4. Segmentation
Geographic Demographic
Behavioral/
Psychographic
• Online fab store:
Captures buyer from all over
the world
• Physical Store:
Located mostly in Tier-I and
Tier-II
• Socio-economics:
Upper middle class family
Middle class family
• Gender:
For both gender
categorically with wide
variety.
• Age Group:
18-35
• Occassion:
Ethical Cultural events,
Festival events
Wedding ceremonies
• Lifestyle:
Ethical daily wear habits.
• Emotions/Values:
Patriotic customer(Indian
thing)
Emotion Connection to
local artisan/craft man
5. Targeting
• On the basis of selection of segments,
fab India strategies and layout it
marketing plan.
• Since the segment it caters is not so
big in size and very selective, it seems
to be follow Market Share & Pareto
Effect
“A small number of customers may represent a
large percentage of sales”
• It targets itself to remain as niche in art
& craft sector in India.
6. • Believe customer retention strategy
rather than customer acquisition
and hence customer satisfaction is
attained through “Mystery Shopper
Program”
• “Word of Mouth publicity”.
• Consider customer itself as a brand
ambassador rather relying on
celebrity.
• Experience Center for customer’s
awareness about new products for
purchase
• Quality of the fabric and the
cultivated image of “Indianess”
• Quality and consistency of product
and services.
• Distinctive image as “one stop
shop” for all ethical and traditional
hand crafted product.
• First mover advantage in traditional &
Ethical Wear.
• Only Few Player in handicraft
product like Khadi, Biba, Khadder
etc.
• Non-matching best quality product in
wide range of segment from Apparel
of all age to home linen etc. make
itself a class apart brand in the craft
business.
8. Physical Distribution Strategy
• The FabIndia supply chain has moved on from a centralized warehouse model to a more
decentralized model.
• To shorten the supply chain and incorporate the artisans within the process in a greater way,
FabIndia introduced the concept of community owned companies.
1. The weaver approaches the Supply
regional company i.e. SRC.
2. At the SRC level the designer steps in
to help artisans produce something
relevant to the target market.
3. The design is then approved by the
PSC or the product selection
committee. Here the fabrics and the
quality of factors like color fastmess
are determine and compared to the
company set benchmarks.
4. One the product is selected by the
PSC the order is placed after price
negotiation with the weaver. The
orders are completed by the weaver
and brought to the company
warehouse.
5. Once the order has been received
at the SRC warehouses it becomes a
part of the fabindia online Inventory
system. The levels of stock
and orders for a particular product
can thus be monitored online by the
retailer. As and when the retailers
place their orders the products are
moved from the SRC warehouses to
the regional warehouses
and distributor points
How the product
reaches store ?
9. Customer Service Strategy
• Fab India enhances customer experience with launch
of “fabfamily”- a locality program.
• Benefits of “fabfamily” customer focused program
include shopping from home exclusive previews,
shopping by appointment, an extended exchange
period, and a dedicated relationship manager.
• Gift Voucher for loyal and regular costumers.
• Special discounts and attractive offers (85% repeat
customers).
• Mystery Shopper Program: To understand customer
and check the satisfaction level.
• Customer’s Feedback views on gender basis and age
group basis as in fig 1.1
Fig 1.1
11. Product-Brand Correlation
Existing Products New Products
Existing
Brand
Line Extension
• Using hand woven hand-woven cotton fabric.Fab India entered
into hand woven product segments and manufactured home
furnishing items, garments for women/men/children.
• Categorizing more level of product in each segment helped
company to cater different need of consumer.
Example
Men’s Section: Kurta, Shirt, Pyjamas, Trousers and collection’s like
Work Wear, Rajwada Collection etc.
Home furnishing: Bed Cover, Bed Sheet, Quilts pillow covers, etc.
Brand Extension
• FabIndia has been experimenting with new products in
accessories line which utilize same distribution channel
• Newly added product mostly complement the core product
of the company.
• FabIndia added its non textile range in the yr 2000,
organic foods in 2004, followed by personal care
products in 2006.
• The Company has also ventured into healthcare product
with its teeth-whitening Ayurvedic product.
New Brand Multi Brand New Brand
Analysis & Summary
Line Extension
Fab India was entered market with the concept of export of hand-woven cotton fabric and later followed by manufacturing of garments.It extended
its line in garment section and home furnishing section.It has introduced more level of product in each segment with some premium category to
target different segment of population.
Branch Extension
Fab India after establishing its brand name in indigenous garment market, entered into new product category i.e non textile product like medicinal
product and organic food product under the same brand name.It enhanced it expertise in different market and successfully established itself very
well in the new market of non-textile product.
14. Branding Strategy
• The rich cultural diversity of India is what
inspires the brand and what excites them is
their ability to take forward this rich cultural
past into forward periods of modernity,
evolving lifestyles and meaningful progress.
• Authenticity and inclusive partnerships stay
are the core of everything in Fabindia.
• Unique Selling Point: Quality of the fabric
and the cultivated image of ‘Indian’
• Doesn’t Follow any customer acquisition
strategy, but only focuses on customer
retention.
Repeated Customer
Other Customers
15. Karan Kumar
(Chief Brand and Marketing Officer, Fabindia)
• “ The genesis of this relationship lies in the
brand being honest and authentic every day as
reflected in our total approach.”
• “ It is the essence of our products, their
intrinsic value and the craft persons who
creates them with a lot of passion, toil and a
little bit of magic who are our best
ambassadors and advocates for who we are
and what we stand for.”
• “ Attempt has always been to share ‘the
Fabindia story’ with the largest number of
people in a compelling, evocative but most
importantly, in the most honest manner across
media ecosystems and platforms. Therefore, it
would be fair to say that irrespective of the
medium or the media ecosystem, our
marketing approach lies heavily on story-
telling.”
Brand’s Essence
17. Promotional Events &
Campaigns
• Events/Workshops
• Urban areas have a 2 day workshop cum
exhibition where these artists will put up
stalls about these crafts and exhibits the
work along with taking workshops for keen
Audience.
• It is called “Live Craft Worksop”. It is to
make customers more aware of the work
put in their fabric and helps them with their
association with branch Fab India.
• Campaign
• Social Media initiatives:
- Fan page in Facebook page and provide
regular updates on changes within
- Using Twitter platform, tweets about
upcoming ground activities
- Engage into conversation with
consumers online.