Overnight Coffee Challenge Analysis
Genuine Thermos Brand has been satisfying their customers for more than 110 years across America with their vacuum insulating products. The company stood the test of time in their brand because the quality of their products paled in comparison with their competitors. Their double sealed, no-air coffee tumbler set them apart from other companies in a product that sold itself. As American’s love for coffee grew, so did the demand for hot coffee for the busy, on-the-go drinkers. Despite their well-known brand name, competitors were quickly gaining traction. Their plan was simple: to reinforce their timeless brand name with their unbeatable products that out-shined the competitors. Enlisting in the aid of
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It was called The Overnight Coffee Challenge. It was launched around the National Fill Your Thermos Brand Bottle Day, as noted by Hello Giggles in their blog “Good News: Waking Up to a Hot Cup O’ Joe Just Got Even Easier”. Their key message was simple, they were proving to their followers that their brand was the best and they could put that to the test. The company followed through with the message they wanted to convey; the campaign was a tremendous success. Essentially, they were their own message. It was a simple, yet extremely strategic plan. While a huge success, the effect would have been three-fold if they had possibly taken it to the next level. While it was a success, it could have been a bigger success by instilling trust in their brand along with a theme of “be you, be genuine”. This still goes along with their original key message, which was that their brand was still genuine and the best 110 years later. With this added theme, they could have played off the idea of their brand is genuine and so are their fans. This could have opened up a lot of doors to further engage with their audience. They could have gone around the country with live art demonstrations by local artists to be used on a new thermos design. Since Genuine Thermos Brand has been around for over a 100 years, the style of the thermos could have easily been changed with a trendy face-lift. They could have made an …show more content…
The main message seemed to have just one component to it: “Our brand is superior to other thermos brands”. While the message was successfully impactful in increasing media impressions, brand recognition and overall social media traffic, it could have been greater increase had there been a salient message and overall theme. With a theme of “Be you, be genuine”, it could tag along the lines of the original idea of focusing on the brand. They could have partnered up with some local artists to design a more modern and individualistic flask design. This could have added to the offline presence of the campaign if they had brought in audience participation in choosing the winning designs. So when the challenge came along it could also double as a sort of testing of a new product. It would be a new product, but have the same great technology. This allows the audience to affiliate with the brand as not just a company that has been around for over 100 years, but a brand that is constantly adapting to the culture and trends. This way the brand is keeping up and not just pushing out the same product over and over. A fresh look along with the same technology that works would set the product apart from their competitors. This would also impact the consumer more and make them feel a greater connection with the brand. The last change that would have made a
Despite Peet’s Coffee and Tea being a corporate company, and the amount of stores it has produced, the goals and ambitions have not changed much. Coffee beans and tea’s are still the main focus of Peet’s and where they get most their revenue from. Bill Lilla, Peet’s executive vice president, said his company ensures quality through long-term relationships with growers, and by paying them more than the going rate. On the other hand, Starbucks Coffee insists their size has not affected quality, but it is hard to believe when their size is above and beyond the thousands. As the saying goes, too many cooks ruin the stew, and in this case, Starbucks would be the cooks, and its coffee and early aspirations are the
Most adults enjoy having a nice, warm cup of coffee to get them awake. They either drink it in the morning before work, have it on a road trip to not fall asleep behind the wheel, or just love drinking coffee whenever. Surely these people would want to have a superior cup to keep their coffee warm for the longest time possible. Here are a two cups that were compared during this project. First, the Yeti Rambler is a double-wall vacuum insulated cup that can “keep your drink as cold (or hot) as science allows” says Yeti. This makes the Yeti Rambler a significantly modern cup for coffee. Many people have opinions that state that the Yeti Rambler is the best cup of all time! For instance, “Roasty Coffee” ( a popular website all about coffee)
However, Pepsi began to slowly catch up to their status and in the early 1980s, Coke had only a one percent lead over Pepsi in exclusive drinkers. Coke was very concerned with this because there product was more readily available than Pepsi’s and they spent more than $100 million more annually on advertising and they really didn’t want Pepsi to usurp their rank as the leading cola. However, Pepsi had been running commercials on television where they put Coca Cola and Pepsi head-to-head in a blind taste test that came to be known as the Pepsi Challenge. In this challenge, Pepsi had faithful coke drinkers take a sip from two different glasses and pick which sample they preferred. One of the cups was marked with a “Q” and the other was marked with an “M.” They consistently chose the cup marked “M,” which would be the cup holding Pepsi. When Coca Cola heard of this challenge, they immediately wanted to prove it to be false, so they conducted blind taste tests themselves. However, when their tests were performed, they got the same results as Pepsi, and the majority of the testers, 57%, preferred Pepsi over Coke. These results really concerned Coca Cola, and they began to do a plethora of other market research projects. They couldn’t figure out exactly what it was that made testers prefer Pepsi, but eventually decided that it must be the taste. From this came the creation of what came to be known as “New Coke.” Coca Cola had their scientists experiment with the secret
In looking at our product, Folgers Coffee, a sure way to see where a product is going sometimes is to look at where it has been. In 1992, Kraft’s brand of coffee, Maxwell House, had gained the lead in market share and appeared to be poised
Keurig, Inc. was founded on “excellence”, which is the Dutch meaning of its name, and the innovative principle of allowing consumers to be able to make a single excellent cup of coffee whenever they wanted it at home or work with their K-cup single cup brewing system. The Keurig system was such a hit in offices that the company knew the next step was to position themselves to sell units to individuals for use in their homes. At home coffee brewers were always faced with two things loose coffee grounds to clean up and coffee that never quite tasted right. The Keurig system would eliminate both of those issues for the
Cameron’s Coffee was founded in 1978 by Jim Cameron and was later on purchased by Jim Kirkpatrick in 1999. The company specializes in ‘…premium flavored coffees, teas and powdered cocoa and cappuccino mixes (Petersen).’ Even though the coffee market is almost saturated, Cameron is looking to expand its operations not only in the United States, but in Europe and other continents. The company currently has a great advantage in this tight market, due to its dedication to quality. But in order to increase the probability for success, Cameron’s Coffee will need to expand its knowledge and involvement in technology and communication.
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.
Starbucks’ lead in the specialty coffee industry exemplifies the result of deftly executing a well-planned business strategy. Moreover, Starbucks is well positioned for what is expected to be a continuing rise in the popularity of specialty coffee products. The question before Starbucks’ leadership, however, is what avenues will lead to Starbucks’ goal of remaining true to its core, the highest quality coffee products while providing a “total coffee experience” for its customers?
There are so many people in America who are suffering from wanting to lose weight. Celebrities like Harry Styles from One Direction might just have the solution obese and overweight people are looking for. His secret is what they call the 'Bulletproof Coffee Diet.'
Starbucks is undoubtedly an international brand. The history of coffee traces back to Ethiopia, Africa, India, Arabia, and Europe, and has been traded abroad since the 11th century. Understanding the demand and widespread market for coffee, Starbucks has triumphantly capitalized both the domestic market, and the varied international markets as well. Possessing about 6,500 retail sites worldwide, Starbucks’ net is spread across thirty countries and has been found as one of the most recognized brands all over the globe in equality to McDonalds and Toyota. This organization’s ability to build an international brand has been unprecedented- particularly since it represents a specialty
This case assignment discusses the history of Starbuck’s accomplishments as they entered the American coffee culture heritage. In 1983, The chairman and CEO Howard Schultz traveled to Italy and had a dream to carry the Italy coffeehouse ritual back to the United States. Schultz was focused on creating an environment meeting company that makes good coffee but also be a social experiment. Starbucks today opened more than 19,000 stores functioning in 62 countries. Starbucks has numerous rewards that globalization has offered and they have significantly benefited from it, while in the coffee industry. Starbucks has a wide-range in marketing strategies to benefit the customers. During the different obstacles that Starbucks has encountered, they must stay reliable in quality and uphold to adjust to different customer values.
This marketing plan will show that the solution to Mr. Coffee’s problem is show that the features and technological improvements, specifically the Wi-Fi option, thermal carafe, and optimal brew temperature feature create a good value and great cup of coffee. The plan will rely heavily on channel and image differentiation. This device will be easier to get than pricey Italian entries and the Mr. Coffee brand will be shown to reestablish brand affinity by keying into pop culture references.
The “Coffee Wars – The Big Three: Starbucks, McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts” article focuses on the company analysis of the Starbucks brand and how its main competitors, McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts, has affected their brand and driven competition higher. Even though there are many companies trying to enter the specialty coffee market, these three companies own the majority of the market share. With Starbucks’ top quality and above average prices they hold a different market than the fast coffee/food market of Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks; yet the competitive moves Dunkin’ Donuts has made over the years in order to compete with Starbucks and surpass McDonald’s has driven competition up between all three companies. The competition has stiffened ever more in the past ten years due to the changing economy. This led to “the big three” to come up with different techniques to gain competitive advantage over the other. Although the competition between these companies is to gain most of the market share, consumers are still loyal to a certain brand; this makes it difficult to gain each other’s clientele. McDonald’s continues to appeal to customers who want value and speed, Dunkin’ Donuts focuses on the middle-class, while Starbucks a customer who desires a higher quality product along with being recognized for using the brand.
First of all, Coffee-Mate´s main benefit is its ability to replace cream or real milk. Furthermore, it can be stored for a much longer time than milk or cream making it a good substitute. People who cannot drink coffee without milk don’t need to carry around or look for milk since coffee mate will do the same job. In addition it is made of health promoting ingredients such as dried glucose and vegetable fat. However it cannot be legally defined as non-diary since it also contains milk derivatives. This can be considered a benefit to Coffee-Mate when it comes to customers who like the flavour and thus also makes them use less sugar for sure. Another
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