Description of
the marketing study
In this report main
features of the Russian market for goods of personal hygiene are described, including
segments of child’s and urological diapers, urological and hygienic pads, sheets
and nappies as well as hygienic tampons), the subjects of the Russian
Federation, representing different federal districts, are being regarded in
profile,
This report has
been carried out on 161 pages and contains 44 figures and 42 tables.
Interested users: this report will be useful for representatives of
companies, realizing activity on the retail market for goods of personal
hygiene, physical and juridical persons, planning to enter the market, government
bodies, regulating the relations in the spheres of social protection of the population
and of the consumer market, аnd also a wide
range of users, interested in questions of organizing the activity on the
market of hygienic and urological production, pecularities of retail trade with
corresponding goods.
This marketing study has been prepared in
order to define the reasonability for a new supplier whether or not to enter
the market for goods of personal hygiene for children and adults (child’s and adults’
diapers, urological pads and nappies, hygienic pads) and possible directions of sales of finished production.
In order to achive the aim of the study, following tasks have to be solved:
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to analyze the market aspects: describe social-demographical
and economical indices; volumes of the market, volumes of import; describe the main
tendencies of the market; to describe barriers of entering the market;
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to analyse the concurrence environment: peculiarities of
the work of the dealers’ networks, of distributers, wholesale companies (assortment
policy, price policy, sales policy, advertising policy); survey of volumes revenue
of the dealers’ networks, of distributors, wholesale companies; of commercial conditions
of the work (including peculiarities of the price formation) of dealers, distributers
of production from producers Kimberly Clark,
Procter&Gamble, SCA hygiene products, TZMO, wholesale companies for national,
regional and local networks;
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to analyze the aspects of
the work of producers: the geography of placing manufacturing grounds, yearly volumes of the
producer’s revenue, situated in Russia;
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to define the peculiarities of price formation of producers:
the difference between self costs and handover price; of main deliverers of raw material for producers.
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To form a prognose of the market’s development;
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To define deficit market niches; formulate recommendations
for geography of sales; for elaboration of assortment, price, sales and
advertising policy.
Objeect of the
study is the market for goods of personal
hygiene for children and adults: segments of diapers, nappies, pads, sheets and
tampons.
Topics of the study
are the main market indices, main
features of participants of the market. Special attention has been paid to the
peculiarities of the activities of the corporation Kimberly Clark, Procter&Gamble,
SCA Hygiene Products, Torunskie Zaklady Materialow Opatrunkowych, Abena.
Geography of the study: 1. North-West federal district
(Republic of Karelia, Republic of Komi, Archangelsk region, Vologda region,
Kaliningrad region, Leningrad region, Murmansk region, Novgorod region, Pskov
region, Saint Petersburg, Nenetskij autonomous district);
2. Central federal district (Moscow and Moscow
region);
3. Southern federal district (Rostov region, Krasnodar
krai);
4. Privolzhskij federal district (Nishnij
Novogorod region, Samara region, Republic
of Tatarstan, Republic of Bashkortostan);
5. The Urals federal district (Sverdlovsk region).
The Period of study
comprizes the years 2008 – 2010
Sources of
informations in this study are data of the Federal
Service of State Statistics, Federal Tax Service, Federal Custom Service and
other ministeries and departments.
The main information massif for Russia and Saint
Petersburg was formed on the database, received from the
Unified State Business Register (in Russian: EGRPO) of Rosstat, аnd also the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (in Russian: EGRUL) and the Unified State Registry of Private Enterpreneurs (in Russian: EGRIP) of the Federal Custom service.
List of sources of secondary informations
used in the report:
1. Own databanks of
PRCS
2. Publications:
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for mass media informations (periodicals from Denmark, journals: national,
regional, local)
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governmental Publications (federal, regional, local)
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specialized publications from Denmark
3. Results of interrogations of specialists and representatives
of manufacturing enterprises and importеr branches, including the biggest
participants of the market
4. Legislative documents:
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Federal legal acts
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Regional legal acts
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Local legal acts
5. Electronic sources:
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Bases of data
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Internet-ressources
6. Informations, placed
at disposal by bodies of State authorities and enterprises:
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by ministeries, services, agencies
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by manufacturing associations and corporations
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by local administrations
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by associations
Following databases in Excel formate have been prepared for the project:
1.
The base of local
dealers: companies of federal districts to be considered are described
The base has been carried out in form of tables with
following fields: name, full name, short name, director, date of registration, juridical
address, real address, telephone, fax, website, region, branch, additional important
information, Profit from sales for 2009 (in roubles).
In total the description of 6.507 companies is
presented in the base, 1.083 of them are to be found in Saint
Petersburg and 2.965
in Moscow.
2. Contacts of companies, participating in procedures of purchases for state and municipal needs in
the regions to be considered.
The base has been carried out in form of tables with
following fields: Name of company, real address, telephone, website, e-mail, name
of director.
In total contacts of 24 companies, whose
specific weight in deliveries of goods for state and municipal needs is
maximal, are represented in the base.
3. Survey of the prices for the production: child’s diapers and napkins, urological diapers
and pads, nappies.
The base has been carried out in form of tables with
following fields: brand, type, size (weight), quantity of pieces in pack, price
(with customers’ card and without), weight of pack, price per piece.
Survey of prices is presented by chain network
shops of Saint Petersburg:
Pyatorochka, LENTA, Auchan, Carousel, Okey, Perekrestok, Metro, Zdorovy molysh,
Deti, Detskij mir.