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Industry & Competitive Context India's mass-market shampoo category is one of the most strategically complex consumer goods segments in the world. At the time Clinic Plus established its dominant positioning, hair washing in Indian households was overwhelmingly mediated through soap bars, shikakai powder, and traditional herbal preparations. Shampoo was perceived as an urban, aspirational, and premium product — structurally inaccessible to the rural majority that constituted