Planning and Implementation Kathy Kudler is the sole owner and operator of Kudler Fine Foods (University of Phoenix‚ 2008)‚ a gourmet food shop located in La Jolla‚ California. Her business was such a success that she opened two additional stores‚ one in Del Mar and the other in Encinitas. Kathy has expressed her desire to expand to another location with the opening of another store. This paper will illustrate the importance of an environmental scan of Kudler Fine Foods. Environmental Scan Before
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Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store located in California. The three stores located in La Jolla‚ Del Mar and Encinitas and are approximately 16‚000 square feet each. Getting the most out of each square foot of the three stores will be the focus of Kudler ’s marketing campaign. The current plan is focusing on several areas; Research‚ development‚ and rollout of new programs‚ Cooking Classes‚ Frequent buyer points program‚ Supplier relations program. Before beginning this plan
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Personal Values Aligned With Kudler Fine Foods After reflecting on my Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory (2006) results I conducted a self-assessment of my personal values. The Kudler Fine Foods strategic plan was also reviewed to determine the values of the organization. I then considered how my personal values aligned with the values of the Kudler Fine Foods organization‚ and how the alignment would affect my performance as a manager in the organization. Personal Values My personal
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Kudler Outline 1. Introduction and Statement of Thesis • Today many companies are enduring the challenge of hiring‚ training‚ and retaining employees. Kudler Fine Foods employs approximately 127 individuals total from all stores. Human Resource policies at Kudler Fine Foods consists of recruiting individuals from outside the stores for entry level jobs and other positions such as managerial positions are offered to employees of Kudler before recruiting ‘outside’ prospective employees. • The
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Kudler Fine Foods: Strategic Planning Kudler Fine Foods (Kudler)‚ a gourmet shop‚ has recently decided to add organic produce to its product line up and implement a catering service. Actuating this business venture will affect Kudler ’s suppliers‚ employees‚ and consumers. The focus of this paper is to explore how changes in technology have created business opportunities for Kudler‚ identify the strategy that Kudler should pursue‚ explore some of the tactics the organization should implement
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Current Ethical Issues Lynn Summers Axia College of University of Phoenix Kudler Fine Foods is a market that offers a variety of gourmet breads‚ cheeses‚ wines and many other things from many different countries. Founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler‚ the store has been successful and has grown into two additional stores. While on the surface‚ Kudler Fine Foods works like a well oiled machine‚ but many problems face the business behind the scenes‚ both economically and ethically. The first ethical
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Rioux‚ Ph.D.‚ and Paul Bernthal‚ Ph.D.). Analyzing Kudler Fine Foods and its recruitment and selection practices it is easy to identify good methods that Kudler Fine Foods are using to recruit‚ giving the opportunity to their employees to succeed starting with the hiring process internally before having to look outside for possible candidates. In addition Kudler Fine Foods is advertising in internet using Monster.com which is one of the most popular sites in the
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Differentiating Between Market Structures in Kudler ECO 365/ Lisa Messemer Sharonda Shelton July 23‚ 2012 Kudler Foods specializes in providing unique and high quality ingredients for the gourmet chef. In an effort to increase profits‚ the company is interested in adding catering to its service offerings. The
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Kudler Fine Food’s Frequent Shopper Program Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty food store which specializes in local upscale products. The founder‚ Kathy Kudler‚ opened the very first Kudler Fine Foods shop in the San Diego metropolitan area back in 1998. Due to the overwhelmingly positive response by the public‚ Karen has since opened two additional locations in Del Mar and Encinitas‚ with additional locations in Carlsbad and San Francisco under consideration. In the interest of growing the
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Kudler Fine Foods is an up scaled epicurean gourmet food shop that was founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Kathy Kudler has opened three stores her first store opened in La Jolla in1998‚ her second store opened in Del mar in 2000‚ and the third store in Encinitas in 2003. Kudler Fine Foods uses the internet and intranet to keep up important records for their employees and customers. Allowing their management to follow through as needed on its employees and keep accurate data. The intranet allows
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