Jamba Juice Executive Summary

Even though Jamba Juice advertizes that its products are healthy, low in calories and rich in vitamins, many other stores also provide the similar smoothies or fast foods. This indicates that Jamba Juice’s products are not differentiated. Consumers can still find products in other stores that are familiar to Jamba Juice’s, which enhances the power of buyers.

In accordance with findings based on extensive research, Jamba Juice has encountered a steady decline in its sales and market share value due to a variety of internal and external factors. Although the largest smoothie chain in the United States is foreseeably on the road to non-existence, proper business development can potentially help the corporation turn things around and prosper like it once did.

I envisioned a cozy eco friendly spot in the African American community right across the street from the high school and recreation center. There are many people who pass by it’s a high traffic area. Considering the high rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, cancer and more why isn’t there a spot where these youth could get a fruit smoothie on the way to school. Perhaps the guy who works out every night doesn’t have to drive across town to get a protein shake after working out at the recreation center. There isn’t even a health food store in the five mile radius. Well there are two ways we could go about this.1) Create a juice or smoothie bar with unique signature drinks that will make our clients come for more. 2) Purchase a smoothie franchise and offer drinks with all the recipes standardized. On one hand it’s easy to just purchase a franchise it’s a package deal the work is done for you already. On the other hand creating a new line of drinks that meets our customers’ needs while intriguing their taste buds is so much more rewarding. We have owned a successful business in the same neighbor hood for the past 30 years. We have a great credit history and many resources. Which is the best approach? Purchase a readymade juice bar for $80,000 or develop one of our own for $40,000.Since the investments needed are significantly different let’s compare the franchise vs. start our own unique juice bar. The franchise deal covers all of the research and functional issues

Trader Joe’s is a leading firm that is taking over the supermarket industry. The company completely altered the idea of a traditional supermarket and turned it into a whole new experience for consumers. Through Trader Joe’s strategic planning, they’ve paved a way for consumers to have high-quality products while paying low prices. Trader Joe’s provides fewer products that are health-conscious, unique and privately labeled. Trader Joe’s has utilized this, secrecy, employee job satisfaction, culture and starting trends to its advantage. Within its industry companies are divided into different strategic groups. Aldi, similar Trader Joe’s strategic planning, is apart of the cultured-discount neighborhood market. This firm continues the low-stock, less-waste, small store, and low price method. A Walmart express used a hybrid strategy that made it a cross between a grocery, pharmacy, and convenience store. Tesco is the third that falls with small neighborhood markets strategy and focused on organic products, similar to Trader Joe’s. As the company grows and expands, there is caution in change of Trader Joe’s processes. With growth, there comes new management and employees which can alter the way a specific store is ran and there is worry of change in the stores normal procedures. Change that doesn’t follow the process could ultimately result in a downfall, so this can be considered a key challenge to watch in the future. Increased bureaucracy is additionally a

First, the strengths are that the overall design, “the creation of the smoothie and juice names, and distribution, was done with multiple stores as the goal.” (Pg. 2) This business model differentiates them from the competition because instead of offering the same flavors, juice names, design, and distribution to all of the locations it is determined by a section of stores rather than the entire market. This tactic allows their business model to be targeted for a specific demographic depending on the external environment.

Cranfield Inc. is a leading producer of juices for range of cranberry cocktails. After a market research experiment Cranfield Inc. has many different business decisions to make. One to introduce a new line called lite cocktail which requires space and machinery and will eat into sales of currently offered products. Or not to introduce the new product and lease out it’s space, or do nothing to save the space until it’s needed for its current product line.

The juice bar concept was pretty new in Australia, and the way boost furnish this concept is also very new in the retailing industry. Boost is not about only appreciable taste and healthy juice or smoothie but this brand is all about overall experience for the customers when each time customers comes in their store and we are talking about experience includes tasty products, best service and lively employees who are there only for their customers and always smile when you enter the store, call you by your first name with their polite tone. (Grocer, May 3, 2008, Vol.231(7853), p.42)

In the following analysis, we will first identify the key issues that Sunshine needs to tackle. We will then evaluate the current market conditions of the manufactured juice industry, Sunshine, and its competitors. To find a suitable market match for Sunshine, we will look into the behavior and characteristics of orange juice consumers. Afterwards, we

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With having only one of “The Four Ps,” (the place), Juice Guys had to come up with a marketing plan to develop the other three Ps; which were of product, promotion and price. Juice Guys knew they wanted to sell fresh juices and fruit smoothies; however, they needed to know if the consumers wanted more than just those products. Also, they needed to find a way to promote their new products and make their prices economically feasible for the consumers in this new place; which was Boston. In order to accomplish this, they needed consumers to let them know what they thought was the ultimate juice shop.

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End users are those individuals walking in the company stores, ordering a smoothie and a cookie, paying the cashier and then telling her friend how wonderful the ambiance is. This buyer segment does not purchase large amounts of product at one time and likely chooses Jamba because of the quality of the ingredients. With no switching costs and a growing industry offering many options, patrons of smoothie cafés can freely purchase their delightful cool beverage anywhere. According to the U.S. Census Bureau the number of stores within the “snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars” industry grew from 36,036 in 2002 to 49,463 in 2007 [ (U.S. Census Bureau) ]. This trend means that Jamba Juice will have to increase customer loyalty to battle the increased competition.

Innovation is important to both distribution channels, but more important to the finished goods model since the juice category has seen a decrease on both volume and market share. At the same time the carbonated soft drinks market has grown in both volume and market share. In order to increase the volume sold in the juice aisle a brand extension should be developed. By adding more SKU’s and promoting to the eight to twelve year old group, sales

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PepsiCo Inc. is one of the leading brands in the world's food and beverage industry. It operates globally with a strong customer base and a wide array of products. This paper analyzes the general business environment for this leading food and beverage brand in order to assess what strategies it has been pursuing to operate in this challenging and complex environment. The analysis of internal and external environment has also been done in a view to figure out the biggest strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the company. The final section gives an overview of the company's resources, capabilities, core competencies, and value chain which can help it to achieve a competitive advantage in its industry.