ONLINE CASE GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP: IT’S MORE THAN A SUMMER JOB Nick and Carol Randall had a dream for themselves and their two sons: to live at summer camp‚ re-creating their own memories of swimming in a lake‚ hiking the mountains‚ and laughing around the campfire every evening. So‚ when Green Mountain Camp in Vermont went up for sale‚ they scraped together their savings and bought the property and the business. Soon they learned why the camp was for sale: the cabins were run down‚ the kitchen
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BACKGROUND/HISTORY Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) started as a small café in Waitsfield‚ Vermont in the year of 1981. It was in 1993 that the company went public and acquired the early phase of Keurig Incorporated Inc‚ and then completed the acquisition in 2006. (Unknown.( 2004). Gmcr.Retrieved from http://www.gmcr.com/about-GMCR.html) Once these two companies combined it made the way we drink beverages different than ever before in both the home and office. According to GMCR’s website
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Green Mountain Coffee Case Porter 5-force model Rivalry: a strong force Green Mountain coffee as a premium coffee maker‚ has only two current large threats‚ Starbucks‚ and Seattle’s best coffee. The leader of the premium coffee industry is Starbucks and does have the necessary resources to effectively compete with Green Mountain Coffee. Another issue facing Green Mountain Coffee is the threat of new entry. Since the premium coffee industry is a growing market‚ and with a relatively easy
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GREEN MOUNTAIN CAMP: ITS MORE THAN A SUMMER JOB Case Summary: Nick and Carol Randall purchased Green Mountain Camp in Vermont to live out their dream of raising their two boys in a summer camp. But the camp was not all that it seemed to be‚ and it took extensive repair work to bring the physical facilities up to code. Now Nick and Carol are faced with a more daunting task hiring new employees. They want to hire people who will be motivated to stay with the job for more than one summer‚ and although
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters‚ Inc. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters currently has a revenue growth rate of 35.5% over the last 5 years. This company is growing right along side the fastest growing portion of the of the coffee industry‚ the high-end specialty coffee market. Green Mountain is a product leader in this category‚ they emphasize quality and enjoyment of their product. Green Mountain ’s target market is no question wholesaler ’s. Green Mountain has over 5‚000 wholesale accounts that currently
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fourth quarter of 2010 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters had some accounting irregularities become known to the public. Green Mountain’s problems all started from how they recognized income‚ though intercompany inventory and third party vendor. After the SEC inquiry‚ Green Mountain’s accounting irregularities spanned three fiscal years and three fiscal quarters. Starting with fiscal year 2007 and running through the third fiscal quarter of 2010. In total Green Mountain had five areas of their
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GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE ROASTERS‚ INC. Integrated Company Analysis Wisconsin School of Business University of Wisconsin – Madison December 14‚ 2010 Group B10 Gail Casey Craig Cleland Brendan Gabriel Annette Knuckle Stephen Ranjan Honor Code ―On our honor‚ we have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in completing this academic work.‖ Name: Gail Casey Craig Cleland Brendan Gabriel Annette Knuckle Stephen Ranjan Date: ________________________________________________________________
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Blue Mountain resorts (Data collection) 1. Problem definition Blue Mountain Resorts were first built in 1941‚ and it is the largest family-operated ski resort in Canada. The major problem in this case is that the CEO of the Blue Mountain Resorts has to decide whether to install facilitates or not for the night skiing in 1979-1980 winter skiing season. Maintaining comfortable capacity at ski resort is very important in this field of market. The capacity depends on the hill size‚ hill development
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Keurig Coffee Starbucks and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in 2011 established a partnership with Keurig coffee brewer makers for strategic reasons such as manufacturing and marketing distribution. Green Mountain and the Keurig k-cup technology offer portion packs to make it most convenient for coffee drinkers to give them more options on the type of coffees. They made this possible by adding world famous Starbucks and later on adding Dunkin Donuts (along with
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case used big data for different reasons that were essential for the company. In the case of Green Mountain Coffee‚ they used audio and text on both structured and unstructured platforms to gather data about their customers. The data was compiled and then used to find out the behaviors and spending habits of the users to better advertise to each individual customer. Using this data allowed Green Mountain Coffee to figure out how customers were finding products‚ asking about products‚ and which products
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