In India, L’Oreal has recently shifted from a low-price, mass-market strategy to a premium price, upscale strategy. Competitor Hindustan Lever rings up nearly $1 billion in annual sales by targeting the hundreds of millions of people who must live on the equivalent of $2 per day. This means body lotion priced at $0.90 bottles of perfume. Upon first entering India in 1991, L’Oreal used a similar strategy. However,its low-priced Garnier Ultra Doux shampoo failed to catch on with consumers. offering no particular advantage relative to local brands, it was, in the words of Alain Evrard, L’Oreal’s managing director for Africa, Orient,and the Pacific, “an absolute managing director for Africa, Orient, and the Pacific, “an absolute flop. “ Some shopkeepers ware stuck with unsold inventories.