With recent declining sales for Mountain Man Beer Company (MMBC)‚ Chris Prangel is considering launching Mountain Man Light as a brand extension aligned with changes in beer drinkers’ preferences. He is seeking to maximize market coverage while minimizing brand overlap‚ and at the same time avoiding any brand equity damage‚ as MMBC’s core consumer segment is significantly different from the new targeted segment. Chris expects to negate declining sales of Mountain Man Lager and capture market share
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Mountain Man Brewing Company is one of many local companies that has been threatened by large corporations. This case focuses on a family-owned‚ local company threatened by decline in sales. The new marketing operations manager‚ Chris Prangel‚ has been faced with the challenge of product innovation to help the company improve sales. The introduction of a lighter beer is the solution Prangel landed on while deciding the company’s future. With many doubts from many company employees including the company
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MKTG324 Wenjing Xu Mountain Man Brewing Company Case Analysis Company Overview Mountain Man Brewing Company produces Mountain Man Lager; the most authentic regional beer for working class East Central Americans‚ among all premium domestic beers‚ because of its distinctive quality‚ bitter flavor‚ slightly higher than average alcohol content and competitive price . MMBC targeted its product toward the middle-aged blue collar worker in the East Central region. MMBC’s strategic focus on this
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Business Model Mountain Man Brewing Company was a family-owned business which owned a quality beer called Mountain Man Lager. As shown in Exhibit 1‚ the Mountain Man Lager was well known as working man’s beer. Its quality taste with bitter flavor and high alcohol content were the value propositions for the products. And the key resources for these features were the special recipe and a meticulous selection of barley. Also the main customer segment for the Lager was blue collar most of whom were
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Mountain Man Brewing Company was established as a family concern in 1925 in West Virginia by Guntar Prangle. The company brewed single-product beer‚ Mountain Man Lager‚ which won “best beer in West Virginia” and was elected as “America’s Championship Lager”. Mountain Man Lager featured quality‚ bitter favor and slightly higher-than-average alcohol content that uniquely contributed to the company’s brand equity. Mountain Man was a local market leader and distributed its lager in several states outside
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Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC) was found in 1925 as a family run business and “Mountain Man Lager” is its core product. MMBC was rated as “Best Beer in West Virginia” for years and was selected as “America’s Championship Lager” at the American Beer Championship. MMBC relied on his history and status as independent‚ family-owned brewery to create an aura of authenticity and to position the beer with its core drinkers – blue-collar‚ middle-to-lower income men over age 45. Because of the product
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your beer extensions. Introductory marketing need not create awareness. Possible packaging and labeling efficiencies. Brand loyalty With a rate of 53% in the East Central region. Mountain Man brand loyalty rate is higher than that of competitors (42% Budweiser and 36% for Bud light) Strong associations to Mountain Man Lager Brand Defined as for working-class‚ tough‚ down-to-earth and not ‘corporate’ but local‚ authentic brand with strong heritage. The young would not like to be associated with
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1- What is Chris considering doing and what factors will he have to align to be successful? With Mountain Man Beer Company (MMBC) experiencing recent declining sales for the first time in its history representing a 2% loss in revenue the previous year and prospect of continuous decline‚ Chris is considering launching Mountain Man Light Beer as a brand extension aligned with changes in beer drinkers’ preferences‚ seeking to maximize market coverage while minimizing brand overlap and at same time
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Case Analysis On the basis of Exhibit 1‚we find that Mountain Man is having over 50 Million sales which is supposed to be good revenue having a mature business in brew market.It is also having Goss Margin having 30 % ‚which is good by Gross Profit Ratio standard.But as far as net Income after taxes is concerned it is still very good because as per NOPAT standard‚anything above 6% in normal businessis supposed to be good other things remaining same and depending in the line of business and the industry
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Situation Analysis A) Internal environment General characteristics: Mountain Man Lager is a family owned brewing company‚ and is known as West Virginia’s beer. Change of CEO‚ as the founder and president Oscar Prangel retires‚ leaving the company to his son Chris Prangel. Due to changes in beer drinker’s preferences‚ the company is experiencing a decline in sales for the first time in the company’s history. Mountain Man’s 2005 revenues are down by 2% relative to the prior year‚ while
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