MKT 520: Fall 2010 October 4‚ 2010 Case 1: Saxonville Sausage Company The Problem Saxonville Sausage Company has hired a new Ann Banks as product brand manager. Steven Sears‚ VP of Marketing‚ has given Ms. Banks the Vivio Italian sausage. This product is on a slow gain and awareness among consumers. The company has recently released their branding company and needs Banks to increase awareness in the new product. Yet‚ Banks needs to do some heavy research before she can make a decision
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Saxonville Sausage Case Saxonville Sausage Company is a 70-year-old privately held family business headquartered in Saxonville‚ Ohio. Saxonville produces a variety of fresh pork sausages including bratwurst‚ breakfast sausage‚ and an Italian Sausage named “Vivio”. Since 2004 bratwurst and breakfast sausages have been flat seeing a 0% volume increase nationwide‚ with little or no growth expected in the short-term. However‚ Italian sausage was the one category showing growth with a 9% increase in
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information presented‚ I would recommend that Saxonville pursue the “Family Connection” positioning territory as it is more closely aligned with consumer’s core values. As we have found through our research‚ female heads-of-household are the primary purchasers and preparers of Italian sausage products and what these women value above all else is the ability to create happy memories with their families around the dinner table. By positioning Saxonville’s Italian sausage product line with this core value in
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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE Winter Quarter 2015 Business Innovation and Stewardship (BIS) Case study: Saxonville Sausage Company TRUNG NGUYEN Questions: 1. What is the current situation? 2. How was the research methodology determined? Develop a research design and explain what behaviors‚ demographics and lifestyle components you deem important and why. 3. What were the research results? Select two different positioning territories in case Exhibit 6. Trace back through the case‚ using Exhibit
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2085 JUNE 15‚ 2007 KATE MOORE Saxonville Sausage Company On a sunny March day in 2006‚ Ann Banks‚ new product marketing director at Saxonville Sausage Company‚ stood waiting outside the executive conference room. The owner‚ president‚ chief financial officer‚ and three functional vice presidents—including her manager‚ Vice President of Marketing Steve Sears—would soon hear her plan for launching a national Italian sausage brand that Saxonville needed to bring to market in order to achieve
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Giuseppe’s Original Sausage Company Case Analysis Giuseppe’s Original Sausage Company is a company that formed in late 1991 by Joe Cotrone in Memphis Tennessee. Because of USDA regulation issues the company did not did not open its doors right away but the sausages did make their way to the Memphis in May festival that highlighted Italy and Italian food. Finally‚ Giuseppe’s opened their doors in late 1992 after all the government regulations were complete. This was a gourmet sausage company that specialized
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company background Xiaomi is owned privately by Chinese electronics company Headquartered in Beijing xiaomi formally established in April 2010‚ is a focus on the development of high-end smart phone mobile device manufacturers and internet agencies Xiaomi’s phone has successfully conquered China and expanded into developing a wider range of consumer electronics. While commenters name Xiaomi as “The Apple of China”‚ Xiaomi prefers to be compared to Amazon instead.According to research firm Canalys
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1. What is Giuseppe Sausage Company’s Strategy? Giuseppe’s Sausage company strategy is to start small and work up to a larger clientele by initially concentrating on high quality‚ unique specialty sausages customized for clientele in their local region. Smaller companies are able to offer a wider variety of specialty sausages because they are only concentrating on a smaller client base whereas larger companies tend to focus on producing a few varieties to cover a larger customer base.
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Company background U Mobile Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian 3G mobile telecommunicaions service provider and was founded in 1998 as MiTV Networks Sdn . In April 2007‚ U Television Sdn Bhd signed the country’s first nationwide domestic roaming memorandum of understanding. After that‚ the company has been constantly providing high quality mobile voice and data services with its wide distribution network backed by affordable pricing strategies. Customers of U Mobile can choose from a variety of competitive
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COMPANY BACKGROUND P&G’s business is focused on how to provide branded products. P&G has built the organization on promoting and rewarding people. They focus on many of the industry segments in which‚ what and how to sell their products. Procter & Gamble was founded by brother-in-laws‚ William Procter and James Gamble on 31 October 1837. The company began by selling soaps and candles. However‚ candle sales became very low after the invention of Edison’s light bulb in 1850 so they stop to produce
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