2. Boston Beer showed a promising growth as a company with a dozen reps in 1989 to a company going public in 1995‚ which was considered to have made a mark in the specialty brewing business. It successfully changed the consumer preferences from cheaper beers made by large breweries to expensive specialty brewers within its niche. With their variety of crafted beer‚ Boston Beer captured a niche market and proved itself a number of times by winning numerous competitions for its best taste. It placed
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Boston Beer Company Case Study Analysis 1. Boston Beer’s strategy is primarily focused on growth through differentiation. The sources of its competitive advantage can be classified as a company that provides high quality beer with unique flavors‚ a market driven approach‚ and a very efficient contract brewing strategy. In terms of quality‚ the company created a premium beer by its selective use of ingredients and less water. Boston Beer has won honors such as being the first American beer
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33 Ryan Koziol MGM 404 09/19/13 Boston Beer Company Analysis Boston Beer Company founded in 1984‚ along with many other big league giants have decisions to be made in regards to the direction they wish to take their brand. Brand extension or brand stretching is a marketing strategy in which a firm marketing a product with a well- developed image uses the same brand name in a different product category. Brand extensions
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1984 Koch: successful management consultant with the BCG(Boston Consulting Group);but wanted to do his family recipe. He believes : Domestic Microbrewery 可以打败 imported beers的弱点‚ by making consistently high quality---emphasized local character Background : Few craft brewers when BBC began. Critical element of Koch’s plan: use of established brewers’ production facilities: Pittsburgh Brewing Company Benefits : 1. Low starting fee‚ no need to build or buy a brewg facility
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The main decision problem for Boston Beer Company is whether or not it should remain in the light beer market. This is followed by four subsidiary decision problems if the answer to main problem is yes: should BBC create a new light beer brand‚ and if so what positioning should it take‚ should they keep Lightship‚ and if yes‚ should BBC maintain or change Lightship’s positioning. The research problems are as follows: it is profitable for BBC to remain in the light beer market‚ what are the growth
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Boston Beer Company Boston Beer Company is the maker of Samuel Adams brand beer and the beer industry’s leading craft brewer. On the year of 1995‚ the Boston Beer filed a registration statement with the U.S. SEC for an initial public stock. Now let’s start from the strategy direction of Boston Beer for analyzing the company. Strategies of Boston Beer Company in its beginning stage of the business were 1) outsourcing beer production facilities instead of building new facilities which requires
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The Boston Beer Company is currently the largest craft beer company in the United States‚ however‚ the craft beer industry is growing in an otherwise shrinking market increasing the amount of serious competition that The Boston Beer Company is facing. In order to stay on top of the industry‚ The Boston Beer Company needs to find new‚ innovative ways of being the most appealing craft beer available to the average consumer. While The Boston Beer Company offers many different varieties of seasonal
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Financial Statement Analysis- Boston Beer Company FIN 506 FALL 2010 Dan Chenoweth Tatiana Cozma Tawana Johnson Kyle Krukowski 1- INTRODUCTION TO BOSTON BEER COMPANY‚ INC. Ranked #4 during the 2010 US Open Beer Championship and consistently ranked in the top 10 of brewing competitions‚ Samuel Adams Boston Lager is the flagship beer of The Boston Beer Company. Although the Boston Beer Company was founded in 1984‚ the roots of the Samuel Adams Boston Lager are over 100 years old beginning
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reasons BBC should focus on the light beer market. It is true that their sales were decreasing from year to year but I think there is nothing wrong with the product itself. The problem is on the marketing and management system. It was proved from the result of the consumer taste survey. Most of people said that lightship beer had better taste‚ better color and smell compare to Bud light‚ Coors Light‚ and Amstel Light and the result stated that lightship beer was in the first place. We got almost
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Boston Beer Company Performance and Competition Boston Beer’s sales performance triumphs over its leading two competitors‚ Redhook Ale Brewery and Pete’s Brewing Company. As seen in the table (appendix 1)‚ BBC achieved net sales of $114‚833‚000 in the year ending 31 December 1994. This was a growth of 48.84% from the previous year‚ compared to Redhook’s 30% growth in net sales to $14‚929‚000 and Pete’s striking growth of 152.02% to net sales of $30‚837‚000. Pete’s impressive growth in net sales
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