QUICK FACTS Key Facts – Frito‐Lay North America Headquarters: Plano‚ Texas – Frito‐Lay employs over 48‚000 people and brings in over $13 billion in annual sales. – Frito‐Lay brands account for nearly 62% of the U.S. salty snack category. – Frito‐Lay products are exported to 79 countries around the globe‚ including military destinations. – Products sold under the Frito‐Lay name are now recorded by two PepsiCo divisions: Frito‐Lay North America (North American sales) and PepsiCo International
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Summary- Frito-Lay is a division of PepsiCo‚ a New York-based diversified consumer goods and services firm. Frito-Lay is a nationally recognized leader in the manufacture and marketing of snack foods. The company’s leaders in the snack industry include potato chips‚ tortilla chips‚ cheese puffs and pretzels. Frito-Lay not only had net sales in 1985 of three billion but also captured about thirty three percent of the snack foods sold in the United States. When Frito-Lay first got into the dip industry
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Frito Lay In 1930‚ two men in different parts of the United States began companies that would eventually come to control the international snack food market. One-named Doolin purchases were made from corn dough used for centuries by Mexicans to bake bread. Fascinated with the product‚ Doolin sold his ice cream business and purchased the corn chip producer’s business for one hundred dollars. The brand‚ Frito‚ was created in the kitchen of his mother‚ along with the early production of the corn chips
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FRITO LAYS CHIPS. BACKGROUND AND ENVIRONMENT The Frito-Lay company is a $13 billion subsidiary of PepsiCo that employs 48‚000 people. They are a nationally recognized leader in the manufacture and marketing of salty snack foods. Brands include Lay’s‚ Ruffles‚ Frito’s‚ Doritos‚ Tostitos‚ Cheetos‚ pretzels and Funyuns. They produce nuts‚ peanut butter crackers‚ beef sticks‚ cookies‚ snack bars and more.They sell and deliver through a “front-door store delivery system” in which one person performs
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Frito-Lay’s Dips How would you characterize the dip category in general? Dips are a complementary product; they are served along with chips‚ crackers‚ or raw vegetables. The market for dips is highly fragmented and difficult to measure. More than 80% of all dips are accounted for by supermarkets‚ with a total dip retail dollar sales volume of $620 million (in 1985). The dip category became more popular in late 1983 and early 1984‚ an explanation for this increase is the growing popularity
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MKTG 471 Marketing Management: FALL 2002 CASE ANALYSIS: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Ch.4 : Frito Lays Dips : Pg 107 Q.1 How would you characterize the dip category in general? Q.2 How might the dip category be segmented? Q.3 What is Frito Lays Competitive Position within the segments it pursues? Q.4 What sales volume and market share(s) will be required of the dip line to preserve its profit contribution given budgeted promotion expenses? Q.5 What are the pros and cons of focusing attention on
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1. How would you characterize the snack chip category and Frito-Lay’s competitive position in this category? The snack chip category is growing‚ mainly because of the increased per capita consumption‚ which rose from about 12 pounds in 1986 to nearly 14 pounds in 1990. The snack chip category consists of three types of competitors: national‚ regional and private brand firms. The market is very competitive and difficult; as many as 650 new products are introduced every year‚ but less than 1% of them
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Caso 6-B: Medidas de Control de Frito Lay 1. Describa el tipo de control que Frito-Lay usa. Porque piensa que eligieron este tipo de sistema de control? En este caso se muestra claramente que Frito-Lay usa el sistema de control concurrente. Este sistema es cuando los controles de un proceso de ejecutan durante el proceso esta en desarrollo. En el caso se explica claramente como los vendedores locales de Frito-Lay introducen la información de las ventas y entregas en sus ordenadores diariamente
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1.) How does the mix of Frito-Lay inventory differ from those of a machine or cabinet shop‚ (a process-focused facility)? (Heizer‚ 513). It’s different than that of a machine or cabinet shop due to it being a product focused facility with high investment on capital equipment. A.) Differences: • The perishability of inventory in the “prepared” food industry calls for inventory management to be far more critical because it can significantly affects product satisfaction as well as market
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applauds Frito-Lay for its green efforts. Because of this‚ Frito-Lays sales have dipped as they introduced the eco-friendly Frito-Lay was threatened to be sued by a news service company and The Centre for Science in the public interest (CSPI) after Frito-Lay switched the name on its olestra-laden snack line. This came into picture when FDA withdrew a requirement that companies warn customers of Olestra possible side effects. Centre for Science in the Public interest speculated that Frito Lay was
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