Frito-Lay Company - Cracker Jack 1. Why has Borden Foods decided to sell Cracker Jack? Borden Foods is in the process of divesting of snack and non-food products in order to focus efforts and resources in growing their pasta and grain based meal segments. Borden management has also recognized the value and equity in the heritage Cracker Jack brand. The Cracker Jack brand currently (1996) sits in the number two position in terms of Ready-To-Eat (RTE) caramel popcorn product category market share
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new pricing program‚ a number of factors need to be considered. In particular‚ customer value perception‚ buyer price sensitivity‚ product demand‚ product differentiation (among competitive offerings)‚ life-cycle stage of products‚ and break-even analysis. Customers will be more willing to respond to price reductions on items they perceive as having a higher value (value increases with decreased price or increased perceived benefit). Also‚ not all supermarket
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Case Recap Frito-Lay Inc. leads the world in manufacturing and marketing of snacks. More than eight different kinds of Frito-lay snacks chips brands are found among the top 10 best-selling snacks in the U.S Supermarkets. Frito-lay’s well-known brands are: lay’s Doritos‚ Tostitos‚ Ruffles potato chips‚ Fritos corn chips‚ Santitas tortilla chips‚ Sun chips Multigrain snacks and Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks among others. Frito-Lay operates as an independent division of the PepsiCo Inc. Its operations
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Strategic Analysis Bobby Leach‚ Trish McManus‚ & Anita Williams November 2012 Dallas Baptist University Table of Contents Executive summary 4 Future Environmental Turbulence 5 Marketing Turbulence 6 Future Innovation Turbulence 11 Organizational Assessment 15 Marketing Aggressiveness 15 Innovation Aggressiveness 18 Technology Applications 21 Product Life Cycle 22 CEO Attributes 23 Management 25 Culture 28 Organizational Structure 30 Decision Systems 32 Strategic Capacity
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Discussion Questions for Cracker Jack 1. Why has Borden Foods decided to sell Cracker Jack? Borden Foods is attempting to unload of snack foods‚ most notably ready to eat food products; in order to focus efforts and resources in growing their pasta and grain based meal segments. Borden has recognized that the market for ready to eat caramel popcorn is growing in size‚ and while they are number two in market share with $192 million in retail sales‚ they do not feel they have the resources or
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SWOT Analysis Strengths * Frito-Lay Company is well-known for all people around the world * There are high technology and continuous improvement in the process of production * The company has good brand image and its reputation. * Our products can respond to all ages of customers. Children and adults can eat it * There is a good management of system within the company and its subsidiaries * The project of green packaging‚ it is made a better image in eyes of customers.
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feasibility of Frito-Lay‚ Inc. launching a new product‚ Sun Chips™ Multigrain Snacks. Dr. Dwight R. Riskey‚ Vice President of Marketing Research and New Business at Frito-Lay‚ Inc. had to decide and present‚ together with the product management‚ the future for Sun Chips™ Multigrain Snacks. The chip had been in test-market for 10 months in the Minneapolis-St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ metropolitan area and appeared to be extremely favorable according to consumer response. The presentation to the Frito Lay‚ Inc
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they decided to announce sale of Cracker Jack in 1997. The management team of Broaden also recognized that with the increase in competition they have not been able to successfully grow the sales figure in past five years. Also because the Cracker Jack brand has various packaging options and has been maintaining a huge product line of 32 Stock-Keeping Units (SKUs). However‚ currently Broaden production facility had only 32 percent of space allocated to Cracker Jack Products and has been operating at
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Frito-Lay North America is the division of PepsiCo that manufactures‚ markets and sells corn chips‚ potato chips and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips‚ Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks‚ Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips‚ Lay’s potato chips‚ Rold Gold pretzels‚ Ruffles potato chips and Walkers potato crisps (Europe)—each of which generated annual worldwide sales over $1 billion in 2009.[citation needed] Frito-Lay began in
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menu. Later‚ around the 1920’s they then moved from restaurants to being massed produced. Once they came up with a way to keep them fresh and from breaking up‚ they were able to put them into mass production 1920‘s. Frito Lay was created in 1938 by Herman Lay. Frito Lay is one of the leading potato chip companies in the United States for many years. They continue to post recording breaking numbers in all of their brands. One of their enduring brands is the Lays potato chips. These potato chips
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