Five Forces Of Coffee

The following analysis of Porter’s 5 Forces Model will help in determining the threats that my be present now or in the future and help determine opportunities and decisions regarding the marketing plan.

The specialty coffee industry had seen steady growth for years and the trend was expected to continue until at least 2015. Of the various segments within the specialty coffee industry, most of the growth was attributable to beverage retailers “Coffee and kiosks”. In 1979 there were approximately 250 specialty coffee retailers. The number quadrupled by 1989 to approx 1000 outlets, and it exploded to roughly 15000 by 2002. Nationally, specialty coffee sales totaled over $ 10 billion in 2005.

Porter’s Five Forces is a framework that consists of five competitive forces, threat of entry, power of supplier and buyer, threat of substitution and competitive rivalry. These forces facilitate the analysis of the task environment of an industry or company (Wheelen and Hunger, 2009).

Porter's Five Forces is a simple but powerful tool that consist of 5 different forces to understand the competitiveness of your business environment, and for identifying your strategy's potential profitability. The five forces are degree of rivalry, threat of entry, threat of substitutions, buyer power, and supplier power. Each force is helpful in their own way to get to know your rivals a lot better and get to know what can happen in your market.

Porter’s 5-Forces Model: A method for examining the competitive environment for a company or industry. It specifies and evaluates threats from new entrants, suppliers, buyers, and substitutes in the arena of competition.

Michael Porter's Five Forces analyze the external and internal environment of a company to increase the awareness of threats and structure of the industry that company competes within. Thus, the Five Forces is an ideal tool which can help companies to maintain their competitiveness with a higher profitability.

Porter’s Five Forces was next used to determine the competitive environment. The Five Forces method is used to determine a company’s profit potential for a particular industry.

By 2003, the number of retail specialty coffee shops, cafes, kiosks, coffee carts, and roasters in the United States reached over 17,000, equating to nearly $9 billion in sales. According to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, 16 percent of adults in the United States drink coffee from one of these specialty outlets daily. (“Organo Gold”, 2008).

People love to drink coffee. Coffee shops, independently owned or chains are every corner. Statistics show that people are taking more coffee every day. It is a very profitable business.

Keurig Inc has been founded on an amazing idea that coffee making systems that uses individual portion packs of freshly roasted and ground coffee with unique coffee maker designed to brew perfect cup of coffee at a time. At that time there are already established gourmet coffee houses like Starbucks, which is making coffee consumers to spend more money with an average of $ 1.50 or more for a cup of gourmet coffee. This change is consumer behavior created opportunity to Keurig to offer gourmet coffees by a single-cup in offices in 1998. Within a span of four years (1996-2000), Keurig have noticed sales increased by 40% in US at home coffee market. With these facts Keurig´s management got convinced, to develop an at home one-cup coffee brewer especially for gourmet coffee lovers.

Porter 's Five Forces Model is a critical instrument to break down an outer aggressive environment of the business. The model incorporates threat of entry, the threat of rivalry, the threat of suppliers, the threat of purchasers and threat of substitutes.

The Porter Five forces analysis helps the marketer to contrast a competitive environment. Porter’s five forces model is comprised of following five completive forces:

The 5 forces are the environmental forces that impact on the companies ability to compete in the given market. The purpose of 5 forces analysis is to diagnose the principal competitive pressures in a market and assess how strong and important each one is.

There isn’t a clear answer for this. On the one hand, Starbucks offering good quality coffee for high income earners and provide a socialize place for hanging out, studying. On the other hand, not everybody can afford it, small businesses lose costumer. For a big company like Trung Nguyen Coffee in Vietnam can lose sales. Our recommendation is, let’s our local coffee shop provide the best taste from the best elements of our traditional coffee. Don’t form another same type of coffee like Starbucks. Stick with the original flavor, let’s all the foreigners be amaze by the bitter but still sweet, the new but still historical taste of coffee in Vietnam. Everybody can also stay in time, in trend of drinking Starbucks and in reverse they can also go back through time and explore the flavors from antiquity of

Porter’s 5 Forces analysis is a commonly used business theory that identifies the 5 competitive forces of an industry. By identifying and analysing these forces you can determine an industries weaknesses and strengths. Porter recognised the 5 forces in most business markets to be internal rivalry, entry, substitutes and compliments, supplier power and buyer power.