Strategy for Whole Foods Market Current Strategic Issues 1. How does Whole Foods sustain positive growth in sales? 2. How does Whole Foods cope with the downturn in the economy? 3. How does Whole Foods achieve sustainable competitive advantage? Rationale for Issues One of Whole Foods main strategic issues is how it should sustain positive growth in sales. Sales growth in 2008 was 0.8%‚ compared to sales growth increase of 8.2% in 2007. However‚ much of these low sales growth figures
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Whole foods was founded in 1980 in Austin‚ Texas with the staff of only 19 people and by 2009 whole foods was a leading brand in natural and organic food industry with 289 stores in USA‚ Canada and in Great Britain. Whole Foods offers highest quality‚ least processed‚ most favorable naturally preserved and fresh foods available‚ and it marketed them in appealing store environment with best customer service. As you can see in exhibit # 1‚ there are substitute for organic food. People can grow in
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Patrick Arnason MGMT 475 Paper #1 1/23/12 Ensuring Whole Food ’s Future The organic foods giant originated in 1978 as a simple dream by its CEO and founder John Mackey: to do something different with food. His vision first began with the simply realization of food ’s importance in personal well-being. It all began as a humble storefront in Austin Texas‚ Mackey and his then girlfriend‚ Renee Hardy‚ who made everything from scratch and helped develop this grocer empire. Together‚ their budding
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SWOT Analysis Strengths Passion for high quality products. Leader in Organic Foods Customized facilities. Incentive system for Employees Weaknesses High prices Large store size Opportunities Growth through Achievements Increasing attractiveness of health food industry Brand image through community sponsored events Threats Local grocers increasing organic food options Large store size preventing “in and out” consumers Economy troubles: customers switching to lower
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Whole Foods Case Analysis 1. The chief elements of the strategy that Whole Foods Market is pursuing are whole foods‚ whole people‚ and whole planet. The whole foods portion describes the type of product being offered. The products are as close to natural as possible. Whole people describe the type of environment the employees have at Whole Foods Market. The employees are treated fairly‚ passionate‚ and highly motivated. Lastly‚ whole planet refers to the responsibility companies and individuals
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chief elements of strategy being pursued by Whole Foods Market (WFM) began with setting the direction in which the company wanted to focus it ’s attention and developing the core values upon which they would base their operations. According to the case study from our text‚ WFM clearly chose to specialize in a particular market: natural and organic foods (Thompson‚ Jr. et al. 2010‚ p. C-2). Once they successfully established themselves as a local market‚ the company focused their resources on growth
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| Whole foods Market | Financial Findings | Table of contents: Summary of Operations…………………………………………………………….3-4 Financial position…………………………………………………………………….4-6 Financial ratios……………………………………………………………………...6-10 Historical view of the financial performance…………………………………....11-13 Industry comparison……………………………………………………………….14-15 References……………………………………………………………………………..16 Appendix……………………………………………………………………………16-28 (Investopedia) (Investopedia) (Yahoo Finance) II. Summary
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2006‚ Whole Foods had adapted into the “worlds largest retail chain of natural organic foods supermarkets.” Whole Foods rapid growth and achievements is primarily due to being highly selective about what they sell‚ and also maintaining quality standards and integrity. Whole Food’s cited mission statement is to “promote vitality and well-being for all individuals by offering the highest quality‚ least processed‚ and most flavorful natural and naturally preserved foods available. Whole Food’s
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Summer 2013 Whole Foods Case Analysis Since John Mackey opened the first Whole Foods Market in 1980‚ Whole Foods has grown into one of the largest supermarkets chain in the nation. In the 80s‚ Whole Foods expanded mostly through acquisition. By late 90s and early 2000s‚ Whole Foods expanded more through opening their own new stores. By 2006‚ it became the nation’s largest natural foods retail chain and was listed on the Fortune 500 list. This paper is going to discuss Whole Foods’ strategy‚ the
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Industry Analysis Dominant Industry Characteristics Since going public in 1991‚ Whole Foods has focused on acquiring other small owner-managed natural and organic food stores as well as opening new stores of their own. However in 2002-2006‚ they decided that instead of making acquisitions‚ Whole Foods growth strategy would be based on opening new stores. Whole Foods chooses upscale‚ urban metropolitan areas to place their stores. These locations are high traffic shopping locations‚
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