After the authorization of Secret Recipe as a title of our assignment by respected lecturer, we would able to start assignment on time. Our team of 8 members has been queried to assess the market for Secret Recipe in order to develop a marketing strategy with properly planning’s for the Secret Recipe. The main objective of we doing this report is to identify the Secret Recipe currently management and communication level in business in order to develop an successful marketing planning in future for our evaluation of assignment . We did this through completing a market analysis, determining the current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat that Secret Recipe facing currently.
As we know, the Secret Recipe Cakes and Cafe have established their brand name in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand, China, and Brunei. The purpose of this business plan is to analyze the strategic planning for Secret Recipe Cakes and Cafe. The strategic planning is able to help the Secret Recipe Cakes and Cafe to expand and build the brand name and increase the company sales and profit. Across Malaysia the cafe business has seen an explosion growth in these few years. In our market research, there are few competitors such as Old Town Cafe, QSR branch, Starbucks and Coffee Beans provide the food and beverage service. The explosion growth in cafe business provides the variety choice for customers to dine out. Therefore, company should be able to provide the food and service based on the domestic consumer behaviour. The Secret Recipe cafe has over 150 outlets throughout Malaysia and Asia. The distribution channel through the franchise is able the Secret Recipe product distribute equally and efficiently. In the analysis report, the current trend in Malaysia is the customers prefer dining outside from their home these days. Nowadays, the consumers are more concerned the quality of food and services. In addition, the customers have the
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