In our previous article, we learnt in detail about the marketing strategy of JSW Energy. In this article, we are going to elaborate on the marketing strategy of Cesc – India’s first fully integrated energy utility.
The objective is to discover and gain more insights into Cesc ltd and how it is a fully integrated electrical utility that generates and distributes power in West Bengal, India.
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We would talk about the entire marketing strategy of Cesc in this blog. But before that let us take a look at the company’s history, target audience and digital presence.
About Cesc Ltd – Company’s Overview
Source – Wikipedia
In 1978, it was named “The Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (India) ltd”. In 1899, under the chairmanship of Sanjiv Goenka, the name was changed from The Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (India) ltd to “CESC Limited”.
Cesc is India’s first fully integrated electric utility company to generate and supply power. They serve within 567 square kilometres (219 sq mi) of Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, 24 Parganas (North) and 24 Parganas (South) districts in the state of West Bengal.
In 1897 its name was changed from Indian Electric Company Limited to Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited, which was registered in London.
They serve over 2.9 million consumers, including domestic, industrial and commercial users.
Quick Stats of CESC
| CEO | R.P. Goenka |
|---|---|
| CMO | Swapan Ray |
| Area served | West Bengal, India |
| Industry | Electric utility |
| Revenue | $1.6B per year |
| Vision | We will be a profitable consumer-oriented power utility consistent with global standards meeting the expectations of consumers, employees and other stakeholders. |
| Tagline | Click Karo Chill Karo |
Marketing Strategy of CESC –
Let’s dive into the marketing strategy of Cesc and how they carry out their marketing campaigns.
Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
Segmentation – CESC segments its services into follows:
- Electricity generation
- distribution of natural gas exploration
- Production
- transportation
- distribution
Targeting – CESC mostly targets Medium and large-sized Enterprises.
Positioning – CESC is positioned as India’s first fully integrated electrical utility company.
Marketing Campaigns
- Hindustan Liver Ltd ties up with CESC
Hindustan Liver tied up with CESC when they were launching a new Pepsodent flavour.
CESC send out 14.1 lakh covers with their April bills carrying the Pepsodent label and a small 15 gm tube of toothpaste with a new flavour.
SEO Strategies
Source – Ubersuggest
As per SEO ranking, it is said that the number of keywords- below 500 is bad, above 1000 is good, and 10000+ is fantastic. Looking at Cesc ltd, it has 27K organic keywords and it is considered as good. Meaning that the digital marketing of Cesc ltd is gaining a lot of insights.
The traffic, which is around 492K+ is really impressive. Hence, Cesc over the years has worked really hard to rank at the top in the Google organic SERP results.
Social Media Marketing
- Instagram – 2K+
- Facebook – 261K
- LinkedIn – 20.5K
- Twitter – 22.6K
CESC is the most followed and active on Facebook.
Influencer Marketing
As of now, CESC does not use any kind of Influencer marketing. As it also offers transportation and distribution it can opt for influencer marketing and make its brand more visible.
E-commerce Strategies
When talking about e-commerce strategy, Cesc has its website, from where they sell its various products and services to its customers.
Mobile Apps
Cesc has its mobile app ‘CESCAPPS’. This app is available on the play store. With this app, you can pay your bills and manage various accounts. This app has ratings of 3.4 and 5L+ downloads on the play store.
Content Market Strategies
CESC is fairly active on social media. Along with social media, CESC is mentioned in some of the blogs and articles of multiple newspapers and websites.
This brings us to the conclusion of the marketing strategy of CESC.
Conclusion – What’s unique about the marketing strategy of CESC?
As the first electric generating power supply company, we can agree that there might be little or no competition for them, hence this makes them outstanding and unique in every way.
As seen above CESC is creatively using digital marketing as per its use for the company.
It is having an impressive social media and SEO strategy by using digital marketing.
Cesc has its own mobile app to make it convenient for its customers to manage and pay bills online.
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