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Krispy Kreme Turnaround Strategy
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John Ellis Group
Arif Harbott
Claudio Paleari
Pia Gowland
Ronald Garricks
Tim Joslyn

EMBA EMBA Sep10 Strategy 1 - John Ellis Group v016.pdf
September 2010
Date: 12th January 2011
Word Count (excluding tables and Appendices): 2992

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 3
2 Current strategy ................................................................................................................ 3
3 External Analysis .............................................................................................................. 3
3.1 Industry definition ................................................................................................................... 3
3.2 PEST analysis ........................................................................................................................ 3
3.3 Industry five forces ................................................................................................................. 4
3.4 Competition analysis .............................................................................................................. 6
4 Analysis of internal environment ....................................................................................... 9
4.1 Internal value chain ................................................................................................................ 9
4.2 Financial analysis ................................................................................................................. 10
5 Key themes from analysis............................................................................................... 11
6 Recommendations .......................................................................................................... 11
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