FRITO LAY CASE STUDY Factual Summary: Frito-Lay‚ Inc has been developing multigrain chips since the early 1970s. It is a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and marketing of snack chips. It is capturing nearly one-half of the retail sales in the United States snack chips market. Frito-Lay knew that a healthier option was appealing to consumers and that this healthier option had proper time to be introduced‚ but the market was not ready for it yet. Product research and development is carried out
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healthy trend at present‚ many chips makers now have baked alternatives to traditional chips. Here are few choices of our top chips snacks. Frito-lay is one of the major chips snack makers in our country. This multi-pack chips from Frito-lay is a classic mix of twenty varieties of snack packets. The snack set includes individual snack packs of Lays‚ Doritos‚ Cheetos‚ SunChips‚
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Frito-Lay’s Dips How would you characterize the dip category in general? Dips are a complementary product; they are served along with chips‚ crackers‚ or raw vegetables. The market for dips is highly fragmented and difficult to measure. More than 80% of all dips are accounted for by supermarkets‚ with a total dip retail dollar sales volume of $620 million (in 1985). The dip category became more popular in late 1983 and early 1984‚ an explanation for this increase is the growing popularity
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SWOT ANALYSIS OF FRITO-LAYS KURKURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This project comes out to be a great source of learning and experience. A lot of effort has been put by various people to make this project a success. This has greatly enhanced our knowledge about FMCG market in India. We greatly acknowledge our indebtness to Prof. Ashok Kumar‚ for helping us throughout this project and for providing us in-depth knowledge. This project is acumination of efforts of our entire team whose sincere
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Company Background The success of Frito Lay is a tribute to two entrepreneur’s dreams. In 1932‚ C.E. Doolin purchased a bag of corn chips in a café in San Antonio‚ Texas. He learned that the chips manufacturer was selling his business so he purchased the recipe and began selling Fritos Corn Chip. Meanwhile‚ that same year‚ Herman W. Lay began his potato chip business in Nashville by delivering snack foods. He then purchased the manufacturer‚ and the H.W. Lay & Company was formed. It soon became
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Performance Analysis. Frito-Lay has well-known brands such as Lay’s®‚ Ruffles® potato chips‚ Fritos® corn chips‚ Doritos®‚ Tostitos®‚ Santitas® tortilla chips‚ Chee•tos® cheese-favored snacks‚ and Rold Gold® pretzels (see Exhibit 1). Eight of those snacks are in top ten best selling in the U.S. Frito-Lay’s business spans every aspect of snack-food production. It has 39 plants‚ 1600 distribution facilities and 10‚000-person route sales teams serving over 400‚000 retail customers each week national
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1. How would you characterize the snack chip category and Frito-Lay’s competitive position in this category? The snack chip category is growing‚ mainly because of the increased per capita consumption‚ which rose from about 12 pounds in 1986 to nearly 14 pounds in 1990. The snack chip category consists of three types of competitors: national‚ regional and private brand firms. The market is very competitive and difficult; as many as 650 new products are introduced every year‚ but less than 1% of them
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Frito-Lays is a nationally recognized leader in the manufacture and marketing of salty snack foods with 33% market share in the U.S. Frito-Lay has a highly profitable dip product line with $87 million sales in 1985. Dips are most frequently used with salty snacks whereas account for 67% of total dip sales. Rest of dip sales (33%) are linked to vegetable usage. But the market for dips is highly fragmented and difficult to measure. In late 1986‚ management team of Frito-Lays wants to complete their
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Bryant University Frito Lay‚ Inc. Sun Chips Multigrain Snacks Veronica Amus 11/18/2013 Major Issue or Decision In the 1980s Frito Lay had difficulty perfecting the healthier alternative to a snack chip. After releasing their product Prontos in 1947‚ which was a multigrain product‚ which did not last on the market for long‚ Frito Lay was on a hunt to create the perfect multigrain chip that consumers considered an everyday chip. There were many reasons why Prontos failed and those were
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The Process of making Doritos Juan Gonzalez Pedegree II teacher: Alana Olson Is it good or bad for health? That’s a question many people say to themselves‚ but the truth is that whether bad unhealthy or not‚ Doritos has become part of people’s daily life when it comes to grocery shopping. Probably when Arch West created the Doritos idea‚ he never tought that it would become what is now; because from 1990’s until now (and counting) are the most famous
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