This is what I wrote for positioning Statement.
“For target customers that need to use dipping soy sauce, the Bien Cai dipping soy sauce is a product that will need in customers’ daily life when they cook. Unlike other competitors, the Bien Cai dipping soy sauce is focusing more and more on sustainable and vegan products. Moreover, it uses locally sourced ingredients.”
Write the Promise/Takeaway/Major Proposition/Key Benefit Claim for the creative brief based on the positioning statement you wrote in Section A Q1b.
Transcribed Image Text: noodles or fried rice as a marinade. The dipping sauce can also be added to foods before
barbecuing. Both these new products are vegan-friendly.
Bien is determined to develop a global reputation for her company around supporting
Vietnamese farmers and growers. Bien has set her sights on generating growth through
innovation, and longer term, wants her company to become a top 10 global food brand. To
achieve this goal, she began looking for a marketing communications expert, with the view to
launching both new products in early 2023. As part of SIM/RMIT's LinkedIn involvement,
Bien became aware of the significant positive impact that Marketing Communications
students were having on the product development and marketing communications
environment in Singapore, and she was impressed by your resume. Congratulations, you
are the newly appointed "Marketing Communications Manager" for BienCai.
After undertaking a thorough analysis of her company, you and Bien note that her customers
are particularly brand loyal, once they find a brand they like and that works, they stick with it.
Existing BienCai customers (75% are women, aged 35-55 years) love and have a deep
connection with the brand, in part due to Bien's use of country-of-origin and emotional
appeals (all about food creation and family meals) in marketing communications. BienCai is
focussing more and more on sustainable and vegan products, and using locally sourced
ingredients. Bien rewards opinion leader customers with small gifts and personalised thank
you cards and features farmers and their families in the advertising. Most of BienCai's
industry customers are independent grocery stores.
Your research has also uncovered these key insights:
The soy sauce category in Vietnam is very competitive, with the top four brands
vying for market leadership -BienCai is the number three brand.
The category is characterised by a lack of innovation, with all brands delivering on
the expectation that soy sauce is easy to use, similar in taste and made with similar
fermentation methods.
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Duong Lam villagers make soy sauce by hand, as they have done for generations, and
local rainwater is a necessary ingredient which is said to contribute to a different
(unique) taste.
Soy sauce a product which is consumed and purchased all year round, but demand
in offshore markets does increase in spring and summer.
Given increasing competition in the food and food products industry, you realise that Bien
needs to move fast. With this in mind, you begin the process of briefing a panel of respected
full-service agencies with the aim of selecting an agency to assist you in formulating the
appropriate campaign strategy and develop an integrated campaign idea. As part of this
process, you must clarify the thinking that will form the foundation of the work. It is
especially important to you that the successful agency fully understands integrated marketing
communication and the myriad of tools (communication touchpoints) available.
Transcribed Image Text: Bien Cai Pham was born in Duong Lam, Hanoi, in Vietnam. Duong Lam is one of the oldest
villages in Vietnam and is renowned for its beautiful, traditional architecture. Bien grew up a
passionate supporter of her village. She is very proud of its status as the first ancient village
in Vietnam and often comments in interviews about her village's historical and cultural
impact. Bien is a successful entrepreneur with several business successes to her young name.
Bien was listed in the 30 under 30 most successful Entrepreneurs in Vietnam, three years in a
row. Bien describes her business vision as not about selling a product or service, but about
connecting people and bringing them together in meaningful ways.
Bien's first job was as a waitress in a café that sold local food, including roast pork, chicken,
steamed rice cake (banh te), nut candy (keo doi), and che lam, a delicacy made with sugar,
malt, fresh ginger, roasted glutinous rice flour and peanuts. Bien's job also involved taking
inventory. In this role, Bien met local farmers and growers and was amazed by their passion.
Her idea to have a small retail shop included in the café was very successful, and the owner
of the café and Bien went into partnership to expand the size of the shop and sell products
online, with Bien working as the manager. Bien realised there was an opportunity to begin a
farmers' co-operative to provide resources and advice for local growers to compete in the
broader domestic market and overseas. BienCai, named after herself, serves as an umbrella
brand for a range of locally produced offerings, the most popular of which is their soy sauce,
called Tuong, a staple product of the village. Soy sauce is used in almost every meal in
Duong Lam. BienCai Tuong (soy sauce) products come in original, smoked, dark,
mushroom, white and lite flavour versions. The mushroom flavour is vegan-friendly.
BienCai has growing export markets in the US, Canada, Australia and Singapore and, over
the last ten years, the Vietnamese food and hospitality industry has been growing steadily.
Five years ago, Bien developed a podcast series aimed at farmers directly, which provides
business information and farming news. Beyond the online store and these podcasts, BienCai
does not have a social media presence. However, Bien realises that more of a social media
presence is something that needs to be considered.
The BienCai co-operative currently employs five salespeople, two supply and logistics staff
and two business advisors for farmers. BienCai customers are loyal and will often try other
products in the range based on their first trial experiences. In the last three years, Bien has
doubled her business operations and hired two manufacturing assistants to help with product
creation and four people to work in packaging and distribution. Bien is in a position to
expand distribution into Europe and has her sights set on a global launch.
BienCai has two new products to launch, a Usukuchi (light-coloured) soy sauce and a dipping
soy sauce. The Usukuchi soy sauce is higher in salt content than their regular soy sauces, but
lighter in colour and delicious in rice, simmered dishes and for seasoning broths or dressing.
This product can also be drizzled over steamed green vegetables, noodles, fish and tofu
dishes. The BienCai Dipping Soy Sauce is perfect for dumplings and spring rolls, or added to