Ben and Jerry’s Andrew Xiao – 202739920 1. Does the Japanese market differ from European markets that Ben & Jerry attempted to enter in the past? Yes or no and why? What are the implications? Japanese Market: highly complex distribution system driven by manufacturers. strong barriers to foreign products immense distance for shipping a frozen product most affluent country in the world‚ demanding high quality products with great varieties of styles and flavors market seemed to welcome imported
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. Bruner Case Study Case Summary This case examines issues of asset control for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade‚ Inc.‚ in light of the outstanding takeover offers by Chartwell Investments‚ Dreyer‘s Grand‚ Unilever‚ and Meadowbrook Lane Capital in January 2000. The case requires a discussion of fundamental firm objectives and the implications of a non-traditional corporate orientation; one needs to review the development of Ben & Jerry’s strong social consciousness
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Ben & Jerry’s – japan [pic] Case Study No. 1 Prepared for MARK 5815 International Marketing in Asia Due Thursday 1st September 2006 Ben & Jerry’s - Japan 1. Situation Audit Company Overview Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. (hereafter known as Ben & Jerry’s) is a US-based superpremium ice cream producer established in Vermont‚ USA in 1978 by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. From humble beginnings the company gained popularity through their unique style and innovative
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Strategic Position Ben & Jerry’s strategic position is to offer an all natural approach in the preparation of their super premium ice cream. Through the use of pure‚ natural‚ and socially conscious products‚ Ben & Jerry’s positions its products as high quality with unique flavors which ultimately differentiates it from the competition. They market their products through cause generated marketing ‚ practicing social consciousness to present the values and goals of the company. Ben and Jerry’s maintains
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Ice Cream Case Study Teaching Notes Video: Ben and Jerry’s Ice-cream Wars 1. What was Ben and Jerry’s ‘strategy’ in the video? 2. What stimulated the strategy? 3. Was it planned or emergent? 4. Was it successful? 5. How does this case help you think about ‘What is strategy?’ Were their decisions strategic? Yes‚ because: * Affected company as a whole * About scope and direction * Long-term Resource implications * Yes‚ they had to invest 5 pounds in a “correspondence
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Executive Summary – Ben & Jerry’s Case Current Situation: Ben & Jerry’s Company is in the business of making different flavors of ice creams in USA with sales of $75 million in 1990. It is ranked # 2 in super-premium ice cream market and is 5th largest ice cream maker of any type nationwide. It has experienced explosive growth in the US market primarily through entry into new geographic markets and flavor differentiation. Ben Cohen‚ one of the founders is the majority shareholder. Chuck
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Ben and Jerry ’s Premium Ice Cream Products Ben and Jerry ’s Ice Cream is a brand name company known worldwide. With superior marketing techniques Ben and Jerry ’s has positioned themselves to be the leader in manufacturing premium ice cream products. They have successfully targeted their market‚ and there by achieved a strong customer base. The mission statement of their product line is "to make‚ distribute‚ and sell the finest quality all natural ice cream while incorporating wholesome
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Finance – Ben and Jerry’s Case Assignment: 1. Do you agree with Ben & Jerry’s current mission statement? Why or why not? The Ben and Jerry’s Mission Statement is a bit contradictory‚ as their economic point stresses raising value for the shareholders‚ meanwhile they are in the business of distributing 7.5% of their pre tax earnings to social foundations and community action groups. The product point can work in conjunction with the social and economic aspects‚ but the points about social
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BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE Questions 1. How has Ben & Jerry’s fulfilled its mission statement? What evidence can you provide regarding Ben & Jerry’s performance on each of the three dimensions of the mission statement? Ben & Jerry were able to fulfill their mission statement with the finest quality all-natural ice cream‚ profitable business and by improving the community. Ben & Jerry stated‚ they would make and distribute the finest quality all natural ice cream with a wide
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Ben & Jerry 1. Their mission statement included three dimensions; product‚ economic‚ and social. Their objectives were not always in harmony‚ however. They’ve had to sacrifice some objectives to meet others‚ for example they didn’t want to rice prices due to the fact they wanted to be a “ice cream for the people” company‚ but had to sacrifice the social objective in order to stay in business. Of their three mission statement objectives‚ their social consciousness seems to be their leading objective
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