1.0 Introduction
According to Miller (2009), “ROMI (Return on Marketing Investment) refers to the incremental profit achieved over a short term period by measurable marketing activities such as sampling or advertising campaigns”. In attempt to success in creating own brands, marketers need to make use of marketing metrics which act as a measurement to count their performance, which is to measure which effective marketing strategies to use.
This report consist the importance of marketing metrics and some brief definition on the return on marketing investment (ROMI) of Nestle Company.
2.0 History and Background of Nestle
Nestle was found on 1860s by Henry Nestle who is a trained pharmacist started experimenting with few mixing of cow’s milk, wheat flour and sugar in order to develop an substitution source of newborn nutrition for mothers who were not able to breastfeed (Nestle History).
Henri Nestlé’s purpose is to seek a healthy, low-cost substitute for mothers who could not breastfeed their babies. The company’s mission is to improve the well-being of babies, their health and endurance of toddlers without breastfeed.
Henri nestle is a trained pharmacist who use combinations of cow’s milk, sugar and wheat flour to be experimented. As a result he created a new product called Farine Lactee. The new formula saved a first customer, a premature infant life who could not accept his mother’s milk or any available substitution. Since then, Farine Lactee Nestle was available throughout most of Europe within few years (Nestle History 2013).
Other than that, Nestlé's Portfolio also covers almost all food and beverages sections ranges from baby foods, cereals, healthcare nutrition, bottled water, chilled and frozen foods, chocolates...
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...esides that, they could do more investment on food and beverages so that their product ranges more wide.
Since Nestle's mission is to take care the well-being of infants, they should exploit lands in poor country to overcome starvation, which maintain their values of serving the socity. Nestle can also continue to continue research and development, improve the quality of their product nutrition so that more infants can benefit from it.
5.0 Conclusion
In conclusion, Marketing metric is a very useful tool in determine performance and any specific area of marketing. Nestle is a country which almost turn a decade and survived from different crisis, Nestle should continue to plan more to overcome any obstacle in future and prepare for lacking of raw material to enhance their strength. The most important is to maintain their good qualities and values to serve.
The company could write MPR planning and management to indicate their objectives and customer regions. Make a clear differentiation between soft drinks and bottled water. Because the consumers may believe that Nestle bottled water sounds healthier than Coca-Cola brand since Nestle tend to emphasize their image on healthy food products. Then do market test for new taste, new packaging, or new innovation according to each regions, and especially for Europe, the company should launch the new one to replace Dasani image in order to seize their market shares. They may renew all nutrients and packaging.
Is there any food on earth that can provide the PERFECT nutrition to a human? Yes, and it is breast milk. Breast milk is the perfect nutrition. This superior food contains hormones, live antibacterial and antiviral cells and essential fatty acids (What Makes Human Milk Special?, Mar-Apr 2006). All of which are helpful in protecting against any harm. Sicknesses in infants are lowered by the help that breast milk gives. Breastfed children are sick less often than children who aren’t breastfed (What Makes Human Milk Special?, Mar-Apr 2006). Breast milk contains all the nutrients that an infant needs as it continues to grow. When the child is brought into the world it has no way to fight off any d...
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