Executive Summary Americans love their doughnuts. There’s no doubt about this fact. Among the leaders of the retail doughnut industry in the United States, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. offers a wide variety of doughnuts at select markets nationwide, including the signature “Original Glazed.” Add a bright neon-light sign indicating “Hot Doughnuts Now” at every Krispy Kreme store, the appeal of their doughnuts is more enhanced. Since 1937, Krispy Kreme has relied on a tried-and-true marketing strategy
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Krispy Kreme Redefines Supply Chain Automation The superior doughnut manufacturer, partnering with J.S. Walker & Company, Inc., incorporates innovative Web-based applications to automate the supply chain process and address communication challenges. The Road to Automation Since its inception in 1937, Krispy Kreme has refined its ability to provide the freshest doughnuts and coffees to its customers and retailers. With three distribution centers, storefronts in thirtyseven states, Canada, and Australia
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Kremed! The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience. What could be more perfect than a Krispy Kreme doughnut? Hot from the fryer and loaded with sugar, the Original Glazed is practically irresistible. For a time, Krispy Kreme's stock seemed irresistible, too. When the company went public in April 2000, at the peak of the Internet whirlwind, investors flocked to buy into a business they could understand. An old-fashioned franchise based in Winston-Salem
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Vernon Rudolph opened the doors to a doughnut shop he called Krispy Kreme in Winston Salem, NC. He had a vision to be the worldwide leader in sharing delicious tastes and creating joyful memories. Known for their “hot now” doughnuts, Krispy Kreme’s mission is to touch and enhance lives through the joy that is Krispy Kreme. In 1973 the founder died but the values remain the same. Krispy Kreme believes: • Consumers are our lifeblood, the center of the doughnut • There is no substitute for quality
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nnnnnnnuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuKrispy Kreme is an international chain of doughnut stores that was founded by VernonRudolph in 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The parent company isKrispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD), which is based in Winston-Salem.While selling assorted types of doughnuts, Krispy Kremes signature item is a glazed doughnutthat is traditionally served warm.Products are sold in Krispy Kreme stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations
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weakness of Krispy Kreme is that it continues to try and grow when all financial dataindicates that franchisees are competing with each other rather than rivals. When stores arelocated near each other, they affect the sales volume of the other store. When the first KrispyKreme is put up in a new market, obsessed consumers camp outside for days to be the first tohave a fresh doughnut. As more and more stores are introduced into an area, this frenzy fadesand the craze dies out.Krispy Kreme could explore
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Armstrong sold Krispy Kreme to Vernon Rudolph’s father Plumie Rudolph. Second, in 1976 due to Vernon Rudolph’s death, the company was then sold to Beatrice Foods of Chicago. Third, in 1982 Joseph A McAleer Sr. who led a group of Krispy Kreme franchisee bought back Krispy Kreme from Beatrice Foods. Finally, Krispy Kreme Inc. became a publicly traded company in 2000 by joining the NASDAQ as well as joining NYSE in 2001. 3-18. What mistakes did Beatrice Foods make after purchasing Krispy Kreme? Why wasn't
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CASE STUDY OF KRISPY KREME Just like their Donoughts the Krispy Kreme stock seemed irresistible when they went public in 2000. It was even named as IPO of the year and the Forbes named it as the company to look out for. But now it is just a firm with a market capitalization over 300 million. So what did Krispy Kreme did wrong to be in a situation like this. The decline of Krispy Kreme Donoughts Inc. with a market capitalization of over 3 billion to just over 300 million was due to the use of
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Krispy Kreme Dougnuts: Empty Calories or Empty Profits? Case Study of the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD), a once high flying growth stock has been hampered as of late with shareholder lawsuits. When sales growth and earnings began to drop significantly in 2003, the company blamed its problems on the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets like Atkins and South Beach at the time. But the SEC began probing Krispy Kreme's accounting for franchise buybacks and is now
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Volume 4, Number 4 Lessons From Krispy Kreme J. Richard Anderson, Stonehill College ABSTRACT The recent decline of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. raises a natural question: shouldn’t investors (and auditors) have been more wary of this Wall Street darling? Weren’t there tipoffs that would have allowed investors to avoid another franchisor “crash and burn” situtation like Boston Chicken or TCBY frozen yogurt? This paper traces the meteoric rise and fall of Krispy Kreme and discusses a number of advance
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