Brochure More information from http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/1226320/ Innocent Drinks Case Study: Capitalizing on the Health Trend in the Smoothie Category Description: This case study on Innocent Drinks forms part of The case studies series, which explores business practices across a variety of disciplines and business sectors. It focuses on the company's achievements as it copes with recession, competition and takeovers. Key reasons to purchase this title - Gain insight into
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the story of the meteoric rise of smoothie makers Innocent Drinks shows what can be achieved in a tough, highly competitive category. Innocent's strategies are not elusive, nor unachievable rather, they are steps that any company can easily take to propel its brands to new levels. Thanks to frank, in-depth interviews with the company's founders, New Nutrition Business has been in the unique position of tracking the rise and rise of Innocent Drinks to its current status as the world's fourth-largest
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Introduction The company I choose to focus on for this assignment is innocent drink. Innocent drink is a smoothies company set up by three friends. In this assignment I shall focus on one of the founders which is Richard Reed. I will look into what inspired him to start his business, his upbringing, education, and his influences. I will link my findings to the 5 big personality traits and connect this to Richard Reed Innocent Drinks is a company that makes smoothies, juice and veg pots, sold in supermarkets
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the end of the day the yes bin was full. They gave up their jobs the following day and Innocent Drinks was formed (innocent, our story) The creation of this company was difficult for the three friends who had no money, they asked their friends for rich contacts and were introduced to Maurice Pinto, a wealthy American who lent them £250,000 after seeing the potential of their plan. After six years, Innocent operates from Fruit Towers in Shepherd’s Bush, an office block with faux-grass walls and
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Plan For A Product Of Innocent Drinks Marketing Essay The report describes the marketing plan for the repositioning of the product “This Water” offered by “Innocent Drinks”. Company was founded in 1999 and offers smoothies and flavoured spring water in Super markets, coffee shops, cinemas and other outlets in UK and other countries. Company has decided to re-launch its existing product “This Water” in the cinemas in the UK with the new name “This Water Plus”. This report covers the marketing plan
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How does innocent conduct market research? Surveys: What innocent do is “They hired a stall at a music festival and asked customers who bought a drink, “Should we quit our jobs to make smoothes?”. People could choose whether to throw their empty smoothie bottles into a bin marked “Yes” or “No”. (http://www.utalkmarketing.com/Pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=4113&Title=The_marketing_secrets_behind_Innocent_Drinks ). By this method which is a survey you can see that Innocent is using primary research
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My chosen Company is Innocent. It was founded by three friends who met at Cambridge University in the early 1990's. They sold their first Smoothies at a music festival having spent £500 on fruit for the Smoothies. When finished their Smoothies, customers were asked to put their empty bottles in either a “Yes” bin or a “No” bin. The question the customers were asked was whether the guys should quit their jobs to make Smoothies. When they checked the bins, the “Yes” bin was full with only
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FOM_C02.qxd 1/15/09 1:15 PM Page 51 The Global Marketing Environment Case 2 innocent Ltd: being good is good for business In a world of big commercial brands that promise to make you feel younger, look better or live longer, occasionally there are those that come along that try to be more grounded, more real and more authentic. A classic case in point was the Body Shop chain of cosmetic shops, which did not promise to reverse ageing or get rid of wrinkles but instead offered
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gave up our jobs over five years ago and started making innocent smoothies. The idea was to make it easy for people to do themselves some good. And to make it taste nice too. We wanted people to think of innocent drinks as their one healthy habit; like going to the gym, but without the communal shower afterwards We call them innocent because our drinks are always completely pure, fresh and unadulterated. Anything you ever find in an innocent bottle will always be 100% natural and delicious -and if
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The organizational structure, ownership and growth of ‘Innocent Drinks’ from its beginning to the present date In 1998, three Cambridge University graduates, Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright sold their first drinks, smoothies, from a stall at a music festival in London after spending six months on writing the recipes with only £500 as the starting capital. “Should we give up our jobs to make smoothies” were written on a banner in front of the stall. There were two bins marked as “Yes” and
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