...Cresente G. Siglos Jr. MBA 231- StratMan Brewing Change at Breckenridgre Brewery Summary of the Case Back in the 1980s, founder Richard Squire was your typical ski bum – with one significant difference. He had a knack for making extraordinary home brews. For years, only his closest friends were able to enjoy his creations, but it didn’t take long for Richard to realize that his talents needed to be shared with the world. Craft Brewing represented a “blend of art and science” where focus was on variety, freshness, and quality. By only using the purest and finest ingredients, no adjuncts, and no pasteurization, these brewers felt that the quality of craft beers stood apart from the mass production of other more prominent beers. In 1994, Ed Cerkovnik joined Breckenridge Brewery as a 50/50 partner. Most of the people at Breckenridge Brewery agreed that Ed was “brilliant” and looked to for leadership.” Since his arrival at Breckenridge Brewery, Ed had provided legal counsel, credibility with various sources of financing, as well as deals structuring and negotiating skills, and had been looked to as the unofficial COO of the company. Ed had been a partner in the law firm that represented Breckenridge Brewery when he decided to make the move from law to business. Richard provided a great deal of vision and creativity while Ed provided discipline and strong analytical skills. Ed’s first tasks were to consolidate ownership, raise new capital, and solidify license and development...
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...University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Honors Theses Student Scholarship Spring 2012 Microbrewing in the US: An overview of the microbrewery industry and a business plan for future success Kevin Lapoint University of New Hampshire - Main Campus Follow this and additional works at: http://scholars.unh.edu/honors Part of the Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons Recommended Citation Lapoint, Kevin, "Microbrewing in the US: An overview of the microbrewery industry and a business plan for future success" (2012). Honors Theses. Paper 9. This Senior Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact scholarly.communication@unh.edu. Microbrewing in the US An Overview of the Microbrewery Industry and a Business Plan for Future Success Kevin Lapoint Business Administration, Finance and Management Whittemore School of Business & Economics Kpe8@unh.edu (603) 988-3438 Advisor: Prof. Fiona Wilson Whittemore School of Business & Economics 5/5/2012 Kevin Lapoint Microbrewing in the US Acknowledgements I would like to thank my brother Douglas, my mother and father, and especially my brother Richard. Without their support, edits, and...
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...American Microbrewery beer is a better quality beer than imported beerAnthony Perrone Activity 9.1 Classical Argument Position Paper Thesis: American Microbrewery beer is a better quality beer than imported beer The majority of Americans automatically associate American beer with the standard Miller, Coors and Budweiser. When in retrospect they are missing out on true “American made” beer. With the general population being content with the “big three” brewers, some Americans demand more out of their beer which steers their attention to an imported beer. Imported beer offers a variety of flavors and different styles, which the big brewers don’t offer, tempting Americans to choose one. What people don’t realize is that America has a lot of good quality micro brewed beer that comes in more flavors and styles than imports have to offer and is a better quality beer. With the craft beer market rising rapidly in the United States, there is a colossal variety of tasty brew to be had. The trademark of craft beer and craft brewers is innovation. When people accuse American beer of being dull and boring, the first thing that comes to mind is big name breweries like Budweiser, Miller or Coors. Al Davenport says “What they don’t know is that the U.S. has an extremely rich and diverse craft-brew industry that produces, by many accounts, some of the best, if not the best, beers on the planet” (Davenport, 2012). Top American microbreweries...
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...Good afternoon everyone, we chose Widmer Brothers company for our research.This is…. we gonna cover 4 main key facts behind their success including the Widmer brothers companys currently produce many European and American beer styles. Theyre one of the most successful stories in ORegon. The reason why I say that because the brothere Kurt and Rob widmer,also known as 2 founder of the widmer brothes, They started everyrthing with just their home brewing hobbies, and now they became an 11th largest brewing company in the us As a part of Craft brewer alliance. There orginal Brewery was a part of 4000 squarefoot ware house, same size as garages. With 2 brewers only they produce about 450 barrels/ years. After decade, these number changes completely diffrenct which is very impressive. Their current brewery right now about 6500 square foot , with more than 150 employees work there, they produce about 1200 barrels/ day. 450000/years. Here is timeline of Widmer Brothers 1984 Kurt and rob widmer turned their home brewing hobie in to actual vocation. That’s how Widmer Borthers was found 1989, The most popular product, unfilter wheat beer heifeweizen came out. I can say this the main key behind their success because mostly 2 out 3 of their sale was from heifeweizen. It has gain so much popularity for widmer throughtout the US 1997. Widmer sold the27% stake to anheuser busch in order to reach national market 2007 wimer brother officially announce to merge with the redhook ale company...
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...PSYCH Oyster Bar and Brew Pub Summary PSYCH will be located in Richland, WA near the Columbia River. It will be a relaxing and enjoyable Oyster Bar and Brew Pub, funded by private investors, with an Owner / Manager Type of organizational structure. There will be a full service, children friendly restaurant, along with a full service bar. The restaurant will primarily focus on oysters and the heart of the bar will be micro brews. We feel strongly about supporting our local communities, which is why all of our oysters and a vast majority of our microbrews will either be brewed or farmed right here in Washington State. The purpose behind PSYCH is to give people a place where they can indulge themselves with good food and good beer because they work hard and deserve it. We will make is a priority to promote a positive message within the community and sponsor local causes and charities when we can. Mission “It is our priority at PSYCH to ensure that each guest receives prompt, professional, and friendly service. We take great pride in keeping our property clean and professional, both inside and out. Our customers can be confident that they will receive food and drinks that are made using the highest of standards when it comes to quality and freshness. It is also paramount that all employees are able to work in an environment that is friendly, cooperative and rewarding.” Food Our oysters will be of the highest quality and will be delivered...
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...The market is ripe for it. The consumer base is also expanded beyond the college student to the beer drinking connoisseur. In recent years, craft brewers have sounded an alarm over the clout of Anheuser-Busch Inbev and MillerCoors, who today control 90 percent of the beer market. Craft brewers hold just 6 percent, but the market share is growing (Hieronymus, 2010). "Their preferred business model is an oligopoly," says Koch of the company that was once interwoven with his family. "I don't see them as trying to deliberately set out to destroy us. But we are very potentially the collateral damage." Oligopolies are small groups of firms that control a particular market. DogFish Head Brewery fits this description perfectly. Though many microbreweries are operating successfully, they are still only 6 percent of the market. They do however have the power in this specialty arena (Hieronymus, 2010). Mergers are a means of staying viable in business for some...
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...Strategic Plan Part II Swott Analysis BUS/475 Ed Miller Strategic Plan Part II Swott Analysis Big Wheel Brewing is a new and innovative craft beer brewing company. Big Wheel Brewing is dedicated to bringing their customers craft brews of the highest quality. Big wheel beers are made for people who prefer quality over quantity. Taste is the most important thing when it comes to brewing fine craft ales. An internal and external analysis will be conducted to determine the factors that have an impact on the success of the company. A SWOTT analysis will also be conducted to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Big wheel brewing along with threats and trends in the brewing industry. When analysis is complete it will help Big Wheel brewing know what they need to do to stay successful in the brewing industry. SWOTT Analysis Conducting a SWOTT Analysis requires Big Wheel Brewing to answer questions necessary to properly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses along with the threats and trends. Assessment of factors that will play a role in profits and losses is imperative to how effective the SWOTT analysis will be. The internal factors such as marketing and advertising will play a role as well as external factors such as customer’s wants and needs. After figuring out what the company’s strengths and weaknesses are Big wheel must identify the opportunities that can be taken advantage of for future company growth, Trends in the beer industry such as the consumers every changing...
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...Today JD Wetherspoon is one of the most well known pub chains in the UK and Ireland. With 35,000 people employed by the organisation and over 900 outlets it is easy to see why. They have grown significantly over the last 10 years as a new market for craft beers has opened up which Wetherspoons have taken full advantage of. They sell local craft beers and also well known brands at a fraction of the cost than most pubs in the industry. In the companies 2014 report it stated that it is the biggest purchaser of micro brewery beer and is supplied by over 400 micro breweries across the UK. The company is now publicly listed on the London stock exchange with owner Tim Martin still owning a large part of it. Wetherspoon has been an innovator in their respected industry and after gaining a stronghold in the pub industry they now own over 40 hotels across the UK which they like to call Wetherlodges. At the moment their hotels do not bring in half the money as their public houses do but there is room for expansion if the opportunity arises according to the founder Tim Martin. To add further to their innovation, they were one of the first to open their premises at 7am. Although you will not be able to get alcohol served. Wetherspoons did this to break into the breakfast market as alcohol sales were dropping. They have done very well in the breakfast market as consumers have endorsed the quality breakfast served at an affordable price. They are now in the top 3 of coffee sellers in the UK...
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...Egg cup holder First of all, I clamped the acrylic in a bench vice with two pieces of wood either side of it just to make sure it would not scratch the acrylic. The acrylic that I used was rough around the edges so using flat file I Cross filed to get rid of any saw cuts and draw filed it to get rid of any scratches made from the cross filing until the scratches were gone all around. I then got wet and dry paper and used grade 1200, 600 and 400 grits to make the surface finish smooth and shiny, it also gets rid of any dirt and grain left after the filing from the edges. I slowly brushed my fingers across the edges to see if the surface finish was smooth I left the protective plastic on the acrylic so I could mark out the centre of the 4 sided shape, then I used the pillar drill to cut out the circle on the Acrylic. Health and safety is very important in the making stages so I made sure I was wearing my apron and goggles so I could protect my clothes from any spillages such as the water from wet and dry and also protect my face from any bits of acrylic or wood chips that could fly out during the drilling. After the drilling, I used a template to mark out where I needed to bend the acrylic to actually form the shape off an egg cup holder. I used a strip heater to bend the acrylic, I placed the piece of acrylic on the heater where I marked out the line and kept flipping the piece of acrylic every few seconds so the acrylic didn’t melt. I quickly removed the acrylic and...
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...description of the film. A genre theory is useful and efficient in shortening academic works. Horror films seek elicit emotions that is a negative reaction from viewers by playing on the viewer’s primal fear. The horror films often deal with the fears of the viewer, nightmares, revulsion and unknown terrors. The plots of this genre include evil forces, personage or event, into the world we live in. The elements of the story include werewolves, ghosts, demons, serial killers, cannibals, evil witches, monsters, vampires, vicious animals, gore, and extraterrestrials. Genre helps the viewers decide what kind of films they enjoy watching. I will be discussing a summary of the movie Saw, what genre the movie is and what other sub-genres exist in this movie. One film that fits into the genre of horror is Saw. This film was made in 2004 and was directed by James Wan. The stars in the film were Danny Glover, Cary Elwes, and Leigh Whannell. This movie is about a .psychopathic killer who is set on teaching his victims the value of life by putting them into demented life or death games. It starts out with two men sitting on the floor of a dirty, disused bathroom, as the film progresses the audience notices the two men are chained up by their ankles and can only move as far as the chains let them. Between them is a dead man clutching a tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape in their back pocket. They play the tapes and...
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...of metal with an added cap for comfort and support while in use. Five parts, all separate and detachable make up this mechanism as follows: * The Frame * The Handle * The ergonomic cap The Blade * The frame The Turn Key Attachment * The Ergonomic Cap The turn key attachment The blade The handle Figure 1: The Lenox Tools 88300 Lightweight Hacksaw Source: www.lenoxtools.com The Frame The L shaped chrome frame is made of one piece of hollowed metal; the top is twelve inches long and rounded at the corner with the side six inches high. The frame is half inch wide on one edge and one inch on the other. The tag line “MORE TENSION. MORE CUTS” along with the tension capacity; a figure showing the maximum tension the saw can bare is printed in black on one of the one inch edges. Up to six spear blades can be stored in the top part of the handle. The Handle The Handle is a light ash grey with the company royal blue and lust red logo printed at the top on one side. It is rectangular and one of the shorter four inch sides attaches to the longer side of the frame which is inserted through a hole in the handle. The opposite end, the bottom has cut outs which allow the blade to be attached at the front for standard vertical cuts or at the base of the handle for horizontal cutting. One of the longer sides, the hand grip, is rounded on the inside for a comfortable grip when in...
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...BUS5431 - Managerial Accounting Individual Case Study 7-2 FIVE STAR TOOLS James Jiambalvo – Chapter 7 Case 2 Submitted by: K Greene Executive Summary: Five Star Tools is a small family-owned business that manufactures diamond-coated cutting tools (chisels and saws) used by jewelers. The production of these tools involves three major processes. The first of these processes involves steel “blanks” (tools without the diamond coating) that are cut to size. The second process involves the blanks being sent to a chemical bath that prepares the tools for the coating process. The final process is the major process in the line. The blanks are coated with diamond chips in a proprietary process that simultaneously coats and sharpens the blade of each tool. Following the coating process, each tool is inspected and defects are repaired or scrapped. In the past two years, the company has experienced significant growth and with that growth has come some growing pains. The company finds itself at capacity in the coating and sharpening process. This process requires highly skilled workers and expensive equipment. Because of growth a bottleneck has been created by this operational process and this in turn has cause the company to miss delivery deadlines on orders from several important customers. Maxfield Turner, the son of Frederick Turner, founder of Five Star Tools, president of the company is having a discussion over lunch with Betty Spence, vice president of marketing...
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...“The Inheritance of Tools” by Scott Russell Sanders Answer the following questions completely; be prepared to discuss your answers in class. 1. Note examples of figurative language in paragraph 1. Explain their effect. 2. Cite two examples of parallel syntax and explain their effect. 3. Consider the speaker’s use of direct quotations from his father. Describe the tone delivered by those quotations. 4. Consider the organization of the essay, noting particularly the sections about the gerbils (paragraphs 1725). How does that section contribute to the overall effect? 5. Read paragraph 20. Explain the purpose of Sanders’s reference to the grand events included there. 6. Explain the rhetorical effect of the allusions that Sanders includes in paragraph 25. 7. Drawing from anywhere in Sanders’s essay, select one particularly striking verb. Explain its effect. 8. Read carefully the final sentence of the essay. Discuss the effectiveness of concluding with this selection of details. 9. Discuss the significance of the title “The Inheritance of Tools,” and of the word “inheritance” as it relates to the piece as a whole. The Inheritance of Tools, by Scott Russell Sanders At just about the hour when my father died, soon after dawn one February morning when ice coated the windows like cataracts, I banged my thumb with a hammer. Naturally I swore at the hammers the reckless thing, and in the moment of swearing I thought of what my father would say: "If you'd try hitting the nail it would...
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...STEPS TO ACCESS ORACLE SERVER AND CERTAIN BASIC QUERIES (Note: To access the oracle server, sometimes it is required to create a cspc1 account. If the username and password step described below doesn’t work then create a cspc1 account from university website at http://cs.uwindsor.ca/password and use those credentials in the steps described below.) 1. First, download “bitvise ssh client” from the university website on your local machine. This is a secure shell required to connect to the oracle server. A link to download this ssh is as follows: bitvise download. 2. Once this SSH is downloaded, connect to the server using the following credentials: Hostname: cs.uwindsor.ca Username: enter your unique username (same as that of university website) Password: enter your unique password (same as that of university website)Port number: usually it is 22. 3. After step 2, you will observe that on connecting to the server, a new terminal window appears on the screen along with the ssh. 4. On this terminal window, which opens with your account information, type in “sqlplus”. 5. Again, the system will ask you for your username and password credentials. Please enter the same. 6. On entering your credentials on the terminal window you will see that you have finally connected to the server and can now try working with all the possible queries you need which are illustrated below. Now, let us work with tables after we get access to the database server...
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...1 COMM101 TECHNICAL WRITING ADVANCED KNIFE SHARPENING TECHNIQUES INTRODUCTION As the amounts of disposable income for the average family have fallen with the decline of the economy, people have become much more selective about where they spend their money. The restaurant that takes advantage of recent innovations in kitchen gadget technology to save themselves money could pass the savings to their customers and build their business in hard times. Growth being the goal of every business, it is essential that we research and implement any innovations which could give us such an advantage. CURRENT KNIFE SHARPENING METHODS Currently, our kitchen uses two different approaches when sharpening our knives which are: periodic sharpening by a local knife sharpening company and hand-held sharpening stones used to hone the edge when necessary. Both of these methods have advantages and disadvantages. ADVANTAGES OF PROFESSIONAL SHARPENING All of our knives are sharpened at the same time: when the knives are returned, all of them are sharp and ready for immediate kitchen use The blades are honed to a razor edge: all of our knives are as sharp as the day they were purchased Edge lasts for a long time: if not abused, the edge stays sharp for three weeks on average DISADVANTAGES OF PROFESSIONAL SHARPENING No periodic touch-ups: the sharpening company will only sharpen our knives on our scheduled date Two day turnaround time: we deliver our knives on Saturday...
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