who modify their products due to

increase customers concern must aware about the fact that customer’s perceptions are

some time not correct. Take the example when paper pack and jute bag were replaced

by the synthetic pack for the sake of saving the trees the result became more

environmental fatal.

#3. When firms attempt to become socially responsible, they may face the risk that the

environmentally responsible action of today will be found to be harmful in near future.

For example some companies manufacturing refrigerators, air-conditioning machine have

replaced environmentally harmful CFCs(chlorofluorocarbon) with HFCs (hydro

fluorocarbon) which in later revealed is also a green-house gas. Some firms now shifted

to DME(dimethyl ether), which may also harm the ozone layer. So we can see that with

the limited scientific knowledge at any point in time, it may be impossible for a firm to be

certained they have made the correct environmental decision.

This may explain why some firms, like coca-cola and Walt Disney World(WDW), are

working as a socially responsible company without publicizing their endeavour, as it has

been mentioned earlier in this article.

#4. Reacting to competitive pressure can cause all followers to make the same mistake

as the leader. Example is Mobil, world renounced engine-oil manufacturing company,

claims for it biodegradable plastic garbage bags. But the condition under which it become

biodegradable is not allowed by natural processes. For this Mobil was sued by several US

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states for using misleading advertising claims. Thus blindly following the competitors

can have costly ramifications.

#5. Though Govt. has formulated several laws and regulations to give consumers the

opportunity to make better decisions or motivate them to be more environmentally

responsible, there is always a difficulty in establishing policy that would cover all

environmental issues.

#6. The Menace of Greenwashing: according to oxford dictionary greenwashing is

defined as “ disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an

environmentally responsible public image.”

The greenwashing index was announced at the 2007 UN Climate change conference held

at Bali, Indonesia with an objective to eradicate bad environmental marketing claims and

at the same time shine a positive light on companies making measurable reduction in

carbon emissions related to climate change.

Experts urged the consumers and the industries to be ever vigilant in preventing

greenwashing. they believed that one of the major factors that led to greenwashing was

the absence of a central agency to certify the green credentials of a firm. This allowed

companies, even those with questionable green credentials to step forward and call

themselves green.

#7 Lack of proper knowledge of consumers about environmental issues, some time

causes problem for companies to represent their products in market place as high

percentage of customers still feel that environmental products do not work as well as

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 conventional one; some time though the consumers are well aware about a particular

issue, they are not willing to pay a premium price for a green product.

It appears that consumers are not overly committed to improve their environment and

may be looking to lay too much responsibility on industries and govt. according to an

American survey it has been found that more than 50% of American adults say they

would do more for environment if only they come to know how? So education is crucial

for a green-marketing firm. Does your product save water or energy? Does it helps cut

down waste? Does it contain fewer toxics that can harm children or wild life? Let your

customers know these.

In Table –II, we can see the depth of understanding-level the US people have about green

products:

Demographic profile of green products purchasers:

Percent of US people whoever bought a product because the advertising or the level said the
product was environmentally safe or biodegradable.
Yes, in past Yes, but not in past No, have not Don’t know
two months. two months. bought

Sex:
M 22 18 53 7
F 29 20 46 5
Age:
18-29 23 19 51 6
30-44 31 18 47 3
45-59 27 21 46 6
60+ 18 18 55 8
House-hold
income:
Under $15000 19 13 61 7
$15000-30000 21 17 55 6
$30000-50000 28 22 45 5
$50000+ 35 22 40 4
$75000+ 34 25 38 3
Education:
Non-H.S. grad 14 18 60 8
H.S-grad 24 17 55 5
Some college 31 25 41 4
College grad 33 18 42 8

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Occupation:
Exe/professional 38 16 42 4
White collar 28 23 43 6
Blue collar 22 22 51 5
Other Demo
Parent of kids 0-17 31 19 46 4
yrs.
House-hold with 36 21 40 4
personal computer.

(Source: “Green marketing: opportunity for innovation” by Ottman, J A,1996,

www.greenmarketing.com)
Table-II

So if there will be an integrated effort between suppliers, industrial buyers and

consumers it would be possible for organization to minimize the detrimental

environmental impact of their activities. In the following figure we can see some of the

reasons why consumers are not able to save the environment.

I damage the environment because ------------------

too cheap 8%

don't under stand the

issue 10%
no time 12%

not convenient 21%

lazy 23%

no alternative 26%

Fig: -I

(source: “An Introduction to Green Marketing” by Michael Jay Polonsky, Dept of Mgt. University of

Newcastle, Australia. egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj02/polon01.html .)

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4. Managerial/ Strategic Implication of Green Marketing:

Green marketing subsumes green products as well as greening firms. Managers need to

identify what ought to be green: systems, processes or products? A research model has

been developed for the purpose of this study. This consist of five major sets of variables,

namely Antecedents, Mediators, Strategy, Outcomes and Moderators.

Antecedent are all those factors affecting firm’s environmental orientation, which

subsequently shapes marketing strategy. According to political economy paradigm, there

are four groups of antecedent factors, namely external polity i.e. socio-political and

regulatory system in which the firm operates, external economy i.e prevailing and

prospective economic environment surrounding the firm, internal polity i.e. the way

power, authority are handle within the firm and internal economy i.e. the way existing

resources are allocated to produce sufficient and satisfactory out-put. The antecedents

have an impact on firms values, belief and attitude towards environmentalism and related

aspects, which acts as a mediator on environmental marketing strategy. Enviro-marketing

strategy provides the central construct of the model, comprising environmental

adjustments of the traditional marketing mix elements( product, price, promotion &

place) to a specific target market setting. Enviro-marketing strategy implementation will

have certain financial, market, customers and competitive outcomes for the organization

with regard to it’s marketing performance. Finally the effect of strategic factors on

marketing performance is controlled by a number of moderators, which can be found

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either internally i.e. organizational size, scope of operations etc. or externally, i.e.

industry type, industry growth rate etc, to the organization.

Figure –II : A Political Economy Model of Enviro-marketing Strategies

(source: “Antecedents and Consequences of Enviro-marketing Strategy:
A Political Economy Perspective”by Constantinos N. Leonidou,Doctoral Student,Leeds University
Business School,University of Leeds,U.K )

With the help of this model the marketing managers will be able to better understand the

critical forces that drive organizations to become environmentally oriented, their

association with marketing strategy formulation will be established and the ultimate

impact on marketing performance will be demonstrated.

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Companies that have adopted some types of environmental accountability have found

some benefits in the adaptation of an ecological approach. Some of the activities that

have been implemented include-

# building consumers demand for green products,

# spending revenues to educate buyers,

# building new infra-structure to facilitate recycling and prevent pollution.

Being branded a green company can be potentially beneficial to business organizations.

The green image generate a more positive public image which can, in turn, enhance sales,

increase stock price and open access to public capital markets. It may enhance the overall

perception of product quality and when coupled with environmental benefits inherent in a

product and it’s use, may provide the added value that customer would favour.

5. SOME CASE POINTS:

Case-I: NDTC: The need to be eco friendly is across the entire spectrum of activities.

This need is greatly influenced by consumer-forums and judiciary. To take an example

when supreme court ordered the Delhi Government to examine ways and means to

reduce pollution in Delhi, it asked the government to introduce clean fuel like CNG in

public transport system. This put pressure on petroleum companies for launching clean

fuels with low sulphur content and lead free petrol. Also the only CNG supply company,

Indraprastha Gas Ltd, had to increase it’s supply. The vehicles had to made appropriate

changes. This led to Delhi Transport Corporation becoming the largest CNG powered

transport system in the country. Today Indraprastha Gas has 121 CNG distribution station

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in Delhi with a combine capacity of 16.47 lakhs kg gas per day, catering to about 90000

vehicles.

This growing concern for the environment led to development in oil and gas exploration,

refining and marketing. It also spurred development in the automobile sector which

manufactured vehicles that could run on CNG fuel. Also the vehicles have to conform to

pollution control norms as laid down by the Govt. like Bharat-III, Ero –II.

Case-II: Surf-excel: some kids in Mumbai’s Bainganwadi slums are grateful to Surf-

Excel, the Rs 485cr brand which introduce a feel-good marketing campaign-The Surf

Excel 10/10 drive.

This saw the surf excel buyers in the four cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and

Kolkata SMSing an amount to HLL(now HUL). The company in turn donate that amount

to an NGO that was involved in educating underprivileged children.

Case-III: Ponds: The Rs355cr brand ponds of HLL, tied up with United Nations

Development Fund for Women. For every flap of ponds cold cream mailed by the

consumers, the company would contribute Rs2/- to the fund to fight domestic violence.

Even though the proportion of adspends from its Rs1000cr advertising and promotion

budget have been minimal, HLL says most of its brands will look for long term strategic

linkage with social causes.

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Vice President skin care, HLL, Ashok Venkatramani told CNBC-TV18, “ if the activity

is not housed in brand promise, than it looks like a charitable activity and in my view,

those activities are difficult to sustain in long run. In our case , specific to fair and lovely,

or even ponds, these are strongly housed in what the brand stands for and what brand

promise is all about, hence they are easy to sustained and will reap huge benefits.”

Case-IV: Sunfeast : Here another difference to note, corporate social responsibility

(CSR) is being used to build individual brands rather than the corporate brand. A case in

point is the Rs16000Cr ITC, that ran their CSR campaign, about putting India first for it’s

e-choupal initiative two years back. Cut to the present, the company has linked the

Sunfeast brand to it’s social forestry campaign, where the company chips in with 25 paise

for every pack of Sunfeast biscuit and pasta sold and consumers who buy the Atta brand,

Aashirvaad, contribute towards ITC’s rain harvesting campaign. Divisional chief

executive, ITC, Ravi Naware says, “consumers like to connect with brand, if the brand is

seen as a socially responsible brand, then consumers get an emotional connect that far

beyond just usage of the brand

and consuming it. It is this higher level of connect that we

are attempting to create through this campaign.”

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Case-V: Tata –Salt: Very recently Tata has lunched a campaign through T.V advertising

that if you will purchase Tata-salt , a significant percent of profit per pack would be

contributed towards the education of underprivileged children of the slams.

Marketing consultant and founder of Nobby, Nabankur Gupta adds,” product

differentiation is completely drying up, service aspects are narrowed out, so the brand

value question will come up in the durables sector as well. It will come up in the auto

sector in my view. This will be a very live issues as we move forward in time.”

But if from detergent to TV sets all brands chase consumers for a cause, there will be a

clutter. At the same time, experts say it is important to find the right fit between brand

and cause that lasts longer than a passing fad.

6. CONCLUSION:

Our understanding to green marketing is still in it’s infancy, perhaps due to the

multidisciplinary nature of the enterprises.

Marketing scholars focus on a host of business-strategy and public policy issues,

including eco-level and market segmentation and the role of structural factors and

economic incentives in influencing consumer behaviour.

For environmental economists, green marketing signifies a broader trend in the evolution

of environmental policies that focus on information disclosure.

Political economists focus on collective action dilemmas inherent in green marketing at

the consumer and producer level.

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Clearly there are many lesion to be learned to avoid confusion i.e what you can say as

“Green Marketing Myopia”. The green marketers must understand the fact that they

have to satisfy two objectives: improved environmental quality and customer satisfaction.

Misjudging either or overemphasizing the former at the expenses of the latter may cause

a fatal result for companies. Research indicates that many green products have failed

because of green marketing myopia; marketer’s myopic focus on their product’s

greenness over the broader expectations of consumers.

For example Whirlpool(in1994) launched the “Energy Wise” refrigerator, the first CFC

free cooler and one that was 30% more efficient than the U. S. Department of Energy’s

highest standard. For it’s innovation Whirlpool won the prestigious “ Golden Carrot”, a

$30 million award package. Unfortunately, Energy Wise’s sales languished because the

CFC-free benefit and energy saving did not off set it’s $100 to $150 price premium and

the refrigerator did not offer additional features or new styles that consumers desired.

Roper ASW’s 2002” Green Gauge Report” finds that the top reasons consumers do not

buy green products included beliefs that they require sacrifices- inconvenience, higher

cost, lower performance- without significant environmental benefits.

The effective green marketing requires applying good marketing principles to make green

products desirable for consumers. Now the question that remains, however, is, what is the

future of green marketing? Historically green marketing has been a misunderstood

concept. Business scholars have viewed it as a fringe topic, given that environmentalism

acceptance of limits and conservation does not mesh well with marketing’s traditional

axioms of “give customers what they want” and “ sell as much as you can.” In practice

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green marketing myopia has led to ineffective products and consumers reluctance.

Sustainability, however, will dominate the 21st century commerce. The rising price,

growing pollution and resource consumption in Asia and political pressure to address

climate change are driving innovation toward healthier, more-efficient, high performance

products. In shorts all marketing will incorporate elements of green marketing. At the

same time to avoid green marketing myopia, the future success of product

dematerialization i.e shift from “sales of goods” to the “sales of services”, and more

sustainable services will depend on credibly communicating and delivering consumer-

desired value in the market place. Only then, product dematerialization will steer

business on to a more sustainable path.

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About the author:

Name of the Author: Prof. Moloy Ghoshal , BSc(chem..Hon),MBA, Ph.D(PU)

Designation: Asst. Director (Marketing Management)

Name of the Organisation: Institute of Productivity and Management.

1-Kalyanpur,G.T.Road,Kanpur-208017(U.P)

Email:moloybreeze@rediffmail.com, Web: www.ipmkanpur.edu.in

Mob: 09839102543, Ph: (0512)2573783/84, Fax: (0512)2570151

Correspondence address: DO

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