Pillsbury Cookie Challenge
What consumers should Pillsbury target?
Pillsbury should target Scratch Users segment which is 61% as compared to 49% in US. They have almost 24% as refrigerated users, when we go through the qualitative research which suggests the following:
- Product should be easy, quick, practical, affordable and pleasing to children.
- The was important.
- Feel of sharing and giving.
- Lapsed users were less secure to use convenience products which take them away from scratch baking.
- No issues with nutritional value
- Using Pillsbury product was still far better than buying readymade product, because it involved the effort and therefore represented an act of generosity.
From above we can conclude that if Pillsbury can increase customer value perception in the scratch segment, they can increase the market share. Since the main concern of scratch users are baking experience and to certain extend the quality of product, if tackled could lead to increased market share.
What should Pillsbury brand messaging be?
Brand messaging should be targeted to increase the customer value perception, target scratch customers, especially to mothers and kids who play an important part in Canadian family, as suggested by qualitative research.
Scratch taste equals to Pillsbury Cookie Dough Pillsbury Refrigerated Cookies, leave the mess part to us, readymade dough, get yourself creative with cookies, have fun with kids and will taste like home made cookies.
How could Pillsbury communicate this message in a relevant way to the consumers in a way that would translate into increased sales?
This can be done by various means as stated below:
- Target Segment Market Campaign
- By TV ad campaign aiming the target audience – Scratch Users
- Targeting mothers and kids
- Packaging
- By changing the packaging to suite the target market specially to kids and mothers.
- Having Influential messages on the pack, to influence scratch users on the quality and nutritional value of the product.
- By having recipes which can be used with refrigerated dough cookies, like a value added, which will increase effort and experience of baking using readymade dough.
Product Placement
Placement of the product at eye level (premium space), research shows cookie dough buying is impulsive, this will increase greater exposure to scratch users, more noticeable and accessible for impulse buying.
Rewards Programme
From the reason it’s seen that kids play a larger role as purchase driver in Canada than US, create rewards programme for kids, which will increase brand loyalty, awareness and attract the users/customers with kids. Influence on kids will eventually lead to sales increase.
