Analyzing Marketing Strategy of Milk and Dairy Products Launch Plan for New Variety of Milk

The authors conducted a survey in Nagpur to analyse the marketing strategy for liquid milk and the new product launch plan for a new variety of special milk. He has focused on marketing strategies used by major liquid milk players in the market like differentiation strategy, low pricing strategy, and focus group strategy, and we've also figured out how to break into a new market segment with a new liquid milk variety. Based on our observations, we're trying to collect information from 350 tea vendors in Nagpur. We also collected data from major milk marketing players, whose names are not to be revealed, so we have annotated A, B, C, D, E, and others. The current study focuses on emphasising the importance of a launch plan strategy for new milk and dairy products.

Attributes of product advantage and choices for manufacturer–retailer formal governance: the case of new product launch

PurposeThis study examined how the technological (tech) advantage and market advantage of new products influence the level of formal channel governance and, in turn, affect the success of new products in the presence of relational governance.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested using the partial least squares approach to analyse survey data collected from 392 retailers of customer goods in China.FindingsThe results indicate that tech advantage and market advantage lead to an increase in retailers' transaction-specific investments (TSIs) and contract explicitness, respectively; the positive effect of market advantage on a retailer's TSIs will gradually decrease and will even become negative beyond a certain point. The relational governance mechanism can substitute for the effects of contract explicitness on improving new product success.Originality/valueThis research provides a new perspective for understanding new product advantage and exerts an initial effort to empirically distinguish between tech advantage and market advantage. It enriches the innovation literature by examining the governance of new product launches through retailers and explores the effects of formal and informal governance on channel cooperation performance in the new product launch stage.

Link between digitalization and new product launch

Digital transformation and new product success are critical factors for companies’ competitiveness. Does a link exist between digitalization measures within companies, and their new product success? A former study among trading companies has diagnosed a link already. However, as only limited to trading business and a small sample, results stay little robust. Further research is needed. Therefore, the question of this work is, if this link also exists within B2B industrial firms, hypnotising that the link should also be there. Therefore, empirical data among 1.000 production firms in Germany has been gathered with a huge panel survey. Current times are described by high competition and fast changing trends. Companies’ abilities to innovate is therefore a result and a necessary ability to encounter the threat of being outperformed by competitors. Research on this subject therefore closes a relevant scientific gap. This article enlarges the knowledge gathered from a first survey among traders, with a bigger survey among industrial firms. The method of this work is to collect data within German B2B industrial firms and to run a correlation and regression analysis to answer the question, if companies who took relevant digitalization measures, report also higher new product success and compare the results to the previous study among trading firms. The study confirms the previously found link as well for industrial firms. Companies who take digitalization measures, can take profit from them by a higher success of new products.

Does digitalization boost companies‘ new product launch success?

Digitalization and new product launch are two important topics which have been proved to have large input on companies’ success. Digitalization, because it can boost productivity, diminishes cost and raises effectiveness. New product launch, because innovation success guarantees high product margins and helps to avoid existence-threatening price competition in commoditized product markets. However, regarding shorter product life cycles, the ability to innovate and launch new products successfully, becomes an evident driver of companies’ success. Can digitalization with its described effects help to raise new product launch success? Are companies who obtain a higher level of digitalization degree, more successful concerning new product launch results? Although this question is a relevant topic to marketing and strategic management, there has not been research on that topic. Thus, research on that subject would close a relevant gap in science. In that sense, the objective of this article is to reveal the link between digitalization and new product launch success.This question is highly relevant before the background of the fourth industrial revolution, driven by the digitalization of business. Nevertheless, this specific question has never been asked. Also, no construct exists which allows to operationalize and measure the amount of the digitalization degree related to those digitalization measures that are relevant for new product success (= the relevant digitalization degree). This study is a first attempt to open the new field of links between digitalization and new product success. Therefore, the correlation between new product launch success and digitalization degree of German B2B traders has been inspected on the basis of an empirical survey.

The impact of information integration on purchase order finance and new product launch: a case study

PurposeIn this study, we examine the implementation of purchase order finance (POF) which is an innovative supply chain finance (SCF) solution by an innovative SCF lender (i.e. supply chain service provider (SCSP)). The effect of information integration between the SCSP (lender) and product designers (borrowers) on the lender's POF decisions and the borrowers' new product launch is investigated.Design/methodology/approachWe conduct a case study in the Chinese smartphone industry. A mixed methods design is used, and data are collected from both the supply chain service provider (SCSP) and product designers. We first conduct a qualitative study. Hypotheses are developed concerning the relationships between information integration, in terms of social interaction and information system integration, POF and new product launch. We then conduct a quantitative study. The multilevel structural equation modelling method is used to test the hypotheses.FindingsWe find that information system integration is positively associated with POF but has no significant effect on new product launch. Social interaction is negatively associated with POF but positively associated with new product launch. POF is positively associated with new product launch.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by empirically examining the implementation of POF from both the lender's and borrower's perspectives. We find that information system integration and social interaction have different effects on POF and new product launch. The results thus provide insights into how a lender makes POF decisions and reveal the benefits of POF for borrowers.