Case 5-2 Columbo Soft-Serve Frozen Yogurt In 1994 General Mills Incorporated (GMI) acquired Columbo Frozen Yogurt in an attempt to expand their existing product lineup as well as increase net sales while keeping marking costs relatively the same. Colombo Yogurt Company has a long history of producing frozen yogurt having been in the business since the early 1980’s. Sales of their frozen yogurt is typically sold through two separate and distinct segments‚ independent shops that cater specifically
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5- 2 Colombo Soft-Serve Frozen Yogurt 1. Briefly summarize Colombo’s competitive environment and General Mills’ strategy in response to that environment. • Competitive environment: o franchise operations such as TCBY and Freshens streamlined frozen yogurt business causing it to be: more efficient to operate easier marketing cost effective o Foodservice operators (Impulse locations) began offering soft-serve yogurt o Caused independent yogurt shops (Colombo Soft-Serve primary clientele
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YOGURT INTRODUCTION There are thousands of microorganisms present at almost every surface. Some of them are pathogenic which causes diseases but most of them are useful especially in the food industry (Lasztity‚ n.d.). Microorganisms have been used for preparing food products such as cheese‚ bread‚ yogurt‚ etc‚ for a long period of time without even knowing that the process involves fermentation of the starting material (Pai‚ 2003). Fermentation is the process of utilizing nutrients anaerobically
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Walmart being the largest retailer in history you can come to the agreement of it being good for the united states of america becuase of wealth‚ merchandise‚ and growth. Wal-mart stores operates more than 8‚000 stores‚ employs more than 2.1 million people‚ and sells more than $400 billion of goods every year. (walmart.com) Wal-marts are huge and are everywhere and its sizes enables it to provide services that other retailers could not. it has become a part of our modern economy. Knowing that Wal-mart
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The main consumers of yogurt in the Philippines are Filipino kids. Probiotic drinks are found to be popular among these kids. The stress on the health benefits made it easy for companies to target the Filipinos. There is a growing trend amongst Filipinos to be healthy. This health-conscious trend is helping both adults and children to consume more yogurts or drink it on a regular basis. The drinking yogurt industry comprises 90% of the total industry. This is expected to grow roughly around 5%
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Strengths * Natureview produces yogurt with a family recipe that uses completely natural ingredients and is also organic. Natureview does not use milk from cows that are artificially enhanced with hormones. * Natureview yogurt has an average shelf life of 50 days‚ which is significantly higher than the competition’s shelf life. * Natureview deploys low-cost guerilla marketing. * Natureview is the leader in market share for yogurt in the Natural Foods Channel‚ holding 24%
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Yogurt Fermentation Yogurt is made by lactic acid fermentation. The main (starter) cultures in yogurt are Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. The function of the starter cultures is to ferment lactose (milk sugar) to produce lactic acid. The increase in lactic acid decreases pH and causes the milk to clot‚ or form the soft gel that is characteristic of yogurt. The fermentation of lactose also produces the flavor compounds that are characteristic of yogurt. Lactobacillus
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When you discover that 1 cup of chicken breast has 43 grams of protein and only 5 grams of fat‚ it’s easy to see why it’s a favorite meal for bodybuilders. Greek Yogurt This yogurt is already a favorite among the health conscious for its low fat content and probiotic ingredients that are good for our gut health. When you consider that one container also has 17 grams of protein‚ you realize it’s an even healthier start
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yoghurt involved the pretreatment of milk follow by the homogenization‚ heat treatment‚ cooling to incubation temperature‚ inoculation with starter‚ fermentation ‚ cooling‚ post fermentation treatment‚ chilling and lastly packaging for commercial yogurt production. In this experiment‚ the making of yoghurt followed the batch process. The 1000ml of UHT milk is mixed with some milk powder to increase the content of milk solid non fat in the milk in order to improve the texture with the help of protein
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Yogurt Etymology and Spelling * The word is derived from Turkish: yoğurt‚ and is related to the obsolete verb yoğmak "to be curdled or coagulated; to thicken". The letter ğ was traditionally rendered as "gh" in transliterations of Turkish prior to 1928. In older Turkish‚ the letter denoted a voiced velar fricative /ɣ/‚ but this sound is elided between back vowels in modern Turkish‚ in which the word is pronounced [joˈuɾt]. * In English‚ there are several variations of the spelling of the
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