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The Packaged Food Opportunity. Unlocking the Category. An apparent dichotomy. The explosion of interest in food v/s the relatively limited growth of the category. A sense revolution that hasn’t quite been tapped into. Consuming the world through the senses - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Packaged Food Opportunity
Unlocking the Category
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An apparent dichotomy• The explosion of interest in food v/s the
relatively limited growth of the category
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A sense revolution that hasn’t quite been tapped into
• Consuming the world through the senses• New tastes, textures, flavours, occasions• Eating out as a hobby/career• Not quite translated into brand/category
growth
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Why?• Part of natural process of change, a gradual
organic process• Cultural variables- the focus on freshness, the
evaluation of value• Complexity of the market- the peculiar
combination of the global and the extremely local
• Pre-fabricated solutions- categories originating elsewhere, getting disproportionate investment
• Limited consumer knowledge coming from a narrow orientation?
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Many changes, many opportunities
• A host of changes in preferences• Not a simple from/to transition, but various
hybrid needs emerging• Need to develop products/strategies in
response to the market • Need to decode preferences, and
understand underlying principles
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Food as culture• Food is a deeply cultural category with
many embedded meanings• Need to understand what drives the
category with nuance and depth• Need to build a rich vocabulary capable of
describing consumer needs in a way that is useful
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Different cultures see food differently
• The Masterchef example
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• Intrinsic appeal of food as food v/s as decorated object
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• Sequential v/s simultaneous
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• Separation of senses v/s combination of senses
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• Taste as sign of health v/s taste as enemy of health
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• Cultural health v/s scientific health
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• Food as outpouring of person v/s food as food as technical skill
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New Stirrings• The desire for new experiences: New as
extension/hybrid form of old• Adoption of negative labour saving
practices- the time-poor/desire-rich consumer
• Pan-Indian cuisines, including some international foods as well- structural similarities with Indian notion of food
• Excitement on the periphery
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New Stirrings…• The need to engage the sense at all times• The need to make occasions out of
everyday life• The need for variety• Food as performance that is staged• The new and very distinctive
consciousness about health• Adoption of elements rather than recipes
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Many possibilities• Make anything tasty• Make anything snacky• Make anything a mobile food• Make anything a finger food• Make anything healthier• Make the old feel new• Make the new seem familiar
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Harness culture• Make culture an enabler, rather than
barrier• Surround category/brand in appropriate
meaning
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Examples• CDM• Aashirvaad Atta• Kinley• Saffola• Maggi
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Maggi • Strongly linked to the Indian way of
preparing food• Maggi masala• Codes of abundance and joy• Introducing the element of time in the
traditional process of creating food
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Maggi: Structurally Indian
• Mimics the simplest Indian meal items: poha, upma, daliya– A base ingredient that is made tasty with
masalas and vegetables
• A form that lends itself to the Indian sensibility of food– Yet in a manner that is attractive enough to
children
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Replaying the intrinsic food codes• Abundance• Never running out of food• Hunger as a sign of health• Self satisfaction from feeding a lot of
hungry mouths
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Slipping in easily into the existing structure
• By respecting its well defined codes, but compressing the process of food creation
• Indianising the idea of outside food, rather than trying to westernise the home / mother
• And a form that is sufficiently novel to be attractive
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Need to think of food as an opportunity in a holistic way
• Step outside self-inflicted labels• Opportunity downwards, not capability
upwards – Nescafe & out-of home coffee consumption– Marketing soup– Creating a breakfast portfolio– The beverage flavour trap
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Learn from the consumer• The kitchen is the biggest playground for
innovation• The street the biggest laboratory
– Macaroni Indian style– Maggi parlours– Eggs served in 50 ways– Whisky/Rum flavoured soda
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Packaged food: Principles governing change
• Align with tradition not challenge it• There is an implicit hierarchy among
codes, align with the higher order to introduce flexibility in others
• Change is good when it enables more not less
• Creating newness without becoming unfamiliar
• Locating the familiar in a new context• Enable the woman to ‘perform’ on the food
stage
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Most intense experience we can have
• In India today, more true than ever before• A whole range of meanings attached to
food• Brands skimming the surface
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• Dive!