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Take the direct mail piece for Alpine menthol cigarettes now on its way to smokers. While not specifically targeted at Marlboro smokers, the piece includes a pointed questionnaire, asking consumers how they feel about cigarette coupons, free merchandise with proofs of purchase and sweepstakes programs. On the coupon question, consumers pick from several choices including: 'I use any cigarette coupon I get; I occasionally use coupons for cigarettes, even if they're not for my regular brand; or, I never use coupons to buy cigarettes.'
That information will be strategically important as Philip Morris fulfills its April 2 promise to lower prices to make full-price brands more attractive to consumers who traded down to discount brands. Wholesalers were told last week that the price decreases, which include incentives like coupons and buy-one-get-one-free, will start in late May and last only through the end of June. The couponing will begin again in late summer and wholesalers say they have heard that may be the end of Philip Morris' price cutting. But, P-M will not raise prices as it has in the past.
'Nothing that happened on that Friday was all that earth-shattering,' said a wholesaler in upstate New York. 'It's drastic couponing; that's it.'
A Philip Morris spokesperson says the pricing strategy will vary from market to market and will depend on marketing conditions in those specific areas.
Beyond gaining access to consumers' thoughts, the Alpine direct mail piece offers Philip Morris the chance to aggressively promote its low-price brands, another strategy pinpointed by president William I. Campbell. P-M spent only $1.2 million last year on Alpine advertising, according to LNA/Arbitron. Most of Alpine's marketing has been direct mail and in-store promotion since it was repositioned as a value brand in 1989. The latest promotion includes two free packs, 'Alpine Gear' merchandise and dollars-off coupons. The direct mail piece also plays up Alpine's 'everyday low pricing.'
'Whenever possible we want to inject trademark equity into our value brands, rather than market them only on low price,' said a spokeswoman.
But P-M hasn't had much luck with the big equity program it started this year - the Marlboro Adventure Team.
An informal poll of 44 wholesalers taken before the April 2 announcement showed that 'the initial success of the Marlboro Adventure Team promotion may have been shortlived,' read the results. The poll was taken by Gary Black at Sanford Bernstein & Co. in New York. Some wholesalers said they still had Adventure Team inventory left from December. Ironically, 67% of the wholesalers said a lower price strategy was the best bet for Marlboro, and only 33% liked the idea of more promotional vehicles like the 'team.' But promotion will be an anchor of P-M's new strategy. 'They've committed the ultimate crime in marketing,' said a New Jersey wholesaler. 'They are forcing price over brands. People will look for coupons, not names, and that makes this a price-driven market no matter the promotion.'
Copyright 1993 A/S/M Communications, Inc.
SPORTS MARKETING: Atlanta Recasts Olympic Plan To Reach $500M Goal in '96
One scenario has placed AT&T in an ad hoc consortium with Bell South and Motorola, specializing in long-distance, local telecom and hardware, respectively. Also mentioned in the mix has been Northern Telecom, a Canadian company with operations in the Southeast.
AT&T, a U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor last year, has balked at joining up at the $40 million entry fee ACOG is charging, a 1000% inflation rate from its outlay last quadrennium. A source close to ACOG said MCI similarly nixed the package when Atlanta marketers sought to play the telecom market.
John Hancock has surfaced as a likely locomotive of an insurance consortium deal, with such specialty servicers as Liberty Mutual and Fortis having popped up in Atlanta.
Of John Hancock, Payne said, 'They're a possibility and a good company, but that's as far as I'll go right now.'
Though telecommunications is one of the 10-to-12 categories ACOG has targeted, ACOG slipped insurance into the tier in place of ailing airlines.
'These two are the only categories susceptible to this kind of deal,' Payne said. 'The category titles don't begin to cover all the services involved.'
Payne hinted that payments from consortium sponsors, per category, could exceed the $40 million benchmark.
A-B's Olympic re-up, orchestrated for the brewer by media and sports marketing vice president Tony Ponturo, makes for a good sign for Atlanta. 'Official malt beverage' was not originally planned for top-tier status. Big Bud will tie all of its beer brands, plus its themeparks and its bakery operation, to its Olympic investment. According to sports marketing sources, factored into the $40 million is a guarantee of Olympics merchandise sales at its various Busch Gardens sites around the country. A-B joins Home Depot, Sara Lee, IBM and NationsBank as Partner.
Copyright 1993 A/S/M Communications, Inc.
