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Kshs 1,000,000,000 to change a beer bottle?
gadj
#11 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:13:57 PM
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This is a matter of the shareholders to raise in the next AGM otherwise i like the new design since now partakers of tusker will not need glasses.
2012
#12 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:18:14 PM
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gadj wrote:
i like the new design since now partakers of tusker will not need glasses.


That's a good point! I hope they also do the flip top like in the States so you don"t need openers too.

BBI will solve it
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Tommy
#13 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:36:07 PM
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Was this really necessary. Serious Beer drinkers dont care how the bottle looks like, but the quality of the content inside it. Talk of a case of misplaced priorities.
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
ojwangtheo
#14 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:52:22 PM
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KICC is not the tallest bulding in Kenya. They should have used times tower in their newspaper advert. 1,000,000,000 shillings when guys are dying of hunger.
2012
#15 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:07:27 PM
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Tommy wrote:
Serious Beer drinkers dont care how the bottle looks like


True. And you can now conclude that they are not the target of this rebranding. The biggest challenge for beer and cigarette marketers unlike other products is not retention but recruitment. ie if someone is already smoking your cigarette chances are that he won't move but you need to get in new smokers to replace the ones who have departed. Ama?

Think about it, how many young people (18-23) would find that old coffin-like bottle sexy? For some their great grandfathers drank from that.

BBI will solve it
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Kaka M
#16 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:20:23 PM
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Got to say its abit funny. In Tz Tusker has always bn in the bottle they r calling new. My guess is tht the Tz Bottles r made by Central glass Industries in Nairobi. (I may be wrong.) Running some of these multinationals can be a headache, apparently Tusker project fame costs Hundreds of millions and among other things its supposed to get aspiring competitors thinking if they r ready for that kind of war.
mapengo
#17 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:07:48 PM
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Shame on you A quick one does this Adetu guy drink coz the kind of explanations he is giving do not make sense "EABL managing director Senu Adetu said the redesign was aimed at boosting the market share of Tusker, which is one of the brands whose price the brewer increased by between Sh5 and Sh10 a bottle. " i mean for a brand that has been there for over 5 decades and does not have a market share come on.. i though the reason there are no promos for tusker is because the market niche for that bottle is solid. Not even heniknen or castle has been able to get through. call it misplaced priorities. Kenyans have a peculiar drinking habits which thanks to the mututho law are now being tamed. it's not the physical characteristics of the band that matters brand loyalty to the same which in this case has been greatly enforced by it's uniqueness, crispy ,smooth ,easy drinking and refreshing taste. Run a promo with that biliii and i can gurantee u the sales figures will astronomous as opposed to rebranding the bottle. unless Ur targeting the junguz out there Kenyans don't mind the shape nor the size of the beer.... it's the content.
McReggae
#18 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:23:34 PM
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Kaka M wrote:
Got to say its abit funny. In Tz Tusker has always bn in the bottle they r calling new. My guess is tht the Tz Bottles r made by Central glass Industries in Nairobi. (I may be wrong.) Running some of these multinationals can be a headache, apparently Tusker project fame costs Hundreds of millions and among other things its supposed to get aspiring competitors thinking if they r ready for that kind of war.


You are very right, Tusker was retailing in this kind of bottle in TZ before and I remember seeing it there early last year though what was launched jana is an improvement of what was in TZ with the engravement and all that!!!!

....the moment EABL trsnforms all the brands to this shape they will simply buy all summit in the market and crush their bottles....
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
amolo
#19 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:47:38 PM
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The competitors were not making their own bottles but poaching EABL bottles thus not incuring the cost of producing bottles! The new bottle is clearly marked Tusker and cannot be used by competitor's brands. It's bad enough the competitors uses EABL fridges, so why should EABL let them use thier bottles too!
mgeman
#20 Posted : Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:47:51 PM
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I'm not an authority in matters beer but me thinks it could be a case of customers not able to actualise their wants ala if i asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses!
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