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 CHIPS. BACKGROUND AND ENVIRONMENT The Frito-Lay company is a $13 billion subsidiary of PepsiCo that employs 48‚000 people. They are a nationally recognized leader in the manufacture and marketing of salty snack foods. Brands include Lay’s‚ Ruffles‚ Frito’s‚ Doritos‚ Tostitos‚ Cheetos‚ pretzels and Funyuns. They produce nuts‚ peanut butter crackers‚ beef sticks‚ cookies‚ snack bars and more.They sell and deliver through a “front-door store delivery system” in which one person performs
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Frito-Lay‚ Inc. Sun Chips Multigrain Snacks Ryan Brogan‚ John Campanioni‚ Patrick Hildebrandt‚ Tracy Lai‚ Ashlea Morrell‚ and Kate Piskorowski Snack Chip Category $37 billion in snack food retail sales- 5% increase from 1989 Snack chip retail sales of $9.8 billion (26.7% of snack food sales)-also 5% increase Growth in snack chip category comes from increased per capita consumption In 1990 consumption was 14 pounds per person Three types of competitors National brand firms
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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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Running head: FRITO-LAY‚ INC: SUN CHIPSTM MULTIGRAIN SNACKS Frito-Lay‚ Inc: Sun ChipsTM Multigrain Snacks Grand Canyon University Marketing Management MKT-450 Instructor: Eric Freeman September 25‚ 2010 Frito-Lay‚ Inc: Sun ChipsTM Multigrain Snacks Executive Summary Frito-Lay‚ Inc has been developing multigrain chips since the early 1970s after marketing research found that consumers wanted nutritious snacks‚ consequently in 1974 the company launched to the market Prontos
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experience Frito Lay’s is a worldwide leading manufacturer of snack chips and has 8 to 10 top ten famous brand with brand loyalty customers. They have skills and thereby increase the productivity of the labour. Specialisation and division labour Standardization of work may increase productivity by labour. Efficency is the key factor with less training. - Economies of scale Mass production will reduce the cost. As per test market‚ Frito Lay’s will
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Summary- Frito-Lay is a division of PepsiCo‚ a New York-based diversified consumer goods and services firm. Frito-Lay is a nationally recognized leader in the manufacture and marketing of snack foods. The company’s leaders in the snack industry include potato chips‚ tortilla chips‚ cheese puffs and pretzels. Frito-Lay not only had net sales in 1985 of three billion but also captured about thirty three percent of the snack foods sold in the United States. When Frito-Lay first got into the dip industry
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Frito Lay In 1930‚ two men in different parts of the United States began companies that would eventually come to control the international snack food market. One-named Doolin purchases were made from corn dough used for centuries by Mexicans to bake bread. Fascinated with the product‚ Doolin sold his ice cream business and purchased the corn chip producer’s business for one hundred dollars. The brand‚ Frito‚ was created in the kitchen of his mother‚ along with the early production of the corn chips
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History of the Frito-Lay’s Company : In 1932‚ two young entrepreneurs independently began to operate two separate companies that were thousands of miles apart. (Elmer Doolin & Herman W. Lay of Nashville) 1. The Frito Company In 1932‚ Elmer Doolin started doing business in a small San Antonio cafe and purchased a bag of corn chips to eat with his sandwich. Mr. Doolin set his new business venture in his mother’s kitchen. Because there was no money for hiring employees‚ his family helped
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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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