Executive Summary:
Calyx and Corolla (C&C) is a company started by Ruth M. Owades in 1988, which delivers fresh flowers to the customers using courier service Federal Express. Customers can choose from a wide range of fresh flowers and bouquets and make an order via phone or fax and get it delivered to their houses. During 1990, it had consummated over 150k transactions, yielding revenues in excess of $10 million. C&C was exceptionally promising yet it’s still a partly proven, start-up company. The main challenges that C&C is facing are competition with traditional flower selling outlets, less customer base that order flowers via mail. The company should determine whether it should change its current strategy and position itself as a mail operation to compete with the traditional outlets, such as florists and FTDs. Specifically, the C&C’s management is planning a major advertising campaign to go head to head against FTDs. Its problem is that it is not clear who their customers should be? As a small company, it needs to figure out the best way to use its limited marketing resources to reach potential customers.
Goal and goal defense:
C&C is a small player in a large market that has remarkable growth potential. As a company, C&C has enjoyed substantial success since its beginnings in 1988. The goal of the company is to solidify its presence in the market by evolving its current business model and developing new business approaches which will ensure long-term financial
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Ann Wood the current director of marketing for the Consumer Products Division in Norwich Enterprises faced many challenging obstacles during this particular day; she is in charge of three different groups. She supervises the market research in which Joe Jackson is the current manager. She also foresees the marketing strategy and administration department where Brooke Carpenter is the manager, and the Advertising and public relations department.
1. Target a new customer segment that id young and always ready to try something new and exciting.
The following paper is about a company that is at the top level of their industry in selling their products and services. The background of this company describes about what kind of company this is and the types of products and services it provides to their customers. This section also includes the recent performance of this company and the varying aspects of what their target customers and whose is the competition.
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SWOT Analysis is a simple but useful framework for analyzing your organization's strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunities and threats that the company face. It helps you focus on your strengths, minimize threats, and take the greatest possible advantage of opportunities available to you will giving you the opportunity to ward off possible threats from external sources.
What is Cooper’s corporate strategy? How does it create value? What are its key resources?
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We have evaluated different segment options based on relevant attributes such as growth potential, accessibility, loyalty, and other criteria (Exhibit 1). For example, even though the segment of customers who are buying flowers for weddings/funerals has huge revenue potential, it is not easy for C&C to convince that segment to place a mail
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