Castrols Strategy

Castrol’s Marketing Strategy:

In a bid to increase their market share and stave off competition from new entrants, India’s largest player in the retail automotive lubricant market, Castrol India (CIL) has planned a new marketing strategy, revealed CIL vice president -marketing Sudhanshu Vats. |

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Vats spoke to Indiantelevision.com on the sidelines of a press conference for the release of CIL brand ambassador and Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid’s biography The Nice Guy Who finished First by Mumbaikar Devendra Prabhudesai. The book was unveiled by Indian cricket coach Greg Chappell, who was the chief guest. |

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Vats elaborated on the initiatives by his company. Firstly, CIL re-launched the Castrol master brand with a new thought and logo ‘Its not just oil, it's liquid engineering.’Next, they’ve simplified product brand architecture – migrated their 15-16 sub-brands under five categories: (a) Consumer trucks- this cover fleets, transportation, buses, tractors, LCV’s. (b) Passenger cars (c) Motor cycles (d) Heavy Duty – this is a B2B category that caters to fleet owners, off-highway vehicles such as JCB, Komastu, Caterpillar, building construction, state transport undertakings, and (e) OEM franchisee workshops. |

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Thirdly, along with Dravid who has been Castrol brand ambassador for the last six years; bike enthusiast, youth icon and cine star John Abraham is the new brand ambassador for their motorcycle oil. Also, CIL has started strengthening partnerships with vehicle manufacturers, OEMs’. This includes their recently renewed partnership for five years with Tata Motors. Other OEMs’ with whom they have a tie-up include Mahindra & Mahindra and Maruti.CIL has also taken the entire Liquid Engineering concept to the consumers through road shows, above and below the line activities, dealer meets, etc. The company has also tied up with Reliance and Essar for selling CIL lubricants at their retail fuel stations.Castrol has...