Juice Case Studies Samples For Students

Overview

Juice Club, the former name of Jamba Juice Company, was founded in 1990 by Kirk Perron and was presented as a health-food store. In the mid of 1990’s, the company started to expand using franchise strategy. In 1995, it changed its name for Jamba Juice Company that allowed differentiating in the market as the competitors started to offer similar products. In 1999, the company merged with Zuka Juice Inc. and acquired 98 smoothie retailing units. In 2006, the company went public having owned and franchised units (Dostal n.p.).
The main problem is that all of the competitors are ...

Profitability ratios carry great significance as it indicates the level of profit margins being earned from its business. These ratios have the capacity to influence the investment decisions of the shareholders. The paper describes the profitability ratios of Starbucks Inc and Jamba Juice over the period of two years, i.e. 2012 and 2013:
i) Gross Profit Margins:

Analysis:

The above data indicates that Gross Profit Margins of Jumba Juice was significantly higher than that of Starbucks Inc, however during 2013, the gross margins of Starbucks Inc increased from 56.29% to 57.14% courtesy decline in percentage of cost of sales to ...

Cohort Name

CESR
Finance
An “angel investor” is an individual who is affluent and provides the seed or capital for a business startup. Usually he or she provides this funding in exchange for ownership equity in the business and or convertible debt. During the years 1994 through 1996, NN focused its asset investment on improving their distribution and increasing inventory. They also secured better independent bottlers. In doing so , they implemented a wide-scale advertising campaign to increase brand awareness (Biotti 2000) They also opted to move their product through an independent network of distributors that would be able to carry multiple ...

Question 1: How does Boost differentiate its products from those of its competitors?

Boost Juice Company has been sensitive on its products by ensuring that its products are outstanding in a competitive juice market. The first element that is evident in the company is brand equity. The company has selected an outstanding brand name that is attractive to consumers. The name boost may be used to define the role the juice would play in the body of the consumer. It shows that the juice has nutritional value to the consumer. Therefore, the name would play an extremely critical role in attracting consumers to the product (Buttinger & Vallaster, 2008). The name of the company ...

Management Theories

Beach Nuts was an extremely influential company in the food industry. It was well known f its production of children juice that was termed as healthy for children consumption. The company had had exclusive market share in the United States as well as the rest of the world. This was mainly following its uniquely manufactured juice that was fit for children consumption. However, the adulterous production behavior of the company did not last for long. It became known that the juice that the company produced was negatively influential to the body of its users. The juice was believed to ...

Introduction

Dr Pepper and Snapple Group, Inc developed three centuries prior and advanced from a consolidation of revelation, innovation and joint effort. To begin with, it was a medication store, which served Alderton for work. The most seasoned soda in the United States was named Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper and Snapple Group, Inc, the leader brands of DPS, have the inceptions that impart Schweppe's entrepreneurial soul. Dr. Pepper and Snapple Group, Inc, is a standout amongst the best gatherings in the region of vitality drinks. It is additionally a real manager of brand, bottle and merchant of non-jazzed up drinks in the Canada, US, ...

Science

Impacts of a Borderless Society
Breakfast: Orange juice, eggs, toast, butter, jam, bacon, tea
Breakfast: The orange juice was made with oranges from Florida, freshly squeezed. The eggs came from my Mom’s friend’s farm. My Mom made the bread and the butter was from Wisconsin. Someone my Mom knows made the jam. I think the bacon came from Nebraska but that may be where it was packaged or where the package came from (the label wasn’t very clear). The tea was from Sri Lanka.

Lunch: Burger King Hamburger, juice in a box, French Fries

Lunch: The hamburger was probably from a big containment-type feedlot out in ...

Implementation issues

Snapple has experienced a decrease in sales and sales and revenue after firing of the Company’s spokespeople. The first implementation plan would be bringing back another spokespeople, with similar characteristics as the previously fired. From the first alternative, the sales department plays a major role in shaping the revenues of an organization, and as such, the company should employ massive sales people with the ability of moving a big crowd of customers. In addition, the fired group had a lot of influence towards customers who loved taking juice from Snapple Company. A similar recommendation would be for the company to hire the ...

Basic EPS=Net income-Preferred dividendWeighted average number of common shares outstanding

Jamba juice

(2012) Basic EPS=302 000-2 181 00014 139 888=-0,133.
(2013) Basic EPS=1 492 00016 793 235=0,089.

Starbucks

(2012) Basic EPS=1 384 700 000-900 000754 400 000=1,83.
(2013) Basic EPS=8 800 000-500 000749 300 000=0,011.

Percentage of Earnings Retained

PER=Earnings per Share-Annual dividend per ShareEarnings per Share=Net Income-DividendsNet income
Jamba juice
2012 PER=302-2181302=-6,22=-622%;
2013 PER=2080-5882080=0,72=72%.

Starbucks

2012 PER=1,83-0,721,83=0,61=61%;
2013 PER=0,01-0,890,01=-88=-8800%.

Dividend Payout

DP=Annual dividend per ShareEarnings per Share=DividendsNet Income
Jamba juice
2012 DP=2181302=7,22=722%;
2013 DP=5882080=0,28=28%.
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Post-stroke dysphagia, a potentially fatal complication, affects an estimated 23-50% of all stroke survivors. It is associated with a seven fold increase in the risk for aspiration pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia increases the catabolic demands of the body and in the settings of impaired swallowing leads to a vicious cycle of malnutrition, dehydration, and further infections (Shaker & Geenen, 2011). Dysphagia affects a significant number of patients with hemispheric stroke which is the main subtype of ischemic stroke in the general population (Kumar et al., 2011). The functions of swallowing are subserved by a vast brain network. The inferior peri-rolandic sensorimotor ...

The Institutional Affiliation

Entering a foreign market is an important step in every company’s experience. International market expansion benefits the business in many ways. It is also challenging and requires thought out strategy supported by a successful local market performance. The Canadian based company, the Booster Juice, is a good example of difficulties and opportunities a business can face when expanding into international markets.
Indian market is quite different from the specificity of conducting a business in the United States, Canada, even Europe. Therefore, a company must consider the specifics of Indian culture, customs and traditions in order to win the ...

Introduction and Problem Statement

In the year 2007, Hope Blooms was launched by Jessie Jollymore with the aim of providing people with healthy food and empowering the local youth. In May 2014, Hope Blooms became a registered charity that aims to grow their business and protect the youth through their charitable programs. The two fundamental problems that Hope Blooms faces are; firstly, making their retail operations stable employment for their youth members and, secondly, increasing the revenues of the charity and increase its revenues.

Analysis

Hope Blooms have achieved their founding objectives of helping people eat healthy food and helping the local youth through ...

Business operations are usually subject to various forces including the external factors that businesses have no control over. In that respect, businesses need to devise suitable strategies as a means of responding to the forces’ influence. That is applied as a means of enhancing firms’ performance and sustainability. With that view, this case analysis seeks to demonstrate how a region or a country’s economic aspects affects industries and businesses in terms of performance, value and strategies.

Synopsis and objectives

International trade is a key focus for countries in their bid to enhance growth and embrace globalization. In that respect, trade liberalization is increasingly becoming a crucial tool ...

Introduction

Starbucks Corporation is known to be the largest coffeehouse organization globally. The company is an American international coffeehouse chain and coffee company having more than 20,891 stores in approximately 62 countries. Its largest store chains are in United States with 13,279, second largest in Canada with 1,324. Moreover, it has 989, 851 and 806 stores chains in Japan, China and United Kingdom respectively.

Expansion of Starbucks without destroying its core business

The primary business of Starbucks is the coffee that is sold in morning hours which is the peak time when drinking coffee is most popular. For many years, Starbucks has struggled attract customers ...

International (Free) Trade

International (Free) Trade
Free trade or international free trade is one of the most effective ways of making economies stronger. It is in a view that when the governments lift the barriers from the trade, the circulation of funds in the market increases and gives benefit to the citizens. Free trade creates jobs in many different ways and its impact on the domestic job creation policies. For example, a few decades back there were no labor force in the Middle East countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia. The free trade policy from the governments of these countries creates a lot ...

Management

This case study describes the most important issue facing Coca-Cola’s ongoing expansion in China in 2014.The most important strategic issue facing Coca Cola's current development is localization of the company. Localization of the company plays a crucial role in its growth China. Localization refers to the adaptation to the needs, preferences and tastes of the Chinese people. Coca-Cola faces a strategic issue in customizing its products to the needs of the local people in China.

Element analysis

Economic and policy issues and trends in China
The government of China encourages FDI (Foreign Direct Investment).FDI policies in Chain encourage the growth ...

Graham v. Conner 490 U.S. 386 (1989)

The Plaintiff (Graham) is diabetic and he had been feeling awful after an insulin reaction. A friend took the plaintiff to the store but because the queue at the store was too long so he hurriedly left the store and his friend drove him to their friend’s home for juice. A police officer, on seeing the plaintiff hurriedly leave the store, was suspicious and trailed the car. He stopped the two after trailing them for one mile. The plaintiff’s friend told the police officer that Graham was having a “sugar reaction” ( ...

EC 320

Regression analysis refers to a host of techniques used in statistics to explain relationships between variables in a data set. He helps us understand and make predictions of how dependent variables would change when independent variables are altered. Scott Armstrong (2012) says that “the estimation target is a function is a function of the independent variables called the regression function” (p. 9).It is this regression function that gives the mathematical relationship between the various variables in the data set. He says too that characterizing the disparity of the dependent variable around the regression meaning can also be described by the probability function.
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Introduction

Basing on history, in a period of over one hundred years ago, Coke and Pepsi have been competing to have a substantial share of the world’s beverage market. The strongest battle in this market or what is referred to as “the cola wars” was seen in the fight for the seventy four billion U.S dollar CSD industry in the U.S (Yoffie and Kim 1).In a cautiously waged competitive fight that took place in a period starting from the year 1975 up to the middle of the 1990s, Coke as well as Pepsi obtained average annual income growth of about ten percent, ...