The Boston Beer Company BEM106 Final Project Brian Cleary Sarah Luxenberg Peter Seidel Bill Van de Water May 28‚ 2004 Overview The Boston Beer Company has had amazing success in its transition from a small scale microbrewer to a large scale national brewery. Almost all of the company’s success is due to the Samuel Adams Lager product line‚ which has hardly changed from the founding of the company in 1984‚ to the IPO in 1995‚ to the present day. In fact‚ much of the appeal of Samuel Adams
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of the craft beer segment relative to the market space occupied by the traditional "Big Three". (tip: use the Five Forces framework). a. High Threat of new competition: over 600 of specialty beer companies were founded over the past five years‚ approximately 40% growth each years. In addition‚ the existence of contract brewing companies lead to low entry cost. b. High substitution: The attractiveness of craft brewing industry are majorly based on unique styles and flavors of beer. there are many
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The Boston Beer Company The Boston Beer Company‚ Inc. produces and sells low alcohol beverages primarily in the domestic market‚ and in certain selected international markets under the trade mark names "The Boston Beer Company‚" "Twisted Tea Brewing Company" and "HardCore Cider Company." The Boston Beer Company is mostly known for producing Sam Adams‚ Sam Adams Light and other various styles of craft beer. In my research‚ the ratios from chapters 16 and 17 that I could compute was the working
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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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Case: Boston Beer Company Address the following questions in a 4-5 page write-up of the Boston Beer Company Case to explore the issue of Initial Public Offerings. 1) What do you think of Boston Beer’s business model relative to the traditional beer companies’ business model? Relative to Redhook and Pete’s? (Hint: consider their brewing‚ production‚ distribution‚ marketing strategies. How is each firm attempting to achieve its own sustainable comparative advantage in the market place
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Boston Beer Company- Case Analysis You are the investment banker assigned with the task of setting the IPO price for Boston Beer Company (BBC). Prepare a research report to support your recommendation. As you prepare this report‚ you may find that you would like to have more field information than what the case offers you. However‚ the case contains critical information that gives you a reasonable basis to compute its valuation. In addition use the following information for 1995.1 Sales ($ millions)
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Accounting Analysis of Boston Beer 1990-1995 Making the analysis using the financial statements and assumptions (since the published reports for this period are not available freely since Boston Beer was a partnership for this duration)‚ we can make the following observations: Boston Beer Co. uses ACCRUAL method of accounting as do all its competitors‚ so comparisons will be easy for investors. ASSETS Since Boston Beer is a contract brewery‚ it out sources its production process to established
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1--------------------------------------------------- Boston Beer‚ in response to consumers’ preference changes to more flavorful and bitter tasting brews‚ was founded in 1894. Boston Beer implements a “quality at any cost” strategy with a strong emphasis on product differentiation and implementing quality ingredients into its products. For instance‚ Boston Beer was the first company to employ a stamped freshness date on its bottles and ingredients are imported from around the world. Additionally‚ Boston Beer relies heavily on contract
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Boston Beer Background: Jim Koch was motivated and haunted by the idea of being an entrepreneur in the beer brewing business. Once upon a time his great-great-grandfather created a recipe that was full bodied‚ had a longer brewing time‚ used rare hops‚ and cost a lot more than the imports are costing. Koch saved $100‚000 and was able to acquire $140‚000 from family and friends to start up his brewery. Knowing that it would cost close to $10 million to actually open a brewery‚ Koch contracted out
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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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