...Case Study Burger King Beefs Up Global Operations Rosalind Fields Columbia Southern University Burger King Beefs Up Global Operations by Rosalind Fields February 2012 Burger King leads the world in flamebroiled fast food restaurant chains and operates in all 50 states and 74 countries and territories of the United States. Daniels, Radebaugh, & Sullivan (2011) Burger King’s official websites states that it was founded in 1954 and currently serves over 11 million guests. Known as the Home of the Whopper, the same source explains that approximately 90 percent of Burger King restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees. Further explanation is given to the October 2010 purchase of the company by 3G Capital. 3G Capital is described as a firm that focuses on long term value creation. (www.bk.com ) Burger King’s is known for letting customers “have it their way; its core competencies are its flamebroiled burgers and the choices that it gives to customers for their burgers. This differentiates Burger King from the competition. (Daniels, J., Radebugh, L., & Sullivan, D. 2011 p.463) The company seems to have maintained its initial chosen strategy. Daniels, Radebaugh, & Sullivan (2011) supports this by explaining that although their menu has expanded over time, Burger King has been consistent with offering its flamebroiled burger and its signature product: ...
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...Burger King Beefs up Global Operations James E. Payton Columbia Southern University Burger King Beefs up Global Operations According to Daniels, Radebaugh, and Sullivan (2011), Burger King is the world’s largest chain of flame-broiled fast food restaurants. Its core competency is its flame-broiled burgers, whereas other fast food hamburger joints serve fried burgers or no burgers at all, Burger King offers the unique flame-broiled burgers with any options that a customer might like, consumers have the benefit of having a burger they cannot find elsewhere. Initially Burger King only sold burgers, fries, shakes, and sodas, but they have chosen to expand to offering chicken, fish, salads etc. Although they offer these extra items, they have elected to stay true to their original flame-broiled burgers, and their chosen strategy is to focus on the whopper as their signature product. This product gives them an advantage over other fast food chains (Daniels et al., 2011). As of today, some of the strategies that they used include development of infrastructure before putting in restaurants, development of a local management team, development in established locations, establishment of local offices and headquarters and finally, continued development and use of local suppliers to meet Burger Kings’ specifications. Daniels et al. (2011) implies that Burger Kings’ core competency therefore falls in line with its strategies so that by offering a high quality product created...
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...Introduction Burger King is the world’s largest flame broiled fast food restaurant chain. As of 2011, Burger King operates restaurants in 12,300 locations serving over 11 million guests daily in 76 countries and territories worldwide (Burger King , 2011). Burger King’s core competency is its unique flame-broiled burgers. This process is difficult to imitate and helps differentiates Burger King from other fast food chains that fry their burgers instead. So much so in fact, no other fast food provider flame broils their burgers. In addition, Burger King allows and encourages consumers to customize the unique flame-broiled burgers with options to their liking. This creates a win-win situation for both Burger King and the consumer. Burger King has the benefit of offering a different product and the consumer benefits by having numerous burger options. Although Burger King has expanded its menu selections, they have remained true to their original flame-broiled burgers. This product gives them an advantage over other fast food chains. Facing intense competition and limited growth opportunities domestically, Burger King hopes strengthen their competitive stance through international expansion. By mid 2009, Burger King was not in any of the following countries: France, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. Compare these countries as possible future locations for Burger King. In looking for new countries to enter, Burger King needs to identify countries that fit its ideal demographic...
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...MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MARKETING MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT ((( | | |TOPIC: | |SWOT ANALYSIS OF | |BURGER KING VIETNAM | | | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...Fiscal 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: This corporate responsibility report contains forward-looking statements that concern our expectations, beliefs, projections, strategies, initiatives and anticipated events. These forward-looking statements include: statements regarding the timing and method of providing updates to this corporate responsibility report and new corporate responsibility reports, our expectations regarding the future globalization of our corporate responsibility initiatives; our plan to pursue initiatives in the areas of childhood nutrition, advertising directed at children, reduction of energy, water consumption, waste and emissions production, biodiversity, chemicals and animal welfare; our intention to evaluate and study how to build more environmentallyfriendly restaurants as well as making existing restaurants more environmentally-friendly; our plans to introduce new products, including new Kids Meals; our plan to expand certain benefits, including our flextime program; our intention to continue to support minority- and women-owned suppliers; our intention to continue our work and relationships with certain coalitions and organizations on a variety of philanthropic, people and corporate governance initiatives; and the company’s intention to pursue the next steps outlined in the corporate responsibility report as well as its beliefs regarding the future positive impact of undertaking these steps...
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...they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Ray Kroc joined the company in 1955 as a franchise. A McDonald's restaurant is operated by either a franchisee, an affiliate or the corporation itself. McDonald's Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. In 2012, McDonald's Corporation had annual revenues of $27.5 billion, and profits of $5.5 billion. Products: Macdonald’s primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken burgers, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes and deserts including ice-creams. Currently restaurant also expanded its menu to include salads, fish, wraps, smoothies and fruits in order to change the taste of the consumers. Company also serve soup in the Asian countries. The menu of the company differs according to the serving countries like prawn burger in Singapore. In Germany and western European countries MacDonald’s serve beer also. Operating countries: Macdonald’s corporation is one of the largest fast food selling company. It have 31,800 flagship restaurants serving nearly 68 million people in each day among the 119 countries worldwide. Mainly, company operated by franchisee, an affiliate or the corporation itself. Basically company is operated largely in America, Canada and European countries like U.K., Competitors: There are many fast food restaurant running currently in the market. However...
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...industry? Burger King is a fast food company from the United States. Today, this company is implemented all over the world and it is one of the most famous fast food companies all over the world. Often abbreviate as being BK, its headquarters are located in Florida, United States of America. By developing the first Burger King, James McLamore and David Edgerton the two creators had given the community a comfortable environment to eat inside of the restaurant, because the restaurant was the first fast food business to offer people the option of dining in the restaurant or going to the drive. With McDonalds being the largest fast food chain in the world, Burger King rates as the second largest hamburger fast food restaurant in the world, with Wendy’s following right behind it One of their goals is that they try hard to continuously increase their image and product line. Having integrity, diversity, fairness, team work, and commitment to excellence are only some of this fast food restaurants values. With Burger King’s unique values and slogan they have created a position for themselves that separates them from other fast food restaurants. One way that Burger King has positioned their selves away from the competitors is by getting away from the traditional menu and to offer regional menu items, which offers local dishes exclusive to certain cities. The Breakfast Burrito which is served in the south-west and Mustard Whopper in Texas are only some of Burger King’s regional...
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...for Choosing this Product 8 3.0 Market Analysis 12 3.1 Environmental Analysis: 12 3.1.1 Economic and Trade Analysis: 12 3.1.2 Political and Legal conditions 13 3.1.3 Socio- Cultural Factors 13 3.2 SWOT Analysis 14 3.2.1 Strengths: 14 3.2.2 Weaknesses: 14 3.2.3 Opportunities: 14 3.2.4 Threats: 14 3.3 Market Segmentation 15 3.3.1 Target Market 15 4.0 Marketing mix Strategies 16 4.1 Global Entry Strategy 16 4.2 Product Strategy 16 4.3 Promotional Strategies 16 4.4 Distribution strategy 18 4.5 Pricing Strategy 18 4.5.1 Value- based pricing 18 5.0 Conclusion 19 References 20 Appendix 1: World Governance Indicator 24 Appendix 2: Brazil Exports Worldwide 25 Appendix 3: Growth Tracker 26 Appendix 4: Darabif Products 27 Appendix 5: Darabif Malaysia Promotion for Restaurant 30 * Executive Summary This paper seeks examine the demand gap of halal meat in Brazil where the Muslim population exists but with hardly any proper halal meat supplied. Thereby, enabling Darabif to carry out its operations in Brazil to serve and fill up that demand for proper halal meat. At the same time halal restaurants are also scarce in Brazil, one of Darabif’s plans are to include a dine restaurant with the store. Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world; therefore, we find a need to produce halal meat in Brazil the authentic way that could turn out profitable. This paper analyzes the internal and external environment...
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...foods between Western countries like the United States, and China, and that McDonald’s food very much reflects food preferences in the U.S., it is very interesting to see how McDonald’s works to capture China’s attention and takes hold in the Chinese market. This case study includes: a company profile of McDonald’s; a situational analysis; a SWOT analysis that performs an investigation on internal and external circumstances of the fast food chain in China and Hong Kong; an identification of some of the problems that the chain is facing in China; possible solutions to the identified problems. McDonald’s: Company Profile McDonald’s Corporation was established in 1955 in the state of Illinois. The corporation franchises, operates and develops a global network of restaurants, that each sells a limited menu of value foods. McDonald’s is the most popular ‘fast food’ service retailer in the world, with more than 30,000 restaurants in over 119 countries serving approximately 50 million people every day (McDonald’s, 2005). Popular menu options include the Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, Happy Meal, Egg McMuffin and Chicken McNuggets, as well as a large range of other menu options including fries, chicken sandwiches, salads and sundaes at reasonable prices that the majority of people can afford. The corporation is well known for its fast service and for its efforts in recent years to diversify its menu range to make their options more appealing to a larger number of customers. McDonald’s first arrived...
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...in China is due to their purchase of Yonghe King Chain. Whenever we discuss about fast food restaurants, the first name which comes in our mind is of McDonalds which has the world’s largest chain of fast food restaurant. But, this is not the case in the Philippines where Jollibee has been the name for fast food for more than two decades. Jollibee doesn’t have a popular global name but in its home town it has four popular brands named- Jollibee, Delifrance, Greenwich Pizza and Chowking. In 1990’s JFC wanted to expand internationally by opening some of their stores in Asia and Middle East. The company’s chairman and CEO Tony Tan Caktiong wanted JFC to grow internationally and also improving its quality and growth in their domestic country and having goals of profitability, growth, capturing a large international market share and help developing their home country. In June 2005, JFC had a total increase in their stores all over the world. It had 1200 stores out of which 1079 were in their home country and a large number in China because of Yonghe King Chain in China. Jollibee has done a great job by winning the 2004 World Entrepreneur of the year award and also beating 31 other entrepreneurs. Capturing Filipino Taste Buds In Philippines people love to eat and eat five times daily and some snacks between them. They love to sit and chat with friends while they are eating. Therefore, it has become a global market for Mcdonalds, Burger...
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...McDonald’s is one of the most valuable fast-food providing companies in the world. The most reputation gaining points of McDonald’s are: inexpensive food with consistent taste, quick service and clean and familiar environment. Besides, strong adaptability of the company in operation of chain stores in other markets of different cultures and market condition have contributed in making McDonald’s a successful quick service restaurant. Aligned to that, McDonald’s typically spent about twice as much on advertising as Burger King and Wendy’s. Even under environment of intense competition, McDonald’s has proved to stay firm on its high position in the market. Some examples of good adaptability to market of McDonald’s include: having separated food preparation area in Indian market to accommodate the high number of vegetarian customers; using as much as 95% of food ingredients produced locally to encourage trust within customers; serves lamb-based Maharaja Mac instead of beef in India with majority of Hindu; substituting imported beef at its British restaurants in respond to the mad cow disease concern of consumers; developing new restaurant designs and reimage its French operation when the local bistro operations neutralizing McDonald’s advantage of fast service and low prices. There are also instances where McDonald’s showed their capability of recognizing new market opportunities, and capturing them, McDonald’s decision of opening its first restaurant in India is one of which. Other...
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...III. Executive Summary This paper aims to explore the marketing mix of Burger King and create some recommendations in order for the company to make use of its marketing mix to its advantage. The marketing mix of the company is traced through research with the mostly secondary data, and some primary data in order to gather facts and provide for the analysis. However, due to limitations such as access to hard market data through formal quantitative and qualitative researches, the analysis may not be the most accurate representation of the market. This limits the analysis to most market data available from secondary sources. After the marketing mix has been determined, the applicability of the marketing planning process to the company’s operation is described. This will benefit the company in the strategic sense in order for it to either secure or push to a higher position. Finally, recommendations have been made in order to provide the company some options in order to facilitate growth by changing the combination of the elements in the marketing mix, and create a competitive advantage tailored to its chosen target market. IV. Body A. Methodology The scope of this business report is to describe the marketing mix of the company Burger King from primary and secondary resources in order to make an accurate analysis for their marketing planning process. By knowing the current marketing mix of the company, recommendations can be provided in order to boost growth for...
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...industry McDonalds has had to make several adjustments to stay on the leading competitive edge. As society becomes more aware of health issues and economic opportunities, the restaurant industry has been severely impacted which, has forced menu adjustments with better food at competitive prices. Below we will address how McDonalds strategy through analysis, formulation, and implementation. Analysis: Focus on External and/or Internal Environments Maintaining a competitive advantage is the most important factor for a business to be successful. Although McDonalds has been in business since 1940 and has formulated the market for the fast food industry, it has come under heavy pressure of competitors. At first, McDonalds focused on burgers, drinks, and fires. However, new entries into the quick-service industry have affected them with more expanded and different menus. This has forced McDonalds to restructure their entire business strategy over time to stay on top of customer demands placing focus on the PESTEL model. External Environments There are several trends that affect McDonald’s ability to sustain a competitive advantage. One of the most important trends is the economic factor, which affect consumer-spending power. In periods of relative prosperity, a consumer income will be high and they are willing to spend more money. However, during a recession spending power decreases making price more relevant. In 2012, Jim Skinner broke from McDonald’s historical...
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...Consumers……………………………………………………………………………….22-23 Challenges in Entering Australian Markets…………………………………………………..24 Recommendation………………………………………………………………………………25 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………. 26 References………………………………………………………………………………………27 Executive summary The main aim of this report is to show that it is feasible for our KLG enterprise to penetrate into the Australian market. Since KLG restaurant chain has been well established and successful in the local market; Malaysia, we think it’s the time for the enterprise to go international. Or KLG restaurant chain to have foreign direct investments. KLG restaurants is one of the leading fast food restaurants in Malaysia serving variety of fast foods like fried chicken, chicken burgers, French fries and soft drinks as well. According to (Wyld, 2010) “if the franchisor has a well-established home market, they are able to achieve better economies of scale once they expand internationally.” “Economic globalization constitutes integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, direct foreign investment, (by corporations and multinationals), short-term capital flows, international flow of workers and humanity generally and flows of technology”. (Bhagwati, 2004) Before expanding the business globally we have to take many issues into consideration like the legal and political environment of...
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...fast food chains have been studied and analyzed throughout the project. MacDonald’s and Burger King have been chosen as part of Fast Food industry because both companies are the biggest and closest competitors of each other; they both provide an insight of the frame of the industry, advantages and disadvantages of franchise system and production techniques, demand and supply chains, keys of success and weaknesses that could bust or hinder growth in short- and long-term. The study concentrates on demand and supply structure in the industry, market forms in which the industry can operate optimally, scope of production, production techniques, cost structures, prevailing market conditions and their impact on the firm, and financial analysis of the companies. To collect the relevant data, the companies’ annual reports were critically analyzed and evaluated for exact position to be sorted, the current market conditions to be measured and their possible future effects on the firms working environment to be evaluated. Companies’ Overview McDonald’s is located in 117 countries and on 6 continents and operates over 32,000 restaurants worldwide. McDonald’s is the clear market leader in the fast food industry. For 2010 the company recorded $24 billion in sales, the highest in the industry, with continues increase year over year (“McDonald's Corporation”, 2010). Burger King has more than 12,100 restaurants in 76 countries. As with McDonald’s, approximately 90 percent...
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