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As the name suggests Honest tea is a brand that produces 100% organic iced teas, aimed at the health conscious. In this assignment I will attempt to, identify the target market, conduct a situational analysis as well as set SMART communication objectives for the brand.

Westminster Company is a giant Global manufacturer of health products whose brand has been recognized by the world. As the company they have three different operations which produce and distribute different product lines. Their main strategy on which they are working and which is a major success for them is decentralized management. Now they are re-evaluating their traditional supply chain strategy because the company is getting too much pressure from their large domestic’s customers and global customers. Now the company has to study on

The Chinese department store’s order would require significant communication with the UK based research and development centre which would take time to develop new ideas for products and cost money as well. The factory is also running at high levels of capacity with capacity utilisation of 95% which is 30% more than the UK factory. Since the factory is running at a higher capacity utilisation level it means that the number of defective products has raised as well as the care for quality has decreased and volume has increased. Andrew is worried this might not give the good impression that is needed from the company as they are trying to sell high quality British products. The amounts of defective products in the Chinese

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

The main goal of this Interview is to examine and observe real-life project in industry and gather information/data from experienced perspectives as well as gain a realistic understanding of business operation and Inventory management at Tim Horton's. By having face-to-face communication with the owner, we were able to carry out our analysis and observations effectively because the owner was available to answer questions and also provide further insight about his firm. Since the owner is the one that knows his company firm best and had all the necessary information and details of operations, he was invaluable in to us we got most of our data/information from him.

Yorktown Technologies have several issues that may affect marketing and distribution. The issues are geographical distribution, production, supply and demand, environmental concerns, and retail outlets.

The competition is encroaching on the coffee shop but the competition is a chain. Tim has the ability to make his coffee shop an individual coffee shop

Parts Emporium Inc. is currently facing numerous problems in relation to their inventory system. Each problem could be considered both short-term and long-term because both problems need focus immediately but may take an extended period of time to furnish. The first problem is in relation to their customer service department. The customer service department puts

The business encourages implementation of the techniques and practices involving the correct identifications of issues. The organizations encounter issues during their operations and deploy a number of techniques to eliminate the effects of problematic business processes. The technique used in the case study of Electronics International is based on the effects based problem identification named as root cause analysis. It provides the advantage of identifying highest level cause. The guidelines for issues identification provide an insight of issues that can have a probable impact on the business performance. These issues are identified as a lack of coordination and business planning. The problem is also causing a considerable amount of financial loss for the business. IT is recommended to utilize third party supply chain services and warehousing facilities to eliminate the issues. Moreover the business should implement a policy for automated communications and resources sharing with all the strategic partners in supply chain. Implementation of both techniques can create an overall positive impact on business performance.

For supermarket and restaurant chains, the sale typically is made to the purchasing department/buying division of the retailer. These sales often involve a significant amount of field testing by the direct sales force, giving Tasteless a competitive advantage. Tasteless heavily advertises its products in trade magazines and attracts individual sales through advertising in media such as health care magazines. Individual clients include CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies, as well as individuals from coast-tocoast. Management’s objective is to establish Tasteless as the most recognized and respected tea brand in the U.S. market, eventually supplanting Lipton Tea as the market leader in tea brand recognition and tea sales in both the higher-end and lower-end tea markets. While Tasteless currently is experiencing some sharp growing pains, the good news is the growing interest in different types of non-traditional beverages, combined with increasingly health-conscious baby boomers and younger adults. These factors have tripled sales over the past five years ending December 31, 2008. At the same time, new local and regional competitors with a bevy of new products are offering fast delivery from local production centers and in some cases lower prices, challenging Tasteless for retail shelf space. Without this shelf space, especially in supermarkets, Tasteless’ tea products cannot be retailed on a volume basis. Tasteless has

Currently, the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf operates under the Quality Management Theory/Total Quality Management. For total quality management to succeed, it involves all stakeholders such as, management, workers, suppliers, and even feedback from the customers to meet or exceed customer expectations (Hill and Jones, 2014; Tompkins, 2005). Furthermore, total quality management empowers employees to ascertain means to remove factors that damage high quality (Tompkins, 2005). Deming provides a Plan, Do, Check, and Act cycle, which makes total quality Management a full process and provides a continuous improvement of product or service (Tompkins, 2005). The theory provides several principles, which include; customer driven/focus, continuous improvement, employee empowerment, use of quality tools, product design, process management, and managing supplier quality (Tompkins, 2005). The theory was selected because, among these principles, the company undermines one significant principle, which is employee empowerment. The company focuses more on the customers and quality of its products and

John’s overextended periods of time with Larry and training Peggy caused the above average sales

Define the situation (case summary) Define the major issues, conflicts, and the network . Describe the options (alternatives) for solving these issues. Several internal and external influences serve as contributing factors in the reconsideration of the company’s current system. Changes in customer demands, domestic and global competition, and a unique decentralized management system is now forcing the Westminster Company to reevaluate their traditional supply chain practices. (Bowersox & M.B., 2014) Westminster’s domestic operations consist of three separate companies that sell and distribute products to several of the same customers. (Bowersox & M.B., 2014) At first glance consolidation of the systems can significantly improve

The company aimed to be the best in the chain of premium tea that was not implement conventional marketing but they are practice into both online and in store. The case will emphasize the marketing strategies and the options of growing globally, that aimed to different global market and make different success of the different market with diversified productions. Partnered with Starbucks help with Teavana offer Lattes, iced teas, brewed teas and loose leaf teas. Through this way Teavanas has introduced thousands customers to new experiences in tea.

Clearly there was an existing in house problem and this problem needed to be addressed immediately but with some care and diligence. This had much to do with working unitedly and having effective communication. Working unitedly would be in terms of team members playing their roles in a very professional and effective manner. Attitude towards each other and for the types of work is very important. At the start it is shown since orders for materials were out sourced and then imported. Orders were placed from Kami only through Mega Corporation which until the end when the parts need clearance involves Kami. Kami then would have to be very vigilant in regards to following up with orders that were placed. At times there were wrong orders but then even when products were completed Kami was not so keen on warehouse storage.