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    What is "American Pie"

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    is “American Pie?” During the early to 1970s to modern times songwriters such Don McLean has released nearly 40 gold and platinum records. Of all McLean’s music his most memorable album would be American Pie. In the American Pie album McLean wrote his most famous song “American Pie” which he dedicated it to one of his greatest influences Buddy Holly. Buddy Holly was a particular influence on Don McLean and was one of the biggest explanations why he decided to write “American Pie.” This legendary

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    In the autumn of 1971 Don McLean’s elegiac American Pie entered the collective consciousness‚ and over thirty years later remains one of the most discussed‚ dissected and debated songs that popular music has ever produced. A cultural event at the peak of its popularity in 1972‚ it reached the top of the Billboard 100 charts in a matter of weeks‚ selling more than 3 million copies. By identifying this great success it illustrates that it was no ordinary song. With its boldness‚ originality and it

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    American Pie Analysis

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    The immensely popular song "American Pie"‚ written by Don McLean‚ describes the "day the music died"‚ and the decline of society in the following decade. This date‚ specifically February 3rd 1959‚ is marked by the deaths of influential musicians Buddy Holly‚ Ritchie Valens‚ and J.P. Richardson. McLean wrote the song to describe his feelings towards the deaths‚ and to describe the history of American music up to the date "American Pie" was written‚ using symbolism to describe events without directly

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    Analysis of American Pie

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    a profound effect on Don McLean‚ as the lyrics appear to show. In the chorus‚ we see more clearly how McLean misses the 1950s‚ as he references many events that occurred at the time. The chorus begins with McLean saying‚ “Bye‚ bye‚ Miss American Pie” (16). Here the speaker could be referring to the American Dream‚ which he believes has gone under a change since the 1950s. He seems to think that the idea of the American Dream is different now‚ in 1971. Another option for what the speaker means

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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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    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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    most favorite snacks among many Americans. To keep up with the 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 Inc. Case Study

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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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    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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