Case Summary: Mountain Man Brewing Company. Bringing the Brand to Light: Brand extension. The Mountain Man Beer Company (MMBC) was founded in 1925 and the family launched as Mountain Man Lager. By the 1960s‚ Mountain Man Lager’s reputation as a quality beer was well entrenched throughout the East Central region of the United States. MMLC’s single brand product strategy and brand extension market research evaluation: 1. The Mountain Man Lager brand rated as the best known regional
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YaeNa Yoon MKT 201 Case Study #1 Mountain Man Beer Company (MMBC)’s representative beer: Mountain Man Lager‚ is made based on unique and old family recipe. The target of Mountain Man Lager is old males who are working class‚ so called blue collar. The taste is bitter‚ and in contains higher alcohol than other brands. Mountain Man Lager was priced $2.25 for a 12-ounce of draft beer in a bar and $4.99 for a six-pack in a retail store. It was sold at the similar price range which premium domestic
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brand equity of MMBC. A: Firmly established brand for 8 decades which commands a large loyal customer base with a legacy factor Attributes like distinctively bitter taste‚ slightly higher than average content of alcohol that were unique to the Mountain Man Lager brand. Packaging of beer that was in line with the product positioning for the blue-collared working class (logo with the design of coal miners) Sticking to the core product of Lager rather than swaying to new emerging markets‚ i.e. maintaining
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------------------------------------------------- Subject: Bringing the Brand to Light ------------------------------------------------- Mr. Prangel as we all know Mountain Man Beer Company has been in the market over eight decades; manufacturing a beer known for its authenticity‚ quality and toughness. In all these years we have seen many regional breweries vanished by fatal decisions. Mountain Man Beer Company is still standing strong in the market‚ yet it has come the time to make a crucial decision regarding the future of our
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Core Marketing Mountain Man Brewing Company Bringing the Brand to Light 1. Overview Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC‚ or the Client) is a family-run business in West Virginia that has experienced much growth since launching its flagship premium beer Mountain Man Lager (MMB) in 1925. Over the decades‚ brand loyalty‚ quality and brand awareness have been the cornerstones of the Client’s success – the importance of the MMBC brand among consumers has allowed the company to build its
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Mountain Man Brewing Company Ashley Huckaby Mountain Man Brewing Company exemplifies history. Founded in 1925 by Guntar Prangel‚ a coal miner with a home brewery‚ and marketed largely to other coal miners‚ Mountain Man lager emphasizes quality ingredients‚ a bitter flavor and dark coloring. Today‚ Mountain Man Brewing is still a single-product company. Mountain Man distributes its lager in several states outside West Virginia‚ is a local market leader‚ and generates over $50 million in revenue
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Marketing Plan for Mountain Man Looking at ALTERNATIVES : Recommendation ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES Launch MM Light Beer – Under the Mountain Man brand name • Brand Recognition Association with the MM brand which is reputable in the East Central region will enhance the launch of MM Light Beer (Superior Brand Recognition) • Goes well with the youth Light beer goes well with the young crowd and represents an untapped market of “no preference” – Prefer light beer to other categories and typically
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MMBC is considering introducing a Mountain Man Light beer to attract younger drinkers to the brand. MMBC ultimately would like to reposition the brand to drive sales of Mountain Man Light to young people without eroding the core brand equity. The reason MMBC should consider doing this is because over the previous six years light beer sales in the U.S have been growing at a compound annual rate of 4% while traditional beer sales have been declining annually at the same rate. MMBC has been experiencing
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Jefferson: Man on a Mountain is a biography of Thomas Jefferson focusing in on not just his public life. Natalie S. Bober zooms in on Jefferson’s love life‚ his relationship with his slaves and the reader also gets insight into his thoughts about various situations around the colonies. Bober shifts smoothly and carefully through incidents in Jefferson’s early years‚ marriage‚ and family life to follow his career development‚ which encircled everything from farming to teaching and writing. Man on a Mountain
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the Mountain Man Beer Company wanted to launch Mountain Man Light‚ a light beer formulation of Mountain Man Lager with the hope of attracting younger consumers to the brand. Chris wanted to do this because:- a) In the previous 6 years the light Beer sales in USA has been growing at compound annual growth rate of 4% while traditional premium beer sales have been declining at the same rate. b) Mountain Man beer’s prime product was Mountain Man Lager
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