Panera Bread Company 2012 Annual Report to Stockholders April 18‚ 2013 Dear Stockholder‚ For years now‚ you have heard us say that the real test of a company is its ability to generate shareholder value over the long-term. With that said‚ we realize that a management team’s credibility is built by delivering results year-over-year‚ quarter-by-quarter. Thus‚ we are pleased to report that 2012 was another extraordinary year for Panera. We’re proud to have exceeded our earnings targets in
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1. Discuss Porter’s Five Forces of industry competition‚ with relation to the entry of Southwest Airline in the airline market. The Porter’s Five Forces are as followed: Rivalry: The rivalry factors that could influence Southwest include high fixed costs‚ excess capacity‚ low differentiation‚ and price war. Fixed costs in the industry mean the costs of planes‚ fuel‚ pilots‚ flight attendants‚ and additional staff for luggage and customer service. All of these factors need to meet governmental
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Six Forces Porter’s forces analysis is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development that draws upon industrial organization economics to determine the competitive intensity and overall industry profitability. These forces are 1) potential entry of new competitors‚ 2) bargaining power of suppliers‚ 3) bargaining power of buyers‚ 4) substitute products‚ 5) rivalry among competing sellers in an industry‚ and 6) power of stakeholders. A change in any of the forces normally
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A Porter’s five forces analysis can complement other techniques‚ like a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis focuses on the company‚ while a Porter’s five forces analysis looks at the external factors impacting on a company. * Porter’s five forces are listed in the left margin. Degree of Rivalry is emboldened because it is the central force‚ which involves all the other forces. Classical economics predicts that rivalry between companies should drive profits to zero. This is part of the threat
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Porter’s Five Forces Model of Industry Structure An industry is a group of firms that market products which are close substitutes for each other (e.g. car industry‚ travel industry). Some industries are more profitable than others. Why? The answer lies in understanding the dynamics of competitive structure in an industry. The most influential analytical model for assessing the nature of competition in an industry is Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ which is described below: Porter explains
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I never realized how much my perspective on going to college would change after getting my first job at Panera Bread a few years ago. I always knew I wanted to go to college but I never understood the importance until getting my first low-skilled job which was at Panera Bread. Like many kids my age‚ the summer of turning seventeen was when I decided to get my first job. I now had a driver’s license and a car that my grandpa helped me buy‚ so naturally‚ my working middle-class parents wanted me to
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Panera Bread is a renowned restaurant that has come about from the merging of great companies and people. However‚ the beginning was actually with Au Bon Pain which was started in Boston’s Feneuil Hall as a demonstration bakery. Louis Kane was struck by this store’s growth potential and purchased the business in 1978. Between 1978 and 1981 the company opened 13 stores‚ but subsequently closed 10 of these stores‚ in the Boston area and had major debt. Ronald Shaich‚ a recent graduate from Harvard
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PORTER’S FIVE FORCES Threat of new entrants Existence of barriers to entry are low Few new firms can enter and non-performing firms can exit easily 3D printing will lower barriers to market entry and will enable innovative start-ups to target the market using crowd-funding.. Free R&D also dramatically lowers the barriers to entry. Capital requirements - Lower costs of technology equipment. First‚ AM reduces the capital required to achieve economies of scale. Second‚ it increases flexibility and
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FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES OF INDUSTRY Michael Porter has postulated that the intensity of competition in an industry is determined by its underlying economic structure1. And he further contends as we saw above‚ that the industry structure is shaped by five basic competitive forces: the threat of new entrances into the industry‚ the bargaining power of suppliers to the industry‚ the threat of substitute products or services‚ the bargaining power of customers or buyers‚ and the Rivalry among Existing
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Chapter Two – Closing Case: Five Forces in the Beauty Products Industry In the beauty product industry incumbents such as L’Oreal‚ Nivea‚ Shiseido‚ Elizabeth Arden‚ and Max Factor are leaders of the industry. Incumbents have remarkably long staying power in this industry. Their support comes from the richer‚ aging baby boomers in developed economies and an increasingly more influent middle class in emerging economies. The industry leader L’Oreal was founded in 1909 and other companies
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