How to KILL a MONOPOLY? : The fall of Gillette (Business STRATEGY Case Study)

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Video Introduction:
Gillette has an approximate global brand value of around 7.55 billion U.S. dollars. The King Camp Gillette was a salesman and investor who came up with the idea of disposable safety razor blades way back in 1895. Here is a case study we did, • Gillette's Billion Dol...
watch it to understand the Razor Blade Strategy.
In this video, we narrate the story of a small company out of nowhere forced Gillette to change its 100-year-old strategy, lower its prices to avoid its market share from falling any further. This company became a billion-dollar company in 5 years.
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00:00 Intro
01:22 Sponsor
02:38 Fall of Gillette
04:52 Skip Razor Blade
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I believe that the 'Toxic Masulinity " commercial Gillette did back in 2018 or 19 also hit them pretty bad . My Grandfather , for example, who had been a loyal Gillet customer for the past 50 years decided not pay his money to that company and asked me to order a DSC shaving kit .

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Gillette is an American brand of safety razors and other personal care products including shaving supplies, owned by the multi-national corporation Procter & Gamble. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was owned by The Gillette Company, a supplier of products under various brands until that company merged into P&G in 2005. The Gillette Company was founded by King C. Gillette in 1901 as a safety razor manufacturer. Thanks to think school for making a video on it.

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When a brand stereotypes it’s own customer base, it is doom to fail.

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Interesting. Sounds like wise words. Do you have other examples of companies that stereotyped their customers and ended up paying the price?

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@@Learn2oo in recent history, Gillette is the only billion dollar company dumb enough to belittle its primary customer base. Every company stereotypes it’s customer base, but it’s positive in nature. For example cigarettes companies show that those who smoke are rich and successful. Same follows for Samsung and apple with each brand claiming it’s customer base is superior because they chose them.

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This and the target demographic is Men who generally are not really brand conscious. Plus the low cost and easy subscription model that meant that the customers did not have to bother to purchase it in the supermarket.

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I never used Dollar shave and have used Gillette for years ... I probably never will use them. Only noobs buy Dollar Shave Club.

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Quality of the products of this brand hugely varies depending on country. I used to to use Gillette razors all the time. But once i came to India i noticed the price is more in India and also there is serious quality control issues. 2 of 5 blades have manufacturing defect. Gradually i stopped using the brand and started using some local brand. Same with shaving gel too. It is just water in india with out any foam.

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I am using Ustara from long time. In very few initial shaves I realised that this razor are useless when it comes to slightly longer hair. Experience is pretty bad in those cases. I am using very normal shaving cream and half of blade which goes for almost 3-6 shaves depending hair length. That just costs .25 paise per shave. With modern times shave has become obsolete as PPL are more interested in keeping beard. This razors doesn't help in any way to shape the beard. Last 4-5 years I am using trimmers whenever I keep the beard. I would be interesting to know why its market might have fall and what are the parameters to consider.

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True man they left my balls red , i prefer only Gillette

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Interesting as a Casestudy. I am not aware of how DSC and Gillette are priced for at-par products in the US in recent times, but in India, I've rarely found DSC on platforms apart from Amazon. The price comparison on Amazon India is not in tune with the price advantage in the video; also I doubt if DSC is officially available for India.

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