KRAFT FOODS COFFEE PODS PAPER ID: 001708049 I. Situation Analysis Over the course of a hundred years, Kraft foods has evolved from a cheese manufacturer into a multi-billion dollar food and beverage company, including fifty $100-million brands and five $1-billion brands, established in over 155 countries around the world. Their five operation objectives include: building superior brand value, enhancing product demand, aligning product portfolios with consumer trends, increasing international business, and building savings for reinvestment in brand building. Kraft Foods has a strong brand portfolio, an effective distribution network, and a reputation for developing original new products. One of these innovative new products is the Single Serve Coffee Pod (SSP), a machine that can brew one cup of coffee at a time.
The customers can be classified into two kinds: the long-standing customers like residents and faculties, and temporary customers like students and visitors. In September 2009, Tim Hortons will open up its first store in the West Mall Complex (WMX) of SFU, replacing Raven's Cafe and Chartwells. Tim Hortons is a fast-serve coffee franchise that serves coffee, espresso products, cold beverages, sweets such as donuts, and breakfast, lunch and dinner meals. The company’s quality products, combined with a strong reputation for service and reliability, allow them to attract and maintain a large and loyal customer base nationwide. Although Tim Hortons and Renaissance Coffee operate in different segments of the coffee market, and differ strongly from atmosphere and business structure, to product quality and product pricing, Renaissance's sales level may still be strongly affected by this opening.
Starbucks provides a variety of coffees and es pres s os as well as fres h food items including pas tries , s andwiches , s alads , and other items . Additionally, it s ells branded bottled co ffees and ice cream. Starbucks als o owns s everal brands including Seattle’s Bes t Coffee and Tazo tea. Starbucks Corporation was given a weighting of 20% becaus e of its brand image and appeal to its target market. Starbucks offers a s imilar fres h ingredien t environment and values its employees highly.
Liberty University Final Group Paper BUSI520 –B21 Jeffrey Wietholter, Nathaniel Martin, Richard Oros, John Rafoss, Kevin Staples March 7, 2012 Executive Summary Keurig is today’s fastest growing home and business single cup coffee maker. Their invention of the single K-Cup coffee roasting product has revolutionized the coffee industry. Keurig today is a subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). GMCR prides itself on producing premium all natural coffee beans and is now providing the coffee for Keurig’s K-Cups. Written below is an integrated marketing analysis of Keurig’s current business.
This includes marketing items such as their Via® Ready Brew instant coffee product, and their Seattle’s Best Coffee brand (Starbucks, 2011). Their strategic plan also includes a focus on innovating appropriate new products, such as the coffee brewing machine mentioned earlier. Another component of their strategic plan is to increase their global products line. In order to do this they had to dissolve a distribution agreement with their former distributor. They are also focused on advertising.
Under the new leadership and organizational move, the company will transition to a new three-region organizational structure that is hopeful to produce optimization and speed going forward. In each region, a president is appointed and they all will report to Howard Schultz, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks Coffee Company ("Starbucks announces new," July). Although this expansion is sure to help add on to the building momentum of the company, I think the organizational structure is typical of many successful companies. I wanted to examine a company that has garnered success with more of an unorthodox structure and Whole Foods is
Not only did it make sense to expand their business beyond jams, jellies, and preserves, but it may have saved them. After acquiring Jif and Crisco in the beginning of their transition, and then acquiring other various brands such as Hungry Jack, Pillsbury and Folgers, they have become one of America’s biggest producers of breakfast foods and beverages. Without these business ventures, it is unsure whether Smuckers would have survived. Because the processed food industry is ever-changing, businesses must find ways to stay competitive. Smuckers not only did this, but came out on top.
Ceje Davis American Intercontinental University Unit 5 Individual Project MKTG 205 – Principles of Marketing 12/14/2014 Abstract Starbucks Incorporated has become a regular from the coffee shop to your own home, and even across the world. The company wide marketing as worked for the last 30 years and will continue to grow as coffee becomes more popular around the world. Starbucks Incorporated Introduction Starbucks is an international coffeehouse franchise company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world’s largest coffeehouse and coffee chain with 11,500 stores in the United States, and more than 20,000 stores worldwide in 55 countries. Starbucks locations serve hot and cold beverages, whole-bean coffee, micro- ground instant coffee, full leaf teas, pastries, and snacks.
Environmental Factors Paper MKT/421 University of Phoenix Starbucks business activities cover a numerous range of places and this allows for Starbucks to use different routes for distributing products. Many different locations cause the environmental factors to be important when making marketing decisions. The distribution channels are affected in different ways and Starbucks being flexible in their marketing plan allows for things to be adjusted meeting the needs of the environmental factors. Starbucks is known as the largest coffee company in the world. They purchase and roast high quality whole bean coffee and serve it with different beverages and even sell coffee-related accessories and equipment.
At the same time, the company still remains highly popular among its American customers. In such a situation it is obvious that the company could hardly achieve such results without its aggressive policy of market expansion. It should be pointed out that the company steadily implemented the strategy of the market expansion in the course of its development. At the beginning, Starbucks basically focused on the regional level but, as the company continued growing the necessity to expand its presence on the national level became obvious. Nowadays the company continues its traditional strategy of the market expansion but, unlike in the past, it is not focused on the national market solely.