Problem Statement Rogers’ Chocolates is not using its core competency of strong retail sales ability and its distinctive competency of producing a wide variety of high-quality‚ hand-wrapped chocolates to attract a sufficient market niche of worldwide tourists and high-income‚ middle-aged couples that are mainly empty nested or child-free‚ so that they can maximize their market share and profit volumes in a rapidly growing market in which globalization‚ product innovation toward a more health-conscious
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CONSULTANT(S): CONSULTING FIRM: CASE: Rogers’ Chocolates PROBLEM: The Board of Directors have given direction to the new President‚ Mr. Steve Parkhill‚ to triple the size of the company within ten years. Mr. Parkhill is required to devise a strategy that would fit the company’s culture‚ and then gain the support of the board‚ the management team and the employees. SWOT ANALYSIS: Strengths Well-known Product Recognized since 1885 Good Reputation Amongst Customers Established Marketing
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transformation that Rogers’ Chocolate Company has undergone since its establishment. The paper also investigates competitive strategy of the company against its close competitors. Question 1 – What is competition like in the premium chocolate industry? Which of the five competitive forces is strongest? Which is weakest? What competitive forces seem to have the greatest effect on industry attractiveness and the potential profitability of new entrants? Competition in premium chocolate industries is based
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Introduction The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé‚ and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market‚ for example‚ whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented‚ drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity
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Kalista’s Fine Chocolate Executive Summary Kalista’s Fine Chocolate is a small family owned business that was opened in 1998 by Graham Beam and Doris Beam. This small business started in the basement of the Beam’s Brantford home‚ and has been growing since then. The business sells high end chocolate that is crafted to a high standard and is very creative. The majority of their market is high income families that reside in the Brantford area. Since the company isn’t very large in scale it is very
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The Day Chocolate Case International marketing Assignment 1 Date: 2nd of March 2011 Group 1.4 Table of contents Table of contents 2 1. Introduction 4 1.2. Main characteristics of The Day Chocolate Company 4 1.3. Porters Diamond 5 1.4. Comparative industry structure analysis: Porter’s five forces 5 2. Applying available theories‚ concepts and statistics to answer the requested questions 6 2.1. Question 1: Describe the consumer segment Day Chocolate is aiming
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October 2001‚ www. ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2001/32.htm‚ 12 November 2003. —— (2002) A Future Without Child Labour (Geneva: ILO). ILRF (International Labor Rights Fund) (2004) Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Cocoa Industry (Washington‚ DC: ILRF). Kahn‚ J. (2004) ‘The Chocolate War’‚ Fortune International‚ 23 February 2004. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (2001) ‘Much of America’s Sweets Made Possible through Slave Labor on Ivory Coast’‚ Knight Ridder/Tribune
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Owen uses imagery‚ symbolism and other figurative methods to develop the perceptions of desolation and mourning in his sonnet “Anthem of Doomed Youth”. How well does he do this? “Anthem of Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen uses imagery‚ symbolism and other figurative successfully to create the perceptions of desolation and mourning. Owens’ poem shows perspectives from both the battle front where the soldiers fight and the home front where the women and children wait for the soldiers to return. “For
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Copyright issue among Fashion Industry General purpose: To persuade Specific purpose: To persuade my audience fashion industry don’t “need” copyright protection Central idea: In fashion industry legal copyright protection is not necessary to motivate designer’s creation. Main idea: I. The habitat of fashion world is defining designer’s value by what they’ve done instead of what legal right they have. Create motivation would not be affected. II. Copyright law in fashion industry
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1. 2. Breakeven=Total Fixed Expenses/Weighted Average Selling Price-Weighted Average Variable Expenses Using Suggested Retail Prices: Weight Average Selling price= (2.99x50%)+(6.95X16%)+(14.95x12%)+(5.95x10%)+(2.95x7%)+(8.95x1%)+(24.95x1%)+(39.95x1%)+(59.95x1%)+(19.50X1%) =1.495+1.112+1.794+.595+.2065+.0895+.2495+.3995+.5995+.195 =$6.7355 Weighted Average Variable Expenses= (1.16x50%)+(2.35X16%)+(4.78x12%)+(2.5x10%)+(.97x7%)+(2.95x1%)+(9.05x1%)+(11.02x1%)+(23.06x1%)+(7.42X1%) =.58+.376+.5736+.25+
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