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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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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is that the offer from Heritage Partners helps Fojtasek to avoid the fear of losing control to the firm and a huge interest expense payment from long term debt that is implied by traditional buy-out and leveraged recapitalizations. Fair market value of the firm: Rm: Prime rate = 9% rf: risk free rate = 7.2% Average Unleveraged beta bu = = .839 Assume that growth rate : g = 2%‚ RPm = 4% ‚ tax rate is 35% Unlevered cost of equity rsu = rf + RPm (bu) = 7.2% + 4%(.839) = 10.56% Operating
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Decision problem: Panera Bread should market themselves as a healthy restaurant choice. Research problem: How does the culture of Panera differ from the culture of Chipotle? 2. Run a search/analysis Trackur concerning your decision problem. Looking at the results that came up on Trackur‚ there were more positive and neutral social media postings rather than negative comments. Many people’s social media comments were all quite similar. Comments included such as: Panera Bread is reliable‚ clean
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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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points | | | Assume that the economy is in a mild recession‚ and as a result interest rates and money costs generally are relatively low. The WACC for two mutually exclusive projects that are being considered is 8%. Project S has an IRR of 20% while Project L ’s IRR is 15%. The projects have the same NPV at the 8% current WACC. However‚ you believe that the economy is about to recover‚ and money costs and thus your WACC will also increase. You also think that the projects will not be funded
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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 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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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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Jordan Ciaramitaro and Casey Howe Fast Food Analysis Panera Bread Panera Bread is a fast food restaurant where many people go to eat a quick‚ filling meal. Panera appeals to most people because of the amount of options it offers‚ which makes it difficult to be dissatisfied. After choosing foods to use on our good day and our bad day‚ we immediately noticed several differences. For breakfast on the bad day we chose a pecan roll; while on the good day we chose a whole grain bagel with reduced
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