Krispy Kreme began in 1937 when Vernon Rudolph opened his first doughnut shop in Winston-Salem‚ North Carolina. The name was invented to represent the crispy outside of the doughnuts and the soft‚ creamy middle. Based upon a recipe he bought in 1937 from a French chef‚ the original glazed doughnuts remain unchanged over the years. The recipe is locked in a fireproof vault at the company’s headquarters to this day! A typical Krispy Kreme store turns out more than 3‚000 doughnuts an hour. A large
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KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS‚ INC. Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives This case considers the sudden and very large drop in the market value of equity for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts‚ Inc.‚ associated with a series of announcements made in 2004. Those announcements caused investors to revise their expectations about the future growth of Krispy Kreme‚ which had been one of the most rapidly growing American corporations in the new millennium. The task for the student is to evaluate the implications
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts‚ Inc. FIN Professor XXX XXXX Month xx‚ xxxx History Krispy Kreme was founded by Vernon Rudolph after he purchased the famous secret recipe of yeast-raised doughnuts in 1937 from a French chef in New Orleans. Rudolph began to sell these doughnuts wholesale to supermarkets. The demand for his doughnuts grew quickly‚ and by cutting a hole in the wall of the factory to sell directly to customers the concept of Krispy Kreme retail stores was born. The retail concept
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Question 1: Analysts are predicting that Krispy Kreme will be able to perform highly effectively and continue to grow rapidly in the coming two years. Do you agree with their analysis? If so‚ why? If not‚ why not? Key factors underlying growth: 1. Brand based on high quality product‚ highly differentiated products‚ high-volume production 2. Fragmented (regional) competition with less brand recognition 3. Strong opportunities to extend network of stores geographically
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Krispy Kreme Submitted by: Group 2 September 20‚ 2010 FACTS OF THE CASE * Krispy Kreme – founded by Vernon Rudolph in Winston-Salem‚ North Carolina in 1937. He started his business venture by selling donuts to other stores. In the 1990s‚ the company grew rapidly to a national phenomenon with 366 stores in 44 states and eventually bought Montana Mills Bread. The business encountered problems and incurred big financial losses in 2004 which made them sell Montana Mills Bread in 2004 also at
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Accountancy/ AC4A/ MW/ 1:00-2:30pm ACCTG406 Strategic Management CASE STUDY: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Determine whether you think KKD should expand globally‚ and if so‚ where and how fast‚ or should the firm be expanding further domestically? Suggest strategies for KKD which is trying to recover from several years of weak performance‚ especially as compared to rival Dunkin’ Donuts. ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATION Krispy Kreme Doughnuts should continue to expand globally. I think this would surely
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of Krispy Kreme Executive Summary Krispy Kreme has been very successful at implementing Information Technologies into its daily operations. Under the exceptional guidance of Frank Hood‚ they had been able to expand across the United States and into Canada and Australia. The company plans to continue expansion in the upcoming years and eventually challenge Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts as the industry leader. The major problem in Krispy Kreme’s current strategy is that
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Krispy Kreme Turnaround Strategy Strategy Coursework John Ellis Group Arif Harbott Claudio Paleari Pia Gowland Ronald Garricks Tim Joslyn EMBA EMBA Sep10 Strategy 1 - John Ellis Group v016.pdf September 2010 Date: 12th January 2011 Word Count (excluding tables and Appendices): 2992 Page 1 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 3 2 Current strategy ...........
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report by touching on the history of Krispy Kreme. Vernon Rudolph started Krispy Kreme in 1933 when he bought a doughnut shop from Joe LeBeau. He later established the first Krispy Kreme in Salem‚ North Carolina. After Scott Livengood became CEO‚ the company repositioned itself and focused on being a specialty retailer‚ rather than a wholesale bakery. They soon began expanding rapidly throughout the United States. This particular case took place in 2004 Krispy Kreme was beginning to run into some serious
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Synopsis With its sensational donuts‚ Krispy Kreme created a cult like following among their consumers and professional investors alike. Krispy Kreme’s simple business model was easy for most people to understand; they sold donuts‚ and the more they could sell the better the company did financially‚ or so they thought. From its IPO in April 2000‚ at the peak of the internet boom‚ Krispy Kreme was led by CEO Scott Livengood who expanded the company rapidly taking it from a small town donut shop
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