In a previous blog, we learned about the detailed marketing strategy of the Aditya Birla Group. In this blog, we will have a detailed overview of the game-changing marketing strategy of Birla Cement – A global leader in the cement industry.
The motive is to achieve deep insight into Birla Shakti Cement’s groundbreaking marketing strategy and how a newly carved company gained such firm ground in the confined field.
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We are going to do a complete analysis of the marketing strategy of Birla Shakti Cement. Before starting the in-depth assessment of the company, let’s come to know about its commencement and all the talented minds behind its inception.
About Birla Shakti Cement
Birla Shakti Cement was established in 1996, it was carved out of its multi-product parent company Kesoram Industry. The subsidiary of Kesoram industries Birla Shakti Cement manufactures and sells cement across Indian territory.
It was founded by G. D. Birla a legendary Indian industrialist and businessman, a person committed to the cause of the Swadeshi Movement, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and a leading philanthropist of India. The cement brand is known for the quality of the product and supply of its product on time to its customers.
Besides being a leading supplier of cement and aggregates, they also offer consulting, research, trading, engineering and other services to complement their customers’ business needs.
Their headquarters is in Hyderabad – Telangana and they have two production sites located in Karnataka, Sedam as Vasavadatta Cement Unit and Kesoram Cement Unit in Andhra Pradesh, Basantnagar. They have strategically placed the plants near their leased limestone deposits in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
For over 40 years, Birla Shakti Cement has been catering to the regional demands predominantly in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Tamil Nadu & Kerala. Presently, they have a combined total installed capacity of 9 million MT.
| CEO | Abhijit Lunkad |
|---|---|
| CMO | N/A |
| Area Served | Birla Shakti Cement serves in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Tamil Nadu & Kerala |
| Industry | Wholesale building material |
| Market Share/ Revenue | Rs 1454.26 crores |
| Vision | To be the leader in Cement business, by being the preferred choice of our stakeholders for best-in-class cement & energy-efficient solutions. |
| Tagline | Trusted Technology – Solid Strength |
Marketing Strategy of Birla Shakti Cement
Now let’s come to know about the marketing strategy of Birla Shakti Cement! And how Birla Shakti Cement carries the marketing campaign etc.
Segmentation, targeting, and positioning are broadly known as STP. STP is a comprehensive framework that tells us about potential consumers.
Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
Segmentation
Birla Cement Ltd exists segmented into three broad categories; 1) tier I/II/III cities; 2) public sector/private sector, and 3) customer/builder.
Targeting
Among these segments, Birla Cement targeted builders and customers in both public and private sectors in all-tier cities.
Positioning
Birla Cement’s positioning in the market is by delivering strong quality cement and retaining them with a strong brand by promoting superior value services to the targeted customers.
Marketing Campaign
Birla Cement does not have a great online presence even though they haven’t conducted any kind of campaign. They don’t conduct any kind of advertisement campaign to promote their manufacturing company.
Birla Cement can use the same marketing techniques as its competitors. The marketing campaign which they can follow from their competitors is advertising on television, launching an advertisement in newspapers, launching a short corporate film, and other marketing ideas.
Birla Cement can launch such advertisements and other media campaigns to increase its presence in India and other foreign countries.
Social Media Marketing
Birla Shakti Cement is occasionally active on social media platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
The company has the maximum number of followers on Facebook than LinkedIn and the least on Instagram.
The company has 2.08k subscribers on YouTube.
Followers on social media platforms
- Facebook – 9640
- LinkedIn – 4213
- Instagram – 1340
They need to be more active on social media and share posts more often because today people are going digital and so are businesses.
So, to be in competition in this competitive industry the brand needs to work more on its social media handles.
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SEO Strategy
As SEO ranking suggests, the Number of organic keywords – below 500 is poor, above 1000 is characterised as good and 10,000+ is characterised as stunning.
As we can see www.birlashakticement.com has just crossed the boundary 572 keywords can be characterised as bad.
This shows that the digital marketing of Birla Shakti Cement is not gaining a good number of insights and they need to work on this.
Also, the traffic per month is approximately 3k which is a really poor statistic. Hence, Birla Shakti Cement still needs improvements in its SEO strategies while working hard enough to keep the brand soaring in the Google organic SERP results.
Ecommerce Strategies
Birla Shakti Cement has a website where anyone can have basic knowledge about the company’s work. But, they don’t sell their product on their website.
Content Marketing Strategies
Birla Shakti Cement has a website where anyone can have basic knowledge about the company’s work. But, they don’t sell their product on their website.
This ends our elaborative marketing strategy of Birla Cement. Let us conclude our learning below from the marketing strategy of Birla Cement.
What’s Unique in Birla Cement Marketing?
We saw the marketing strategy of Birla Cement. The company has a good market share as it offers great quality cement. It has a good supply change to make the product available to the target customer when needed.
But the marketing strategy used by the company is not relevant in the current scenario due to which the company is lagging behind its competitors in a few aspects.
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