Case Study Example Section I: Summary of Background and Facts Reliance Baking Soda was discovered by James Stewart Augusta in 1915. He called it the “miracle compound.” It was founded to serve as a leavening agent in baked goods to let them rise properly. With the invent of self-rising flour and instant cake mixes, baking soda’s original use importance declined. With this decline, Stewart Corporation started promoting baking soda for a myriad of other uses, which include household cleaner, laundry aid, and deodorizer. Reliance baking soda holds a 70% market share. They produce three box sizes, 8oz, 1lb, and 5lbs. The 1lb box holds almost 50% of the sales volume. Reliance has excellent brand awareness and customer loyalty. …show more content…
Also, a problem existed with trade promotion events due to the fact that the company did not negotiate or set a price with the trade on what to sale its products for when they were purchased during a trade promotion. By not having set promotional retail prices, the trade was allowed to stock up on inventory at reduced prices. They did not have to extend the savings to the consumer. This ultimately caused a loss in profit for RBS. To make matters worse, these trade promotions often overlapped with consumer promotions. Therefore, it is hard to tell what the actual real incremental profits for the promotions were. Section IV: Constraints and Limitations Besides the problems listed in the above sections, Reliance Baking Soda is constrained and limited by the fact that baking soda is in the mature part of its life cycle. When a product reaches maturity, there is no room for traditional growth. The product must discover new uses. RBS is not a “wow” product that can be categorized as a necessity; therefore, it must be aggressive in its advertising in order to stimulate further purchase. The product was old-fashioned and needed some ‘refurbishment’ to make it attractive to the target market. The need for RBS nose-dived, following the introduction of self-rising flour and instant cake mixes. Naturally, it would be cheaper for bakeries to move to baking soda and
Boston Beer Company (BBC) has enjoyed much success with their craft beers with Samuel Adams as their main focus. Being the leader of this segment, overtopping five of their competitors combined (Exhibit 1), the company now must decide how to take advantage of the light beer market. Boston Lightship, their current light beer, had been a small contributor in BBC’s product line. Currently, it is facing dwindling sales with product volumes down from 12 000 cases per month to 3000 cases per month.
More shelf and trade promotion: The third strategy would be to spend more money on shelf
The behavior of retailer such as heavily discounting to stimulate market sometimes has a negative aspect to Canada Goose’s brand.
* Increase in sales and decrease in promotional costs for the introduction of the new product
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In 1996 sales to this class of customer at a 30% markup represents $11,975,040 margin for Tweeter, $16,917,120 margin for Lechmere and $13,258,080 margin for Circuit City. This is an important source of margin for the Superstores, however represents only 10% and 15% of their overall sales respectively. So I believe that they will fight to keep their customers rather than fight to gain
Another sector rival, JJB, mainly focused on professional sportswear, experienced enormous losses due to squeezed customer spending and other multiple economic pressures (Davey, 2009). Unlike successive growth of net profits of its major competitors, in 2011 JJB tripled the losses of previous year. The declined sales during Christmas promotion periods account for lagging behind the sector rivals (Wilson, 2009).
The relationships with trade show retailers are highly valuable in that they often prove to be long term. Re-orders by retailers from trade shows occur at a 50% clip, and they will re-order twice per year. With an average order from a retailer being $569 (Table 1), and the direct material and labor cost fixed at $267, the contribution margin per order at trade shows will be $302 (Table 2).
After analyzing the results from the previous quarter, it was determined that the prices set for each segment were not sufficient. Product sales priority were also not properly adjusted. With the R&D investments, sales priorities needed to be changed for the main focus to become the most profitable market segments. Prices were not competitive which in turned decreased revenue, market share, and profitability. To become more competitive we altered the prices in each market segment. The Workhorse product was the first to change, the price was lowered to $2500 in an attempt to increase sales; at this price Team 4 was still making a profit on this product, as well as making the price much more competitive. The Workhorse sales priority was also lowered to 3rd in Americas and 4th in APAC and EMEA. This product was not selling as well as we had hoped, and was no longer as profitable as it once was which led to this decision. Next, the Innovator product’s price was adjusted; this involved a price increase to $4100. This price was adjusted to include the new
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COMPANY ORIENTATION COMPANY PORTFOLIO ISSUES TREATED PROMOTION OR NO PROMOTION? CANNIBALIZATION BRAND EQUITY EROSION FORWARD BUYING PASS-THROUGH STOCKPILING ENGEL’S LAW GENERAL REASONS TO CONDUCT A SALES PROMOTION PROMOTION FOR WHICH ITEM FINANCIAL ANALYSIS THANK YOU NOTE
In September there was another offer of a $1.00 cash refund, with the proof of purchase for two 5 lb. boxes, which lead to an increase in gross sales of RBS, too. The $2 cash refund for the purchase of RBS plus four additional Household Division brands in January 2006 increased the gross sales even by more than 100% from $9.3mio to $20.6mio, a total net incremental contribution of $619,562. These coupons were advertised in women’s magazines, in a Sunday newspaper supplement, on the company website, and in point-of- purchase material the latter of which has a relatively high response rate of 2%. The event in June, that included a shrink wrapped twin pack of the 1 lb. boxes and a $1.00 cash refund inside the pack with proof of purchase from two 1 lb. boxes encouraged consumers to keep one box in the fridge and one in the bathroom, so that most of them bought two boxes of RBS which led to rising sales volumes Considering the significant increase in sales, RBS should focus on investing in print and online advertisement by increasing their budgets by 10% in this sector. To conclude and thinking long-term, budgets for consumer promotion should be raised by 10% to ensure that RBS continues selling high volumes. Due to missing information of the response rate of advertising in TV, RBS should maintain the budget in this sector constant.
AB InBev has been characterized in the US and in international markets as one of the most aggressive marketing in the world, these is due to their differentiation strategy and the sprinkler expansion strategy. AB InBev utilizes their extensive capital to capture as much as the market as they can and be able to be number one, in all markets they can. Another added value to this strategy is making all AB Inbev consumers brand loyal, this meaning that they can retain their customers.
In week 12, sales of Rocket Soup had drastically increased to 16,113 due to the excessive discount on their product. Rocket Soup had launched a promotion with feature and display and charged for 0.02, which is over 97.5% discount on their average price. Although the sales had drastically increased, it is not possible to argue whether this excessive demand was from the promotion or low pricing.
ABI is one of the main soda pop organisations in the universal SAB Miller plc gathering of organisation and stays one of the biggest creators and suppliers of the Coca-Cola company brands in the southern side of the equator. Moreover ABI is committed to being a coordinated non-alcohol refreshment organization and persistently looks for chances to assemble stunningly better associations with clients, customers and the more extensive
In early 1980’s RMC started realizing losses. The prime factors of this loss are lack of advertisement, brand recognition; lack of knowledge about consumer behaviour; lower yield of 2.8 pound per sq. feet as compared to industry average of 3.1; the proportion of production for each style varied and were not in accordance with demand; lack of consistent presence in geographical areas.