Comments on: Back to India – Will you find your favorite products? (1 missing so far) http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:17:10 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/#comment-189 Thanks Kaps. Hope Dannon starts selling their famous yoghurt here soon. Thanks Kaps. Hope Dannon starts selling their famous yoghurt here soon.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:16:21 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/#comment-191 Good question Iyereducation - I think brand managers would love to find an answer to that. In my opinion, it is just familiarity and trust borne out of years of using a brand. Not sure, i will agree that when we go to the USA, we don't look for familiar brands. We absolutely do. There are a lot of Indian grocery stores in the USA which have been founded on the express premise of fulfilling your needs for Indian stuff. You can get everything from Prestige pressure cookers down to the Everest masala that you like. Now you may ask, why don't people use a American-branded pressure cooker which are found in most supermarkets? You may be surprised to find that many people carry a Sumeet mixie to the USA even though you get very good blenders in the US. I think, as I said before, everything boils down to familiarity and trust. Good question Iyereducation – I think brand managers would love to find an answer to that. In my opinion, it is just familiarity and trust borne out of years of using a brand.

Not sure, i will agree that when we go to the USA, we don’t look for familiar brands. We absolutely do. There are a lot of Indian grocery stores in the USA which have been founded on the express premise of fulfilling your needs for Indian stuff. You can get everything from Prestige pressure cookers down to the Everest masala that you like. Now you may ask, why don’t people use a American-branded pressure cooker which are found in most supermarkets? You may be surprised to find that many people carry a Sumeet mixie to the USA even though you get very good blenders in the US. I think, as I said before, everything boils down to familiarity and trust.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Anonymous Wed, 31 May 2006 08:24:01 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/#comment-190 what i dont understand here is why do people returning from abroad have to find those brands here in india? not that i am some socialist or anything of that sort and neither am i some pro-swadeshi campaigner or something... but its curious that people, when they go to the US of A dont look for narasu's pickles or everest masala powder or even sambhaji chaap beedi for that matter in USA and get acquainted to whatever is available there... cant the same be done back here in india... cant CCD suffice instead of Starbucks? cant Topaz/Vidyut serve the purpose instead of Gillette... Just a curious question... thats it what i dont understand here is why do people returning from abroad have to find those brands here in india? not that i am some socialist or anything of that sort and neither am i some pro-swadeshi campaigner or something…

but its curious that people, when they go to the US of A dont look for narasu’s pickles or everest masala powder or even sambhaji chaap beedi for that matter in USA and get acquainted to whatever is available there…

cant the same be done back here in india… cant CCD suffice instead of Starbucks? cant Topaz/Vidyut serve the purpose instead of Gillette…

Just a curious question… thats it

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Anonymous Wed, 31 May 2006 07:20:07 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/05/30/back-to-india-will-you-find-your-favorite-products-1-missing-so-far/#comment-188 Danone has a tie-up with Britannia. But Danone products are still not avlbl in India: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Biscuits Danone has a tie-up with Britannia. But Danone products are still not avlbl in India:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Biscuits

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