Bringing the Brand to Light Competitive Advantage Mountain Man Brewery Company (MMBC) at the time the case was written is an 80-year old‚ regional‚ family-owned brewery that produced one product: Mountain Man Lager. It is distinctive because it has a core target market of males from the middle to lower income range‚ aged 45 or older. It only has one product‚ Mountain Man Lager‚ versus its competitors which have a variety of options. One of the key features of MMBC is its image‚ in which it is
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Mountain Man Brewing Company is one of many local companies that has been threatened by large corporations. This case focuses on a family-owned‚ local company threatened by decline in sales. The new marketing operations manager‚ Chris Prangel‚ has been faced with the challenge of product innovation to help the company improve sales. The introduction of a lighter beer is the solution Prangel landed on while deciding the company’s future. With many doubts from many company employees including the company
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Down loaded from the TT100.biz website Growing a business by developing products and markets Ansoff’s Product/Market Matrix Product Market Current New Current New Market penetration Market development New product development Diversification Expansion Beiersdorf has expanded in each possible direction. ◗ Market penetration is demonstrated by NIVEA Lip Care products‚ which have been extended with new variants. The latest of these (Pearl and Shine) became the market leader in 2003. ◗ An
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MKTG324 Wenjing Xu Mountain Man Brewing Company Case Analysis Company Overview Mountain Man Brewing Company produces Mountain Man Lager; the most authentic regional beer for working class East Central Americans‚ among all premium domestic beers‚ because of its distinctive quality‚ bitter flavor‚ slightly higher than average alcohol content and competitive price . MMBC targeted its product toward the middle-aged blue collar worker in the East Central region. MMBC’s strategic focus on this
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MMBC is considering introducing a Mountain Man Light beer to attract younger drinkers to the brand. MMBC ultimately would like to reposition the brand to drive sales of Mountain Man Light to young people without eroding the core brand equity. The reason MMBC should consider doing this is because over the previous six years light beer sales in the U.S have been growing at a compound annual rate of 4% while traditional beer sales have been declining annually at the same rate. MMBC has been experiencing
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Mountain Man Brewing Company was established as a family concern in 1925 in West Virginia by Guntar Prangle. The company brewed single-product beer‚ Mountain Man Lager‚ which won “best beer in West Virginia” and was elected as “America’s Championship Lager”. Mountain Man Lager featured quality‚ bitter favor and slightly higher-than-average alcohol content that uniquely contributed to the company’s brand equity. Mountain Man was a local market leader and distributed its lager in several states outside
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Executive Summary Joseph Schiltz Brewing Company was a United States beer company launched out of Wisconsin in the 19th century. Schiltz was known for making Wisconsin famous because of its original flavor that attracted customers. After the company’s original owner‚ August Krug‚ died in 1856 Joseph Schiltz took over managing the company. Over the next two decades the company grew to become one of the biggest breweries in Milwaukee. Joseph Schiltz died in 1875 because a ship he was on sunk coming
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SYNOPSIS OF ERP PROJECT Radico Khaitan Limited SUBMITTED BY: GROUP-9 Dhruv Gupta 13DM066 Hasan Saif Hameed 13DM076 Jigyasa Gautam 13DM086 Krishnendu P N 13DM096 Milan M 13DM106 1.Introduction 1.1 About the Company Radico Khaitan Ltd today has four millionaire brands in its portfolio. Radico’s flagship brand‚ 8 PM Whisky‚ launched in 1999‚ was a runaway success. In the first year alone‚ it sold one million cases - a record for any Indian or foreign brand operating
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Ansoff Matrix = The product/market grid What is the Ansoff Matrix? The Ansoff Matrix‚ designed by Igor Ansoff‚ classifies and explains different growth strategies for a company. This matrix is used by companies which have a growth target or a strategy of specialization. This tool‚ crossing products and markets of a company‚ facilitates decision making. The Ansoff matrix offers four strategies to achieve the objectives. Penetration of the market ; Extension of the market ; New products
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of lgStrategic Decisions - Definition and Characteristics Strategic decisions are the decisions that are concerned with whole environment in which the firm operates‚ the entire resources and the people who form the company and the interface between the two.Characteristics/Features of Strategic Decisions a. Strategic decisions have major resource propositions for an organization. These decisions may be concerned with possessing new resources‚ organizing others or reallocating others
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