investment. 2. CASE STUDY Gourmet Ateliar (Hong Kong) Ltd., founded in 1955 is one of the region’s primary and premium food manufacturers and distributors. Its clients range from international chain hotels to Michelin star restaurants to fast food chains and caterers. The company carries only the best international brands of meat, poultry, seafood and dairy. Besides distributing international brands of gourmet fine foods, Gourmet Ateliar has its very own house brands of
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Kudler Fine Foods: Comparison and Contrast Team C FIN 370: Finance for Business Gerald Maurer January 18, 2010 Kudler Fine Foods: Comparison and Contrast In this final paper Team C will discuss the viable options for Kudler Fine Foods and their expansion operations. The options that will be discussed are; going public through an IPO, acquiring another company in the same industry, and a merger with another organization. We then will show the strengths and weaknesses to each approach
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competitiveness can be attained only when the firm’s selected structure is congruent with its formulated strategy” (Gomez-Mejia et al., Chapter 7, pg 28). Kudler Fine Foods continues to manifest growth based on Mrs. Kudler’s original vision of a one stop gourmet food store. Having direct control over hiring, ordering and customer service, she has built the company into an expanding entity. The following is a discussion of strategy implementation, technology and opportunities, strategic recommendations and
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has a customer dissatisfaction rate above 20%. Listed from weakest to weak; good value, good selection, courteous, and knowledgeable staff categories show red flags. These four categories alone define Kathy Kudler’s mission for creating an upscale gourmet shopping experience. The areas KFF most wants to prevail are the areas given the most dissatisfaction by customers. Looking into the 2011 market survey, it shows that dissatisfaction is rising in other categories. KFF strengths in 2011 according
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In 1998 Kathy Kudler came up with an innovative marketing idea for her community, she created Kudler Fine Foods. Kathy created this one stop gourmet shop to alleviate the frustration of her fellow gourmet cooks who like her were tired of going from place to place to find special ingredients. The marketing approach she took was to do more than offer these ingredients to her future customers; she marketed herself as offering the freshest and finest ingredients available. Kathy also aimed to appeal
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research for Barkley Foods, had just left an emergency meeting with the firm’s president. An opportunity to buy an established line of gourmet (high-quality/high-priced) frozen dinners had arisen. Because there were other interested buyers, a decision had to be made within three or four weeks. This decision depended on judgments about the future prospects of the gourmet frozen dinner market and whether Barkley could achieve a competitive advantage. The marketing research group was asked to provide as
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prices rose in 2011 due to the increase demand and reduced coffee supply. In 2010, coffee prices increased more than fifty percent causing the price of coffee to rise tremendously. The short supply of Arabic coffee bean varietals are used for many gourmet coffee, premium coffee, and specialty coffee. They are used by Starbuck’s, Community Coffee, and other major coffee roasters and retailers. With the increase in professionals the demand for premium coffee has increased as well. In Brazil, India, and
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Week-4 Kudler Fine Foods Lawrence Callahan ECO-365 July 31, 2013 Dan Ershadi e I | Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale / specialty gourmet grocery food store catering to high end clientele who are seeking the finer things in life. They opened their doors in June of 1998 and currently have three locations in the San Diego area (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas). Each is about the same size with approximately 8,000 square feet of retail space, each providing the same products. Kudler’s is more
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Wallace cites in the beginning of his article the audience intended to read this article, “The assigned subject of this Gourmet article is the 56th annual MLF” (236). By directly establishing his audience, Wallace's piece becomes controversial. The reason for this is because his audience consists of well informed food critics, not animal activists. Since the essence of his
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