Saxonville Sausage Company Background • Saxonville Sausage is a $1.5 billion manufacturer of pork sausage products • Its experiencing financial stress because its leading product lines have lately produced declining revenues in product categories that are realizing no growth. 2 Market position & condition • One product line‚ the Italian sausage brand “Vivio”‚ has recently experienced a significant increase in revenues • This has been the case with the entire Italian sausage category
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Current situation: Saxonville Sausage Company’s business basically consists of bratwurst‚ breakfast sausage and an Italian sausage‚ Vivioaccounting for 70%‚ 20% and 5% of revenues respectively. While sale of bratwurst and breakfast sausage for over 5 years have been flat with little or no growth expected in short term‚ Italian sausage has been showing growth across producers in the retail sausage market and Vivio has managed to match that level of category growth as well. However‚ Vivio is available
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Saxonville Sausage Case Study Saxonville Sausage has been faced with the task of attempting to counteract their financial woes in the sausage market. While they have a star product‚ Vivio‚ it only represents % of their income and is only available in select cities in the northeastern portion of the United States. Saxonville and now trying to figure out how to expand their product throughout the rest of the country and make sure that it is differentiated from other sausage brands out there and
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Strategies Saxonville Sausage Case Study What is the current situation? Saxonville is a family company from Ohio has existed for seventy years‚ it produces a range of pork sausage‚ and they have three types of products: breakfast sausage‚ bratwurst and Vivio sausage. Products are sold in all the United States‚ through national and regional distributors. The firm’s revenue is estimated at 1.5 billion dollars in 2005. Since 2004‚ the company is experiencing difficulties: Saxonville has seen two
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Case 3 : Saxonville Sausage Company I. Background Saxonville was a 70-year-old‚ privately held family business headquartered in Saxonville‚ Ohio‚ with 2005 revenues of approximately $1.5 billion. The company produced a variety of pork sausage products‚ predominantly fresh sausage as opposed to smoked or semi-dried. The heart of the business consisted of branded products: bratwurst (70% of Saxonville’s revenues); breakfast sausage‚ both links and patties (20% of revenues); and an Italian
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Problem: How can I‚ Ann Banks‚ product marketing director at Saxonville Sausage Company‚ suggest a suitable position for the Italian brand sausage Vivio? Options: I can choose from one these four concepts developed: a) “Family Connection” concept b) “Love” concept c) “Balance” concept d) “Creative/Clever cooking” concept Decision: Saxonville Sausage Company should use the “Creative Cooking” concept Reason: From the data on Italian Sausage Concept Assesment‚ it can be seen that both “Family Connection”
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customer behavior toward our Italian sausage brand ‘Vivio’. Based on qualitative and quantitative research we are able to understand target consumers needs and behaviors‚ positioning ideas‚ refine the learning to concepts and scores of these concepts. Qualitative steps gave us depth and help to surface ideas while the quantitative piece will validate those ideas across a broader population. My recommendation is to continue with Vivio - Saxonville’s Italian sausage as brand name and position as ‘Family
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SAXONVILLE SAUSAGE COMPANY CASE SUMMARY Saxonville sausage‚ a privately held company has been doing business for 70 years. In 2005‚ the company had revenues of approximately $1.5 billion from a variety of its fresh pork sausages. The company is producing three main types of products namely: bratwurst‚ breakfast sausage and an Italian sausage Vivio. The main source of revenue for the company is bratwurst (70%) followed by breakfast sausage (20%). But since 2004‚ the company is experiencing problems:
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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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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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