GRAP2412 - UNDERSTANDING ADVERTISING MEDIA

Group 2

Nguyen Phuc Thuy Linh - s3153987

Individual Assignment FMCG product

Stage 1

Product: Kleenex® Toilet Paper for Kids

Due date: 7 August 2009

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1. THE SITUATION ANALYSIS

1.1 Size and market share

In Australia market, Kleenex brand name is more and more popular with customers, hold the
highest market share 54,1% - from mid May, 2009 - since 2006 (The Newspup, 2009). They are
very familiar with four kinds of facial tissue of this trademark, including Everyday, Everyday Plus,
Special Care and To Go (http://www2.kleenex.com/au/range/) and it is easy to understand that
every month, Kleenex tissue usually takes around 50% of tissue market share among Australian
consumers (‘Kleenex Wipes’, 2009).

However, with toilet paper product which named Cottonelle®, Kleenex faces a competition rather
severely from the big competitor Sorbent®, Cottonelle® owns 31% market share of toilet paper
industry (‘An analysis of the proposed CPR Scheme’s potential impact on employment and the
local community’) while Sorbent® holds 39% share (‘Sorbent’); and the other competitors own
small parts in the whole industry, such as ABC Tissue Products only holds 17,9% market share
(‘Profile of ABC Tissue Products’).

1.2 Sales history, costs and profit

Kleenex® Cottonelle® is a new type of toilet paper of Kleenex brand name because it owns an
interesting secret formula from year 2002 to discriminate with the same products of competitive
brand names: Unique Air-Weave texture. With a special texture, it helps the product increase the
thickness, absorbency and cushions of softness.

Air-Weave texture process

from http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/about/about-kleenex-cottonelle/
On the other hand, Cottonelle® also cares to particular customers who are really naughty and
active to discover the world around them: children; and to adapt to this age, besides using Air-
Weave texture, Cottonelle® still creates new design spectacularly and at the same time, guides
them how to ‘stop and tear’ timely by an image of puppy from 2006.

from http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/kleenex-kids/stop-tear-puppy-print/

Both of them help Cottonelle® improve range in ‘Top 100 Grocery Brand in Autralia’ from 2002 to
2007 in sales history, although the brand name always comes up against competing from the main
opponent: Sorbent®. However, developing in range does not help Cottonelle® increase in sales, the
brand name often sales at level $m150-250.

02/03 04/05 2007

Brand Manufacturer Sales $m
Rank Rank Rank
21 18 16 Cottonelle® Kimberly-Clark 150 - 250
14 15 21 Sorbent® SCA 150 - 250
(‘Top brands’, 2006 and ‘Top 100 grocery brands’, 2008)

According to ‘Summary of Kimberly-Clark Corp. 2008’ 2009, one of the reasons why net sales
grew up is that current favorite among customers, achieving to 6.3% whereas operating profit
decreased 2,6% because of the inflation last year.

Here is the financial report in 2008 of the company:

Overview of 2008 Results

The Corporation continued to experience significant raw material cost inflation in 2008.

• Net sales increased 6.3 percent because of higher net selling prices and sales volumes and
favorable currency effects.

• Operating profit declined 2.6 percent and net income and diluted earnings per share decreased
7.3 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively.

• The benefits of top-line growth, along with cost savings of $171 million, were more than offset by
inflation in key cost components totaling more than $725 million, an increase in strategic
marketing spending of about $95 million and higher levels of selling and administrative expenses,
mainly to support growth in developing and emerging markets.

• Cash flow from operations was $2.5 billion, an increase of 3.6 percent.

Analysis of Consolidated Net Sales

Year Ended December 31

2008 2007 2006
(Millions of dollars)
Personal Care $ 8,272 $ 7,563 $ 6,741
Consumer Tissue 4,354 4,216 4,051
Toilet paper 2,394 2,259 1,931
K-C Professional & Other 3,174 3,039 2,813
Health Care 1,224 1,207 1,237
Corporate & Other 79 41 33
Intersegment sales (82 ) (59 ) (59 )

Consolidated $ 19,415 $ 18,266 $ 16,747

(‘Summary of Kimberly-Clark Corp. 2008’)

Generally, toilet paper Cottonelle® also contributes a small part in profit for whole Kimberly-Clark
in Australia by non-stop improving techniques to create familiar image in customer mind. Then
now, target audience does not limit in adults, it expands to kids and in economic regression, this is
other way to attract clients via stimulating their demand in the inflation time like now.

1.3 Use of advertising and creative strategies

With a popular image of the yellow Labrador puppy, Kimberly-Clark has different names for their
toilet paper basing cultural of each country or even each confidential because according to Van der
Merwe, who was in Group President of Kimberly-Clark from 1994-2005 (‘Executive Bios | Robert
van der Merwe’ 2007), said that ‘Strong brands are a prerequisite for sustainable market share
growth and above-average profitability, and Kimberly-Clark continuing to leverage our brand
strength’ (‘Bath tissue strategy targets mature and emerging markets’), such as toilet paper in
United Kingdom called Andrex®, Petalo® in Mexico, Scottex® in Europe and Cottonelle® in
America and Australia. Therefore, advertising is not simple how to advertise on prints, on TV or on
websites, it also begins from a brand name: easy to spell, easy to remember and meaning concerned
to product or service.

Hence, when Cottonelle® introduced new product for kids in Australia market, which named ‘Stop
and Tear’ in early 2006, the name of this new kind has represented its feature: it would aid
children how much to use toilet paper via easy way with cute pictures of puppy and its paws. Even
though, there is website which as presents product for adult customers and as has funny activity to
teach kids save toilet paper through games <http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/kleenex-kids-
games/>. Using website is very effectively for advertising in this time because over a half of
Australian population use Internet 59,5% (‘Internet Usage Statistics in Australia’)

So why has producers had a strategy plan for ‘Stop and Tear’ toilet tissue? Australian customers
have been familiar with Cottonelle® but most of them usually complain their children do not know
how much enough to use it. Making a small survey with 600 parents who have kids from age 4 to 9,
moreover 60% said that their children use to much toilet paper whenever going to a bathroom
since they do not when they should stop to tear (‘Kimberly-Clark introduces Cottonelle for kids’,
2006). Adopting this demand, Cottonelle® expects the new product would serve customers better
as well as reinforce the position of brand among the premium bath tissue category.

There are three types of package for choosing:

Package Price ($)

4-pack 3.19
6-pack 4.49
12-pack 7.99
(‘Kimberly-Clark introduces Cottonelle for kids’, 2006)

1.4 Media plan, media strategies and competitive media expenditure

for ‘PUPPY AD INVASION’ in year 2006
1.4.1 Marketing objectives:
- When Cottonelle® for Kids was introduced to the market in February, 2006, the brand name has
decided to make a campaign ‘Puppy Ad Invasion’ in 1 year to keep building loyalty among
customers and especially expand target audience to children in age of toilet training.
- Helping kids use toilet paper on the right way

1.4.2 Communication objectives

Creating brand awareness among customers by the advantage of product feature, customers has
been familiar with using toilet paper and they usually have a tendency to care about the quality of
the product more than other characters of it. So now, with the new and straight product as
Cottonelle® for Kids, it is a nice occasion to present special thing of it: having printed paw to help
kids where to stop and tear toilet paper.

1.4.3 Plan
- A Television advertising campaign (in 16 seconds) to the value of $1 million was paid by
Kimberly-Clark Australia's agency

- Using website <http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/kleenex-kids-games/stop-and-tear/> to present

product through ‘Stop & Tear’ game to attract kids
- Using ad on local newspapers to introduce the product

1.4.4 Results
- At the end of this campaign (in year 2007), Cottonelle® did not reach the market share as in the
marketing objectives wanted and still ranged at #2 after Sorbent®.
- Besides that, children has been familiar with this product through the game on website and
increasing number of web using to 33% at 30+ minutes, 19% at 10-30 minutes, 45% for up to 10
minutes per day.
- With using Cottonelle® for kids, they are going to know how to use toilet tissue on the exactly
amount, and besides that, with interesting printed on the product, toilet training is now diverting and
easy to comprehend for children.
(Collect from ‘Case study: Kleenex’ 2003 & ‘Kimberly- Clark: Cottonelle’ 2009)

1.4.5 Key learning

According to this campaign, I have recognized that Cottonelle® had made the best of
communicating, in particular their website to attract customers. They knew how to attack their new
target customers: children from age 4-9 and also always make parents worry many things about
them, even small thing as using toilet tissue. I think they use TVC or newspaper just announce to
parents that there is a new product which is suitable for their demands in training kids; and another
reason is that at this age, children are easy to learn and remember new things via activities not a
theory in a book. With the powerful of website, including nice design, cute images and simple to
use, it is really a fantastic way to build brand awareness among customers, especially kids. On the
other hand, Cottonelle® has been successful in aiding parents to teach children ‘stop and tear’ toilet
paper correctly.

In my opinion, they had not succeeded in market share, but they had succeeded in parents’ mind
and perhaps they gain market share in the near future.
2. CREATIVE STRATEGY PLAN

2.1 Target audience

Although this is a product for kids, my advertising plan focuses to adults because they are usually
interested in ad so that I decide my primary target audience is them: parents who have children from
age 4-9.

2.1.1 Demographic
- Parents/ single mom/ single dad who are age from 28-40
- Having children from age 4-9
- Having a job
- Earning upper income since Cottonelle® for Kids is in premium category of Kleenex®
brand name

2.1.2 Geographic
In my plan, I would choose Melbourne to apply my plan because this city has the highest population
rise, including immigrations, compared with other Australian cities, such as Sydney, or Brisbane.

(Marino M. and Colebatch T., 2005)

Or according to ‘Population: capital city growth rate up!’ 2008, Melbourne SD (statistical division)
had the largest population growth of all Australian capital city SDs, increasing by 61.700 people in
2006-2007, followed by Sydney SD (52.000 people). And it also accounted for 81% of Victoria's
population growth between June 2007 and June 2008 (‘3218.0 - Regional Population Growth,
Australia, 2007-08’ 2009)

Moreover, Melbourne does not only have the highest risen population (compared with other cities
in Australia), but also its people are young and the number of kids has taken great of amount.
Children grow up average about 1.7% per years (Walker J. and Robinson N., 2007). There is an old
figure to illustrate the number of young population in the city from 1991-2001:

from ‘Metropolitan Melbourne: Dwelliographic Profile’ 2001

And in recent years (2008), when comparing with the whole state (Victoria), it is easy to recognize
that amount of children as well as my target audience (from age 28-40) keeps increasing (‘3235.0 -
Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2008’ 2009):
 AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION (%), Victoria - 30 June 2008

My target audience (from age 28-40) took nearly 40% among Melbourne population. Its population
in 2008 was 3.9 millions people (‘3235.0 - Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2008’
2009), so that my target audience hold 1.560.000 people in the whole city population.

2.1.3 Psychographic insight

With the young age, only in the age going to kindergarten and elementary school, kids become to be
familiar with the world around them and are studied how to live in it. They can do every thing to
make their parents angry, such as putting ‘why’ questions about any thing they meet; and certainly,
it will take a lot of time of parents to explain for them. So for saving time and effective in training
kids, it is the best way to use product which is produced suitably for their age. Catching this point,
Cottonelle® designed a product for children to help parents save time to show them how to use and
make toilet training funnier.

2.1.4 Purchase motives

Parents will not feel unhappy when seeing their kids waste toilet tissue and besides that Cottonelle®
also ensures about quality of the product: thickness, softness and light fragrance without causing
uncomfortable for users.

2.1.5 Customers’ attitude towards the brand

Cottonelle® is so familiar with Australian people despite of holding at #2 in market share. And with
producing new kind of products for kids, it is really a great opportunity to compete with their main
competitor - Sorbent® to hold share in toilet tissue industry.

2.2 Product insights

2.2.1 Features
Cottonelle® for Kids is suitable for children, who are age from 4 to 9, are in time of toilet training
but are still needed to assist how to gain good hygiene habits whenever entering the bathroom.

from http://www.australianfamily.com.au/greatGiveaways/images/kleenex.jpg

2.2.2 Advantages
In Cottonelle® for Kids product, there are graphics about ‘show-me-where-to-tear’ that show
children conveniently tear the right number of tissue per using times. Including six thematic puppy
designs, the toilet paper has small printed paw onto each roll which takes children to an image of
the image of the yellow Labrador puppy on every third or fourth sheet of paper; so when seeing a
small dog, they only stop and tear a tissue.
It is really an interesting intuitive concept because it helps parents easily teach their children how to
use and on the contrary, kids are easily to understand.

from http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/kleenex-kids/stop-tear-puppy-print/

2.2.3 Benefits
- So soft to use
- Being suitable for toilet training and even making it is funnier.
- With kids can not count, they only see a picture of a puppy and tear off at it.
- Lightly fragranced but the tissue itself is not directly scented.

from http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/kleenex-kids/stop-tear-puppy-print/
2.2.4 Application
With concept ‘easy-to-use’, so an illustration is very simply for kids to know and copy from a
picture to ‘stop-and-tear’ at the right position as well as exactly amount of using.
 from http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/18/how-much-toilet-pape.html
http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/kleenex-kids/

2.3 SWOT analysis

Strengths Weaknesses
- High quality: owning Unique Air Weave Facing an object about environment from Green
Texture formula to increase more strength, Peace organization although having PEFC
thickness and also create cushion of thickness. certification, they have slogan ‘Kleenex =
- Helping kids how to use an appropriate Kleercut’ <http://www.kleercut.net/en/> and
amount of toiler paper. celebrate ostracism campaign begin from
- Making toilet training is more interesting and schools.
easier to understand for children
- Owning Kleenex® Puppy website
<http://www.kleenexpuppy.com.au/> to assist
kids to combine learning and playing via funny
games
- Taking PEFC certification to save environment
Opportunities Threats
- Pioneer in the market about producing In 2009, Australian Government has agreed to
commodity for kids import toilet paper from China and India
- Supporting from parents to teach their children because it costs as 40% of normal local price.
- Attracting kids through interacting game on the (‘Imported toilet paper will now cost more’
website 2009)
- Highly competing from Sobent® despite that
brand name have not had product for kids yet, it
still ranges at #1 in market share.

3. CREATIVE CONCEPT & RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES

FOR MEDIA USE

3.1 Product: This is a toilet tissue for kids from age 4-9 but the target audience is adults, just
using adults because they tend to care an ad to know about a product then buy it to use for their
kids, not for them.

3.2 Key message: ‘stop and tear exactly’

3.3 Key visual: in my ad, there are two rolls of toilet tissue, one is Cottonelle® for Kids and
the other is another brand name. The advertisement separates two columns; one side is for other
brand name, and in this area, too much toilet tissue pulls out. While in part of Cottonelle®, the
Labrador puppy will use his front paw to let everyone know where stop and tear: follow the printed
paws on the toilet paper and then tearing when seeing the puppy image. And my headline in the ad
is that ‘Which one is more convenient for your house?’

3.4 Tone of voice: it is friendly voice to create sympathy for target audiences.

3.5 Visual style: I use decisive color for my ad is white, since white also stands for cleanness.

3.6 Special advertising tactics: I will put demonstration as well as comparison way in
my ad.
- Demonstration: use a puppy to illustrate way of using
- Comparison: compare advantage feature of Cottonelle® for Kids with the other brand
name toilet tissue
 Moreover, I will put coupon to receive trial product on the bottom of the ad. Customers only
tear it and bring to Cottonelle® tent in supermarkets to take that product; certainly, I will limit time
of this promotion, maybe in 1 month.

3.7 Mediums:
I choose magazine, especially family magazine or mom magazine to advertise because my product
is for kid so with specific magazine like them, I am easily to attract target customers. On the other
hand, I need high quality of paper to create interesting from readers.

The same as magazine, if making a short clip on television, I continue to choose family channel and
popular channel which high rating in Melbourne to attract viewers and make the advertising plan
successfully.