Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme Turning Dough into Dough
Krispy Kreme is an American icon. It is a slice of life that represents what is simple and good about the lifestyle of today’s discerning customer. Krispy Kreme offers many delicious pastries but is best known for their signature hot glazed doughnuts. Krispy Kreme has been around for more than 70 years and follows a business model that has allowed it to grow from a single mom and pop style store to an international corporation with a world renowned product.
Krispy Kreme was founded by Vernon Carver Rudolph in 1933. The first permanent Krispy Kreme opened in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1937 (IVSI 2009). Krispy Kreme has gone through several expansions since then. In the 1950’s and 60’s Krispy Kreme expanded across the entire southeastern United States. In the 1990’s expansion continued until every region of the country was accounted for in Krispy Kreme’s footprint. The first international store was opened in 2001 in Canada. Since 2004 Krispy Kreme has rapidly expanded to over 350 stores encompassing 20 different countries. Krispy Kreme started out as strictly as a wholesale operation. The continued interest of the public coming into the store and asking to buy Rudolph’s doughnuts convinced him that he should expand the business to encompass the retail market selling direct to customer (Kazanjian). Krispy Kreme’s supply chain was originally handled completely by the company itself. Rudolph started out hand delivering his doughnuts by bicycle to individual customers (Kazanjian). Since then the supply chain has experienced a huge growth in size and extensive implementation of technology. Krispy Kreme quickly realized that because of the ongoing expansion and growth of the company, they were going to have to outsource some of their supply chain functions to third party companies. Krispy Kreme has now outsourced the entirety of both their domestic and international distribution networks (Acquire
Krispy Kreme is an American icon. It is a slice of life that represents what is simple and good about the lifestyle of today’s discerning customer. Krispy Kreme offers many delicious pastries but is best known for their signature hot glazed doughnuts. Krispy Kreme has been around for more than 70 years and follows a business model that has allowed it to grow from a single mom and pop style store to an international corporation with a world renowned product.
Krispy Kreme was founded by Vernon Carver Rudolph in 1933. The first permanent Krispy Kreme opened in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1937 (IVSI 2009). Krispy Kreme has gone through several expansions since then. In the 1950’s and 60’s Krispy Kreme expanded across the entire southeastern United States. In the 1990’s expansion continued until every region of the country was accounted for in Krispy Kreme’s footprint. The first international store was opened in 2001 in Canada. Since 2004 Krispy Kreme has rapidly expanded to over 350 stores encompassing 20 different countries. Krispy Kreme started out as strictly as a wholesale operation. The continued interest of the public coming into the store and asking to buy Rudolph’s doughnuts convinced him that he should expand the business to encompass the retail market selling direct to customer (Kazanjian). Krispy Kreme’s supply chain was originally handled completely by the company itself. Rudolph started out hand delivering his doughnuts by bicycle to individual customers (Kazanjian). Since then the supply chain has experienced a huge growth in size and extensive implementation of technology. Krispy Kreme quickly realized that because of the ongoing expansion and growth of the company, they were going to have to outsource some of their supply chain functions to third party companies. Krispy Kreme has now outsourced the entirety of both their domestic and international distribution networks (Acquire