Lemon Max Bar is a quality washing bar. Lemon Max Bar is a with leadership among dish wash segment of FMCG in Pakistan. Lemon Max Bar is product of Colgate Palmolive which was launched in 1982 with scourer embedded tagline “Hara Kaam Maun Khara Nimbo Ki Taqat Say Bhara”.
Primary shoppers of Max Bar are women and housewives and secondary are men purchasing household items. Brand is used for dish washing at home with the essence of lemon in it. Many year of sale and consumption at home consumers have approved Max Bar is a high quality product with many benefits.
Max Bar with strong, lemon-like, grease cleansing action and name that gave impression of foreign brand. Brands pass through ups and down then got stabilized and become market leader in terms of sales and Brand name.
In 1985,brand manager learnt that consumer perceive that scourer damaged the dishes then they launched max liquid to overcome this perception. At the same time Unilever Pakistan ,the mega corporate giant of FMCG’s , launched its brand under the name of “Rin” in dishwashing segment of FMCG. The competition become aggressive in terms of promotion, retails distribution and event placement. But according to market experts, consumer used brand for cleaning their quality dishes utensils. Due to heavy advertisement and erroneous branding decision Rin brand got positioning problems , product colour confusion among the consumers. Taking advantage from that opportunity, revelry brand “Max Bar” makes aggressive movements by heavy promotions. Soon Mac brand takes the game by kicking Rin Brand out of market form distribution to media promotion and become market leader.
In 2001, Rin brand repositioned himself and change to “vim” and entered in to the market . Competition again got fierce between max bar and Vim due to heavy marketing budget form unilever gain to pull the max bar from market. In the end of 2004, Rin vanish from the market and max become the leader in the market.
After that many brands emerge on the competition arena like Safoon and Aana bar ,raising competition with the Max bar with relatively low price. For tackling this Max Bar has launched 200 gm and sachet in that brand to gain an edge in the competition. But still Max Bar got 60 percent of the market share till now.
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