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contrast with a wealthy few. But in the wake of the leading university departments in the
Arab world, including branches of five
latest oil boom, the region has the opportunity of a top American universities.
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lifetime to lift itself up into the elite ranks of the in recent years have created a regional
global economy. boom in oil-rich Gulf states like Qatar,
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tiny, dusty country populated Today the Gulf state is the richest the extras, lost at the gambling tables
by nomads and fishermen. The country in the world, knocking Lux- of Monte Carlo or parked in Swiss bank
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kept many players out of the region. But tions here.
today the trend is starting to turn. For “It’s often an advantage in today’s
instance, the French retailer Carrefour polarized global politics to be a Euro-
is investing heavily in the region. pean company in the region, although
“As for SCA, it means we can be in our Danish neighbors have seen how
a market that has really strong growth quickly things can change.”
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investing more and more in their own fair-trade-certified products. says. In some categories, private label
brands. The concept of private labels Uncertainty about the economy penetration is relatively low.
has changed dramatically over the past makes price a greater concern for shop- “Washing powder, for example, is
five to 10 years, while sales have shot up. pers, and private labels in general have dominated by a handful of very big
At Asda, Britain’s second-largest retail- become more aggressive, Barker says. multinational brands, so Asda private
er, private labels now make up a large “We are entering a period of six to 18 labels have a slightly different role,” he
percentage of total sales of both edible very interesting months,” he says. “The says. “Because laundry is so heavily ad-
and non-edible products. economic climate is getting tougher, and vertised and constantly pushed, many
Len Barker, general manager of non- people still have to eat. If things continue customers still hold the idea that private
edible grocery and baby products at to get tougher, they might be more and labels are never going to be as good.”
Asda, confirms that consumer attitudes more inclined to ditch branded products In the tissue category, on the other
toward private labels have changed dra- in some low-involvement categories, hand, private labels play a bigger role at
matically. particularly in such a mature market as Asda, whose strategy is to come up with
“Private labels used to be seen as a the UK.” products that are better than the leading
cheap and cheerful option, though not as brand. One highly successful result is As-
good as the brand leader,” he says. “To- /A2/ 6/A <= problems in selling da Shades, a private label toilet tissue sup-
day people expect a private label to have a branded goods next to private labels, as plied by SCA.
very good quality base and to be as good its strategy is based entirely on what the “We have got a fairly unique propo-
as, or better than, the leading brand.” consumer wants. sition versus most of our competition.
Private labels started out several de- “It’s all about giving the consum- “It is one of our few private labels that
cades ago as anonymous products at the ers the benefit of choice,” Barker says. have outsold the biggest brand by a long
low end of the price range. But now store “They have to be happy with what way for many years. We refer to Shades
brands form an entire brand architec- they’re buying from us. By voting with as ‘the crown jewel’ among our private
ture in their own right, often covering at their feet, they tell us what they want or labels.”
least three segments of the price range – don’t want.”
cheap, standard and premium. They al- The relationship between branded 0/@93@A/GA/A2/¸Ageneral strat-
so include specialty lines such as organi- products and private labels on Asda egy behind its own brands is to gener-
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push inferior products under a private ence versus the competition.
label could damage the overall brand, “We need products that are first to
he warns. market, and the supplier must be able
“We have to make sure that we are to cover everything, including envi-
not giving anyone any reason to com- ronmental benefits,” he says.
plain about quality in anything that we
put our name on,” he says. “We have
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Asda brand might suffer from poor product manufacturers.
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product.” ally speaking, there is a difference in
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Mart, America’s No. 1 discount retail- their priority is their brand on our
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private labels take over the shelves
global brands, private labels have to completely?
use packaging as a means of commu- “If the customer wants it, why not?”
nicating with the customer, and they Barker concludes.
must also show more creativity and
be faster to market with innovations,
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Stockholm School of Economics at the stroke of 10, the time we ing in Stores”), which was named the 2007 Marketing Book of
agreed to meet. With helmet in hand and a broad smile on his the Year and was recently translated into English. It has been,
face, he gives me a warm greeting and we rush across Sveavä- and is, a big chapter in his life.
gen, the busiest road in Sweden, to the nearest espresso bar. He doesn’t even take it easy in his private life. He ran his
Nordfält is a man with many irons in the fire, so he has to use first marathon, Arosmarken, in his hometown of Västerås
his time efficiently, but he also seems to be one of those people at the age of 12. That same year, he biked to the island of
who have more hours in the day than everybody else. Öland with his father and later pedaled the entire way to Paris
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land where people carry backpacks and the price. If you put it there, the item just
camp out in tents. “When I work out, I slips into people’s grocery carts.”
can clear my brain and my whole body Nordfält has also investigated how
feels good,” he says. displays, music, scents and colors affect
people. People believe they determine
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ly as 1992, when Nordfält went to work that if you play German music, 70 per-
at ICA as CFO. A few years later he be- cent of the customers will start buying
came interested in marketing but quick- German wine. If you switch to French
ly discovered the lack of literature or music, then the choice becomes French
well-developed theories on how things wine. “When you ask the customers
are really sold in stores. In 1995, when whether they heard the music and why
he started teaching sales to managers at they chose that particular wine, they
ICA’s corporate school, he decided to usually say they didn’t hear the music but
address this need. “I started studying at ‘that was exactly the wine I wanted.’”
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different brands where there are potential synergies in prod- or facial tissues, the key words are softness, color and scent
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product portfolio less splintered and more relevant to con-
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The aim is to become the indisputable market leader. Europe.”
That means market share has to grow from today’s 25 per- The core of the action plan to increase profitability is
cent to a little over 28 percent, which is No. 1 Kimberly- concentrating marketing efforts on newly launched prod-
Clark’s share today. An important piece of the puzzle in this ucts but also increasing the focus on value added products.
effort was the acquisition of Procter & Gamble’s European “For instance, the Tempo brand is a product with a strong
tissue operations and the Tempo brand for EUR 512 mil- position in the German market,” Cordial says. “We can get
lion during 2007. a premium price there. So it’s smarter for us to concentrate
“With the acquisition of Procter & Gamble’s tissue op- on increasing sales of facial tissue rather than toilet paper.
erations, we went from being No. 3 in Europe to No. 2.” “The goal is to have consumers feel they’re buying a
Every future product launch will follow this new stra- brand product that really meets their needs and expecta-
tegy and the portfolio will be trimmed over the course of tions. It should feel like a premium product, with premium
the plan. properties and premium quality. So then we can also charge
a higher price.”
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rance, and marketing communication will be coordinated. part of the strategy. “Consumers should feel that we’re lis-
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our brands will help cut costs in communication produc- Cordial says.
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