Fresh Direct http://www.freshdirect.com Online Grocery Store BACKGROUND/HISTORY In describing the company Fresh Direct‚ their primary business is an online grocery store that first began in 2001. Fresh Direct specializes in delivery services for your shopping needs in various zip codes in New York. The zip codes include: Manhattan‚ Queens‚ Brooklyn‚ Nassau County‚ Riverdale‚ Westchester‚ select areas of Staten Island‚ New Jersey‚ and Connecticut (www.freshdirect.com). The company currently
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Fresh Direct Case Study Report COMPANY NAME Fresh Direct www.freshdirect.com Online Grocery Market BACKGROUND /HISTORY FreshDirect is an online grocery that conveniently sells and delivers fresh foods and popular household items‚ to certain residents of the New York City Area. This online grocery market offers organic‚ farm-fresh produce than most market places. It covers most of Manhattan and certain parts of The Bronx‚ Brooklyn‚ Queens‚ Staten Island and limited areas in New Jersey. Vice
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Fresh Direct Case Study ASSIGNMENT: Please read the Fresh Direct (C 19) case analysis carefully and produce a case analysis report following the instructions that are given in the Case Analysis report document in Doc Sharing. COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE/ INDUSTRY Fresh Direct/Freshdirect.com/Food and Grocery BACKGROUND/HISTORY Cofounder and former chief executive officer Joseph Fedele was able to bring a wealth of experience in New York City’s food industry to FreshDirect
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FreshDirect Case 19 I. Statement and description of central issue (1 page; 2 minutes) II. Identification/description of alternatives (2 pages; 4 minutes) III. Rationale for selection of best alternative (3 pages; 6 minutes) IV. Description of implementation plan (1 page; 2 minutes) V. Conclusion (1/2 page; 1 minute) Statement/description of central issue • Clearly states issue to be responded to with recommendations • Explains underlying tension to justify why this is an
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Fresh Direct Case Study FreshDirect 23–30 Borden Avenue Long Island City‚ New York 11101 U.S.A. Telephone: (718) 928-1000 Fax: (718) 433-0648 Web Address: https://www.freshdirect.com/ Business Type: Online Grocery Private Owned Company Background – History FreshDirect on-line grocery was founded in 1999‚ by Joe Fedele‚ and Jason Ackerman. Started as an on-line option to traditional grocery stores‚ the company specializes in delivering a wide variety of about 5‚000 items. Sales of such
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BUSN412 November 18‚ 2012 Fresh Direct‚ www.freshdirect.com‚ Retail Industry Background History Fresh Direct is an online grocer. They provide high quality fresh foods and household goods at unbeatable prices to the New York area. Their specialty is to delivery good quality items at affordable prices. Fresh Direct was stated in July 2001 by John Fedele and Jason Ackerman. While both men were CEO’s of the company at one time‚ the current CEO is Richard Braddock. Since he has been CEO the company
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Company: Fresh Direct Company website: www.freshdirect.com Industry: Food Background History Joseph Fedele the cofounder and former chief executive officer brought a wealth of experience to Fresh Direct the food chain in New York City. Fresh Direct offers an online shopping and delivery service to more than 300 people that live in the zip code areas of several counties like‚ Manhattan‚ Queens‚ Brooklyn‚ Nassau County‚ Riverdale‚ Westchester‚ select areas of Staten Island‚ New Jersey
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FreshDirect Case Study Jeffrey Nash COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE/INDUSTRY FreshDirect/www.freshdirect.com/Online grocery store BACKGROUND/HISTORY FreshDirect is an online grocery store that launched in 2001 offering shopping and delivery service to more than 300 zip codes in the New York tri state area. The company’s current CEO is Jason Ackerman‚ who is also one of its cofounders along with Joseph Fedele. In 2010 FreshDirect reported revenue of more than $250 million an increase of $20 million
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COMPANY NAME/WEB SITE/ADDRESS Fresh Direct/Freshdirect.com‚ this company is located in the New York City metropolitan area. Background History FreshDirect is an online grocery store that that provides shopping experiences and services to the vicinity population around the metropolitan area of New York (Dess‚ Lumpkin‚ Eisner‚ & McNamara‚ 2012‚ p. C125). Jason Ackerman and Joseph Fedele cofounded FreshDirect in 2001. FreshDirect serves thousands of customers around the New York area‚ and in
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Notes FRESHDIRECT‚ AS OF OCTOBER‚ 2004 Case Uses & Objectives The FreshDirect case presents a strategy analysis and formulation problem in an entrepreneurial e-business environment. It provides students with a case that contains all the elements necessary to lead them through a course overview in a practical real-world setting. This case can be used to augment discussions of strategic analysis‚ specifically both internal and external environmental analysis (Chapters 2 & 3 in Dess‚ Lumpkin & Eisner);
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