Cowgirls Chocolates Case Marilyn Lysohir‚ an internationally famous ceramic artist‚ started Cowgirl Chocolates to provide some funding support for a yearly published arts magazine‚ High Ground‚ that she and her husband‚ Ross Coates started in 1995. Her love of chocolates and hot and spicy foods spurred the idea of making hot and spicy chocolates to be sold in creative‚ artistic tins and packaging‚ which she labeled as Cowgirl Chocolates. Her small business‚ begun in 1997‚ had won a number of awards
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they tried to raise funds for Marilyn and her husband “High Ground” magazine. PROBLEM DEFINITION: How to can Cowgirl Chocolates‚ an award winning products‚ re-define its products and market target to become a profitable business? PORTER’S FIVE FORCE According to the name of the business cowgirl Chocolate‚ its packaging and pricing‚ we define market strategy in the chocolate industry. New Entrants (high because of low entry barriers) • No special knowledge required (e.g. technology)
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traelene beals “9am Friday” First‚ a formal case analysis - This should be written in a business style format using short paragraphs and sentences‚ self-explanatory headings‚ and any figures/tables that would facilitate reading. Reports are to be no longer than 2000 words (excluding appendices Issues to be addressed – No measures of productivity or efficiaency in the plant- no way of telling if the plant was doing a good job. Difficult demand forcasting due to seasonality of sales. 2 new
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Case analysis for Rogers’ Chocolate 1. Competition forces The premium chocolate industry is having an intensive competition in Canada. As what Thompson has mentioned: “one important component of industry and competitive analysis involves delving into the industry’s competitive process to discover what the main sources of competitive pressure are and how strong each competitive force is” 2‚ Roger’s Chocolate is facing five competitive forces as demonstrated by Michael Porter 2: the rivalry among
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salient (or important) aspects of the chocolate confectionary industry‚ globally and domestically‚ that are critical for understanding a new product introduction of this type. Provide support for your conclusions. The objectives that Montreaux USA wants to achieve in the coming 3 years are national distribution of the new Montreaux product line‚ $15 million in annual sales‚ and to be within the top 25 in revenue. Accounting for 52.6% of the market‚ chocolate is the most profitable segment of the
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Synopsis The case of Cowgirl Chocolates is about a small chocolate producer‚ Cowgirl Chocolates‚ and the businesses owner/artist Marilyn Lysohir dilemma with how and why her business venture wasn’t profitable. Marilyn expresses her love for making award winning hot and spicy chocolates. She also discusses her hold up on different products‚ their packaging‚ and her disliking of using distributors. Marilyn doesn’t know why she isn’t making a profit‚ and the problem isn’t with her chocolates‚ it’s her
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Charles Chocolates Case Analysis In March of 2012 Steve Parkland was hired as the new president at Charles Chocolates. He was immediately faced with numerous decisions about the future of the company. The board of directors had tasked Parkland with doubling or tripling the size of the company over the next decade‚ but the board and the senior management team had different opinions about the strategy that would accomplish this goal. The main issues that Parkland faced were how to increase the company’s
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transformation that Rogers’ Chocolate Company has undergone since its establishment. The paper also investigates competitive strategy of the company against its close competitors. Question 1 – What is competition like in the premium chocolate industry? Which of the five competitive forces is strongest? Which is weakest? What competitive forces seem to have the greatest effect on industry attractiveness and the potential profitability of new entrants? Competition in premium chocolate industries is based
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Case Nine BSHS 461 Case Nine The evaluation process is essential to organizations because it determines their accountability in the community as well as their performance standards to the funders. Sometimes the proper information is not gathered and this makes proving those very things very difficult. The study labeled Case 9 (Lewis‚ Packard‚ & Lewis‚ 2007) is about an organization being evaluated by their funder and realizing that they have not gathered some of the information they were
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Case 9 1) According to the financial statement and financial-ratio analysis of Horniman Horticulture‚ the revenue of this company kept growing from 788.5 thousand (in 2002) to 1048.8 thousand dollars(in 2005). In addition‚ the growth rate of revenue generally rose from 2.9% to 15.5%‚ even though the benchmark was only -1.8%. Moreover‚ in general‚ the margin‚ NFA turnover‚ ROA and ROC rose toward and above the benchmark from 2002 to 2005. To conclude‚ the profitability of Horniman Horticulture was
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