Business Case Study: American Seafoods Company

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Please be advised that 1.25 beta for Harris Seafoods equity, but we acknowledge that true beta of the project is uncertain because of finding a market portfolio with similar risk is hard to find. In addition, the Return on Equity at 15%, we took the discount rate and applied it to the Free Cash Flows to get a Net Present Value. The Internal Rate of Return of the project was 15%. To compensate Harris Seafoods for the opportunity cost and risk of not investing in lowest required rate of return plus risk premium for individual’s required rate of return, we will use WACC of Harris Seafoods.

The current franchise fee for Zaxby’s is $35,000 dollars with an on-going royalty rate of 6%. There is a licensed agreement to become part of the franchise business. The headquarters is set up in Athens, Georgia. Zaxby’s franchise owners travel from all over the world to attend the annual conferences. The conferences offer support, ideas, new strategies, and networking that gives owners the opportunity to meet and learn something new to help the business as a whole. The meetings are designed from the ground up to help owners meet their goals in business. Zaxby’s has a team of advisor’s that travel to different franchises to offer help and support the community and business. Zaxby provides marketing, development assistance, menu development,

By 2010, Panera Bread Company (PBC) stood ahead of the crowd; once a pioneer in the fast casual concept of dining, the organization has now far surpassed its competition (Vincelette & Fogarty, 2010). Enduring economic challenges that only strengthened the organizations position as industry leaders while competitors struggled to exist, Panera’s co-founder and majority shareholder Ronald Shaich pushed through the years with strategic plans, implementation, and actions (Wheelen, Hunger, Hoffman, & Bamford, 2015), that led to success in creation of the “fast-casual” innovation of dining (Vincelette & Fogarty, 2010). The concept offered consumers healthier, quick dining choices in comparison to the outdated version of fast food chains (Vincelette & Fogarty, 2010). Food wasn’t the only attraction that led to brand name recognition...trends towards an atmosphere that was cool and inviting with upscale decor, inviting, comfortable atmosphere (Vincelette & Fogarty, 2010), warm and friendly welcoming employees, and product and menu diversifications contributed to Panera’s appeal (Rowe, 2006). This made consumers wanting to come back (Vincelette & Fogarty, 2010), therefore adding to the quality and value of the company’s organizational structure and social culture (Wheelen, et al, 2015). Shaich’s vision used strategy as a means to expand the organization in many

Neptune Gourmet Seafood Company is the third largest seafood producer in North America targeted the high-end seafood market. The company preserves their premium image and receives ASPD Gold Seal of Approval on every product they sold by providing the best seafood for their customers. However, Neptune’s recent investment in advanced freezer trawlers, along with the new fishing laws changes make Neptune faces a big challenge: The company catches have grown bigger on average. Even though the demand has reached an all-time high, Neptune’s inventory has continued to increase, and no space is available for the excess inventory in their warehouse. Moreover, Neptune’s contribution margin keeps declining over the past three years

Foods Fantastic Company is a public company which mainly operating regional grocery store in Maryland. This Company relies on application programs, such as bar-code scanner, to entre sales to the system. The FFC majority depends on the computer system to run their business. Based on this situation, the Information General Controls review is necessary for this company as the reason that ITGC is the foundation of every categories of the internal control.

1. To be completely honest Alan is a white male. Alan will never know the struggle of being black and most certainly not the struggle of being a woman regardless of race. Gretchen seem to focus on the quality of her work, and Alan did not care because he most likely does not value quality in his person life. I am not sure what I am saying, but Alan may have issues with his family because I noticed the way he looked at Bennett discussing his family's problems. Alan is the type of person who prefers to be at work than to be around family or even friends, and his way of doing things seems to overshadow Gretchen's and Bennett's customs and beliefs regarding business and

Frontier Steakhouse Cattle Company is a family-friendly restaurant that specializes in traditional American chophouse-style dishes. It uses citrus and oak wood grills to cook its meats, which are seasoned with a house-special blend of spices and herbs. Frontier Steakhouse has been serving the area since 1968. Its spacious dining area makes it an ideal location for parties and special events.

If the market value of a stock is lower than its intrinsic value, this stock is defined as “trades at a discount”. To figure out whether AGI stock is traded at a discount to comparable companies, as its management believed, we can simply apply multiple which comes from the average multiple of its comparable companies. Considering fluctuation of future after-tax earnings caused by the change in capital structure, we prefer to use TEV/EBITDA multiple in this case. Amtelecom Group consists of two lines of business which has to been taken into consideration. We separately calculate the value of both companies and their

The Johnsonville Sausage Co. (A) case study from Harvard Business School is about Johnsonville Sausage Co, a sausage manufacturer and wholesaler in Johnsonville, Wisconsin. As the company grew over time, the president of Johnsonville Sausage Co., Ralph Stayer, faced many big problems in his organization. After Stayer listened to a lecture about how managers could change their philosophy and style of management from Dr. Lee Thayer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stayer thought about his organization and found out that the problems in his organization were the result of the way he managed his

As mention before, Restaurant Brands International is a merger company that contains Burger King, a coffee shop and a restaurant called Tim Hortons. Since it was a merger that occurred in 2014, there isn’t much info for the company; however, since Burger King has been almost as old as McDonalds so much of the info will come from Burger King. Burger King is practically the same as McDonalds created in 1950s yet a few years later after its competitor was born. The main difference of how it was created was that Burger King started off like a stove and that name of the stove was named Insta-Boiler.

Gordon Food Services, known as GFS Canada distributes fresh foods, canned and dry foods, fresh and frozen meats, seafood and poultry, special orders, equipment supplies and cleaning chemicals across all provinces of Canada. GFS Canada is one of the largest foodservice distributors in Canada.

After 40 years of dedicated service for the Kroger Co., it is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirement of Patty Johnson, District 1 Drug G/M Coordinator. Patty joined the Kroger Co. in 1976 as a cashier and has held many leadership roles through the years, including Lead Bookkeeper, HR for new store openings, District Accounting trainer, Key Retailing Specialist, FE Coordinator, Quevision rollout Coordinator, WiES Coordinator and Drug/GM Coordinator.

Golden Valley Foods, Inc. is a 127-year-old company that prepares packages and sells canned and frozen foods which include fruits, vegetables, pickles and condiments. Golden Valley has more than 30 processing plants in operations and annual sales of approximately $650 million. Much of Golden Valley’s management staff comes from their parent company with the previous president saying “The influence of our old parent company is still with us. As long as new products look like they will increase the company’s sales volume, they are introduced. Traditionally, there has been little, if any attention paid to

Specialty Food and Beverage company (SF), which founded in 2004 in Denmark, mainly covers foods and beverage, restaurants and hotel area. Recent years, the company had faced several problems which lead SF to an embarrassing situation. This assignment will introduce SF’s current issues, analyze the decision and then discuss the solution way which chose by SF’s high level management team.