Case: Mountain Man Brewing Company 1. What has made the Mountain Man Brewing Company successful? What is distinctive about MMBC’s product‚ customers and brand equity? Reasons why MMBC has been successful: * MMBC used their history and status as an independent family owned brewery to enhance the feeling of authenticity of their brand‚ which resonates with its core drinkers – blue collar‚ middle to low income men over the age of 45. * MMBC has very high brand awareness – in a recent
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Introduction Benton Textiles have developed a new process‚ which can apply a special finish to certain types of textiles. The subsequent analysis will discuss two of the key questions that every company faces when it introduces a new product: Which market should the company target? And how should the new product be priced? The alternatives for Benton is either to enter the higher priced market‚ to the lower priced market‚ or to combine the two and first enter the higher priced market and then move
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The current report serves the purpose of analyzing strengths and weaknesses of existing DOS-based POS terminals used by Zara and providing recommendations as to whether an upgrade is necessary. Methods of analysis include decision tree and SWOT-matrix‚ cost analysis‚ risk assessment‚ along with expert opinions summary from IT-consultants in retail industry. Even though the old POS terminals are easy to install and stable to operate‚ they impose limitations on data interchange capabilities
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Question #1: What did Bastian propose to Zara when he walked her home? To become the housekeeper of his family. Question #2: What is the role of Mrs.Talley among the Alliance? She is an emissary. Question #3: Colonel Eckhart focused the budget on what? On new weapons upgrades and new tanks. Question #4: Why is Zara considered a good potential soldier? Because she has an anomaly. Question #5: What is the supernatural power of Zara? She can manipulate the air. Question #6: What is Zara’s
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1. Unfreezing a fragmented Ogilvy & Mather out of the Ice Age. Charlotte Beers tries to turn around Ogilvy by implementing a strategy based on differentiation. However‚ Ogilvy’s organisation and culture are obstacles to this process. She has therefore to unfreeze the situation first to allow change to be implemented through a communal culture and a collaborative organisation. Evidence of a crisis are numerous: Major accounts have been lost (Amex); Revenues and earnings are in decline; Agencies
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The purpose of this essay is to discuss different supply chain management approaches taken by H&M‚ Benetton and Zara. It is first necessary to explain what a supply chain management means. Supply chain management involves planning‚ design‚ maintenance and control of the flow of materials and information along the chain in order to efficiently satisfy customer’s requirements (Schroeder‚ 2000). Such an approach‚ of looking at the entire supply network helps organisations identify their competitive
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1. What are the problems? Market leadership and technological innovation have marked Sealed Air’s participation in the U.S. protective packaging market. Several small regional producers have introduced products‚ which are less effective than Sealed Air’s but similar in appearance and cheaper. The company must determine its response to this new competition. The company is faced with a difficult choice of choosing from a range of feasible options ranging from doing nothing to introducing a new product
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Ford Motor Company: Supply Chain Strategy 2/11/02 Finding the Best Fit The Ford Motor Company finds itself in a dynamic business environment where new technologies and practices offer the potential to alter in a significant way the landscape in which it operates. Henry Ford was in his time an innovator in offering ’cars for the masses’. He introduced to the car industry methods and systems innovative in their day. Ford needs once again to forge new paths to ensure future competitive advantage
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Issue: Longitudinal analysis using panel data for assessing seasonality effects on the food security situation in Tajikistan 2005 HBS Tajikistan: Longitudinal analysis using panel data for assessing seasonality effects on the food security situation in Tajikistan 2005 HBS RAMASAWMY‚ Seevalingum FAO Statistics Division‚ Rome. Italy Household income and expenditure survey (HIES) usually collects food data from households at only one period which may refer to one week‚ two weeks or one month
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Managing Business Operations Case Analysis: Blanchard Importing and Distributing Co. Inc. (HBS Case 9 - 673 - 033) Submitted by: Tushar Kothavale (130) NMIMS‚ FT MBA 2009-2011 1) Correct the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and Reorder point (ROP) quantities for each of the five items mentioned in the case. We first predict the annual demand for the year 1972 based on trend for 4 months of 1972 based on corresponding months of 1971. Calculations for Annual demand (R): The assumption made
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