Tommy Hilfiger - Market Analysis

Tommy Hilfiger

As one of the world's leading designer lifestyle brands, Tommy Hilfiger celebrates the essence of classic American cool style, characterized by "preppy with a twist" designs. After visiting the Tommy Hilfiger store, at Phoenix Marketcity, Chennai, and interacting with the employees, I was very keen to know more about how the brand's art direction works. I researched more about how it became what it is today, its merchandising, publication design and fashion forecasting and have come to a better understanding.

His first venture into preppy clothing was for his own men's clothing line in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he expanded into women's clothing and perfumes, becoming public.
With a wide range of clothing and a strong global presence, Tommy Hilfiger is one of the leading fashion labels and their products fall under the premium fashion and lifestyle segment. In addition to providing style, quality, and value, they also add a youthful twist to American classics.

Coming to Tommy's pricing strategy...despite them being a high-end fashion brand that charges premium prices, its prices are lower than its competitors like Ralph Lauren and Lacoste.

With its huge chain of retail stores and online shopping website, Tommy Hilfiger has a global presence as a global brand. In addition to its own stores, Tommy Hilfiger uses a franchise based retail model. There are more than 1500 stores of Tommy Hilfiger located in over 100 countries across the world. The store layouts reflect the classic cool American style and the upbeat Tommy Hilfiger designs. The products are also available online on the company’s website, as well as other e-commerce portals. Tommy Hilfiger follows an aggressive marketing strategy using different channels to reach out to its customers and thus has a very high brand visibility. They uses magazine ads, newspaper ads and billboards for promotions, and now even social media. It also uses celebrities as brand ambassadors and the tagline “For the People”. Its current brand ambassador is supermodel Gigi Hadid. Sales promotion is done by offering discounts of around 10-15% across the product lines during off season or special occasions. It also uses point of sale promotions by making their store layout in line with the preppy fashion they offer. For online promotions, it gives special offers on its website and also sends emails to its members showcasing the latest arrivals.

                      

Thomas Jacob Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. 
He is huge fan of rock and roll and it is noticed that Hilfiger's collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and are also marketed in connection with the music industry. Hilfiger has also sponsored several musical events, for artists such as Britney Spears and Sheryl Crow.


The marketing strategy of Tommy Hilfiger analyses the brand with the marketing mix framework. There are several marketing strategies like product innovation, pricing approach, promotion planning etc. These business strategies, based on their marketing mix, help the brand succeed in the market. Tommy Hilfiger marketing strategy helps the brand/company to position itself competitively in the market and achieve its business goals & objectives.




By offering a wide range of brands and collections, the company is able to appeal to a broader audience while understanding the tastes of each section of the population. They offer:





• Denims

• Clothing

• Watches

• Shoes

• Handbags

• Lifestyle and Home décor

• Fragrances

• Eyewear




There are 25 categories of Tommy Hilfiger's core product line, which is targeted primarily at 25-40 year old customers, offering men's clothing, women's clothing, shoes, and accessories, as well as children's clothing. With its more edgy and casual designs, Tommy Hilfiger Denims is aimed at a younger customer segment of 18-30 years old. With sharp and sophisticated designs, Tommy Hilfiger Tailored caters to corporate men with sharp and sophisticated designs, while Tommy Hilfiger collection is mainly targeted at women and is manufactured in Italy using high quality premium materials. In addition to not using exotic animal skin in any of its products, the brand has created a clothing line for a neutral gender in 2021.

The company follows a discount based pricing model and offers discounts during major off-seasons. Still, Tommy Hilfiger is the brand people want to relate to, with its unique take on classic American style and pop culture inspired designs, which keeps the company in the premium segment for years to come.

Tommy Hilfiger, as a brand is taking advantage of the well-defined fashion eco system with its fresh take on classic American design and taking it to the world. With its signature style, it has generated a reputation for itself and has put itself in the premium fashion category.


     













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