Brand : Cholairs
Company : Cadbury India
Brand Analysis : # 534
In an interesting move, Cadbury's has rebranded its eclair brand to Choclairs. The brand is now running a TVC communicating this rebranding. Cadbury have two brands in the Eclairs segment - Cadbury Dairy Milk Eclairs and Cadbury Eclairs Rich.
According to Business Standard, echlair market in India is worth around Rs 1000 crore( 2011statistics) and is witnessing intense competition for share between the players like Nestle, Parle, Cadbury and Perfetti. It is estimated that Cadbury is leading the market with its CDM Eclairs.
What can be the possible logic behind the rebranding of a very well known brand ?
One reason can be to handle the issue of generic nature of the term Eclairs. As I understand, eclairs stands for the special type of candy and is used by all the players in the market. So when a consumer ask for an eclairs, it is retailer that decides which brand to be given. So by changing the name of CDM Eclairs to Choclairs, Cadbury's expect that problem to subside and with the new TVC the brand is trying to teach the consumer to tell the new name Choclairs.
Watch the TVC here : Candbury Choclairs
Second reason can be to remove the endorsement of Dairy Milk from this category. In my earlier posts on this brand, it may be recalled that Cadbury's had earlier renamed its eclair to Cadbury's Dairy Milk Eclairs .In effect, the eclair was a Product line extension of Dairy Milk brand. Now the brand owners may want to restrict the use of Dairy Milk to the chocolate bar category. So since the endorsement is removed, the eclairs would need an identity and Choclairs has become a new independent brand.
Third reason can be that Choclairs is the brand which is owned by Cadbury's and is a leading brand in UK and China. Choclairs was created in 1996. So this move can be seen as a global alignment of the brands by Cadbury.
The positioning of Choclairs in India is funny. The new brand's main message is that it will not stick on the teeth. The brand has the tagline " jo dimag mein chipke, daaton mein nahi " which translates to " It will stick to your mind and not on teeth ". I wonder why the brand has taken such an attribute in a rebranding exercise.
It is true that eclairs have a tendency to stick to gum and teeth and may be the brand feels that it may be prompting many consumers away from the category. But as a tagline, I feel that the brand deserves a better treatment.
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Agree. They could have used a tagline that gave success for Choclairs in the UK.
ReplyDeleteI feel after Kraft took over Cadbury positioning and brand identity is
ReplyDeletebound to change. Whenever caramel base is applied the sticky property
cannot be eliminated totally. Maybe the chewy property may have
increased in the toffee rather than eliminating stickieness. I am
just waiting for Hershey to storm the Indian market, we should watch a
real sweet battle, because both Nestle and Amul have failed miserably
to give a run for the money for Cadbury's. Good analysis professor
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Hey !!! I have first read it in your Blog .. Good Post
ReplyDeleteAlso read about an Indian Toffee Maker serving us since decades @
http://desibrandz.blogspot.in/2013/09/biscuits-cookies-and-crackers-how-it.html
a well written post...and a great move by cadbury...
ReplyDeletebad....as it still gets in the mouth
ReplyDeleteBeing a brand consultant, I am too quite skeptical as if 'Stickiness' can be considered as such a strong element for rebranding :)
ReplyDeleteI have written on same topic but from 'Social Media Rebranding' aspects. you may like to read it http://socialchamps.com/rebranding-social-media/
This is a big risk experiment by cadbury. few failures in market during renaming caterogries are foodles (from noodles by horlicks). If cadbury makes a sucess story here % market share in caramel based candies will increase.
ReplyDeleteGreat Brand .. Great Move ..
ReplyDeleteproduct is still sticky hence the company was penalized by the ASCI as it failed to deliver on the brand promise.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.highbeam.com%2Fdoc%2F1P3-3246505651.html&ei=E7N3U7TFM8ugugT4soCgCg&usg=AFQjCNG3OrVtS3M4qx-yGrvlikHPKDbhXg&sig2=LnRYPRbVoBVOHtnWSr2QXA&bvm=bv.66917471,d.c2E
I want to draw a parallel to Britannia's Bourbon biscuit.
ReplyDeleteThe name is synonymous with the category of Bourbon biscuits. The name and biscuit were both founded by Peek Freans in 1924 which had a majority shareholding in Britannia. Later the Bourbon biscuits became a category with many players using the name and coming up with identical products (buttercream chocolate sandwiched between two thin sugar coated chocolate bars). We now have Parle's Hide N Seek Bourbon, ITC Sunfeast Dream Cream (Although the name maybe different, it does have the name "Bourbon" etched on the biscuit bars), PriyaGold Bourbon. Parle has Hide n Seek endorsing the Bourbon range, but Britannia has no parent brand endorsing the Bourbon range.