CONSUMER MARKETS The chocolate of tomorrow What today’s market can tell us about the future June 2012 kpmg.com R evenues from the chocolate industry continue to prove rewarding‚ with 2011 figures from IBISWorld predicting annualized growth of around 2% over the next five years‚ after dampened expectations during the dark days of 2007-09. But behind the encouraging headlines‚ many companies are battling to stay on top of a rapidly shifting marketplace. Taste is diverging‚ as fast-growing
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Honesty Testing Case Dressler‚ G. (2008) Honesty Testing at Carter Cleaning Company Jennifer Carter‚ president of the Carter Cleaning Centers‚ and her father have what the latter describes as an easy but hard job when it comes to screening job applicants. It is easy because for two important jobs – the people who actually do the pressing and those who do the cleaning-spotting – the applicants are easily screened with about 20 minutes of on-the-job testing. As with typists‚ as Jennifer points
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Montreaux Chocolate USA: Are Americans Ready for Healthy Dark Chocolate? _Case Analysis 1. Discuss the key challenges and marketing issues Andrea Torres must address at this time. Why do you feel these issues and challenges are key to the success of the new product line? (1) Although the research tell us the 70% cocoa dark chocolate with fruit with healthy messaging and new stand-up pouch concept would be most attractive to the customers‚ and also built a sales forecast with it. But the company still
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------------------------------------------------- Week 4: The wine industry & the need for closure Case study: The cork industry‚ the wine industry and the need for closure. Introduction This case study explores the use of cork as a way of sealing wine in a bottle; referred to as a closure in the wine industry. This 400 year old industry with all its associated working practices has continued largely unaffected by technology changes in almost all other industries- until that was the 1990s when synthetic plastic
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The History of Chocolate Do you like chocolate? Who doesn’t like chocolate? Chocolate is a favorite food of many people‚ but only few people know about the history of chocolate. That is why I am going to ask you to explore the history of chocolate by reading this essay. The history of chocolate begins with a plant whose scientific name is theobroma cacao which means “food of the gods”. According to the historians‚ the Mayan in Central America is the first who learned to plant the cacao plants around
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Case Preparation For Discussion (Rogers’ Chocolates) • Production ( Labor intensive because it’s a one-shift operation. Chocolates are handmade and hand-packed. • Demand forecasting is difficult due to the seasonality of sales/ The out of stock issue is one of the major problems/ Seasonal production created problems with out-of-stock • When out-of-stock for one product‚ the back order production of that product would throw the schedule off for the next product. • The plant was
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Olang BUAD 6300 Case 6-16 Cowgirl Chocolates 10/6/2010 Before spending an additional $3‚000 on an advertising campaign in the March/April edition of Chile Pepper Magazine‚ Marilyn Lysohir needs to consider how to reach her goal of becoming a profitable company. She needs to analyze consumer perceptions‚ pricing strategies‚ identify and gain access to effective distribution channels and the effective use of the company web site. Since the inception of a revolutionary spicy chocolate recipe‚ Marilyn
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1. How should Trip Hawkins organize the functions of the teams in Finland‚ India‚ Spain and California to move into the social network gaming world? Digital Chocolate began as an innovator in a small new market and succeeded due to their ability to foster innovation and creativity in the mobile gaming industry. The social gaming market has opened opportunities to expand Digital Chocolate’s horizons drastically. Trip Hawkins needs to promote a sense of urgency and to communicate the importance
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Priti Chaudhari MKT 5360 MBA: Block 13B Case: Montreaux Chocolate USA 1. Discuss the key challenges and marketing issues Andrea Torres must address at this time. There are many challenges and Priti Chaudhari MKT 5360 MBA: Block 13B Case: Cole and Parker: Socks that Start Businesses Priti Chaudhari MKT 5360 MBA: Block 13B Case: Cole and Parker: Socks that Start Businesses Priti Chaudhari MKT 5360 MBA: Block 13B Case: Cole and Parker: Socks that Start Businesses marketing issues that are standing
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SAMPLE CASE ANSWER 2. Calculate the expected rate of return on each of the four alternatives listed in Table 1. Based solely on expected returns‚ which of the potential investments appears best? The expected return is the weighted average of the estimated returns in the different states of the world‚ where the probabilities of each outcome are the weights. Each outcome is multiplied by its probability and all products are then summed together. Expected Return can be calculated with the
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