Market Report
Market Report
INTRODUCTION
MDH masala is the popular of masala as the household among the millions of
people today. It is doing masala trading in the field of pour spice powders like
turmeric powder,coriander powder, powder etc. This curiosity leads to enter into
masala word with boldness
There are many companies involved in manufacturing masala product all over
the country. As of now many varieties of masala products are available in the
market which we use for preparing vegetarian as well as non vegetarian items.
The masala food items usually give the same test as like traditional cooking. As
it is always available in the near by shop, people can get the masala product at
their door steps too. Hence the masala product becomes an essential in
everybody’s is life in fast running word
This MDH masala encountered a lot of hurdles, since, selling, masala powder
during those days to the Oriental women who are traditionally conservative. It is
not easy to sell. It was concept of sealing on easy cooking rather than marketing
food products with self determination and persistent attempts it was able to get
into the kitchen of our country and the just of the word. The store may look like
miracle, but the hard work, the pot holes and the bumps on the way and the
stormy inclement weather are known only to producer.. The main objectives of
the Study is to identify the preference to purchase of Masala powders among
women consumers and to know the Consumers level of preference towards
masala powders. The data for the study has been collected in primary Through
issue of structured questionnaire.
Masala refers to a mixture of many contiments which gives a pleasant odour.
Gone were the Days, the housewives used many contiments such as pattai,
Lavangam, crampu, Kasa Kasa, Sompu,Coriander, Pepper, Turmeric, Curry
leaf, Cardamom, mace, anised, Staranise, etc., for the Purposeof preparing
masala and in turn the preferred masala is mixed with food items at the time Of
cooking.. Masala mixture is very difficult to prepare manually, though the
formula is knownBecause the various items are to be grained so nicely. Better
the masala is prepared more pleasantOdour and taste will be resul
After the innovations of grinders and mixes, masala is prepared by using these
devices. However, masala cannot be prepared in large quantities and be kept in
storage. In recent days many, small firms with brand names came forward to
supply masala powder in Sachets in dry form in different quantities. Virtually a
severe competition prevails in the market among masala powder manufactures,
Distributors, and retail vendors.
Each brand of masala has its own product line as curry masala, Mutton masala,
chicken masala, chilly chicken masala, fish masala, vatha kolampu masala etc.
The Different manufactures name the purpose of masala powder uniformly.
Among the manufactures, Sizes are also uniform. In spite of, it there is an
advertisement war among the manufactures in high Lighting the features of
masala powder. Masala powder market is buyers market. As such, the Buyers
can choose their brand of masala at their preference. What makes then to buy a
brand of Masala is to be known in the larger interest of manufactures, uses of
masala and the on lookers.
India has traditionally been known for its spice and culinary herb production
andIt is one of the largest Spice producing and consuming countries. Spices are
essential ingredients adding taste and flavouring in food Preparations. India is
the largest producer and consumer of spices with a production of around 36.68
lakh tones. Indian spices are of the finest quality and its excellent cuisine, it’s
unique regions of cooking, and a pleasant Dining experience
The use of Ready Mix Masala plays an important role in the modern day-to-day
life. Most of The people prefer using Masala Products in order to save their time
and energy to cook a variety of food easily. There are many companies involved
in manufacturing Masala Products all over the country. As of now, many
Varieties of Masala Products are available in the market which we use for
preparing Vegetarian as well as Non-Vegetarian items.
The Masala food items usually give the same taste as like Traditional Cooking.
As it is always Available in the nearby shop, people can get the Masala Products
at their door steps too. Hence, the Masala Products becomes an essential in
everybody’s life in fast running world.
HISTORY
MDH today has a range of 62 products available in over 150 different packages.
These include ground and blended spices, which are free of preservatives. MDH
also sells other products, such as saffron. MDH Pvt. Ltd. Has set up five fate of
the art plants for meeting the ever growing demand. The company procures raw
material directly from the centers of produce to maintain uniform taste and
quality. The raw material is first cleaned, dried and tested with the help of
special machines. It is then carefully grounded into the finished product passing
through various stages.
MDH takes special care in selecting the raw material for the ground single
spices category. This provides the consumer with spices made from the choicest
raw material maintaining the highest processing standards.
BLENDED SPICES
SPICESMDH blended spices are a class apart. Each blend has been specially
formulated to impart the genuine taste to various Indian food preparations.
Decades of research has gone into preparing these blends needed in specific and
classical Indian dishes. Indian traditional cookery is free of preservatives
and artificial flavour enhancers. MDH does not use these synthetics.
Starting with manually ground spices, MDH soon switched over to automatic
machines to meet the fast growing demand for MDH Spices. So much so today
spices worth crores of rupees are manufactured and packed by modern machines
and sold throughout India and abroad through a network of over 1000 Stockiest
and over 4 Lacs retail dealers. These machines now have a capacity
of producing 30 tones of spices in powders packed in beautiful consumer pack
of different sizes (10g to 500g) in a day.
Moving forward with the zeal of a crusader, Mahashay Dharampal never looked
back. Always devoted to quality and purity of MDH spices, he made these the
pillars of his progressive policies. Infact the finest quality of MDH Spices has
been recognized through various awards from time to time. In Mahashay
Dharampal’s efforts to achieve greater heights of fame for the MDH, his son
Rajeev Gulati’s contribution is no less who is presently shouldering the
responsibility of Director of the Company. His major achievement lies in
putting MDH on world map. MDH Ltd. Has set up five state of the art plants for
meeting the ever growing demand. The company procures raw material directly
from the centers of produce to maintain uniform taste and quality. The raw
material is first cleaned, dried and tested with the help of special machines. It is
then carefully grounded into the finished product passing through various
stages. Fully automatic machines have been installed for this process. The
powdered spices are again tested at the fully equipped quality control
laboratories, to ensure the best quality standards. The MDH marketing and
distribution team is always on the move to ensure timely delivery of its products
to the consumers. Further, well equipped research and development laboratories
work incessantly to develop new spice blends of spices. Mahashay Dharampal
Ji leads from the front, taking keen interest in creation of new products. Regards
less to say that each one of products carry a guarantee of the best quality
standards. 88 years of experience has made MDH a brand people can trust.
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, MDH Spices are symbol of good taste and fine
cooking. Infact, taste and flavour have become the definition of MDH Spices.
As a part of their expansion programme, MDH has established large fully
automatic manufacturing plants at Delhi, Gurgaon (Haryana) 3 plants of spices,
Papad and Export Unit, Nagaur (Rajasthan) 2 plants of Methi and spices and
Sojat (Rajasthan). Branches have been set up at Ghaziabad (U.P.) Amritsar &
Ludhiana (Punjab)
Today MDH spices and blends are popular not just in India but also around the
world and the products are being exported to the United States of America,
Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, South East Asia, Japan, U.A.E. and Saudi
Arabia. Company have own offices in London (U.K.) and a state of art
manufacturing unit at Sharjah (U.A.Ε.).
During its 93 years of golden performance, MDH wishes to pay a tribute to its
associates, workers and well-wishers, stockiest and dealers for their contribution
in this glorious achievement and further wishes to share its joys with every
house-hold in the country and abroad. With all humility MDH invites you to
join in this on-going march towards greater heights of achievements and seeks
your continuos support in its endeavor to make yet greater achievements
possible.
❖ CHARITY WORK
MDH under the leadership of Mahashay Dharampal Gulati has developed more
than 20 schools including MDH International School, Mahashay Chunnilal
Saraswati Shishu Mandir (named after his late father), Mata Lilawati Kanya
Vidyalaya (named after his late wife), and Mahashay Dharampal Vidya Mandir
etc. .
He started a 10-bed eye hospital at Arya Samaj, Subhash Nagar, in November
1975. Later in January 1984, a 20-bed hospital was established in Janakpuri,
New Delhi to commemorate his late mother Mata Chanan Devi. Now it has 300
beds on about 2 hectares (5 acres) of land, the hospital is equipped with MRI,
CT scan, Heart Wing, Neuro Sciences, IVF etc.
❖ ABOUT DHARAMPAL GULATI THE OWNER OF MDH
MASALA
Dharampal Gulati (27 March 1923-3 December 2020), also known as Mahashay
Dharampal Gulati was an Indian businessman, and founder and CEO of MDH
(Mahashian Di Hatti; “gentlemen’s shop”), an Indian spice company. He was
referred to as ‘spice-king’ in reference to his pioneering of ready-to-use ground
spices. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian
award, in 2019.
DHARAMPAL GULATI
Gulati receiving the Padma Bhushan from the President of India Ramnath
Kovind, 2019
ADVERTISING PROMOTIONS
Thanks to intensive promotion activities MDH has create a huge its brand
recalls, this is able to maintain its market position.
❖ FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMER PREFERENCE
g) Accessibility: You need to ensure that customers are able to find and
access your product and services efficiently, without barriers and friction,
on their preferred channel. Also make sure they can reach your company
and obtain good service whenever they have a question or need assistance
to make a purchase decision.
l) Real time: If you want to capture the attention of your audience think
about how you can take average of real-time experiences. It’s about
showing increasingly important to the modern customer. They expect real
time response and fastest resolutions.
n) Choice: The more choices you can give your customers during the buying
process, the more likely they are to free in control of the experience that
they have with your brand. However, when offering choices make sure to
support your customers and enable them to figure out the optional choice
that is right for them.
The study of consumer preference will provide the useful information about
the product Considered in the study. Large number of consumers can know
about the reasons that made them To select a particular brand. It will benefit
them to evaluate their previous purchase decision while Making a repeat
purchase process with regard to the same product. The manufacturers are
informed About the preference given by the consumers to the product that
makes select the same brand.
The Feedbacks given by the consumers will be more helpful to the
manufacturers to make required Modifications in the future, in their product
as to the expectation of their consumers, so that the Consumers will make a
repeat purchase of the same brand. The study also informs about the
Involvement of the family members in decision making on the selection
process with regard to the Same brand.
The study was undertaken with the objective of analyzing the consumer
brand preference of MDH Masala food products in sitapur District. Sitapur is
one of the major districts in Uttar Pradesh. The major consumers in the study
area arehighly influenced by the ever changing environment of The district.
Due to the random sampling factor and changes in the lifestyle in this area,
women are More positively inclined towards Masala food products.
Though there were so many Masala food Products available in the market,
most commonly available and used Masala food products in Sitapur area. So
these were selected for the study after discussion with the consumers of the
StudyArea.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Consumers are the masters of their money and they have an enormous influence
on the economic Market change because they possess the ability to implement
and coordinate their choice of Spending or saving in the purchase decision.
Consumers are influenced by their preference towards the product and therefore
marketers need to implement their strategies and tactics frequently in Order to
achieve more consumers.
Satisfaction and accurate target in finding out what customers are aware off and
their preference and there by offering products according to this needs will help
The industry stake holders to enrich their customer experience and accelerate
growth of the market. Hence this research aims to explore the consumer brand
preference towards MDH Masala.
Chapter 2nd
➢ Primary Objective-
➢ Secondary Objective –
HYPOTHESIS
What is Hypothesis?
Characteristics of Hypothesis :-
Following are the characteristics of hypothesis:
❖ The hypothesis should be clear and precise to consider it to be reliable,
❖ If the hypothesis is a relational hypothesis, then it should be stating the
relationship Between variables.
❖ The hypothesis must be specific and should have scope for conducting
more tests.
❖ The way of explanation of the hypothesis must be very simple and it
should also be
❖ Understood that the simplicity of the hypothesis is not related to its
significance.
characteristics of hypothesis:
Functions of Hypothesis :-
Following are the functions performed by the hypothesis:
❖Hypothesis helps in making an observation and experiments possible.
❖It becomes the start point for the investigation.
❖Hypothesis helps in verifying the observations.
❖It helps in directing the inquiries in the right directions
Hypothesis related to this :-
Hypothesis related to this repor t :-
❖ Title of study-
“A detailed study of household women’s perception towards MDH masala.
❖ Research Design –
❖ Sample size-
60 women
❖ Sample area-
❖ Data used-
1- Primary data-
A primary data source is an original data source that is one in which the
data are collected first hand by the researcher for a specific research
purpose or object.
1- Secondary data-
Secondary data refers to data that is collected by someone other than the
primary user. Secondary data analysis involves a researcher using the
information that someone else has gathered for his or her own purposes.
purposes.
The secondary data used in this project is-
• Through internet.
❖ I am Aditya Kumar Verma the student of BBA 3rd yr. From sacred heart
❖ degree college. 1 Have undergone a project report on the topic of”
Household women’s perception towards MDH masala”. I used
questionnaire to collect data from Household women’s. The collected
data through questionnaire is given below.
✓ Age
100 response
➢ There are 46.7% women of age 20-30, 28.3% women of age 30-40
and 21.7% women of age 40-50 and remaining are other age.
✓ Nature of occupation
100 response
100 respons
100 response
➢ This graph shows that 71.2% women used MDH masala and
28.8% women don’t use MDH masala.
✓ If yes how satisfied are you with MDH masala?
100 response
100 response
➢ This graph shows that 60% women choose MDH masala because it add taste
to food, 18.3% women choose MDH Masala because of it’s various varieties,
10% of women choose MDH masala because of it’s availability and 11.7%
women choose MDH masala because of it’s price.
✓ What do you think masalas add to our food?
100 response
➢ Here, 51.7% women thinks masalas add flavour to our food, 30% women
think that it add sensory effect to our food, 10% women thinks that it adds
aroma to our food and 8.3% women think that it adds spice to our food.
✓ Which promotional activities before the brand
attracts you the most?
100 response
100 response
➢ In this graph 20% of women thinks that company should offer cash incentive,
23.3% women thinks that company should offer buy one get one, 26.7%
women thinks that company should offer free gifts and 30% of women think
about other incentives.
✓ How did you come to know about MDH masalas?
100 response
➢ This graph shows that 16.7% women come to know about MDH masala
through their friends, 55% women come to know through television, 20% of
women know about MDH masala through newspaper and 8.3% women
knows about through posters.
✓ How do you perceive the preferred brands image?
100 response
➢ This graph shows that 30% of women are vary favorable to preferred
brand image, 31.7% women are favorable to preferred brands
image,33.3% women are neutral to preferred brand image and 5% are
non favourable to preferred brands image.
✓ Which media is more attractive for direct marketing?
100 response
➢ This graph shows that 35.6% women tells that tele marketing is more
attractive for direct marketing, 13.6% women tells that e mail is more
attractive for direct marketing, 20.3% women tells that personal selling is
more attractive for direct marketing and 30.5% women response other
for direct marketing.
✓ Do you know the MDH companies tagline?
100 response
➢ Here, 60.3% women knows the MDH companies tagline and 39.7%
Don’t know about the MDH company.
Chapter 7th
LIMITATIONS
2. The sample is limited; it may not represent the preference of all the
consumers.
3. The findings of the study may be considered appropriate for the situations
similar to Study area and extra care should be taken while generalizing
the results. Covered only 100 aspects MDH masala powder for this study
area.
Chapter 8th
CONCLUSION
➢ All the objectives are tested With appropriated statistical tools such as
questionnaire.
➢ The relevant findings have been presented related to this study. Hence it
will be useful to the consumers and Masala companies to adopt a new
policy Implications.
Chapter 9th
REFERENCE
We find above descriptive data about MDH masala and about the owner of
MDH masala with the help of these links which are given below –
• https://mdhspices.com/
• https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-
affairs/mahashay-dharampal-gulati-the-master-of-spices- who-
blazed-a-trail-120120400032 1.html/