MKT 520: Fall 2010 October 4‚ 2010 Case 1: Saxonville Sausage Company The Problem Saxonville Sausage Company has hired a new Ann Banks as product brand manager. Steven Sears‚ VP of Marketing‚ has given Ms. Banks the Vivio Italian sausage. This product is on a slow gain and awareness among consumers. The company has recently released their branding company and needs Banks to increase awareness in the new product. Yet‚ Banks needs to do some heavy research before she can make a decision
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Saxonville Sausage Case Study Saxonville Sausage has been faced with the task of attempting to counteract their financial woes in the sausage market. While they have a star product‚ Vivio‚ it only represents % of their income and is only available in select cities in the northeastern portion of the United States. Saxonville and now trying to figure out how to expand their product throughout the rest of the country and make sure that it is differentiated from other sausage brands out there and
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information presented‚ I would recommend that Saxonville pursue the “Family Connection” positioning territory as it is more closely aligned with consumer’s core values. As we have found through our research‚ female heads-of-household are the primary purchasers and preparers of Italian sausage products and what these women value above all else is the ability to create happy memories with their families around the dinner table. By positioning Saxonville’s Italian sausage product line with this core value in
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STATE COLLEGE Winter Quarter 2015 Business Innovation and Stewardship (BIS) Case study: Saxonville Sausage Company TRUNG NGUYEN Questions: 1. What is the current situation? 2. How was the research methodology determined? Develop a research design and explain what behaviors‚ demographics and lifestyle components you deem important and why. 3. What were the research results? Select two different positioning territories in case Exhibit 6. Trace back through the case‚ using Exhibit 4 and other embedded
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2085 JUNE 15‚ 2007 KATE MOORE Saxonville Sausage Company On a sunny March day in 2006‚ Ann Banks‚ new product marketing director at Saxonville Sausage Company‚ stood waiting outside the executive conference room. The owner‚ president‚ chief financial officer‚ and three functional vice presidents—including her manager‚ Vice President of Marketing Steve Sears—would soon hear her plan for launching a national Italian sausage brand that Saxonville needed to bring to market in order to achieve
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Case Analysis – Saxonville Sausage Company Background Saxonville Sausage Company is a seventy year old family owned business located in Saxonville‚ Ohio; the company manufactures a variety of fresh pork sausages which are sold throughout the United States. The company produces a form of Italian sausage under the Vivio brand that accounted for five percent of the company’s revenues‚ the Italian sausage line has been growing steadily
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Harvard Business Case Analysis How would you categorize Kearney’s commitment to the company? How might you change or maintain this commitment? Eugene Kearney is very committed to Old Colony Associates (OCA). Kearney is committed in that he has been with the company for 13 years‚ loves going to work every day and aspires to maintain a higher level management position. However‚ he clearly needs to make improvements to his current level of commitment to OCA. Kearney needs to realize that commitment
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Harvard Business Case: Pillsbury Cookie Challenge 1. What are the challenges that Ivan Guillen faces in his role as the marketing manager of the RBG business? What is the team currently doing to support the RBG cookies segment? Who is the team currently targeting? Mr. Guillen is facing the problem regarding the growth of volume in the segment of the Refrigerated Baked Goods (RBG). His main concern was that as the refrigerated cookie sector is the most profitable and in contrast to market volume
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Giuseppe’s Original Sausage Company Case Analysis Giuseppe’s Original Sausage Company is a company that formed in late 1991 by Joe Cotrone in Memphis Tennessee. Because of USDA regulation issues the company did not did not open its doors right away but the sausages did make their way to the Memphis in May festival that highlighted Italy and Italian food. Finally‚ Giuseppe’s opened their doors in late 1992 after all the government regulations were complete. This was a gourmet sausage company that specialized
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THOMAS MORE COLLEGE ACCELERATED DEGREE PROGRAM MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MGT-MBA 611: MANAGEMENT‚ ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN Participant Module MBA Cohort 72 Rob Harris Eddie Ostriecher August 2012 Thomas More College MGT 611 Course structure and grading policies Course Description The goal of this course is to introduce students to the MBA program through the study of various instrumental techniques and management concepts. Students will learn writing and research requirements
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