Burger King International MBA 6601 International Business By Wendy B. Machana Burger King International Burger King‚ previously known as InstaBurger King in 1954‚ is the world’s largest flame-broiled fast food restaurant chain (Daniels‚ Radebaugh & Sullivan‚ 2011). Burger Kings core competency lays in the way it cooks its burgers- by its flame broiled method as opposed to grills that fry and also the option that it offers its customers as to how they want their burgers (“have
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1. Resources: Burger King (BK) re-franchised almost all of its company-operated restaurants during 2013‚ bringing its business model to nearly 99% franchised and by the end of 2013‚ the company was left with only 52 company-operated restaurants. The advantage of the franchised model is that the company does not have to incur operating costs and can enjoy the royalties paid by the franchises. The margins for this type of model are very high‚ but it comes with number of disadvantages and risks
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Fast food‚ race/ethnicity‚ and income: A geographic analysis • Jason P. Block‚ MD‚ MPH Affiliations o Tulane University School of Medicine‚ Department of Internal Medicine (Block‚ DeSalvo)‚ New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ USA o Address correspondence to: Karen DeSalvo‚ MD‚ MPH‚ MSc‚ Department of Internal Medicine‚ Tulane University School of Medicine‚ 1430 Tulane Avenue‚ SL 16‚ New Orleans LA 70112 ‚ • Richard A. Scribner‚ MD‚ MPH Affiliations o Louisiana State University Health Sciences
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History Burger King‚ often abbreviated as BK‚ is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County‚ Florida‚ United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King‚ a Jacksonville‚ Florida-based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954‚ its two Miami-based franchisees‚ David Edgerton and James McLamore‚ purchased the company and renamed it Burger King. Over the next half century‚ the company would change
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1. What are Burger King’s communication objectives for it’s target audience? Burger King’s target consumers already know about the product‚ and since the franchise is profitable‚ we can assume that the consumers also like it. Burger King’s communications objectives are to move its target consumers into at least the “Preference”‚ but preferably the “Conviction” stages of buying process. 2. With its focus on the "super fan"‚ does BK risk alienating other customers? What are the implications
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Rev. February 27‚ 1998 Burger King Corporation The first Burger King restaurant in Miami in the mid-1950s featured a walk-up window‚ a limited menu (burgers and shakes for 19¢‚ sodas and fries for 10¢)‚ and "your food ready by the time you ’d paid for it." As one early manager recalled‚ "Our windows faced front so we could see customers driving in. With the limited menu‚ we pretty much knew what they ’d order and we ’d have it ready." In the 1960s and 1970s‚ Burger King developed an assembly-line
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Burger King’s COMPANY PROFILE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Burger King was founded in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton in Miami‚ Florida. In 1967‚ the founders sold the company to the Pillsbury Company‚ taking it from a small privately held franchised chain to a subsidiary of a large food conglomerate. In December 2002‚ Burger King was acquired by private equity funds controlled by TPG Capital‚ Bain Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs & Co. It completed a successful initial public offering in
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312420034290000 BUSINESS SCENERIO: EXPORTING BURGER KING TO INDIA OR GHANA GROUP MEMBERS: DEBASHIS MONDAL FATUNBI MICHAEL PRIYANKA SHARMA SUKHDEEP BHANGU GURLEEN KAUR TITLE PAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Company Background Research Background Research Objectives RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & PLAN SWOT Analysis Ghana India Burger King Sources of Information Primary Research Secondary Research Market Analysis Ghanaian Fast Food Market Indian Fast Food
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Analysis on Burger King Worldwide Inc. (BKW) Burger King (BKW) is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world which was founded in 1954; it operates in over 12‚600 locations serving over 11 million customers daily in 83 countries and territories worldwide. About 95 percent of Burger King Restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees‚ many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. This company became a publically traded company in this
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Case Study #6 Burger King and Crispin 1. What are Burger King’s communication objectives for its tar-get audience? In 2004‚ Burger King’s CEO Brad Blum realized that in order to compete with large chains like McDonald’s and Wendy’s‚ the company needed to market their product in ways that their target market would perceive better. The first set of commercials that Crispin produced for BK where targeted more towards the mainstream media in a series of offbeat ads that were a takeoff on the comedy
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