Viña San Pedro

The winery industry can be categorized into red and white wine segments. The red wine segment, measured by tonnage of varietals crushed, has grown at a compounded annual rate of 4.7% for 10 years from 1989 to 1998, and a year over year growth rate of 8.2% from 1998 to 1999. Judging by the strong growth rate experienced in the red wine segment, it is reasonable to conclude that the red wine segment is in the growth phase of the life cycle model. In addition, production of red wine varietals which are relatively unknown such as syrah and sangiovese nearly doubled in a year from 1998 to 1999. The white wine segment, however, is at the mature phase of its life cycle as the segment shrunk slightly by 0.42% from 1998 to 1999. Overall, the industry is still at the growth stage lead by growth in the red wine segment.

Ms. Quintana CEO of Northern Napa Valley Winery Inc. was considering conducting business with Trans Continental stores to sell excess grapes from the 2008 harvest. Prior to making a decision Quintana must determine how much of the harvest should be retained for the production of Northern Napa’s own red table wine. Quintana realized that the quantity of red table wine produced is closely associated to the sales.

Since the late 1960’s, California wine-maker Robert Mondavi has been perceived by its stakeholders as one of the world’s most innovative and high-quality producers of fine wine. It is therefore not surprising that the company has endured great financial success; in fact, it has secured an impressive annual growth in earnings per share of ~28% over the last 8 years. Recently however, there have been many external forces that may serve to threaten the long-term profitability of the firm: sales have been decreasing over the last 6 months due to a staggering economy, Australian imports are on the rise, shrinking the size of the pie for domestic firms, and there has been an industry wide trend to consolidate; existing firms are merging and

Pat Waller was hired as a sales manager for the San Francisco region’s chain division for the Valley winery products and despite having very good sales a high turnover ratio of 100% seemed to be a major impediment in the future prospects of the company. Waller despite lamenting the problems he inherited had a major task ahead of the situation regarding a better planning of strategies which would help in organizing of the sales force activities at Valley Winery and its prospective operations in the region.

The buyer’s power within the wine industry varies between different places in the world. There are for example strategic differences between Europe and the “New World”. The “New World” includes countries like the US, Australia, Chile and South Africa. In Europe there is a big competition

2. Vina San Pedro is part of the 3 largest wineries of Chile. In 1994 Compana Cervecerias Unidas purchased 48.4 % of VPS shares, gaining partial ownership.

The scope of the innovation expertise that New World wine producers have is value-chain wide in scope, and in-depth enough to completely re-order manufacturing, fermentation, distribution channel, pricing, marketing and customer service (Cholette, 2009). New World wine producers

However, Bonny Doon is vulnerable and reliant on its suppliers, as 80% of the firm’s grapes are bought from external growers. Bonny Doon requires unpopular grape varieties and grapes that meet high quality specifications (which decreases agricultural yields and creates a trade-off for growers). They need to develop long-term relationships with the growers to ensure uniformity and high production quality with respect to the firm’s key product input: grapes. On the other side of the value chain, the firm has preferred small-medium sized distributors for their product. This has enabled them to retain higher profits, despite selling wine in smaller quantities.

Vincor does market wine alternatives itself, as a way of dealing with substitute demand. Vincor makes cider and has a wine kit business division (Spagnols) that gives Vincor some product diversification. Partly because of the ease of competition and as part of the differentiation and protection of the Canadian wine industry, Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA), a quality assurance program that identifies Canadian premium grape content, assists in making start-up more difficult for those wishing to emulate Canadian wine brands. The dollars spent on marketing and brand loyalty play a large part in protecting market share and there are certain absolute cost advantages that contribute to establishing some barriers to new competition. Ultimately, there is little cost to the consumer when considering switching brands. Experimentation in wine drinking is often a characteristic of the wine drinking market and thus can contribute to promoting new substitute entry into the market.

Now that we have exposed our assumptions, we can start going into more detail on the case itself. First, as this is an inventory management case study, we are going to determine the optimal order quantity of each type of wine, so that afterwards we can make include a more financial view of the problem and make some recommendations.

Bonatelli Wines began their exportation to the US initially with an objective to sell 25,000 cases of wine. However, sales went beyond expectations and 200,000 cases were sold and the projection for the next year is for 500,000 cases. Bonatelli Wines is now looking to expand into another region of the market, South East Asia. If Bonatelli Wines is producing 30,000 bottles a day expanding into South East Asia will be a stretch, but can be done. If Bonatelli Wines expects to export 500,000 cases (6,000,000 bottles)of wine to the US over the next year, they will need 200 days of production leaving them 61 days (expecting they don’t work weekends) to produce wine for South East Asia. In 61 days of the year

In 2001 there were over 1 million wine producers worldwide, and no firm accounted for more than 1% of global retail sales. Because of this, it would be nearly impossible for the Robert Mondavi winery to dominate sales in any region. Due to Mondavi’s efforts, the winery became one of America’s most innovative,

The United States wine industry is a 12 billion dollar industry and is composed of 7,000 wineries and around 1,800 different companies. The three major companies within the industry are Constellation brands, E&J Gallo, and The Wine Group Inc. The industry has made its way through the economic crisis at a better rate than some of the other U.S industries however in order for them to continue to see any type of growth it is important that they acknowledge their issues and find ways in which they can rectify them. The majority of the issues among the industry are problems that cannot be directly controlled by individual wine companies. Therefore it is imperative that wineries find away to use these issues to their

The acquisition of other wineries has made it possible for Mondavi to make strategic moves in their plans and strategies. The acquisition will bring together complementary wine assets, including vineyards, production facilities, and distribution capabilities that will strengthen Constellation 's portfolio and further build the Robert Mondavi brand. (6) Acquisitions and mergers are popular in the wine industry. Mondavi 's s long-term goal is to own 25 percent of its grape production.

Through heavily exporting to U.K and U.S, MontGras segmented and exposed to some of the top wine consumers in the world