Marketing Research Assignment – Wendy´s Case Martin Meister – Boston University THE WENDY´S CASE A DEMOSTRATION HOW MARKETING RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS CAN HELP RESOLVING A MANAGEMENT DECISION PROBLEM Martin Meister – martinmeisterg@yahoo.com Boston University - MET AD 856 fall 2012 – Professor Vladimir Zlatev February 27, 2012 1 Marketing Research Assignment – Wendy´s Case Martin Meister – Boston University Table of Contents Introduction ..............................................
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eat it, and the fast food industry has become a large market in the U.S. Fast food companies usually build their businesses in form of franchise chains. Those fast food chains have grown at very fast rate in the past years. By far, the U.S. fast food industry is the largest in the world. Some global fast food brands such as McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King, and Subway, has built a great market share in the world. According to the statistics report form Statista (Richter), “in 2010, the fast food industry
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side as a human being for a different perspective in life. The culture of India refers to the customs, beliefs, traditions, languages, ceremonies, arts, values and their different life style. For example, when you are standing inside the subway counter like: There are communities of Christians, Muslims at my left hand side; and communities of Hindu, Jain, Sikh at my right hand side! But when I put them together in SUB, it becomes our delicious and beautiful "INDIA"! Indians by
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competitors, globalization, health issues and how McDonalds overcome them, respect towards cultural differences among every different countries, and they put a strong focus on children. There are many international fast food franchises such as Burger King, KFC, Subway and etc. However, McDonalds are one of the international fast food and they are struggling that the consumers start to switch to their competitors in the year of 2002 (Han, 2008). It is because most of their competitors put a strong
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MCDONALD’S IN VIETNAM By Ayodeji Akin Abiri Table of Contents Abstract 1.0 Introduction 3 1.1 Background note 4 1.2 Global Strategy 5 2.0 McDonald’s In Vietnam 8 2.1 Entry Strategy 9 2.2 PESTEL analysis of Vietnam 9 2.3 SWOT analysis of HCM city 11 2.4 Expansion strategy 12 2.5
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| | Contents 1. Introduction 2. Mission Statement 3. Marketing Audit 1. Macroenvironment 1. Politics 2. Economic 3. Ecological 4. Social 5. Technological 2. Microenvironment 1. Competition 2. Suppliers 3
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replaced the potato chips (Farfan). In 1953, Stanley Meston designed the Golden Arches (Mcdonalds.com). Ray Kroc learned about the first McDonald's in 1954 when he tried to get them to buy a milkshake machine. He became a franchise manager in 1955. He also helped McDonald's open a franchise restaurant for the first time in Des Plaines, Illinois (Farfan). Ray Kroc purchased the interests and right of the McDonald’s name for the price of $2.7 million in 1965 (About McDonalds). McDonald’s has their own school
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1954, Ray Kroc became the first official franchisee appointed by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California. Soon after, Mr. Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, and the McDonald’s corporation was created. The new franchise began to grow rapidly as a result of its success. It wasn’t long before the 100th McDonald’s restaurant opened in Chicago in 1961. Less than ten years after the opening of Ray Kroc’s restaurant the company began to expand all over the United States
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markets. Corporate History and evolution of competitive and corporate strategy The first Dunkin’ Donuts store was opened by William Rosenberg in 1950 in Quincy Massachusetts. The first Dunkin’ Donuts franchise was opened in 1955, The corporate headquarters of the Dunkin’ Donuts Franchise is located in Canton, Massachusetts. Nearly 100% of DNKN locations are franchised. The company believes its franchised business model provides several advantages. One of the main advantage is the lower capital
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INTRODUCTION This project puts in perspective the multinational company called Yum!Brands, which is an American company in the fast-food industry. We will be discussing about some aspects of this company generally, but we intend to give more details on the company Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) which is one of the Strategic Business Units (SBU) of Yum!Brands. We will give the profile of Yum!Brands and KFC, and also analyze the strategy of the company, its internal and external environment, its
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