Finding A New Warehouse and Office for Blue Bell Creameries Operations Management Blue Bell Creameries 1 Founded in 1907 in Brenham‚ Texas‚ the Brenham Creamery Company originated as‚ and continues to be‚ a family owned business. It initially specialized in the making of butter. In order to produce this good‚ excess cream possessed by surrounding farmers was purchased. A few years later‚ the Brenham Creamery Company began making and selling ice cream. This action soon proved to be very
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Introduction Cowgirl Chocolates was started in 1997 by Marilyn Lysohir and her husband‚ Ross Coates. Marilyn and Ross are artists and devote much of their time to their artistic endeavors. Marilyn is a ceramicist and lecturer who is internationally known and has a successful ceramic art business. Ross is a sculptor and a professor of fine arts at a nearby University. As a labor of love‚ Marilyn and Ross began publishing a once-a-year arts magazine called High Ground. More a multimedia product
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Boston Creamery‚ Inc‚ is an ice cream company that manufactures and distributes ice cream to wholesalers and retailers. In 1973‚ the company had installed a new financial planning and control system that compares budgeted results against actual results and be able to highlight things that needed corrective actions or commend things that resulted in a favorable overall variance. This year‚ the division has a favorable operating income variance of $71‚700. Highlights: · Jim
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Cowgirl Chocolates Final Case Analysis By: Kyle Couchois‚ Gregory Howard‚ Marc Schiller‚ John Sprenger 12/8/2010 Primary Problem The primary problem of Cowgirl Chocolates is that the company has not established a target market for its product and identified its customers. The company specializes in the niche product of hot and spicy gourmet chocolate. According to the company owner‚ only about 15% of Americans are consuming hot and spicy foods and men are usually more receptive
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in Moscow. Cowgirl Chocolates are all-natural‚ kosher chocolates that are unique in that they contain hot pepper as an ingredient. When you first put one in your mouth‚ it will taste smooth like other high quality chocolates. After a second or two‚ you’ll taste the fiery pepper. Marilyn admits that not everyone can take the heat of her chocolates. However‚ enough people enjoy both chocolate and spice to keep Marilyn busy shipping her candies from Moscow to all over the world. Cowgirl Chocolates come
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Cowgirl Chocolates Case Study 1. What are some of the critical strengths and weaknesses of Cowgirl Chocolates that determine the success of this small business? Can the weaknesses be overcome by the strengths of the business? Some of the critical strengths of Cowgirl Chocolates that determine the success of this small business include product differentiation‚ quality‚ flexible return policy‚ and personalization. Cowgirl Chocolates is very modern creation since it meets the needs of a specific
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Major problem: How can “Cowgirl Chocolates” advertise and increase profitability through their online retail services and expand their wholesale business to include more retailers? Sub-Problems: (non-controllable) • Economy- if the economy is in recession‚ the demand for expandable goods will decrease. • Demand- only approximately 15% of consumer is currently eating spicy foods. Men are more inclined to eat spicy food than women. • Supply- product has a short shelf life and contains imported
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might help.” While others stared in disgust. It’s hard to wear cloaks of shame‚ wear battle wounds every day‚ taught to hate the flesh I live in‚ and fight the greatest battles- the ones I fight inside. “You’re a mistake‚ just look in the mirror.” “Cowgirl!” “Who can ever like someone like you.” I can never cure myself‚ of my pain because this disease lies beneath. It’s more than what’s on the surface. My skin just
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process. They can highlight areas which are to be addressed urgently. As per the case‚ they only wish to see the items that need their concern so that action can be taken the next year‚ 1974. Boston Creamery must increase advertisements of their products to address the increase in market size. Boston Creamery‚ Inc. lost 1.0% market share – from 50% to only 49%‚ despite the favorable increase in market size variance of $ 167‚610.00 (See Exhibit 2). This was highlighted from the unfavorable result of $
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Natalie Simmermon ACC 503 California Creamery‚ Inc. (Activity-Based Costing) 1. What is the cost of the two products under traditional costing? Under traditional accounting the costs for each flavor were intuitively wrong. The cost to produce a gallon of Polynesian was $5.60‚ only 20 cents more than Vanilla comparatively. One would assume that an exotic flavor would have a significantly higher cost proportionally. 2. What is the cost of the two products under activity-based costing
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