Contents:
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Part I: THE MACRO PERSPECTIVE
1. The Indian Market: Emerging Panorama
2. Assessing New Competition and Strategic Response
3. Product Management—A Preview
Part II: PRODUCT MANAGEMENT—THE CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
4. Branding
5. Market Segmentation
6. Positioning and Differentiation Strategies
7. New Products Planning
8. Distribution Channels: Structure and Strategy
9. Advertising Planning
10. Pricing Concepts and Strategies
11. Sales Management
12. Marketing Research
Part III: PRODUCT MARKET ANALYSIS
13. Packaged Drinking Water
14. Tea
15. Soft Drinks
16. Chocolates
17. Malted Beverages
18. Toothpaste
19. Toilet Soaps
20. Detergents
21. Shampoo
22. Fairness Creams
23. Wristwatches
24. Footwear
25. Mobile Phones
26. Digital Cameras
27. Motorcycles
28. Refrigerators
29. Air Conditioners
30. Paints
31. Colour Television
32. Passenger Cars
33. Marketing Challenges
Epilogue
Index

Description:
This completely revised and updated text, now in its Third Edition, continues to explain the underlying concepts of product management. In the process, the book equips the budding as well as the practising managers with sufficient knowledge about how to deal with different problems faced in managing any typical fast moving consumer good or durable product.

Divided into three parts, the book provides, in Part I, a macro perspective of the Indian market. Part II offers an analytical discussion interspersed with vivid illustrations on conceptual issues like branding, segmentation, positioning and differentiation. Part III features several new products; it also provides latest information on the products presented in the earlier edition. In addition, it analyzes the current market situation prevailing for a particular product in India. Finally, here, each chapter shows how leading companies are successfully marketing the particular product in the Indian market.

WHAT IS NEW IN THIS EDITION :

The new edition incorporates the challenges offered by many new trends like growth of modern trade, explosion of the media, and the increasing influence of rural market in India.

Chapters on The Indian Market: Emerging Panorama, and New Marketing Challenges expose the students to contemporary concepts and examples.

Part III offers new chapters on market analysis on products such as Tea, Soft Drinks, Chocolates, Malted Beverages, Packaged Drinking Water, Tooth-Paste, Detergents, Fairness Cream, Footwear, Mobile Phones, and Digital Camera. Besides, it gives up-to-date background information for other products covered in the earlier edition.

The Student CD contains a set of PowerPoint Presentations (PPTs) of 20 products.

This well-established study has been widely adopted as a textbook in MBA programmes across the country. The Third Edition is more profusely illustrated with exhibits, diagrams and PPTs, and should be of immense utility and worth to the students of management as well as practising brand managers and executives in the advertising arena.

The book is recommended by AICTE for PGDM course. The link is www.aicte-india.org/modelsyllabus.php