I am a product designer for General
Mills specializing in needs and desires for healthier living. My skills and
experiences lie within catering to people’s needs and customer service. I
believe through what I have learned by talking to many customers, and past
customers that I have found what it takes to boost our products and profits
back up to what they were in the past. My aspirations are to help General Mills
get out of the slump sales that they are in regarding their cereal sales.
I believe
that I will solve American customers unmet need by creating new cereals that
will not only be healthy, organic, and full of vitamins, it will also be tasty
for both adults and children. The cereal should include 2-3 lines of different
flavors that taste like fruit: peach, strawberry, and blueberry. Make the
flavors fruit that way natural ingredients can be used instead of sugary
artificial flavoring.
The people
I will be marketing this product to are generally the millennial generation,
ages 20-30 because this generation has basically stopped eating cereal because
of time, or they have found a healthier alternative. The other main group I
want to focus on are people diagnosed with diabetes, the cereal will have
little to no sugar per serving resulting in people with diabetes being able to
eat good food without having to worry whether or not it will spike their blood
sugar level.
As I explained
in the last paragraph the two-different people would be willing to pay for this
product either because they want it so that they can have a healthy breakfast
leading to a healthier life, or they need it because of the low sugar in it
keeping them healthy.
I believe
what will set my product apart from everyone else’s is the fact that I want to
use natural products and flavoring to keep my products healthy but tasty. Many
cereals that I have tried that are advertised to be “healthy” are very bland
tasting almost as if they didn’t care to even flavor it because the market for
people buying these was low at the time. Now that many people want to live a
healthier lifestyle I believe that there should be more effort into creating a desirable
and healthy product, which is what my product entails.
I think my
elements fit together very well as this whole assignment flowed very easily and
quickly. I believe the customers and producers of my proposed product would
look at this assignment as kind of a plan of action to begin developing the
product.
I think that the most important part of your idea to make healthy cereal, as you mentioned, is making the cereal taste good. Thinking about a cereal like Cheerios, which is heart healthy for your diabetic target market, some people may think the taste is bland. If you could figure out a way to make a General Mills cereal heart healthy, organic, flavorful I think you might have a winning idea. Also the fruit flavors you chose are nice because they would add sweetness to the cereal and not give off that artificial taste, something like cherry might.
ReplyDeleteI really like your idea because cereal sometimes has a reputation for being healthy but in all reality it is not. A lot of the brands have a lot of sugar in them. Actual healthy cereal is what we need.
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