CRM Project
CRM Project
INTRODUCTION
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The term market organized from the Latin word "macaques" to trade. There are
different perspectives on which a market is explained. It may be a place, an assembly an
area an organization, an act or an assembly of commercial activities. All these converge
Markets may be viewed from economic, managerial of societal point of view.
The growth from selfsufficient stage through barter to exchangeoriented stage
witnessed creating of market at central prices. This offered a number of benefits to sellers
and buyers.
Human wants are unlimited and repetitive in nature. Business activities aim at
acquiring of wealth, converting in into desired form and making the final product
available for exchange for the satisfaction of human wants. These activities fall under
industry, commerce and trade. These three branches have on common functionthe
marketing here means exchange of goods for money or money's worth.
Today there is feeling that marketing activity is concerned only with the flow of
goods from the producer to the consumer. This concept however has changed also to
include flowing of information from the consumer to producer.
In the other words to achieve maximum efficiency in marketing, there must also
be a flow information visavis is the flow of goods. This information for practical
purposes has to be collected even before a product is planned. Sub sequent information
would also enable the manufacturer to assess periodical changes that are required. That is
why it is very often remarked that marketing starts and ends with the consumer with
information flowing from the consumer to the producer and goods flowing back to the
consumer to the producer and goods flowing back to the consumer from the producer.
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High level of marketing activity is a prerequisite for high level of economic
activity. It has been apply remarked. "Nothing happens until some body sells something".
At present the urgency is for increased marketing and no merely for increased population.
This alone shows the importance of marketing as a potential force that commands
high significance for society as a whole.
“it is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the abilities to manage
them”. The same concept can also be applied in an organization. For e.g. a company may
produce a very high quality products but it won’t be able to succeed if it fails to manage
or satisfy their customers.
According to Harward Business Review “an exceptionally satisfied customer is 6 times
more likely to buy again as one who is merely satisfied & only 5% increase in customer
loyalty can boost profit from 25% to 85%”.
Thus all these quotes & experts opinion highlights the importance of Customer
enterprise and loyal customers are the backbone of their business. So customer
satisfaction is the primary motive of every business which can be attained through
effective CRM (Customer Relationship Management) policy.
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NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY
CRM Customer Relationship Management is one of the newest innovations in customer
service today. CRM stands for customer relationship management and helps the
management and customer service staffs cope with customer concerns and issues. CRM
involves gathering a lot of data about the customer. The data is then used to facilitate
customer service transactions by making the information needed to resolve the issue or
concern readily available to those dealing with the customers. This results in more
satisfied customers, a more profitable business and more resources available to the
support staff. Furthermore, CRM Customer Relationship Management systems are a great
help to the management in deciding on the future course of the company.
As mentioned, there is much data needed for the CRM system to work. These fields
include the customer name, address, date of transactions, pending and finished
transactions, issues and complaints, status of order, shipping and fulfillment dates,
account information, demographic data and many more. This information is important in
providing the customer the answer that he or she needs to resolve the issue without
having to wait for a long time and without going to several departments. With just a few
mouse clicks, a customer support representative for example can track the location of the
customer's package or order. This is infinitely better than the cumbersome process of
tracking shipments previously. Furthermore, the customer service representative will also
be able to see the previous concerns of the customer. This is a great help especially if the
customer is calling about the same issue since he or she will not have to repeat the story
all over again. This results in less time in resolving the issue, thus, higher productivity of
the support staff.
CRM Customer Relationship Management systems are also important to the top
management because it provides crucial data like customer satisfaction and efficiency of
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service by the frontline crews. A piece of customer relationship management software
will also be able to generate the needed reports for product development or new concepts.
Furthermore, this system will also be a great help for the top management in deciding the
company's future course of action, whether it involves phasing out one of the products on
the shelves or making adjustments to one of the products sold.
The reports generated by CRM systems are also invaluable to your advertising and
marketing planners, as they will be able to pinpoint which ideas works and which do not.
Because of CRM systems, you will be able to release advertisements or plan marketing
campaigns more in tune with your target market. This will also lead to more responses to
your advertisement and a more effective marketing campaign.
company, however, might not be as easy as it seems. The following might give you an
insight why CRM systems fail in some companies... Most companies fail to prepare for
CRM systems. By this, I mean that most companies fail to integrate all the departments
that need to share the information for it to be effective. Furthermore, CRM units scattered
all over the company's departments is often more effective than just making one big CRM
department. This will ensure that each department will get the information and data that
they need.
A CRM system will also help you a lot in expanding your business. As CRM systems are
coping with the increased numbers of customers and data. With a CRM Customer
Relationship Management system installed and properly utilized, you can be sure that all
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data is maximized and used to ensure that your business will be successful and your
customers a lot more satisfied than before.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Objectives of Customer Relationship Management:
Understand customer needs better
Maintain long term customer relationships
Be able to pursue a strategy of Relationship Marketing
Identify individual customers’ needs
Develop relationships that stretch over several transactions
Manage that relationship to the benefit of the customer and the company
To enable the sales team to promote sales effectively through maintaining
customer relation.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Meaning of Research
sciences define research as "the manipulation of things, concepts or symbols for the
purpose of generalizing to extend, correct or verify knowledge, whether that knowledge
aids in construction of theory or in the practice of an art."
TYPES OF RESEARCH
1. Exploratory Research,
2. Descriptive Research
Exploratory Research:
Exploratory research studies are also termed as formulate research studies.
The main purpose of such studies in that of formulating a problem for more
operational point of view.
Descriptive Research:
occurs or its association with something else.
In this project, information pertaining to customer needs satisfaction and
their demographic profile was collected; hence it is a descriptive research.
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MARKETING RESEARCH:
It is a systematic process of gathering, recording, analyzing and interpreting the data
various steps. They are as follows
1) Problem formulation.
2) Development of research design.
3) Determine the source of data.
4) Planning and designing data collection forms.
5) Determine sampling plan.
6) Organizing and conducting field survey.
7) Data analyses and interpretation.
8) Report preparation and arrangement to decision makers.
SOURCES OF DATA:
Once the research design has been decided upon the next stage is that of selecting
the source of data. They are primary data, secondary data.
Primary data:
Are those, which are collected fresh and for the first time, and thus happened to be in
original character? The data is gathered through administering the questionnaire.
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Secondary data:
Are those which are already been collected by some one else and which have already
been passed through the statistical process. And source of secondary data organization
report, journal, etc.
Sampling:
The selected respondents constitute which is technically called as sample and the
selection process is called as sampling technique.
Random sampling:
respondents.
TARGET POPULATION:
Sampling method : Simple Random sampling
Contact method : Personal Interview
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STUDY AREA:
100 samples were collected for the study, and the respondents are from
Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh
QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN :
The questionnaire is of structured type, which consists of Closed ended, Open
ended, multiple Choice, and Ranking type of questionnaire to suit the study.
PILOT SURVEY:
After taking 30 respondents for sampling survey it was felt that the questionnaire
does not require any change.
SAMPLING PROCEDURE:
Selections of participants are 100 customers. All the sample units selected at
random. Care is taken to ensure that sample units represent the characteristics near to total
base / units.
RESEARCH METHODS AND TOOLS FOR DATA COLLECTION
The Researcher formulated a structured questionnaire, which were administered
to customer's opinion. The questions are scheduled as predetermined and the order of
questions made for accuracy and compatibility.
The questions are open ended. The questionnaire divided as partA and partB.
PartA is concerned to organization name, address and contact number. Remaining part
has 12 questions.
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SCOPE AND PERIOD OF THE STUDY
towards Big Bazaar Pvt. Ltd. Primary data was collected from customers. Secondary data
enlightening the company about different steps to be taken up to increase the value of
Big Bazaar Pvt. Ltd. with regard other competitors and also make the company to provide
better customer services.
The study was restricted to twin cities. The sample size for this study is 100. The
methodology used for analysis and interpretation is simple percentage method, the period
of the study is 45 days.
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
1) The data collected and findings shown in the project in not full fledged and
therefore cannot be used straight away used in decision making.
2) The sample taken was very small and compared to the total population. The
response received may not be free from bias.
3) The study was limited to the capabilities and willingness of the respondents in
approximately answering the questions.
4) The study was limited to Hyderabad city only.
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CHAPTER - II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
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Meaning of Customer Relationship Management (CRM):
CRM is a comprehensive strategy & process of acquiring & retaining customers to create
superior value for the company as well as the customers. It consists of the processes a
company uses to track and organize its contacts with its current and prospective
customers. To support these processes, various CRM Software like SAP, ORACLE Sales
force.com etc. are used. These software record and store information about customers,
various customer interactions, their problems etc which can be accessed by employees in
different departments of the company. These information are used by the organization to
make future plans that can satisfy the customer on a better way and retaining them for a
longer period.
Definition of CRM:
strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales
prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business
and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients, nurture
and retain those the company already has, entice former clients back into the fold, and
reduce the costs of marketing and client service. Once simply a label for a category of
software tools, today, it generally denotes a companywide business strategy embracing
people, processes, and technology work in synergy to increase profitability, and reduce
operational costs
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Goal of CRM:
The goal of CRM is to provide improved services to the customers, and to use customer
contact information for targeted marketing.
Evaluation and growth of the CRM :
CRM passes through three generations such as 1st generation in 1990, 2nd generation in
1996 and the 3rd generation in 2003.
In 1st generation following systems were applied for CRM:
➢ Call centre management
It is a web based CRM technology, the enables users browsing a company’s web site to
leave a phone number where company representative can call back with more
information.
Customer service support
It is a part of a company’s CRM department that interacts with a customer for their
immediate benefits.
Sales force automation
It is software that automates business tasks like inventory control, sales processing,
customer interaction, etc.
➢ Campaign management
It is a planning, executing, tracking and analyzing of direct marketing campaigns.
In 2nd generation following improved systems were used for CRM:
➢ Integrated customer facing front end
It is face to face interaction between the customers and sales man. This system is used for
marketing, sales and services.
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ERP integrations
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It is a business management system that
integrates all functions of the business.
➢ Customers analytics
It comprises all the programming that analyzes data about an enterprise’s customers for
business decision.
Complete web integration
It allows end users to have access the data function of a serve hosted application through
internet browser window.
In 3rd generation the strategic CRM was followed and is continuing
Strategic CRM updates and expands the original content and combines into one,
convenient value that guides users through the entire CRM implementation process, from
strategic planning software.
Scope and goals of different generations:
There is successful increment in the scope of CRM from 1st generation to 3rdgeneration.
In 1st generation the scope consists of service function and sales function, in 2 nd
generation it includes another function i.e. marketing function and in 3rd generation it
includes entire function of the organization.
Goals of the CRM have also changed with better customer service from 1st generation
to 3rd generation. In 1st generation the goals were improve service operation and increase
experiences, and increasing the customer interaction; in 3rd generation cost reduction &
revenue growth and competitive advantages.
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Options for Implementing CRM:
Increasing customer is not the ultimate objective of any organization but to retain
customer and t build long term relationship with them is important. It is only through
CRM that a prospect can be turn into customer and then finally into a client. But to
achieve these any organization require proper implementation.
But at the same time CRM implementation is a challenging task because it ties together
people, process, technologies within the organization which are separate from each other.
IN HOUSE DEVELOPMENT This means all the strategies, processes are
developed and implemented within the organization.
Advantage
1. It is tailored made according to organization needs and structure thus is flexible as
compared to others.
2. Avoid dependency on others be it software or outsourcing.
Disadvantage
1. It is at the same time expensive
2. And comparatively takes longer time depending on the organisation.
BUY LICENSED CRM SOFTWARE This is purchasing software and
implementing in organization.
Advantage
1. Usually the maximum chance of success.
2. It just need to install and trained the workforce accordingly.
Disadvantage
1. Again it is expensive because of many costs as license cost, renewal cost etc.
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associated with it.
1. Adding new software with change is a complex task.
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OUTSOURCING A MANAGED SERVICE This means hiring from outside.
Advantage
1. Most of the times lower cost.
2. Can adopt “pay as you go” approach with visible result.
Disadvantage
1. For any new requirement needs to contact the company and pay for the development.
2. Also there is a risk of losing CRM solution investment if outsourcing company goes
out of business
STAGEWISE
In this CRM software is offered in different, independent modules, according to specific
department needs.
Company buys sales automation software and contact management module from different
providers.
ENTERPRISE WISE CRM SOLUTION
This is composed of different modules from same providers; it is implemented as a
whole by connecting different modules and existing database.
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VARIOUS ASPECTS OF CRM
CRM includes many aspects which relate directly to one another:
• Front office operations — Direct interaction with customers, e.g. face to face
meetings, phone calls, email, online services etc.
• Back office operations — Operations that ultimately affect the activities of the front
manufacturing etc.)
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CHAPTER - III
INDUSTRY & COMPANY
PROFILE
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INDUSTRY PROFILE
Retail industry largest industry, accounting for are 10% of the country’s GDP and around
8% of the employment retail industry in India is at the cross roads. It has emerged as one
of the most dynamic and fast paced industry with several players entering the market, but
because of the heavy initial investment required break even is difficult to achieve and
many of these players have not tasted success so far.
However the future is promising; the market is growing, government policies are
becoming more favorable and emerging technologies are facilitating operations. Retailing
whole concept of shopping has altered interms of format and consumer buying behavior
ushering in a revolution in shopping in India.
Modern retail has entered India as seen in sprawling shopping centers, multi
strayed malls and huge complexes after shopping, entertainment and food all under one
roof. The Indian retailing sector is at an inflexion point where the growth of organized
retailing and growth in the consumption by the Indian population is going to take higher
demographics.
A large young working population with average age of 24 years, nuclear families
in urban areas, along with increasing working women population and emerging
opportunities in the services sector are going to be the key growth drivers of the
organized retail sector in India.
SOME KEY FACTS
Retail is India’s largest industry accounting for over 10% of the country’s
GDP and around 8% of the employment.
The market size of the Indian retail industry is about US $312 billion.
Retailing in India is gradually inching its way towards becoming the next
boom industry.
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A large young working population with average age of 24 years
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INDIA’S CONSUMPTION COSMO
During the past decade, private final consumption expenditure has been the key driver of
economic growth in India.
Growth
domestic
product
$973billio
n
Capital
Governmen Formation
t $273 billion
Spending Private final (29%)
$108billion Consumptio
(11%) n
Expenditure
$592billion
(60%)
Utility payments
Fuel transportation Consumption
Electricity, water Spending
Communication $350 billion
Expenditure on
medical &
education
$242 billion
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The $ 350 billion consumption spending provides the single biggest business
opportunities in India and is divided into same key categories led by food, fashion and
home products.
Fashion
Accessories Consumer
5.5% Durable
Fashion $225b 4%
9.5% $14b
$33.2b
Furniture
3.4%
$12b
Food
62%
Consumption
$217b
Spending
$350 billion
Health,
beauty
&pharmacy
Book & 3.8%
Music $13.3b
1.1%
$3.9b
Leisure&
Telecom
entertainme
1.8%
nt
$6.3b
7.9%
$28b
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COMPANY PROFILE
Big Bazaar is a chain of hypermarket in India. As of June 2, 2012 there are 214 stores
across 90 cities and towns in India covering around 16 million sq.ft. of retail space. Big
offering a wide range of merchandise including fashion and apparels, food products,
general merchandise, furniture, electronics, books, fast food and leisure and entertainment
sections.
Factory, Pantaloons, eZONE, HomeTown, futurebazaar.com, KB's Fair Price to name a
few and is owned through a wholly owned subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail India
Limited(BSE: 523574 523574), that is listed on Indian stock exchanges.
History
Big Bazaar was launched in September, 2001 with the opening of its first four stores in
Calcutta, Indore, Bangalore and Hyderabad in 22 days. Within a span of ten years, there
are now 161 Big Bazaar stores in 90 cities and towns across India. By September 2012
BIG BAZAAR will have two more stores in North east namely SILCHAR and JORHAT
in Assam.
Big Bazaar was started by Kishore Biyani, the Group CEO and Managing Director of
Pantaloon Retail India. Though Big Bazaar was launched purely as a fashion format
including apparel, cosmetics, accessory and general merchandise, over the years Big
Bazaar has included a wide range of products and service offerings under their retail
chain. The current formats includes Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Electronic Bazaar and
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Furniture Bazaar. The inspiration behind this entire retail format was from Saravana
Stores, a local store in T. Nagar, Chennai
The stores are customized to provide the feel of mandis and melas [2] while offering the
modern retail features like Quality, Choice and Convenience. As the modern Indian
family's favorite retail store, Big Bazaar is popularly known as the "Indian Walmart".
On successful completion of ten years in Indian retail industry, in 2011, Big Bazaar has
come up a new logo with a new tag line: ‘Naye India Ka Bazaar’, replacing the earlier
one: 'Isse Sasta Aur Accha Kahin Nahin'. [3]
Strategy
3C Theory
According to Kishore Biyani's 3C theory, Change and Confidence among the entire
population is leading to rise in Consumption, through better employment and income
Bazaar has divided India into three segments:
India one: Consuming class which includes upper middle and lower middle class (14% of
India's population).
India two: Serving class which includes people like drivers, household helps, office
peons, liftmen, washermen, etc. (55% of India's population) and
India three: Struggling class (remaining 31% of India's population).
While Big Bazaar is targeted at the population across India one and India two segments,
Aadhaar Wholesale is aimed at reaching the population in India three segment. With this,
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Future Group emerged as a retail destination for consumers across all classes in the Indian
society.
Operations
The Big Bazaar Store in Nagpur.
Most Big Bazaar stores are multilevel and are located in standalone buildings in city centers as well as
within shopping malls. These stores offer over 200,000 SKUs in a wide range of categories led primarily by
fashion and food products.
Food Bazaar, a supermarket format was incorporated within Big Bazaar in 2002 and is now present within
every Big Bazaar as well as in independent locations. A typical Big Bazaar is spread across around 50,000
square feet (4,600 m2) of retail space. While the larger metropolises have Big Bazaar Family centres
measuring between 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) and 160,000 square feet (15,000 m2), Big Bazaar Express
stores in smaller towns measure around 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2).
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Big Bazaar has the facility to purchase products online through its official web page, and offers free
shipping on some of their products.[5]
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Values & Cultures
Our Values
We acknowledge that every individual brings different perspectives and capabilities to the
team and that a strong team comes together with a variety of perspectives. What hold
them together are the core values that lay the foundation of this strength. Through the
entire chain of Future Group we identify these values with what is called The Future
Group Gene.
Indianness: Confidence in ourselves.
Leadership: To be a leader, both in thought and business.
Respect & Humility: To respect every individual and be humble in our conduct.
Introspection: Leading to purposeful thinking.
Openness & Transparency: To be open and receptive to new ideas, knowledge
and information.
Valuing and Nurturing Relationships: To build long term relationships.
Simplicity & Positivity: Simplicity and positivity in our thought, business and
action.
Adaptability: To be flexible and adaptable, to meet challenges.
Flow: To respect and understand the universal laws of nature.
We Love to rewrite rules, even as we retain our values.
Culture
We work in an environment where the deadlines are tighter and the jubilations even more
exciting. We like to maintain this energy we've got going on, so we make sure to bring on
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board exactly the right people. Everyone here has a range of amazing (and often hidden)
talents and creative interests.
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Team
Kashyap Deorah
President
Kashyap heads Future Bazaar. Prior to this, Kashyap founded Chaupaati Bazaar after
returning to India in Nov 2007. Chaupaati enabled Indian consumers to purchase products
and services by phone. In Sep 2010, Chaupaati merged into India's largest retailer Future
Group.
Earlier, Kashyap started the US office of Geodesic (NSE: 503699) in the capacity of VP,
Business Development doing online affiliate sales in North America and mobile OEM
sales in Taiwan & China. Kashyap was an early employee at Jasper Design Automation.
Besides naming the company, he made contributions to the sales campaigns for key
customers and prospects in North America and Northern Europe. While a final year
student at IIT Bombay, Kashyap cofounded Righthalf, the first campus startup as part of
Stratify, he moved to the Silicon Valley in late 2000. Since then, he has worked with
hightech startups doing sales, business development and product management.
Kashyap graduated from IIT Bombay in 2000 with a B. Tech. in Computer Science and
mountains.
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Gaurav Agarwal
Marketing
Gaurav heads marketing at Future Bazaar. As the head of marketing, Gaurav is incharge
of online traffic, marketing affiliates and vendor program.
Gaurav has led many roles in early stage to growth phase startups often working in
companies with less than 30 employees. His last stint was with Amar Chitra Katha where
he created the New Media Division from scratch and grew the spread of ACK Comics to
all platforms. Prior to ACK, he has worked in the microfinance technology sector and
even attempted a startup in the complex event processing space.
Gaurav graduated from IIT Bombay in 2003 with an B. Tech and M. Tech. in Micro
Electronics.
Krishna Raghavan
Engineering
Krishna leads the engineering team at Future Bazaar.
Starting with his first initiative in 1999, Krishna has been involved in product technology
organizations across US and India. As part of Vendio Inc., he led a global product
engineering organization to develop a platform for seller storefronts along with the most
comprehensive set of tools and services for power sellers to sell on marketplaces like
eBay and Amazon. Vendio was later acquired by Alibaba to power their ecommerce
business in North America.
Krishna graduated from the Denison University in 1999 with dual degrees in Math and
Computer Science. Other than his technology interests, Krishna is a certified yoga
instructor and is very interested in Indian philosophy and mythology.
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Nikhil Vaity
Customer First
Nikhil heads the Customer First office at Future Bazaar and is responsible for customer
service and phone sales.
Nikhil started his career in 2003 in the BPO industry and has grown to be a strong people
commerce startup. Earlier, he managed a team of 30 executives and 2 team leads at IBM
awarded Top Talent in year 2007, and People Manager Champion in year 2007 and 2008.
Nikhil graduated from Mumbai University in 2002 and got an MBA from NMIMS in
2011. Nikhil loves reading fiction.
Satish Mandalia
Finance
Satish leads the payments business and finance team at Future Bazaar. Satish is a Future
Group veteran and has been associated with different verticals since 2004.
At Future Bazaar, Satish is responsible for driving consumer finance, EMI, reseller
network, cash on delivery transactions and loyalty program through Future Group's
spectrum of customers. Earlier during his stints in corporate planning, he has set up
various business initiatives & processes for the group.
Satish graduated from R A Podar College in 2000 and is a CA from ICAI.
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Zishaan Hayath
Product
Zishaan drives product management at Future Bazaar.
enabled India's 500 million mobile users to buy home appliances, children's products and
magazines over the phone. Earlier, Zishaan worked with Opera Solutions on strategy and
operations consulting projects for Fortune 100 clients in North America, Europe and Asia.
He was the first employee in Opera's New Delhi office.
Zishaan graduated from IIT Bombay in 2005 where he was awarded the Institute Citation
and two Institute Colors. He is an avid traveler, amateur photographer and loves his Royal
Enfield
Timeline
Big Bazaar at Sarkhej Gandhinagar Highway in Ahmedabad
2001
Three Big Bazaar stores launched within a span of 22 days in Kolkata, Bangalore
and Hyderabad[9]
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2002
Big Bazaar ICICI Bank Card is launched.
Food Bazaar becomes part of Big Bazaar with the launch of the first store in
Mumbai at High Street Phoenix
2003
Big Bazaar enters Tier II cities with the launch of the store in Nagpur
Big Bazaar welcomes its 10 millionth customer at its new store in Gurgaon
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2004
Big Bazaar wins its first award and national recognition. Big Bazaar and Food
Bazaar awarded the country’s most admired retailer award in value retailing and
food retailing segment at the India Retail Forum
A day before Diwali, the store at Lower Parel becomes the first to touch Rs 10
million turnover on a single day
2005
Initiates the implementation of SAP and pilots a RFID project at its central
warehouse in Tarapur
Launches a unique shopping program: the Big Bazaar Exchange Offer, inviting
customers to exchange household junk at Big Bazaar
Electronic Bazaar and Furniture Bazaar are launched
program to reward its loyal customers.
2006
Mohan Jadhav sets a national record at Big Bazaar Sangli with a Rs 1,37,367
shopping bill. The Sangli farmer becomes Big Bazaar’s largest ever customer.
Big Bazaar launches Shakti, India’s first credit card program tailored for
housewives
Navaras – the jewellery store launched within Big Bazaar stores
2007
The 50th Big Bazaar store is launched in Kanpur
shopping portal
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Big Bazaar initiates the "Power of One" campaign to help raise funds for the Save
The Children India Fund
Pantaloon Retail wins the International Retailer of the Year at USbased National
Retail Federation convention in New York and Emerging Retailer of the Year
award at the World Retail Congress held in Barcelona.
2008
Big Bazaar becomes the fastest growing hypermarket format in the world with the
launch of its 101st store within 7 years of launch
Big Bazaar dons a new look with a fresh new section, Fashion@Big Bazaar
Big Bazaar joins the league of India’s Business Super brands. It is voted among
the top ten service brands in the country in the latest PitchIMRB international
survey
Big Bazaar initiated the Mega Saving "Monthly Bachat Bazaar" campaign, to
provide exceptional deals on groceries and food items during the first week of
every month.
2009
Big Bazaar opens its second store in Assam at Tinsukia
Big Bazaar initiates Maha Annasantarpane program at its stores in South India – a
unique initiative to offer meals to visitors and support local social organizations
through modern retail in India
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Asin, youth icons of India, were chosen as the brand
ambassadors of Big Bazaar
Big Bazaar announced the launch of 'The Great Exchange Offer'
Formed a joint venture with Hidesign to launch Holii, a new brand of handbags,
laptop bags and other accessories.
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2010
Future Value Retail Limited is formed as a specialized subsidiary to spearhead the
group’s value retail business through Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar and other formats.
Big Bazaar wins CNBC Awaaz Consumer Awards for the third consecutive year.
Adjudged the Most Preferred Multi Brand Food & Beverage Chain, Most
Preferred Multi Brand Retail Outlet and Most Preferred Multi Brand One Stop
Shop
Big Bazaar connects over 30,000 small and medium Indian manufacturers and
entrepreneurs with around 200 million customers visiting its stores
Big Bazaar opens its third store in Kanpur at Z Square Mall
Big Bazaar opens its fourth store in Kanpur at Jajmau which is the largest leather
tannery garrison of Asia
Vidya Balan was chosen as the brand ambassador of Big Bazaar's Price Challenge
exercise
Ranked 6 among the Top 50 Service Brands in India. [10]
2011
Big Bazaar forays into the rural wholesale and distribution business through
‘Aadhaar Wholesale’ store at Kalol, Gujarat.
Big Bazaar has come up a new logo with a new tag line: ‘Naye India Ka Bazaar’.
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200th store opened in India [12]
Future Group has launched its latest venture, Foodhall – a premium food
destination across 10 metros in India [13]
For the convenience of the online customers, Big Bazaar has started free shipping
on all orders above Rs. 1000 [14]
bakery products, which would be sold exclusively at Big Bazaar stores. [15]
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2012
Big Bazaar entered into a five year multimillion dollar deal with Cognizant
network of stores, warehouses, offices, and data centers. [16]
Partnered with Disney to launch "Kidz Cookies", exclusively for kids across
India. [17]
Big Bazaar is planning to add further value to its retail services by offering Value
added services like grinding, deseeding, vegetables cutting at free of cost. [18]
BIG BAZAAR
Type Public
Industry Retailing
Founded 2001
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Products Department store
Rs 6000 crores (in 2011) (Big Bazaar
Revenue
and Food Bazaar combined)
Employees ~ 36000 people [1]
Parent Future Group
Divisions ~ 100
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STORE STRUCTURE
STORE
MANAGER
ASSISTANT
STORE
MANAGER
DEPARTMENT
MANAGER
ASSISTANT DEPT
MANAGER
TEAM
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MEMBERS
DEPARTMENTS
DEPARTMENTS SUBDEPARTMENT
CLOTHING Children
Ladies wear
Men’s wear
HOME FASHION Bath linen
Kitchen linen
Table linen
Homes accessories
FASHION ACCESSORIES Jewelry
Hand bags
Sunglasses & watches
FOOT WEAR Nike
Reebok
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LUGGEAGE Bags
Trolley and suitcase
PLACTICS,UTENCILS Crockery
BLUE SKY Fashion accessories
COMMUNICATIONS Accessories
Carrier
Hard ware
CURE & CARE Non prescription
DEPOT Books
Multimedia
Stationary
ELECTRONICS Consumer durables
Computer accessories
Personal electronics
FOOD BAZAAR Fruits and Vegetables
Chef zone
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Chill zone
LEE COPPER Lc ladies
Lc men
LOOT MART Kids Accessories
Ladies Accessories
Men’s Accessories
NAVRAS Precious jewelry
STAR & SITARA Personal Grooming
CHAPTER - IV
DATA ANALYSIS
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INTERPRETATION
TABLE: 1
1) How do you know about this Big Bazaar?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
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Advertisement 55 55%
Friends& Relatives 45 45%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 55% of respondents know by Advertisement
and 45% of Respondents know by Friends & Relatives.
TABLE:2
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2) What products do you like to purchase in our mall?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Electronic Goods 26 26%
Cloths 21 21%
Toys 17 17%
Food items 36 36%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 26% of respondents electronic goods, 21% of
respondents cloths, 17% of respondents toys and 36% of respondents are food items
purchasing in the mall .
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TABLE: 3
3) Do you feel that our products are lesser price by comparing other
mall ?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Mostly Agree 63 63%
Strongly Agree 22 22%
Mostly Disagree 10 10%
Strongly Disagree 5 5%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 63% of respondents mostly agree, 22% of
respondents strongly agree, 10% of respondents mostly disagree and 5% of respondents
strongly disagree about product prices in the mall.
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TABLE: 4
4) Do you satisfied with the Big bazaar offers?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Mostly Agree 62 62%
Strongly Agree 23 23%
Mostly Disagree 11 11%
Strongly Disagree 4 4%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 62% of respondents mostly agree, 23% of
respondents strongly agree, 11% of respondents mostly disagree and 4% of respondents
strongly disagree about offers in the mall.
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TABLE: 5
5) Do you feel that our associates are given good service to you?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Good 22 22%
Satisfactory 56 56%
Average 18 18%
Poor 4 4%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 22% of respondents good, 56% of respondents
satisfactory, 18% of respondents average and 4% of respondents are feel poor services
giving in the mall.
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TABLE: 6
6)How do you feel about the time taken by the customer service department
Of this mall in meeting your needs?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Very quick 32 32%
Delayed 15 15%
Responsive 53 53%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 53% of respondents very quick, 32% of
department.
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TABLE: 7
7) Are you feeling comfortable by shopping in this mall?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Good 32 32%
Satisfactory 43 43%
Average 23 23%
Poor 2 2%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 32% of respondents good, 43% of respondents
comfortable by shopping in this mall .
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TABLE: 8
8) What is the reason select Big Bazaar for shopping?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Lesser Price 33 33%
Good Service 19 19%
Convince 22 22%
Availability of products 26 26%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 33% of respondents lesser price, 19% of
respondents good service, 22% of respondents convenience and 26% of respondents are
availability of products their select the Big bazaar for shopping.
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TABLE: 9
9) In a month how many times you visited this mall?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
One time 34 34%
Two times 32 32%
Three times 23 23%
More than three 11 11%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 34% of respondents one time, 32% of
respondents two times, 23% of respondents three times and 11% of respondents are more
than three times visiting the mall.
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TABLE: 10
10) How do you find the ability of this mall compared to other city?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Excelent 13 13%
Satisfactory 38 38%
Good 42 42%
Poor 7 7%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 13% of respondents excelent, 38% of
respondents satisfactory, 11% of respondents good and 7% of respondents are feel poor
about ability of this mall.
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TABLE: 11
11) Will you suggest this mall to your friends/relatives?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Yes 82 82%
No 18 18%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 82% of respondents yes and 18% of
respondents no.
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TABLE: 12
12) How do you rate the overall experience with this mall?
No of samples: 100
TOTAL NO OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE
Excelent 18 18%
Satisfactory 41 41%
Good 36 36%
Poor 5 5%
Interpretation:
The analysis of the above table show that 18% of respondents excelent, 41% of
respondents satisfactory, 36% of respondents good and 5% of respondents are feel poor
about their overall experience in the mall.
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CHAPTER - V
FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS
AND SUGGESTIONS
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FINDINGS
On the basis of information on survey of customer relationship management and data
gathered by administering schedules to customers which is analyzed, the following
observations are made.
From the data analysis it is found that more number of respondents know the big
bazaar through advertisement.
From the data analysis it is found that maximum respondents are purchasing food
items in the mall .
From the data analysis it is found that when compare to other malls, more number
of respondents mostly agree about product prices are lesser in this mall.
From the data analysis it is found that maximum of respondents mostly agree
about offers in the mall.
From the data analysis it is found that maximum of respondents satisfying from
the associates services in the mall.
From the data analysis it is found that more number of respondents are respond
the very quick service is giving customer service department.
From the data analysis it is found that more number of respondents satisfy by
shopping in the mall.
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From the data analysis it is found that more number of respondents like to shop in
Big bazaar because of lesser price.
From the data analysis it is found that more number of respondents are visiting
only one time in a month.
From the data analysis it is found that most of the respondents satisfying the
ability of this mall when compare to other city.
.
From the data analysis it is found that most of the respondents are suggest to their
friends/relatives about the mall.
From the data analysis it is found that more number of respondents satisfy about
their overall experience in the mall.
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CONCLUSION
• Growth of CRM facilitated by growth of IT.
In this age of Information Technology an effective IT planning on the CRM can help the
organization earn a lot of repute.
• New database solutions.
This will help to filter and clean the raw data received from feedbacks more efficiently.
• Mutual benefit through CRM.
The stores and their customers can mutually benefit through the application of CRM. So
at this “era of customers”, the companies should project themselves as customer oriented
as possible to help them benefit in a long term survival plan.
• Effective segmentation of customers.
With more and better quality of data, this can be done very easily.
• Enhancing the shopping solutions.
This is the age of innovation. Especially in Indian markets, low cost innovation is the
ultimate tool to win the battle for the companies. Thus, the companies need to be
innovative with their ideas and always try to deliver the customer with some added value
for their purchase.
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SUGGESTIONS
1. Big bazaar management should concentrate on electronic goods and cloths for
Improving the sales of those products.
2. Big bazaar management has to give more offers to their products for generating sales.
3. Big bazaar sales persons should improve their skills to give good service to the
customers.
4. Customer service department should increase their response time to the customer
needs.
5. Big bazaar management has to maintain proper sequence while arranging the products
then only all products are visible to the customers.
6. Big bazaar should increase the availability of all brands.
7. Big bazaar management should improve the home delivery service.
8. Big bazaar management should increase volume of toys in the mall to attracting the
children’s to buy those products.
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BIBLOGRAPHY
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BIBLOGRAPHY
Principles of marketing : Phillip kotler
Marketing management : Rjan saxena
Customer relationship mgt : jagdish.seth
News papers : Eenadu, Vaartha,D.C ,
Economic times and etc.
Advertisements : Television, Print Media.
Web sites : www.bigbazaar.in,
www.bigbazaar.com
www.bigshoppingmall.com.
www.pantaloons.com
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APPENDICES
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Customer Relationship Management
Questionnaire
Name:_____________________ Location:__________________
Age:_______________________ Occupation:________________
Gender (M/F):_______________ Education:_________________
Income:_____________________ Mobile No:________________
Q1) How do you know about this Big Bazaar? [ ]
a) By advertisement b) Friends & Relatives
Q2) What products do you like to purchase in this mall? [ ]
a) Electronic Goods b) Cloths
c) Toys d) Food items
Q3) Do you feel that big bazaar products are lesser price by comparing other malls? [ ]
a) Mostly Agree b) Strongly Agree
c) Mostly Disagree d) Strongly Disagree
Q4) Do you satisfied with big bazaar offers? [ ]
a) Mostly Agree b) Strongly Agree
c) Mostly Disagree d) Strongly Disagree
Q5) Do you feel that our associates are given good service to you? [ ]
a) Good b) Satisfactory
c) Average d) Poor
Q6) How do you feel about the time taken by the customer service department
Of this mall in meeting your needs? [ ]
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a) Very quick
b) Delayed
c) Responsive
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Q7) Are you feeling comfortable by shopping in our mall? [ ]
a) Good b) Satisfactory
c) Average d) Poor
Q8) What is the reason select Big Bazaar for shopping? [ ]
a) Lesser Price b) Good Service
c) Convince d) Availability of products
Q9) In a month how many times you visited this mall? [ ]
a) One time b) Two times
c) Three times d) More than three
Q10) How do you find the ability of this mall compared to other city? [ ]
a) Excellent b) Good
b) Satisfactory d) Poor
Q11) Will you suggest this mall to your friends/relatives? [ ]
a) Yes b) No
Q12) How do you rate the overall experience with this mall? [ ]
a) Excellent b) Satisfactory
c) Good d) Poor
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