El siguiente es un estudio de caso sobre las estrategias de penetración de Procter & Gable por un lado y Unilever por el otro, en el segmento de “muy bajos recursos” de Brasil con su producto: “polvo para lavarropas”. Este artículo está basado en una investigación realizada por los señores Chandon y Guimares, del INSEAD; su autor es el Lic. Jorge A. Aimaretti y se publicó en el Management Herald, Año 3, Número 35 de Junio de 2005.
El artículo original de la web del INSEAD se encuentra aquí.
South American Soap Opera
Unilever in Brazil: Marketing Strategies for Low-income Countries
Pierre CHANDON, Pedro Pacheco Guimaraes
INSEAD Case Study: South American Soap Opera
Copyright: INSEAD 2004
The biggest emerging markets are obviously very appealing to multinationals. But even the global players with the most sophisticated R&D departments or the longest experience in the developing world have seen their best efforts to reach the lower income consumers go astray. The most popular brands that have succeded in developed countries are typically far too expensive. But lower prices mean both lower margins and increased risks of cannibalising the profits of higher-priced brands.
Assistant Professor of Marketing Pierre Chandon and INSEAD Alumnus Pedro Pacheco Guimares study the recent experiences of the two biggest global players in the detergent industry – Unilever and Procter & Gable – in trying to market washing powders to the tens of millions of poorer consumers in
Brazil. The authors focus on Unilever´s highly ambitious “Everyman” project of the mid-90s. This began with extensive field studies to help determine wheter it was in the corporation´s interests to enter the lower end of the domestic market.

