Upload
ashish-jaiswal
View
81
Download
1
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Set of all product offered for sale by a company.
It consist of various product line. Any company’s product mix has four
dimension : 1. Width
2. Length 3. Depth 4. Consistency
Width : Number of different product lines carries by the company. Length : Total number of items in the product mix of the company. Depth : Assortment of size, colour and models offered in each item of a product line. Consistency : It refers to the relationship of various product line either in
their end use, production requirement, distribution
channel or other way.
Product Mix of HindustanUnilever Limited
Home & Personal
CareBeverages
PersonalWash Laundry Skin Care Hair
Care Oral Care Tea CoffeeDeodorants
Lux
Lifebuoy
Liril
Hamam
Breeze
Dove
Pears
Rexona
Surf excel
Rin
Wheel
Fair &Lovely
Ponds
Vaseline
Sunsilk
Clinic +
Pepsodent
Close-up
Axe
Rexona Lipton
BrookeBond Bru
A. PRODUCT LINE ANALYSIS
Taking decision regarding whether addingnew product line or not, lengthen the
existing product line or not, analysis of product line is useful.
Product line manager must review the position of its company’s product line against competitors lines. Product map
is used to show the position of their items against competitors items.
Line stretching : every company’s product line covers a certain part of the total possible range, when company lengthen its product line beyond current range known as line stretching.
1. Down-Market Stretch 2. Up-Market Stretch 3. Two-way Stretch Line Filling : A firm can lengthen its
product line by adding more items with in the present range
Product line need to be modernized. In rapidly changing product markets, modernization is continuous.
The product line manager typically select one or few items in the line to feature. Product line manager periodically review
the line for deadwood that is depressing profit.