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.
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.
Table of Contents Company Overview…………………………….……………………...3 Financial Statements…………………………………….……………4 Summary of Financial Statements………………………………8 Ratio Calculations…………………………………………………….10 Comparison of Ratios………………………………………...……..11 Discussion of Key Statistics……………………………………….12 Forecast…………………………………………………………………...13 Other Pertinent Information……………………………………..14 Recommendation……………………………………………………..15 Reference Page…………………………………..…………………….16 Company Overview: Publix Super Markets, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. It is the largest and fastest growing employee owned supermarket chain in the United States. Publix is a privately held company with operating stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. Publix was founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida. It has since grown into a Fortune 500 company with more than 1,000 stores.
As Sainsbury's have a hierarchical structure they are most likely to lose a lot of money because for the marketing and research and development departments to carry out their functions they would need funding from the finance department. For this information to get to the finance department a lot of time would have been wasted and also for the finance department to reply to them, all this would cost them a lot of money. Advantages of Sainsbury's is that the power they have would be successful for the business as when work is being done the communication of the workers together when given commands from the manager and having to work better for the manager to impress them in order for more work to be done and at a more well-organized rate then if there was no pressure from the manager. Disadvantages would be that the workers would start to get stressed from having to complete the workload at too fast a pace for them to work at all times that they will start to work less and dislike there job and some days may not want to work as they are stressed to do work which is too much for them to cope as they are trying too hard to impress, this could lead to employees wanting to quit their job. Advantages are that when having to complete work set out by the manager to the employees it can be done efficiently so that the manager will be able to assess the employee and they could get a promotion to a higher part of their job.
Low customer satisfaction is another internal weakness that is crucial to the success of CanGo. Another internal weakness includes severe communication issues within CanGo’s management and employees. External threats such as competition, plays a big role in the future success of CanGo. Your organizations internal organizational strengths such as online growth, and cost advantage offers great potential if properly utilized. Another external threat includes economic slowdown.
Barilla Spa SYNOPSIS Barilla Spa, founded in 1875 by Pietro Barilla, was the world’s largest pasta producer. After going through a few acquisitions and building the largest and the most technologically advanced pasta plant in the world, Barilla dominated the Pasta Products industry. Barilla revolutionized the Italian pasta industry’s marketing practices by creating a strong brand name and image for its pasta, selling pasta in a sealed cardboard box with a recognizable color, rather than in bulk, and investing in large scale advertising programs. Although the company had seen a lot of growth in the last few years, by late 1980’s the market as a whole was relatively flat, growing at the rate of less than 1%. In contrast, the export market was growing at a tremendous rate, exporting to most of the European countries, at the rate of 20-25% per year.
Panera Bread Case Study Introduction Panera Bread is expanding quickly across North America, operating 1,388 company-owned and franchise-operated bakery-cafes in 40 states and in Ontario Canada as of March 30, 2010, under the Panera Bread®, Saint Louis Bread Co. ® and Paradise Bakery & Café® names. Panera Bread reported sales of 829 million dollars and met income of 58.8 million dollars in 2006. Panera Bread bakery-cafes totaled 1.2 billion dollars in 2006. In 2005, for the fourth consecutive year, Panera Bread was rated among the best o f 121 competitors in the Sandleman&Associates national customer satisfaction survey of more than 62000 consumers. Current Situation Mission Statement: - A loaf of bread in every arm.
John Gregg opened a small bakery on Gosforth High Street in 1951. With a single shop and bakery at the rear, Greggs began to bake superb quality bread, using flour milled from specially selected wheat for that distinctive Greggs taste and texture. The expansion of the company was well underway by 1984, when it had more than 260 shops in four main areas of the country. From there onwards, Greggs was on the Stock Exchange and continued to expand, opening shops in the Midlands, Wales and North London. Today, Greggs has nearly 1,600 shops and aim to open 600 new shops over the next few years.
PANERA BREAD CASE STUDY MARKETING FUNDAMENTALS 62.501.032 PHUONG LE APRIL 16, 2012 I. Executive Summary Since its inception, Panera Bread ‘s focus has been on the Specialty Bread/Bakery-Café category. The company ‘s goal has been to make Panera Bread a nationally dominant brand name. Toward that end, the focus has been primarily on expansion into additional suburban markets, going from 66 to 485 cafes in just 4 years. As of 2006, the restaurant industry was growing by 5% a year.
Introduction / Thesis Panera Bread Company is a very successful business that has the potential for continual growth and upward opportunities. It was founded in 1993 and established in May 1999 as a national restaurant, Panera Bread. The company operates or franchises 1,362 bakery-cafes in 40 states and 17 facilities that deliver fresh dough to the bakery-cafes every day. In 2005, Panera ranked 37th on Business Week’s list of “Hot Growth Companies”, earning $38.6 million with a 42.9% increase in profits. In 2008, the restaurant expanded into Canada.