Case Study 2 Financing growth Written by Professor Christine Blondel from INSEAD Senior Advisor to KPMG on Family Business Intelligence First published in October 2013, on the KPMG Family Business blog kpmgfamilybusiness.com Part 1: The Story Case Study 2 Ownership Family Business Part 1: The story Timothy Sages hung up the phone with satisfaction. The franchisee of the Sages group operating supermarkets in the South of the country was willing to sell their operations to the
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Marketing We coordinate domestic advertising and marketing at the national and local levels. The goals of our marketing strategy include driving comparable store sales and brand differentiation, increasing our total coffee and beverage sales, protecting and growing our morning daypart sales, and growing our afternoon daypart sales. Generally, our domestic franchisees contribute 5% of weekly gross retail sales to fund brand specific advertising funds. The funds are used for various national and local
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international market. For instance they tested the Canadian market by starting seven co-branded location with Tim Horton Canadian coffee shop chain, in return Tim Horton’s can operate in more U.S. locations. The advantage of a Parent business franchising its operations is they don’t need to have significant capital on hand because if they franchise 100 stores
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S w 9B11M082 DEVELOPING AN INTERNATIONAL GROWTH STRATEGY AT NEW YORK FRIES Sharda Prashad wrote this case under the supervision of Christopher Williams and W. Glenn Rowe to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation prohibits any form
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Executive Summary Situational Analysis Overview: Marble Slab Creamery (MSC), founded in 1983, is an ice cream serving company which offers various premium ice cream products. Operating with the franchise model, MSC focuses on the student-driven market. The competitive advantage of MSC is its high standard, customized product. Compared with other local competitors, MSC serves the ice cream through manual gauging rather than the ice cream machine. Being able to choose flavours and mixins as they
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BACKGROUND Panera Bread Company operates in the retail bakery-café segment of the restaurant industry in the services sector. Under the control of CEO Ronald Shaich, Panera Bread Company functions under the names of Panera Bread Company and St. Louis Bread Company. Originally, Panera operated primarily only on the east coast but has now opened up operations in 35 states. Panera’s stores are located mostly in suburban areas near malls and other shopping centers. Panera Bread offers an assortment
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[Slide 1] Introduction While on a business trip to Paris Ellen takes a mid-day break and enjoys a bottle of Coca-Cola on a warm summer day. She pulls out her Macbook and quickly reviews her notes in preparation for an afternoon business meeting. Ellen is an organic dairy farm consultant for Free Range Foods, an American organic dairy farm. Ellen will attempt to persuade a consortium of business leaders that her agribusiness company is best-suited for the five year, five million dollar contract
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CHAPTER Franchises and Buyouts What comes to mind when you see the word franchise? For many, it’s a fast-food restaurant. For some, it’s the standardization of America—the same product or service wherever you go. For still others, it is a business model with franchisor rules that must be followed. For Dina Dwyer-Owens, however, it’s a way of teaching “principles and systems of personal and business success so that all people we touch live happier and more successful lives.” Dwyer-Owens
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forty years, McDonalds has been leading the industry in sales, number of stores both in and out of the country, and employee training. McDonalds is a unique company that has always found a way to continuously better its self. Ray Kroc is one of the main reasons for the amount of success that McDonalds has seen throughout the years. It was his innovations in the industry that lead McDonalds to its current performance success today. Ray Kroc has had a huge impact in the way McDonalds operates. He
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