brands‚ we do know how to advance businesses. And our expectation is that we will do the same as we take Snapple as well as Gatorade to the next level." -Don Uzzi‚ President of the Quaker Oats Beverage Company‚ North America.1 SUMMARY The Quaker Oats Company‚ founded in 1891‚ is one of America’s oldest food enterprises. From its start in the domestic ready-to-eat cereal market‚ Quaker grew an appetite for diversification‚ snapping up pet food‚ grocery and toy businesses‚ and by the 1960s had
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The Acquisition of Snapple by Quaker Oats In an effort to raise the company’s growth rate and avoid a takeover.Quaker Oats‚ acquired Snapple beverage corporation for $1‚7 billion‚a price considered by many to be valued a billion too much. Snapple captured a significant loyal following by being an innovator in the ready-to-drink tea.The RTD tea segment of the beverage market was a quick developing area with promising returns ‚that’s why it attracted giants like coca cola and Pepsico‚ who entered
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The Pursuit of Synergy: Quaker Oats-Snapple Acquisition Professor Sherif A. Ebrahim Corporate Strategy‚ Spring 2012 May 1‚ 2012 Pauline Guittard Linn Gustafsson T.J. Henry Jr. Sevinc Ulu Brittany Williams Many successful businessmen and women have concluded that the most successful acquirers are also the most disciplined. In order to secure a lucrative and profitable acquisition all strategic alternatives ought to have been considered and prudently explored. Furthermore‚ a clear operating strategy
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Quaker Oats Morrison reviving Quaker after the Snapple debacle– cost $1.4 B write-off ●Focus on Gatorade. Gatorade -cash cow – potentially could dry up ●Pre-Morrison‚ Quaker mainly riding Gatorade under-investing in food brands ●Morrison comes in and changes PA: Younger manager presidents – oversee individual product lines such as hot cereal‚ cold cereal‚ snacks‚ and domestically sold Gatorade-cost-cutting - reinvested right into their own brands ●SK ●Same representative-move multiple brands of the
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Strategy Report for Quaker Oats Strategic Management (MGT 482) May 23‚ 2002 Abstract Organizations use strategies to impact their performance against competitors in their respective industries. The process by which managers choose a set of strategies for the enterprise is the strategic management process. (Hill & Jones‚ 2001‚ pg. 4) This report will discuss a business strategy report for Quaker Oats Inc. Business Strategy Report for Quaker Oats The Quaker Oats Company was officially
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keeping the strategic plan arise. The Quaker Oats Company began long range planning in fiscal 1965. The plans created that year and annually thereafter were primarily numbers-oriented estimates of income and requirements of capital. Mr. Robert D. Stuart Jr. announced in September 1970 announce the reorganization of management structure. The reorganization decentralized all operation into four major profit centers. Harry Ambrose had been appointed The Quaker Oats Company’s director-long-range planning
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From 1972 to 1993‚ why did Snapple flourish when so many small start-up premium fruit drinks stayed small or disappeared? * Premium pricing allowed the company to introduce a variety of products‚ many of which were unsuccessful‚ while still remaining profitable * Hired a professional management team that used focus groups to improve label design‚ increased the advertising budget‚ and intensified the independent distributor system throughout the East Coast * Successful advertising and
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Title of the Case: The Quaker Oats Company Time Context: Early 1971 Summary/Abstract: Harry Ambrose had recently been appointed The Quaker Oats Company’s director-long-range planning. An MBA with nine years of managerial experience but no previous exposure to the management of formal planning systems‚ in early 1971 Mr. Ambrose had a task of guiding the company through what is essentially the initiation of formal‚ long range planning. Mr. Ambrose also has objectives to attain for the betterment
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Quaker Oats- Gatorade/Snapple Background Quaker Oats acquired the Gatorade brand in 1983 but the sports drink actually was developed in 1965 for the University of Florida Gators. At the time of the acquisition Gatorade sales were about $100 million. But the most notoriously known sports drink would grow in sales to over $1.1 billion worldwide by 1994. Gatorade wasn’t the only division produced by Quaker Oats. The company also had divisions in breakfast foods‚ pet foods‚ golden grains‚
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KEL182 CHRISTIE L. NORDHIELM Quaker Oats’s Oatmeal Division Polly Kawalek emerged from Bob Morrison’s office after her annual review in December 1998. By any measure‚ 1998 had not been a successful year for Quaker Oats’s oatmeal division (“Oatmeal”)‚ and culpability fell on Kawalek’s shoulders. It had been the warmest winter in memory across the country‚ causing demand for oatmeal to drop‚ and failed product releases had cost sales and led to trade marketing spending deficits. Furthermore
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