Teaching Case Note 08 - Panera Bread Company CASE TEACHING NOTE 8 Panera Bread Company OVERVIEW As Panera Bread Company headed into 2007, it was continuing to swiftly expand its market presence. The companys strategic intent was to make great bread broadly available to consumers across the United States. It had opened 155 new company-owned and franchised bakery-cafes in 2006, bringing its total to 1,027 units in 36 states. Plans were in place to open another 170 to180 caf locations in 2007 and to have nearly 2,000 Panera Bread bakery-cafs open by the end of 2010. Management was confident that Panera Breads attractive menu and the dining ambiance of its bakerycafs provided significant growth opportunity, despite the fiercely competitive nature of the restaurant industry.
Sainsbury’s Background information Sainsbury’s is the UK’s longest standing major food retailing chain which was founded in 1869 being established as a partnership when John Sainsbury’s and his wife opened a store in Holborn, London. Selling fresh foods then later expanding into packaged groceries like tea and sugar. Today Sainsbury’s has 1,200 super markets and convenience stores employing over 161,000 people. Sainsbury’s was the largest grocery retailer in 1922, as 1995 came, Tesco became the market leader and Asda became the second largest putting Sainsbury’s in third place. Ownership Sainsbury’s PLC is a Public limited company which means that they have their shared bought and sold on the stock exchange.
They make 35 percent of market share in Italy and 22 percent market share in Europe. In addition to the family of pastas (macaroni, spaghetti, fusilli, etc.) it also manufactures bread, cookies, biscuits, rusks, sauces, breadsticks, etc. During the late 1980s, Barilla suffered increasing operational inefficiencies and cost penalties that resulted from large week-to-week variations in its distributors’ order patterns. Issues The largest issue effecting distributor demand is Barilla’s promotion offerings.
Tootsie has approximately 15,000 customers including grocery stores, dollar stores, vendors, and super markets. Tootsie’s brand included many candy bars such as Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pop, Charms Blow Pop, Junior Mints, Andes, Sugar Daddy, and Charleston Chew. Tootsie employs approximately 2,200 individuals and is an equal opportunity employer. Tootsie’s sales are usually stable throughout the whole year with a sharp increase in sales in the third quarter. This spike in sales is greatly attributed to the Halloween holiday.
Eventually in 1951 john opened his first small bakery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne selling bread. In the early 70’s they entered into Scotland, Yorkshire and Manchester. Now they own over 1,500 shops, selling not only bread but a variety of bakery products. Greggs is now a growing phenomenon with an increasing number of stores. Greggs now have more stores in Britain than major food outlets e.g.
Passing through a difficult time, Unilever managed to develop a successful business, that was influenced by world war, economic boom, changing consumer lifestyles and advanced techonology. Now the main area in which the company business is going in si foods, personale care and home care. Unilever sales their products in shops, fast foods and supermarkets, through other companies . Compass Group is a company founded over 60 years, starting in 1940`s in the United Kingdom as “ Factory Conteens LTD ” . The company developed it`s business in the catering and foods area over the years, and she has been joined by many other companies during the time, becoming bigger and developing a greater business .
By far, the restaurant has the most locations in the fine dining steak house industry category beating its closest rival by nearly 30 locations. Enjoying its success, The company decided to go public with an IPO offering in 2005 that raised over $154 million in new equity capital. As expected, the company now faced high expectation of increasing share holder equity through expansion and profitability. Dan Hannah, vice president of business development was responsible for development of a new business strategy focused on continued growth of the company owned restaurants as well as franchisee owned. He saw major opportunities in expanding abroad and regularly fields inquiries from prospective franchise owners around the world.
Food and drugstores are still the biggest retail channels. Sales from mass merchandising is steadily increasing. Paramount is facing direct competition from the following companies: Benet & Klein- Are the market leaders and have been in the industry since 1985. With three products in line – Vitric (Moderate segment, declining product), Vitric advanced (Super premium segment, decline stage), Vitric Master (Super premium segment, growth stage). Prince- Are also market leaders and have been in the industry since 1950.
Introduction: Oscar Mayer was founded in 1883 and developed on the principle of quality over price. The key philosophy being “There’s always a better way”. The company rapidly grew and Oscar Mayer became the leading manufacturer of processed meats. In 1979 the company acquired Louis Rich, Inc. to broaden its product portfolio to include white meat. Shortly after the acquisition, Oscar Mayer was purchased by General Foods Corporation (parent company of Kraft Foods) and is currently the fastest growing division at Kraft.
Introduction The impact of the Olivetti brand upon Italian and global design was quite a considerable and far-reaching one. The concepts and practices put into place within the company, production lines, professional community, social spaces and territorial organisation revolutionised the means and manner in which modern industry interacted with society. Founded in 1908 in Ivrea, the company initially produced just typewriters, but expanded exponentially over the next decades to touch upon multiple other sectors; an aggregation that seemed to many to be an eclectic approach to business but rapidly gained supporters for it’s comprehensive philosophy. At the root of the Olivetti philosophy stood the belief of integration between the modern industrial