Hausser Food Products Company is well known for its production of infant food. It controled approximately 60 percent of the market and continued to increases sales every year until the baby bust in 1980. This was the first time that Hausser started to see a decrease in sales. The marketing department has focused its efforts to increase sales. Currently‚ they have divided the country into seven geographical regions‚ each with a sales manager who reports back to the district level. The first step
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Hausser Food Products Company Brenda Cooper‚ the southeastern regional sales manager for the Hausser Food Products Company (HFP) expressed her concern to a researcher from a well-known eastern business school: I think during the past year I’ve begun to make some progress here‚ but the situation is a lot more difficult than I thought when I first arrived. Our current methods of selling products just are not adequate‚ and the people in the field don’t seem interested in coming up with new ideas or
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Summary: Due to demographical changes and competition growth Hausser Food Products Company (a leading infant food producer and marketer with a 60% market share) is currently facing a decrease in sales growth and profit together with unused capacities of its plant and warehouse. Hired by HFP researcher finds out from their Regional Sales Manager‚ Brenda Cooper‚ about the difficulties of motivating her team to come up with new ideas of selling to increase the sales. Reasons 1. HFP target planning
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[1] Hausser Foods is clearly experiencing a decline in sales growth due mostly to competition and a decline in population growth. The case focuses mostly on the southeast sales region; however the decline in sales growth is affecting the entire company. The lack of new ideas by the sales force is primarily due to a lack of reflective and adequate encouragement from HDQ as well as a fear or concern that such new ideas for sales revenue might actually burden the sales force in the following year
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What are the key issues in the Hausser case and on what would you focus? Is Jay leading his team? Is Brenda working effectively with hers? What about the system? One key issue in this case is that Brenda seems very self absorbed. It’s all about her and her career‚ and this is why she doesn’t understand how to fix the problems she is facing. Jay also is an issue here as he thinks he is playing team ball when actually he is not. The second key issue is that corporate doesn’t seem to treat it’s
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Recalled Food Products My discussion is on the recall of food products. Recently in the news there have been recalls on‚ Hot Pockets and Uncle Ben’s Rice. These are not the only products that have been recalled. In February of 2014 alone‚ the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have reported twelve companies with food product recalls (Food‚ n.d.) What is a food recall? According to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) a food recall is
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a certain raw material produces different food and herbal products that can be processed‚ satisfies the needs of every human being to fill their stomach. Time after time‚ many food and herbal products have been developed and commercially valuable to stop health risks. The existence of this processed products does not ensure every consumers healthy lifestyle. Through continuous study and research related to producing high quality food and herbal products using unique raw material‚ we come up with
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EngroFoods’History: Engro Foods (Pvt.) Limited (EFL) has been established in 2005 as part of a diversification process at the Engro Group. The plant located at Sukkur on 23 acre land‚ has the raw milk reception capability of 300‚000 liters per day and UHT milk capacity of 200‚000liters per day. The plant has been established at a cost of Rs. 1 billion which provides direct employment to 750 people. Engro Foods has entered the Food business through milk processing and sale with the company’s vision
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Situation Analysis: Ottawa Valley Food Products (OVFP) is a company which manufactures and distributes low calorie and diet food items. The employees at OVFP consist of 100 production workers and 18 management and support staff. R J Jennings is amongst these individuals and has worked for OVFP for 31 years. Even though he is able to retire‚ Jennings does not wish to do so any time in the near future. Jennings had a previous administrative assistant‚ Ella Arnold‚ who worked with him for 10 years
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The use of food as cultural products by tourism industry today affects the culinary heritages in negative senses Do you agree with this statement? Please explain and give example. Cultural products as a part of tourism industry have become an influential strategy in modern international trade. Food is one of the distinctive goods‚ which have popularly been brought to represent the country and the culture of its residents. However‚ surprisingly‚ the use of food as a cultural product by tourism
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