Marketing Management

Marketing Plan: K&N’s: Health and Happiness

Submitted By:
Sameer khan
Muhammad Talha
Sikandar khan
Abubakar
Submission Date: 15 May 2024

Submitted To: Dr. Owais Mufti

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Table of Contents

Marketing Plan: K&N’s: Health and Happiness

Executive Summary
Situation Analysis
Understanding Customers
Competition
Company Analysis
Business
Plans
Objectives
Vision
Mission
Understanding Customer’s Context
Opportunities
S.M.A.R.T (Ideal Objectives)
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Communication Strategy
Target Markets
Positioning
Marketing Program
Control Mechanism
Contingency Plan

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Executive Summary
K&N’s, a founding pillar and beacon for Pakistan’s Poultry Industry started in 1964
with a single minded objective of providing better nutrition for health and happiness of
the nation. A key ambition for many brands in the frozen sector should be to continue
steering the consumer mind set towards frozen being ‘acceptable’, in terms of both
quality and health. The Company was the first to establish an integrated broiler
production and processing operation in Pakistan. Some of the competitors are Menu
Foods, Mano Salwa, Dawn Foods, Big Bird, Sufi and PK Foods.
A single minded objective of providing better nutrition for health and happiness of the
nation. The aim behind the initiative was clear as crystal in the mind of owner. It was the
philosophy behind the idea that rooted the whole side business convert into the empire.
The company is working on the portraying the food with nutritional ingredients in a way
that could attract the children and young generation. They are using high-end food
preservation methods to value the customer’s health concerns. K&N’s has the first
mover advantage as well as the benefit of being the only fully vertically integrated
company operating in this space.
Organization’s marketing and financial objectives are to maintain positive, strong
growth each quarter. Market share of K&N’s is almost 60% (on average) in ready to
cook food category, increasing market share is one objective. To establish the market
growth, working through and with customer satisfaction and to develop the brand and
the product according to the customer’s requirement.
K&N’s are already influencing their marketing strategy using the following two
concepts: Product concept and Selling concept
We have suggested a new approach using marketing communication strategy.
They have decided hostilities students, job oriented men and women and teenagers.
They have managed to position the brand symbolically with their optimistic and minimal
branding. K&N’s marketing program is consisting of the 9P’s: Price, Products,
Promotion, Place, Packaging, Positioning, Process, and Physical Evidence. Security
Cameras to monitor outlets and smart systems to track orders and delivery vehicles. As a
contingency plan, we are proposing another product branding strategy, conglomerate
strategy.

Situation Analysis

K&N’s, a founding pillar and beacon for Pakistan’s Poultry Industry started in 1964
with a single-minded objective of providing better nutrition for the health and happiness

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of the nation. Building on years of poultry expertise and commitment to food safety,
K&N’s integrated all poultry production activities under one umbrella to bring you safe
and healthy chicken by managing and controlling all stages of production. This was
planned in 1964 when 80% of the ailing children were suffering from diseases caused by
proteins, vitamins, and minerals deficiency. K&Ns was established to overcome this
malnutrition by a college student Khalil Sattar who had a vision to foresee a need to
establish a poultry farm.

Understanding Customers
A key ambition for many brands in the frozen sector should be to continue steering the
consumer mindset towards frozen being ‘acceptable’, in terms of both quality and
health. Being such a heavily promotionally driven category probably doesn’t help
consumer impressions of frozen, as it in a sense devalues it. On a more positive note, the
recent endorsement of ‘frozen’ by various celebrity chefs has been a great way to
improve impressions and consumer belief that it really can be ‘as good and happy as
fresh’, however, manufacturers need to keep replaying this message. At the moment,
many consumers may rationally respond to say Frozen is as healthy and fresh as fresh,
but do they genuinely believe it?

Demographics
From a relatively small base, the frozen food market is growing by between 10% to 15%
year on year in Pakistan, as lifestyles and demographics change.
There is an almost equal ratio between all age groups of people consuming the frozen
food.

Psychographics
From the very past tradition of having heavy breakfast along with species and flavors
including chicken, has been the preference of Pakistani cuisine.
Majority of the local consumers prefers chicken to meat.
Ready to cook chicken products in very little time to give the same desi taste that
Pakistani families look for, no frozen food company will find it difficult to sell ready-to-
cook items.

Geographics
K&N’s has set boundary less expansion geographic target goals.
Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Canada and USA markets are in
the scope for now.
By leveraging the expansive reach of the marketing and persuasive branding K&N’s
hopes to serve both domestic and international customers.

Behavior Factors

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From the customer view point K&N’s is providing healthy food.
It is easy to cook especially it facilitates the working women because they don’t have
much time to make all those things in home.
This brand provides the hygienic food to its customer that build trust in the customer.
These attributes are increasing the number and letting the users behave in the favor of
brand leading to growth.

Competition
Competitors of K&N’s are:

Dawn foods
Chicken chat patta nuggets Rs 1095/-
Chicken crispy fillet Rs 1795
Chicken kofta family pack Rs 1995
Chicken shots Rs 1595

Meatland
Meatland Chicken Boneless (1 kg) - PKR 450-500
Meatland Beef Boneless (1 kg) - PKR 550-600
Meatland Mutton Boneless (1 kg) - PKR 600-650
Meatland Fish (1 kg) - PKR 500-550

Sufi Foods

Chicken nuggets Rs 1120

Karahi cut 656
Boneless handi 500g Rs 488
Chapli kabab Rs 1270
Seekh kabab Rs1410
Kofta poly bag Rs 1375

Pakistan’s small ready-to-cook food market has welcomed more than 10 new entrants
in the segment in last five years. These brands couldn’t make the brand image as
strong as K&N’s has. Secondly, they are not providing the level of customer
satisfaction that K&N’s is providing.

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Company Analysis
The Company was the first to establish an integrated broiler production and processing
operation in Pakistan. Currently K&N’s has six broiler growing facilities, each with a
capacity for 250,000 to 300,000 birds. K&N’s uses best-in class equipment supplied by
world-leading equipment manufacturers from Europe and USA.
In 2024 Khalil and Adil Sattar are considering growth opportunities for K&N's, their
family business that is the market leader for processed chicken and value-added chicken
products in Pakistan. This position has been built through a strategy of vertical
integration, product innovation, and branding. K&N's has also developed its own chain
of retail "Chicken Stores" to promote their products. Growth opportunities include
contained expansion in Pakistan, exporting to nearby markets, and/or developing a
global Halal food brand.

Business
The main idea behind the poultry and frozen food business was nothing more than an
experiment had it not been for a conversation Khalil had with his cousin, who had
visited Australia in 1964 and mentioned to Khalil that he had seen chicken farming as a
highly profitable business in Australia. Khalil, then just 23, was intrigued by the idea
and increased his investment in his chicken farm and grew it to have 1,000 birds within
a few months.

Plans
Seeking to export Pakistani processed food across the world, Sattar thinks Pakistan’s
market has yet to emerge onto the world map, which he believes will only happen after
more than one company is exporting. This is where he does not hesitate to share K&N’s
best practices with the local poultry industry.

Objectives
A single minded objective of providing better nutrition for health and happiness of the
nation. The aim behind the initiative was clear as crystal in the mind of owner. It was the
philosophy behind the idea that rooted the whole side business convert into the empire.
The owner plans to porch a frozen food business for the international market with the
highest possible quality and standard’s benchmarks that the world recognizes Pakistan’s
grown meat is the best option to consume.

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Vision
Our ethos drives us to provide you Safe and Healthy chicken products.
Mission
At K&N's, our ethos of doing the right thing is deeply ingrained in us, and provides
impetus to all our company practices.

Goals
■ To focusing more and more on the ready-to-cook products for the ease of
customers.
■ Special focus on the hygiene factor.

■ To be known as a brand that provide value product to its customer.

■ The market starts with the customers and ends with the customers. This is the
main reason behind every goal they are having for their market share and market
growth.

Understanding Customer’s Context

The company is working on the portraying the food with nutritional ingredients in a way
that could attract the children and young generation. They are using high-end food
preservation methods to value the customer’s health concerns.

Predominant Purchase
The main element in the purchase of food items and groceries is the health that is
presented in the packaging.
K&N’s are leading in healthy frozen food.
Their main product is health and taste.
K&N’s provides hygienic food to its customers that builds trust in the customer.
Moreover, the taste of K&N’s food is superior to others. In the developing world of
conscientious decision making every human being is geared towards spending happy
life. A happy life is one with good health. The decision making process in buying frozen
food involves a criterion based on certain points related to time constraints and health
constraints both.

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Opportunities
K&N’s has the first mover advantage as well as the benefit of being the only fully
vertically integrated company operating in this space. Today, as the largest vertically
integrated poultry farm, with a force of more than 6,000 employees, over 90 company
outlets and distributing to over 1,800 retail outlets across the country, K&N’s Foods
stands as the market leader in the market once thought impossible to even exist.
Looking to the next stage of growth, K&N’s scope has been developing and growing
global, seeking to export Pakistani grown chicken and frozen food across the world.
Sattar thinks Pakistan’s market has the ebullience to shine on the globe as a frozen food
supplier market.

Issues that stray Opportunities

1. Not more than one company is exporting in frozen food category.
2. Companies that are even approaching the international market and not taking their
job seriously or either just not spending a budget on the R&D of international
market penetration.
3. The importers want to know that what is the government’s stance on controlling
viral and contagious diseases. What are the notifiable diseases? Unfortunately
there are none other than just bird flu.

Marketing Objectives
1. Maintain positive, strong growth each quarter
2. Market share of K&N’s is almost 60% (on average) in ready-to-cook food
category, increasing market share is one objective.
3. To establish the market growth working through and with customer satisfaction.
4. Develop the market image of the brand and the product according to the
customer’s requirements.

Financial Objectives
1. They are looking working on raising the budget of frozen food to 50% from 30%
for a family.

Social Service to Community

● The organization believes that forecasting Pakistan’s market as a developed
exporter of frozen food will let Pakistan appear dominant on the world map,

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 which he believes will only happen after more than one company is exporting.
This is where he does not hesitate to share K&N’s vision and best practices with
the local poultry industry.
● It hires the largest team of veterinarians, nutritionists, and highly experienced
technical staff.
● Seminars are organized in all major cities and rural poultry centers where local
and foreign experts are invited to address poultry farmers on latest poultry
developments
● Free of charge vaccination and Technical training programs for poultry farmers
are regularly organized and training is also imparted for carrying out cost feed
formulations are also provided to farmers.

S.M.A.R.T (Ideal Objectives)

S: Specific Objectives
K&N’s has a strict plan to follow in terms of target orientation. Each of products is
based on the rule that it should be healthy to eat and according to the taste of consumers.

M: Measurable Objectives
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics’ 2016 Household Integrated Economic Survey, Pakistanis
spent approximately $1.3 billion last year on a category called “readymade food”, which
includes all types of processed food. They are looking towards raising the budget cap of
frozen food to 50% from 30%.

A: Attainable Objectives
To be known as a brand that provide value product to its customer.

R: Realistic Objectives
Special Focus on hygienic and healthy chicken items.

T: Time bound Objectives

Organization believes that forecasting 10 years of Pakistan’s readymade food items
market, we should be huge exporter of frozen food and we should appear dominant on
the world map.

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Marketing Strategy
K&N’s is using the marketing concept as its current marketing technique stating that the
organization should be aware of the needs and wants of the target markets and should be
delivering the desired satisfaction better than the competitors do in order to accomplish
the organizational goals.
K&N’s are already influencing their marketing strategy using the following two
concepts:
Product concept
Selling concept
We have suggested a new approach using marketing communication strategy.
Product Concept
This concept says that “consumer will favor products that offer the most quality
performance and features and that the organization should therefore devote its energy to
making continuous product improvements.”
K&N’s from the very beginning has focused on providing better nutrition for the health
and happiness of the nation and we will be keeping the words as they were before.
Quality is our very first priority that will make us build strong and profitable customer
relationships. We will be managing and controlling all stages of production of the
“jhatpat chicken paratha” as done for the rest of K&N’s products in order to ensure
100% safe and healthy production of our product.

Selling Concept
This concept states that “consumers will not buy enough of the firm’s products unless
it undertakes a large scale selling and promoting effort.”
We are launching an unsought consumer product as none of our competitors or the rest
has launched a product similar to ours.
To make our valuable consumers aware of our newly launched product we have decided
to use this concept. We will create awareness among our customers on a large scale
utilizing all he best promotional means available. Television and radio ads are at the first
priority, billboards at the best locations or different areas, newspaper ads and door to
door awareness programs are at the second. Other than these promotional strategies we
will ensure the availability of our product in access at all K&N’s outlets and the
departmental stores and bakeries.

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Marketing Communication Strategy
This concept says that “consumer should be provided with awareness using
communication tools. The step by step arrangement of making customer aware of the
features and competitive edge of your product is listed below.

Communication Process:
Sender: K&N’s
Encoder: The advertising agency and the Creative department
Message: that now ready to cook proper meal is available for the hostilities and the
working women
Channel of message: through brochures, TV advertisements, newspaper
Decoding: this is done by the consumers, customers
Receiver: the targeted customers are the receivers.
Response: if our product satisfies the needs and wants of our customers then in response
they will approach our product
Feedback: as feedback the customer can go to any outlet of K&N’s. They can even mail
their feedback to the customer relations manager through our website

Developing an Effective Market Communication Strategy

Determining the Communication Objectives

We go through the six buyer-readiness stages. K&N’s objective is to give knowledge
about their new product as the consumers are already aware of the brand. K&N’s is
giving them knowledge of how their needs and K&N’s product qualities are connected
so that this is a part of their Unique Selling Perspective (USP) how the product is
differentiating in the market by providing 100% safe chicken items and why to prefer
K&N’s.

Designing a Marketing Strategy

Using the marketing communication flow we have designed the strategy that converts
the need of the people for the product into the actions of purchasing it.

Product Strategy
We are selecting a market penetration strategy to increase our customer base. Brand’s
online existence makes a huge impact on the performance in the market at world level.
We are delivering same product with unique offering of subscribing to our YouTube
channel, watching recipes videos and earning points to get discounted products.

Product Branding using CBBE

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We will be using the emotional route for influencing the need to purchase the product.
There is a smart phone app for K&N’s recipes named as “Smart Cooking App”. We
have proposed to add a video feature to let consumers watch the recipes.

Choosing the media:

Personal communication channels; We will be selecting personal means of promotion
and communication. We will use social media like the Facebook, YouTube, instagram,
cooking magazines.

Collecting Feedback
We will use sales promotion and public relations strategies to talk about our brand and
get feedback about the promotion of the product.

Target Markets
K&N’s is by far the largest player in the processed poultry market, commanding an
estimated 80% in market share.

1. The company is targeting different age groups as well as different income groups.
2. Their prices are normal so even a middle-class person can afford it.
3. They are targeting the elite upper middle and middle class. On the age basis, they
are targeting children as well as young people.
4. They have decided hostilities students, job oriented men and women and
teenagers.
5. These are the segments that can be called the time savers and our product will

make them have a refreshing breakfast without time consumption.

Positioning
K&N's has remained true to its reason to exist of providing better nutrition through
poultry for Health and Happiness of people and it is now a favorite chicken brand of
millions of people.
Formed by health oriented for health conscious people, K&N’s management is able to
position the brand with the vast experience and owner’s personal passion for to the
nutritional need of children and to youngsters, those who have concerns that are
creative, innovative and constructive. They have managed to position the brand
symbolically with their optimistic and minimal branding.

Marketing Program
K&N’s marketing program is consisting of 9P’s.

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 Price
K&N’s has a defined price method of labeling items on the basis of packaging size.
They have a price segregation based on small, large and family packs.

Products
K&N's Products (with available prices):

 Chicken Nuggets:
o K&N's Chicken Nuggets (12 Pieces, 270g) - PKR 460
o K&N's Chicken Nuggets (43-45 Pieces, 1kg) - PKR 1185
 Chicken Tikka:
o K&N's Chicken Tikka Chunks (700g) - PKR 1215
 Kababs:
o K&N's Kabab Tikki (29-32 Pieces, 648g) - PKR 1260
o K&N's Shami Kabab (7 Pieces, 252g) - PKR 810
o K&N's Shami Kabab (18 Pieces, 648g) - PKR 1180
o K&N's Seekh Kabab (7 Pieces, 205g) - PKR 850
o K&N's Seekh Kabab (18 Pieces, 540g) - PKR 1305
o K&N's Chapli Kabab (4 Pieces, 296g) - PKR 1180
o K&N's Chapli Kabab (12 Pieces, 888g) - PKR 1355
 Others:
o K&N's Hot Tenders (16-19 Pieces, 780g) - PKR 1310
o K&N's Whole Chicken Without Giblet-11 (1.1kg) - PKR 820
o K&N's Stok (Chicken/ Biryani) (17.6g) - PKR 70
o K&N's Bakistry Vaula (12-Pack) - PKR 785
 K&N's Chicken Tender Pops (260g)
 K&N's Chicken Tender Pops (780g)
 K&N's Burger Patties (6 Pieces, 400g)
 K&N's Burger Patties (16 Pieces, 1070g)
 K&N's Breakfast Sausages with Herbs (32 Pieces, 720g)
 K&N's Frankfurter Sausages (16 Pieces, 720g)
 K&N's Mini Franks Sausage with Cheese (700gm)

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 K&N's Kofta 565/- Rs

Promotion
They have certain promotion campaigns running on-rotation, offers, discounts and
promotions are set-up keeping the competitors in mind.

Place
K&N’s has a multiple sales counter approach. They have shelfs in superstores; they have
a large chain of 55 factory outlets spread across the country and world. They also have a
highly formalized distribution channel that fulfills the orders from small retail shops.

Packaging
The items are packed on the basis of packaging size. They have a segregation of small,
large and family packs.

Positioning
K&N’s management is able to position the brand with their vast experience as first
mover and owner’s personal passion for the nutritional needs of children, youngsters and
those who have concerns that are health oriented, innovative and constructive. They
have managed to position the brand symbolically with there optimistic and minimal
branding.

People
K&N’s is mainly focusing on the working women and the hostilities. The hostilities
require something that is ready to serve in minutes that are less time consuming but still
full of taste and nutritious as they miss the taste of homemade food. The working
women cannot get time to prepare meals like chicken paratha that is very time
consuming if completely prepared at home. So their product provides them the solution
to their problems

Process
K&N’s established a new plant in Raiwind Manga, a state-of-the-art plant, and they got
German and Dutch consultants to build that factory because they knew that challenging
goals are what that keeps workforce motivated, they wanted to export from Pakistan
factory so they wanted the process to be of international standards.

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Physical Evidence
Company has made itself approachable by existence in relatively bigger size. Being first
mover in the industry it could make this positioning strategy tangible through any
number of marketing tools i-e place, people, equipment, communication material,
symbols and price.

Control Mechanism
Security Cameras to monitor outlets and smart systems to track orders and delivering
vehicles.

Sales Force
A key to success is the close ties organization’s sales force forms with retailers. For
instance a 150-person team that serves the retail agent works to improve both the
products that go to the stores and the process by which they get there. The management
of customer relationships by providing the UPB (Unique Perceived Benefit) of ready-to-
cook food at your doorstep is also performed by the sales force.

Fraud & Leakage

K&N’s organization culture is strong, where values are closely held and widely shared.
Organizations marketing have never shown intentions to mislead or exaggerate product
size, performance claims, or the “retail price”.

Contingency Plan
As contingency plan we are proposing another product branding strategy, conglomerate
strategy. We are encouraging buying behavior by providing free recipe magazine copies
every month when customer goes out for doing groceries on a purchase of Rs500 worth
of our products. We also have a proposal to create a publishing line for monthly
magazine of K&N’s having promotions and discount coupons.

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