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CASE SUMMARY (PROBLEM STATEMENT)
After sluggish sales growth in 1980, MEM Company, Inc. was considering ways to increase sales for the company's line of men's toiletries. Two main options surfaced; either 1) to expand distribution into food stores or 2) to introduce a new line called Cambridge.

MARKET OVERVIEW
The men's toiletries market was divided into three groups based on pricing, namely, exclusive, medium and mass priced category. MEM had competed primarily in the medium priced market. Its principal toiletries were marketed under the English Leather line of which generated 68.3% of total sales revenue. This was substantially more than any other line it owned and it also had a market share only second to its main competitor, Old Spice. MEM faced stiff competition from Old Spice, British Sterling, Jovan and Brut, whose new products, since 1979, were being launched in the medium priced market with hefty advertising expenditures of around $7 million. These new products......

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