отрасли : На рынке мороженого работали по меньшей мере шесть японских производителей, выпускавших, в том числе, мороженое класса суперлюкс. Крупнейшая японская компания по производству замороженных десертов, Marigana Seika,в 1995 году дважды делала Ben and Jerry предложения о сотрудничестве. 2. Новые конкуренты : Большое присутствие американских компании на Японском рынке. 3. Потребители : Японцы любят продукты высокого качества, но нет традиции есть десерты и не признают пищу животного происхождения
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Ben & Jerry’s Market Research Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Opening Page ................................................................................................................................................... i Table of Contents............................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction .........................................................................................
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‘It’s Business, Man!': Unions and ‘Socially Responsible’ Corporations Liza Featherstone ▪ Fall 1999 “How do you feel?” roared Jerry Greenfield, CEO and co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company that has (in the public imagination, at least) long epitomized corporate social responsibility. He posed this question a few years ago to the audience at the company’s folk music festival, held annually in mansion-packed Newport, Rhode Island. “I feel good!” roared back the Teva-and tie-dye-clad
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Question: Visit Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream website. After studying the information contained within this website, assess Ben & Jerry's record on meeting social responsibility goals? How does this company meet its discretionary responsibilities? Give examples of social responsibility actions taken by Ben & Jerry's, and outline them in a brief synopsis. Do you think that more businesses should adopt their strategy? Why, or why not? 200-300 words Instruction Ben & Jerry's Homemade
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BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE ICE CREAMS ANALYSIS OF CASE What was Ben supposed to do? Why was he unable to do so? Ben was supposed to look at the BIG PICTURE. He wanted to benefit the lower class of employees. He used pay ratio 5:1 as a mean to do so and set the pay scales of senior employees below the industry average. He should have given senior executives some reasons to stay with the company by giving them salary packages close to the industry average, by financing their training/education/on-job-MBA
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Ben & Jerry Opportunities Growing demand for quality ice cream in overseas markets, this will allow Ben & Jerry to take advance of the opportunity to expand their company overseas to bring in more profit and marketing for the company. It will also let them share their famous ice cream which Ben & Jerry was founded on and open up some ice cream shop overseas trying to get a wider customer base like McDonald have overseas. Ben & Jerry will have a much more diversion customer base and new flavor that
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Finance VII Cases in Finance Executive Team Summaries (3-4 pages) 1. Introduction a. Main facts of the case: Ben & Jerry is being a victim of a hostile takeover. Because they aren’t reaching their full potential. They’ve been increasing their revenues, but, with a slower rate than their main competitors, making them nearly mediocre. They have a very strong commitment with the community, with social responsible programs and with organizations like Greenpeace. b. Most important
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LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 439 Part 3 Closing Cases Ben & Jerry’s—Japan On an autumn evening in Tokyo in 1997, Perry Odak, Angelo Pezzani, Bruce Bowman, and Riv Hight gratefully accepted the hot steaming oshibori towels their kimonobedecked waitress quietly offered. It had been just over nine months since Odak had committed to resolving the conundrum of whether to introduce Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to the Japanese market and, if so, how. The next morning would be
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Ben and Jerry Case study By Shelly Lee May 22, 2011 History: The Company was founded b y two friends who were unhappy in their current jobs. Deciding that being business owners would make them happier they decided to go into business. The first venture in to bagels did not work out. Upon taking a class from Penn University in ice cream they opened a dip shop. The company carried the owners resolve to live in a more rural culture. The company experienced a lot of growth, rapid, and the
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FIN 689 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Case 3 Ang Xiao Case Study: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade (Case 3) This case focuses on the issues of asset control of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc with the four outstanding takeover offers by Dreyer’s Grand, Unilever, Meadowbrook Lane Capital and Chartwell Investment in 2001. Through the analysis of the four offers, I suggest the Board accept the Unilever’s offer. The advantage and disadvantage of each offer is discussed following. Dreyer’s Grand The offer does not
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