Colgate
company on 10 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes · said 19 times in 11 episodes since 2017
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9 statements about Colgate, every show
Deshpande: 70% of Colgate India's business comes from 10-12 rupee packs
“Look at Colgate. It's a 6000 crore company. 50% market share. The most successful penetration brand possible. 70% of the business comes from 10 to 12 rupee toothpaste.”
SemiCab's enterprise customers include Staples, PepsiCo, Colgate, and HP
“Customers are large enterprises like Staples and PepsiCo Colgate, HP some of the smaller midsize companies that are always looking to move goods in a truckload, full truckload.”
Deshpande reveals Bombay Shaving's monthly revenue growth across specific funding rounds
“So when Fireside invested in us, you were doing like 15 lakhs a month or 18 lakhs a month. Then, when Colgate invested in us, we were doing, like, 40 lakhs a month. Then, 19, when, ah, six cents and, ah, Colgate invested again in us, we were doing, my census, …”
Deshpande calls financial VCs cheerleaders compared to strategic corporate investors
“So financial investors are in my view, they are cheerleaders, right? They don't add and like Colgate and record can add tangible impact to it.”
Bombay Shaving leverages Colgate synergy for cheaper Essel Propack tube manufacturing
“Colgate, for example, they're, they make their tubes in a company called SLPropack, which is owned by the Z group, right? We now work with SLPropack. All our tubes are made by SLPropack. So that's a huge cost advantage.”
Ryan: 1990s Cleaning Aisle Was a Large 'Sea of Sameness'
“I just started looking at the cleaning aisle and saw that it was such a big category, but a sea of sameness. Like, everything looked and smelled the same. The brands were pretty dated, and so that was kind of the clue of, dig here.”
Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch backed BET early while P&G and Colgate hesitated
“Pepsi Cola was an early advertiser because they, the soft drink appeals to that market. Same way with Anheuser-Busch. They got exclusive rights to advertise their beer. But what you call the real revenue generators, the package good guys the Procter & Gamble, …”
Chappell: Tom's of Maine succeeded by stealing market share from CPG giants
“The reason I was successful at Tom's of Maine is because I took market share away from Colgate, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever. So when you can take market share away from the commodities by an alternative approach to that product development and that product …”