Introduction: James Lamore and David Edgerton in the year 1954‚ marked the beginning of Burger King restaurant in Miami‚ Florida which is widely known as Burger King Holdings‚ Inc. today (annualreports.com/company/2878). Over a period of time‚ Burger King became the household name in fast food industry and has bagged the second position in the fast food industry across the globe in the year 2010. Burger King expanded its operation to 12‚300 locations in 76 countries catering to over 11 million customers
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1. What are Burger King’s communication objectives for it’s target audience? Burger King’s target consumers already know about the product‚ and since the franchise is profitable‚ we can assume that the consumers also like it. Burger King’s communications objectives are to move its target consumers into at least the “Preference”‚ but preferably the “Conviction” stages of buying process. 2. With its focus on the "super fan"‚ does BK risk alienating other customers? What are the implications
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History Burger King‚ often abbreviated as BK‚ is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County‚ Florida‚ United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King‚ a Jacksonville‚ Florida-based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954‚ its two Miami-based franchisees‚ David Edgerton and James McLamore‚ purchased the company and renamed it Burger King. Over the next half century‚ the company would change
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Coca Cola in an effort to boost its revenues persuaded Burger King to run a campaign for its Frozen Coke. They were manipulating the market to have Burger King to run this campaign. Before taking on this initiative‚ Burger King wanted to do a test run. Richmond Va. was chosen as the area to run this trial. Coupons were given for a free Frozen Coke when a value meal was purchased. This method however proved to be a little slower than was expected. Only 700 meals were added with the coupons. Nearly
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Burger King Ethics Burger King has strived to have very good ethical practices installed into their system of business. Honesty‚ integrity and respect are very common goals in the restaurants of Burger King. Good business practices are audited often to insure the quality and respect of the management and employees are in order. These ethical practices begin in the management section of the company. Senior executives “partake in personalized videos about BKC’s gifts and conflict of interest policies
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1. Resources: Burger King (BK) re-franchised almost all of its company-operated restaurants during 2013‚ bringing its business model to nearly 99% franchised and by the end of 2013‚ the company was left with only 52 company-operated restaurants. The advantage of the franchised model is that the company does not have to incur operating costs and can enjoy the royalties paid by the franchises. The margins for this type of model are very high‚ but it comes with number of disadvantages and risks
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Burger King’s COMPANY PROFILE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Burger King was founded in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton in Miami‚ Florida. In 1967‚ the founders sold the company to the Pillsbury Company‚ taking it from a small privately held franchised chain to a subsidiary of a large food conglomerate. In December 2002‚ Burger King was acquired by private equity funds controlled by TPG Capital‚ Bain Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs & Co. It completed a successful initial public offering in
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W5 ASSIGNMENT 1. What do you think of Burger King’s advertising tactics? Is it OK to attract new customers while alienating others? Is Burger King’s advertising ethical? Explain. The success of advertising is very often based on its ability to surprise or in BK’s case shock the viewer. I think that the goal of each organization is to maximize its profits. BK like all organizations had a particular target market segment which it wanted to cater to. Thus‚ its advertisements
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RETAIL EVOLUTION 1) Why are retail life cycles becoming shorter? The retail life cycle is becoming shorter because many products in industries are revitalized by product differentiation and market segmentation. The time you need in order to sell your products on a market and recover your investments shrinks therefore companies reassess the product life cycle costs. There are more and more aggressive competitors that mean it is essential for companies to constantly innovate.
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Validity of the Product Life Cycle Authors: Rolando Polli and Victor Cook Source: The Journal of Business‚ Vol. 42‚ No. 4 (Oct.‚ 1969)‚ pp. 385-400 In this article‚ Rolando Polli and Victor Cook state that although the product life has been widely discussed‚ it hasn’t been systematically tested as a model of sales behavior. The aim is to develop an operational model of the product life cycle‚ to determine the statistics for evaluating the model and to show the conclusion of the tests that
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