Panera Bread Company Mgt# 495 - CMU Contents Introduction All companies must have a strategic plan. How well the strategy succeeds is based on the competitive strategy plan. A competitive strategy is defined as the “specifics of management’s game plan for competing successfully and securing a competitive advantage over rivals in the marketplace.” (Peteraf-Gamble-Thompson‚ 2013). In addition‚ a competitive strategy helps the company provide its position and advantage in
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8 Panera Bread Company C A S E ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS 1. What is Panera Bread’s strategy? Which of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in most closely fit the competitive approach that Panera Bread is taking? What type of competitive advantage is Panera Bread trying to achieve? * The competitive strategy that best fits Panera Bread is differentiation. The offer gourmet fast food to the urban area. There a triple threat with their competitive advantage : product‚ environment‚
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Panera Bread Industry Analysis By: Heather Fancher Industry Analysis Industry Description Nature of Products and Services: The nature of the products and services provided in the restaurant industry are based on customer satisfaction with the food and services that each location provides. Providing a selection of delicious and well-presented food made with quality ingredients that are simple and good tasting is exactly what the customer wants. Most customers go to restaurants to meet with others
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Panera Bread: A Case Study Misti Walker Panera Bread: A Case Study 1 Strategy Panera Bread’s strategy is “to provide a premium specialty bakery and café experience to urban workers and suburban dwellers.” This strategy is most closely aligned with a broad differentiation strategy‚ or being unique in ways that a broad range of consumers find appealing. Prior to taking the Panera concept nationwide‚ the owners performed cross-country market research and concluded that consumers could get excited
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Assignment #3 Panera Bread – Company’s Assessment November 9‚ 2014 INDUSTRY - RESTAURANT INDUSTRY (QUICK SERVICE RESTAURANTS) Muhammad S. Khan (500335915) Yafit Shimoni (500163226) Andrea Stefekova (500170337) Susan Tokhi (500456375) Sushant Rampal (500530630) Ileana Murray (969002450) Introduction The restaurant industry in the U.S. is robust with sales revenue expected to reach $632 billion in 2012‚ with 970‚000 dining establishments. Participants differentiate themselves in the areas of pricing
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Panera Bread’s primary competition is comprised of many other fast casual and/or café-style restaurant chains‚ including Chipotle‚ Starbucks Coffee‚ Five Guys Burgers and Fries and P.F. Chang’s China Bistro. BALANCE SHEET ANALYSIS One of the significant changes on Panera Bread’s vertical analysis occurs with the Treasury Stock – Common account‚ which went from accounting for -17% of their Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity to accounting for -51% of them. This change constituted for a decrease
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Financial Analysis – Panera Bread (PNRA) TABLE OF CONTENT a- Overview of The Panera Bread Company ------------------------------4 b- The Latest Financial Statement 2009-2011 ------------------------------5 c- Summary of each Financial Statement ------------------------------8 d- Ratio Analysis (Five major types of ratios)
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Describe positioning and operational effectiveness at Panera Bread. Identify numerous examples in your description. According to company’s profile given in case 8‚ Panera Bread’s establishment started in 1981 by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich as a bakery café. Sooner they have studied the market and opened café chains in different states. They had realized that they had an opportunity to compete with other fast food companies if they could offer higher quality and at the same time quick dining experience
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Decision problem: Panera Bread should market themselves as a healthy restaurant choice. Research problem: How does the culture of Panera differ from the culture of Chipotle? 2. Run a search/analysis Trackur concerning your decision problem. Looking at the results that came up on Trackur‚ there were more positive and neutral social media postings rather than negative comments. Many people’s social media comments were all quite similar. Comments included such as: Panera Bread is reliable‚ clean
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Our overall recommendation towards Panera’s best option for obtaining competitive advantage is to remodel all of its existing corporate location‚ including all of its franchised locations. Although there have been talks (amongst Panera Bread) for their corporate and franchise locations (Taylor) of remodeling (Appendix 1)‚ within this report we’ve proposed a plan that will allow their existing stores‚ both corporate and franchise locations‚ to be more attractive and welcoming for reward members and
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