Panera Bread Case Analysis Michael Gibbons Strategic Management W 7:10 - 10:10 1. Panera Bread’s strategy is to provide a superior product to a diverse customer base. Panera Bread’s concept is “to provide a premium specialty bakery and café experience to urban workers and suburban dwellers.” Their strategy has allowed them to provide an alternative meal to fast food restaurants. Analyzing Chapter Five’s generic competitive strategies the most closely fit competitive approach that Panera Bread
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Shaich‚ CEO and Chairman of Panera Bread Company‚ combined the ingredients and cultivated the leavennign agent that catalyzed the companys phenomenal growth. ** Under Saich’s guidance‚ Paneras total systemwde revenues rose from 350.8 Million in 2000 to 1353.5 million in 2009‚ consisting of 1‚153.3 million from company-owned bakery-café sales‚ 78.4 million from franchise roylalties and fees‚ and 121.9 million from fresh dough sales to ffranchisees. Panera’s shares have outperformed every major
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Synoposis Panera Bread Company is a highly successful fast casual restaurant that has grown drastically even despite the market down trend. One of its best assets is CEO and Chairman‚ Ronald Shaich‚ whose radical and innovative ideas have taught the business world many lessons. When the competition was lowering prices to meet the trend of higher unemployment rates and focusing on making their product cheaper‚ Shaich proposed Panera Bread should raise their prices and cater to the 90% of the
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MGMT479H June 23‚ 2013 Panera Case Study Week 3 Panera Bread Company’s beginnings come from a vision of one man who purchased the company from a French oven manufacturer Pavailler who opened a demonstration bakery. Louis Kane was struck by the potential of what the business could be so he purchased this business from Pavailler. Named Au Bon Pain (French for “where good bread is”) and opened 13 stores and closed 10 stores between 1978 and 1981. With bankruptcy in the future‚ Kane meets a fellow
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Panera History Panera Bread Company was founded by Ken Rosenthal‚ Ron Shaich and Louis Kane in 1987. Their headquarters is in Sunset Hills‚ Missouri. Panera Bread transitioned into a national restaurant in May 1999. Today they have 2000 stores in more than 40 states and including Canada. In 2014 Panera Bread introduces superior experience for their dine-in and to go clients. The Introduction of new technologies like computerized ordering and payment was called Panera - 2.0. In 2008 Panera
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Organization and Management of Panera Bread The formation of Panera Bread began in 1978 when Louis Kane bought Au Bon Pain‚ a retail producer of baked goods. Kane changed it to a wholesale business by opening two cafes and staffing them with bakers and employees‚ but high production costs made it impossible to cover his overhead. In 1981 Kane decided to remain responsible for site selection and financing‚ but he chose Robert Shaich to help turn the company around as President of internal operations
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BREAK‚ BREAK‚ BREAK (1834) Break‚ break‚ break‚ [s1] On thy cold gray stones[s2] ‚ O Sea! [s3] And I would that my tongue could utter [s4] The thoughts that arise in me[s5] . (Unable to articulate the deep emotion – anger and resentment at nature) O[s6] ‚ well for the fisherman’s boy‚ That he shouts with his sister at play! O‚ well for the sailor lad‚ That he sings in his boat on the bay! [s7] (what he sees – he sees time passing – focus on the play of the youth
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Panera Bread would like to announce a new cyber-café available at all locations. This product has been upgraded to assist the growing desire for a full service Internet accessibility location. A plan consisting of four-phases has been developed to market the new product. Currently most locations provide free wireless Internet access to their customer base. Panera has the biggest free wireless network in the USA. During the peak hours of business the customers’ will have a limit amount of time
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Partial Example #2 for Panera Case part 1 analyis Excludes answers to #3 and 4‚ which were covered in the earlier example Item 1 The company’s mission statement‚ although I think of it more as a slogan‚ is “A loaf of bread in every arm.” The company is on a mission to extend the consumption of their baked products broadly in the areas where they operate. Their strength in this mission comes with their strategic locations in high traffic urban areas. These locations enable them to service
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9/17/2013 Panera Bread Company 1. What is Panera Bread’s strategy? Which of the four generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 3 most closely fit the competitive approach that Panera Bread is taking? What specific kind of competitive advantage is Panera Bread trying to achieve? Driving concept: to provide a premium specialty bakery and café experience to urban workers and suburban dwellers. Generic: Broad differentiation strategy. Competitive advantage: striving to build
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