PANERA BREAD Katrina Coppage‚ Keith Fleming‚ Errol Hampton‚ & Blake Wallace MGMT 4303 INTRODUCTION: Panera Bread is one of the great American success stories of breaking trends‚ and shaking up the market with complete innovation. Not only were they successful‚ but they were able to achieve this success while doing things their own way. Product and Service differentiation were the keys to this bakery-café’s success. Before Panera Bread’s creation in ___‚ never had a business combined the relaxing
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A study on Workforce Diversity Management CHAPTER I: Introduction Workforce diversity refers to the composition of work units in terms of the cultural or demographic characteristics that are salient and symbolically meaningful in the relationships among group members. Although generally thought of as the purview of management research‚ the topic of workforce diversity draws from and is relevant to research from sociology and psychology (Turner & Haslam‚ 2001). Workforce has become increasingly
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Business Stratgery / Case: Panera Bread Company / Igor Maas / 02.15.2008 The main challenge is to determine how Panera Bread can continue to achieve high growth rates in the future. Panera Bread is operating in an extremely high competitive restaurant market which forces the company to improve and to grow steadily for staying profitable. The company’s mission statement of putting “a loaf of bread in every arm” is just underlying Panera’s commitment for growing. They are now in a good financial
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Competitive Brand Strategy Analysis Panera Bread) Panera Bread is a quick casual restaurant chain that is a mixture of fast food and more upscale casual dining and especially known for its fresh ingredients and bakery goods. It sells handcrafted bread‚ sandwiches‚ soups‚ drinks‚ salads and other bakery items. The foodservice industry is enormous in Canada; its sales represented nearly 4% of national gross domestic product in 2014‚ the industry sales are expected to increase by 4.0% to $74.1 billion
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Panera Bread Strengths Fresh baked bread everyday Majority of their bakeries offer free WIFI It is a healthier option than fast food places. Merged together Au Bon Pain and St. Louis Bread Company. Bread dough’s are made offsite at the company 17 manufacturing plants. Offers Panera kids menu. Removed trans fats from its menu. Weaknesses The prices are higher than many fast food restaurants. They have a very weak dinner menu. Organic and high quality food=high prices Small number
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Panera Bread Case Study: Rising Fortunes? Executive Summary: In 1993‚ AU Bon Pain Company purchased the Saint Louis Bread Company. In 1995‚ top management at Au Bon Pain instituted a comprehensive overhaul of the newly-acquired Saint Louis Bread locations. The overhaul included altering the menu and the dining atmosphere. The vision was to create a specialty cafe anchored by an authentic‚ fresh-dough artisan bakery and upscale quick-service menu selections. This acquisition proved successful
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Synopsis Panera Bread Company began in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co. founded by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich . Ron Shaich befriended cofounder Louis Kane in 1980‚ shortly after opening the Cookie Jar bakery in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Kane‚ a venture capitalist‚ had recently purchased the Au Bon Pain Company in 1978. Shaich was interested in “adding bread and croissants to his menu to stimulate morning sales” . Shaich recalled‚ “50‚000 people a day were going past my store‚ and I had nothing to sell
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Panera Bread Company Strategic Audit Ellen Carstensen Kelsey Kuhnmuench Brooke Unger Jason Gonzales Tony Martin Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………. SWOT…………………………………………………………………………………………….. Competitors……………………………………………………………………………………….. Key Success Factors……………………………………………………………………………… Porter’s Five Forces Model……………………………………………………………………….. Strategy Typology…………………………………………………………………………………
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From reading the case I found that Panera Bread uses the broad differentiation strategy. Panera bread has been able to create value to their food that is not easily matched or cheaply copied by rivals. Panera Bread’s breads‚ bagels‚ and muffins are made fresh daily. The professionally trained bakers spend about 48 hours making the dough‚ which is then distributed on a 220 degree temperature controlled truck operated by Panera personnel to ensure optimal freshness (C-136). Also‚ the trucks only travel
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Practices And Workforce Diversity: An Empirical Assessment Brian D’Netto and Amrik S. Sohal Monash University‚ Victoria‚ Australia Diversity is progressively a more important factor/issue in organisational existence. Because around the world organisations are becoming more diverse in terms of the gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ national origin and other personal characteristics of their members. In Australia‚ this trend of diverse work force is escalating. However‚ recent research into diversity management
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