Description: Barry’s Creamery will be a sit-in ice cream shop located in the heart of downtown Halifax. Barry’s will offered ice cream made in store, and customers will be able to dispense their own ice cream, select their own toppings, and prepare the ice cream toppings themselves. Barry’s ice cream will be sold by weight.
Globalization
Globalization is one way to lower our costs and participate in the global economy. Barry's will be importing its soft ice cream machines from Saniserv in the United States. The Saniserv Company has been manufacturing ice cream machines “since 1929” (Saniserv, 2013, para.2) and their products are of high quality and low price. Our absolute advantage is that we can get lower price machines of higher quality machines from the United States compared to ice cream machine companies in Canada.
Business Structure
A general partnership will be used for Barry’s creamery: this enables all the partners to share in the management and profits. Each partner can act on behalf of the business, but every partner is liable. The partnership allows for more capital and easy start up: furthermore, the business will not have to pay income taxes. There are some disadvantages, including unlimited liability as well as rules between the partners. These issues will be addressed in the Partnership Agreement (“Partnership Agreement”, 2013) see Appendix C, in hopes to have a smooth running business maximizing all the benefits.
Ethics
Establishing ethics is a significant part of the development of Barry's, see Appendix D. Although it will not necessarily bring direct economic benefits to the enterprise, it can help establish a good brand and build a strong corporate image, thus perhaps indirectly leading to economic benefits for the enterprise. Barry's ethics will consist of a series of standards created
