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Background Information LeapFrog Enterprises was founded in 1995 by Mike Wood. Origins date back to 1990 when Mike Wood had an epiphany. He was playing with his 3 year old son and trying to help him recognize letters. It was then Wood came up with the idea of phonemic awareness. Wood took $15,000 of his…

Challenges and advantages of developing a specialty food business: The specialty food business can be rewarding and exciting, but it can also be a real struggle. Specialty foods can range from salad dressing to chocolate sauce to fragrant breads. If you can make it, you can sell it–provided you know how. The specialty food business…

What is the ad campaign of Mountain Dew that created awareness to its consumers? What is the impact of the Mountain Dew Ad campaign to its prospective customers? How did Pepsi Cola Company respond to the growing threat of non-carbonated soft drinks, especially energy drinks and tea? ANSWERS: In 1992, senior management at PepsiCo sensed…

According to the Transaction Cost Theory, since there is a high level of uncertainty between Hercules and Fafco as well as problems renegotiating, Fafco should vertically integrate. The uncertainty is probably a result of the rapid growth Fafco is experiencing. This rapid growth is causing demand and volume uncertainty. As the technology available to design…

The main reason Borden Foods decided to stop focusing on snacks and instead prioritize their whole-wheat meal segments was because they wanted to concentrate their efforts and resources on the growth of these segments. As part of this plan, they announced the sale of Cracker Jack in 1997. The management team at Borden also realized…

Frito-Lay Company – Cracker Jack 1. Why has Borden Foods decided to sell Cracker Jack? Borden Foods is in the process of divesting of snack and non-food products in order to focus efforts and resources in growing their pasta and grain based meal segments. Borden management has also recognized the value and equity in the…

Their large scale of production spreads their axed cost over many products and hence reduce their total cost of production enabling them to compete on prices. Differentiation Strategy What is Differentiation Strategy? This is an strategy where a company produces and markets unique products for different market segments. This strategy is used usually when companies…

Kabuliwala is a short story written by Rabindranath Tagore. It is a story which deals with Kabuliwala(Abdul Rehman Khan) and his customer Mini. Kabuliwala is basically a hawker who comes to Calcutta from Afganistan. He befriends a small bengali girl called Mini who use to remind him of his own daughter Amina back in Afghanistan….

The most critical shifts in Dell’s contextual factors, including industry dynamics, trends, technology changes and shift of the competitive landscape are following: The industry has changed significantly over the last 20 years. The traditional business model in the PC industry was inside-out, supplying machines based on orders from distribution, resell and retail channels, thus following…

Diebold Inc. primarily focused on domestic business operations for a considerable period of time, specifically serving U.S. financial institutions with its renowned bank vaults and subsequent automated teller machines (ATMs). The company witnessed substantial growth during the 1970s and 1980s as ATMs became widely adopted within the United States. It was not until the 1980s…