The Cone Zone

Sales for Carts of Colorado in 1991 were $7,650,000 and EBITDA in 1991 was $945,187 or a 12% operating margin. The mobile food business has had success since it is estimated that the 20,000 units sold by Carts of Colorado are generating about $2 billion in foodservice sales annually (an average of $100,000 per cart). It is believed internally at PepsiCo that Carts of Colorado is 18 months ahead of its competition in engineering and design. Given that PepsiCo, through its Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and

The target market is easily seen as young kids because of the adventurous flavours they have. However, anyone can easily be a part of their market, anyone who has a sweet tooth for ice cream.

“Choosey Moms choose Jif” is a phrase we have heard time and time again on television commercials. The endorsement of Mom implies that Jif is a healthy, nutritious food to serve the family. In today’s world, simple peanut butter is not enough; we are a society of wanting more. In this paper, we will look at the marketing position and the market share of Jif Peanut Butter, produced since 1958, and owned by J.M. Smucker Co. since 2002. The advancements in product positioning of Jif that has allowed it to remain a household staple will also be reviewed.

The dairy dessert market can be divided by several categories, such as kid snacks, adult indulgence, low fat/ health conscious; pudding, yogurt, mousse, parfait, etc. Besides those categories, another way to categorize the dessert market even further would be to separate the products to be refrigerated or shelved. Kozy Shack’s target market was geared towards the adult indulgence for the “upscale mother.” “The whole game was now to bring more sophisticated, higher disposable income customers (who happened to be adults) to stores, in order to gain a

Buy the Ranch Thesis: While Hidden Valley’s advertisement for ranch dressing effectively uses the vegetable truck to make vegetables seem like they taste better than they do and color scheme to make people think about healthy foods that they would associate with ranch, the advertisement leads to over usage of the product which eliminates the healthiness of the vegetables being consumed and detracts from the success of the advertisement. I. Hidden Valley uses the vegetable truck to make consumers want to buy ranch by making it seem like ranch makes vegetables taste better than they really do. A. Food trucks are most commonly known for selling ice cream. B. Instead of selling ice cream, the truck in the advertisement is selling vegetables so

This is turning out to be the new generation of producing ice cream and still be able to satisfy customer needs. According to the director of marketing at Blue Bell Carl Breed, “We plan to go after the low carb and Hispanic influence market. But we will continue to provide fabulous tasting ice cream, that appeal to almost every customers and we will never lose sight of the fact that ice cream is supposed to

The target market is Women on the go with no children who want a small personal treat. The data revealed that this target market were the heaviest buyers of premium treats, this focused the team to advertise towards “her” and “What does she

To mitigate this, we suggest filing a trademark for “May’s Chocolate Moose”, to be used exclusively for wholesale offerings. We suggest that Chocolate Moose continue to emphasize its signature moose logo and current color scheme, while also making sure that “Made in Bloomington” is emphasized on the packaging. If executed in this fashion, we are confident that marketing in wholesale markets under this trademark will be conducive to and recognizable as the Chocolate Moose brand. As mentioned in the previous section, we also suggest that Chocolate Moose create an online order platform for commercial sales which will allow Lovey to better track orders, while also eliminating the inherent risks associated with the current phone call system. To save on production costs, we propose Chocolate Moose provide grocers with their six best-selling ice cream flavors. These flavors include Vanilla, Vegan Vanilla, Moose Chocolate, Vegan Chocolate, BC Coffee, and

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.

We at Temple Consulting have completed an analysis of Ice-Fili’s current corporate standing using data collected over the past several years. Using tools such as Porter’s Approach and SWOT we have analyzed the internal and external environments and have recommended several strategic plans of action. Current areas for improvement such as marketing initiatives and re-evaluation of distribution channels will increase sales and profitability almost instantly. Long term plans such as lobbying against luxury tax on ice cream, partnerships with franchise vendors, and bringing new products to the market, performing an IPO, and planning more global efforts will help keep Ice-Fili rooted as the

| Propose a marketing strategy that addresses the quality of the cookie or targets children. Since children have a stronger influence in Canadian markets than US markets, reaching out to them could increase brand recognition and sales.

The company constrained itself within the already available marketing budget that significantly cut down the cost that could have used to advertise the new company plans, that in turn increased the revenues. The company also succeeds due to the unique flavor that it offered in the yoghurt, which was organic and naturally made unlike the competitors who at time incorporated artificial flavors. Finally the company focused on the target consumer group that comprised of women and children. This helped the company to increase its sales that contributed to its success.

A few weeks ago I wanted ice cream but I didn't want to go to the store and buy an entire tub of ice cream I just wanted something like a banana split. The only problem is that belvidere has no ice cream places except Dairy Ripple and they close in the winter,so a thought occurred to me Belvidere needs a Dairy Queen. See Dairy Queen is something that lots of people like so this would make many people happy,and let’s be honest we all have one point in the winter when we want ice cream. Dairy queen has lots of food options,they are very popular and very clean, and they have good prices.

Convenience is driving the frozen market sales globally as consumers are looking for healthy and less time-consuming meals (Seth and Randall, 2011). Private label is performing extremely

USE was expanded to include field consultants and market managers and today it gives franchisees, store managers and employees a chance to see and taste new products for upcoming seasons that are intended to address the changing preferences of customers. The merchandising plan for seasonal and high-potential new products is also shared. The centerpiece of the USE is the virtual 7-Eleven store, actual size 7-Eleven floor plans are built to show how seasonal products are assimilated into the standard store mix (7-Eleven About Us, 2010). For future reference, this capability should be the tool whereby the adjustments necessary to accommodate a drive thru capability are visualized and ultimately realized.