When Kraft Foods launched Oreo brand cookies in China in 1996, it used a product extension approach. Following several years of flat sales, Kraft’s in-country marketing team launched a research study, which alerted the team to the fact that Oreos were too sweet for the Chinese palate and that the price—14 cookies for 72 cents—was too high. Oreos were then reformulated as a less-sweet, chocolate-covered, four-layer wafer filled with vanilla and chocolate cream. Packages of the new wafer Oreo contain fewer cookies but sell for about 29 cents. Today, Oreo is the best-selling cookie brand in China.