KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS‚ INC. (for Tuesday October 22 presentation) 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. Your task is to evaluate the implications
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KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS Krispy Kreme Doughnuts‚ Inc. is a specialty retailer of doughnuts. The company ’s business owns and franchises Krispy Kreme doughnut stores‚ where it makes and sells over 20 varieties of doughnuts‚ including its signature Hot Original Glazed and nine other varieties. Each of its stores is a doughnut factory with the capacity to produce from 4‚000 dozen to over 10‚000 dozen doughnuts daily. The Company also sells in its stores drip coffee‚ other beverages‚ other bakery items
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An Analysis 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
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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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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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consumed an estimated 10 -12 billion doughnuts annually; this translates into over three dozen doughnuts per capita. In 2002‚ doughnut industry sales rose by about 13%. Sales from doughnut outlets rose by about 9%‚ to approximately $3.6 billion‚ whereas packaged doughnut sales at supermarkets‚ convenience stores and other retail outlets staggered in the past five years. A study by Technomic confirmed the growth of doughnut shops and identified this segment as the fastest-growing dining category in the
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Students TO: Shareholders and potential investors of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. DATE: Tuesday‚ January 19 2010 SUBJECT: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. Analysis 1) Identification of issues: * Is Krispy Kreme’s a healthy company? * What had happened to the company? * Why were so many investors fleeing the popular doughnut maker? * Were the revelations about the company’s franchise accounting practices sufficient to drive that much value out of the stock? * Were there deeper issues
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" in Food Technology‚ November 2011 (Vol. 65‚ No. 11)‚ p. 17) Krispy Kreme is an international doughnut and coffee brand that is best known for its Original Glazed Doughnuts and Signature Coffee. The brand is present in more than 20 countries worldwide including the United States‚ Australia‚ Korea and the Philippines. Vernon Rudolph bought a secret yeast-raised doughnut recipe from a New Orleans French chef‚ rented a building in what is now
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts‚ as discussed in Darden Business Publishing Case UVA-F-1479‚ appears to be at a crossroads. After years of astronomical growth‚ the company find its share price plummeting in the midst of discoveries about faulty accounting practices. The following paper examines several issues behind the sudden decline First‚ the historical income statements and balance sheets are examined to determine the financial health and current condition of the company. This is followed by an analysis
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Krispy Kreme started as a single doughnut shop in 1937 when Vernon Rudolph acquired the special recipe from a French chef. Very quickly‚ the doughnuts rose in popularity and the number of shops expanded. By April 2000‚ after the IPO Krispy Kreme shares were selling for 62 times earnings. Krispy Kreme had a share price of $40.63‚ which gave the firm a market capitalization of about $500 million. Since the IPO the company had announced an aggressive growth strategy‚ in which they planned to increase
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