...Case Study: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. Problem The problem in this case deals with the loss in value of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts’ stock. Was the main reason for the fall in stock price due to article posted in the Wall Street Journal about the SEC investigation? Were there deeper issues within the company that caused the loss in earnings per share? Analysis In April of 2000, the CEO of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts took the company public and had one of the largest IPO’s in recent years. After Krispy Kreme went public, they stated that they were planning to expand from 144 to 500 stores over the next five years. The company grew rapidly for the next few years, and stock prices rose well above the S&P 500. On May 7, 2004 the company reported adverse results and told investors to expect earnings to be 10% lower than originally anticipated. Krispy Kreme’s reasoning for the decrease in expected earning was the growing trend in America toward a low-carbohydrate diet. On May 25, 2004 the Wall Street Journal published an article on the aggressive accounting treatment used by Krispy Kreme during a franchise acquisition. A franchisee owning seven stores in Michigan owed the company several millions of dollars. They asked him to close two underperforming stores and pay Krispy Kreme accrued interest on past-due loans. In return, the franchisor promised to raise the purchase price of the franchise. Krispy Kreme accountants recorded the interest paid as interest income resulting in...
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...Case Study: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. Case Study: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. Problem The problem in this case deals with the loss in value of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts’ stock. Was the main reason for the fall in stock price due to article posted in the Wall Street Journal about the SEC investigation? Were there deeper issues within the company that caused the loss in earnings per share? Analysis In April of 2000, the CEO of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts took the company public and had one of the largest IPO’s in recent years. After Krispy Kreme went public, they stated that they were planning to expand from 144 to 500 stores over the next five years. The company grew rapidly for the next few years, and stock prices rose well above the S&P 500. On May 7, 2004 the company reported adverse results and told investors to expect earnings to be 10% lower than originally anticipated. Krispy Kreme’s reasoning for the decrease in expected earning was the growing trend in America toward a low-carbohydrate diet. On May 25, 2004 the Wall Street Journal published an article on the aggressive accounting treatment used by Krispy Kreme during a franchise acquisition. A franchisee owning seven stores in Michigan owed the company several millions of dollars. They asked him to close two underperforming stores and pay Krispy Kreme accrued interest on past-due loans. In return, the franchisor promised to raise the purchase price of the franchise. Krispy Kreme accountants recorded the interest...
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... Ethics-Krispy Kreme Introduction The purpose of this case study is to analyze the accounting scandal at Krispy Kreme. "The Krispy Kreme story is one of a newly public company, experiencing rapid growth, that failed to meet its accounting and financial reporting obligations to its shareholders and the public,"(as cited in Maremont & Brooks, 2005). The senior managers were the ones who profited from this accounting scandal and the shareholders and the public suffered as a result. There are several prevention methods that can be taken to prevent this from occurring in the future. It will benefit Krispy Kreme to hire internal auditors who can report to management any regulations. Analysis Company Overview Krispy Kreme opened its first store July 13, 1937 in Winston-Salem, NC (Krispy Kreme). According to the Krispy Kreme website, “Vernon Rudolph bought a secret yeast-raised doughnut recipe from a New Orleans French chef, rented a building in what is now historic Old Salem in Winston-Salem, NC, and began selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts to local grocery stores”(Krispy Kreme). Krispy Kreme donuts can be found at many grocery stores with sixty personal stores around the United States. Krispy Kreme offers a fundraiser program for schools and churches. Krispy Kreme has expanded its business internationally “celebrating the 100th shop in Mexico” in 2013 (Krispy Kreme). Accounting Scandal “Former executives at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. who oversaw...
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...Krispy Kreme Financial Analysis Case Study ukessays.com /essays/economics/krispy-kreme-financial-analysis-case-study-economicsessay.php Introduction Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. is one of the world's leading retailers and wholesalers of doughnuts and packaged sweets. The company owns and franchises Krispy Kreme doughnut stores which make and retail varieties of doughnuts and a wide range of coffees and other beverages. It operates about 530 stores both locally and in foreign countries like Australia, Canada, Indonesia, and Mexico among other countries. The company is head quartered in Winston-Salem in North Carolina, the US Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. In this paper financial analysis is done between Krispy Kreme and average industry which is comprised of other companies in the restaurant industry for example the Starbucks and McDonalds. Financial Ratio Analysis Some of the key ratios analyzed in this case study includes the following: Return on Equity (ROE), Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Investments (ROI),profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios. Quick ratio: This is the measuring of liquidity ratio which is done by comparing current assets minus inventories divided by current liabilities. Krispy Kreme's quick ratio is 1.73, while the industry's is 0.69. This is a very positive ratio for the firm because it indicates that the firm has a competitive advantage over the industry when it comes to...
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...POINT OF VIEW This case is analyzed from the point of view of a third party consultant. II. PROBLEM There is inefficiency in the management of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. in terms of its operations, marketing, accounting, and investment planning. III. OBJECTIVES a. To gradually gain back analysts’, investors’ and lenders’ confidence in the company in the succeeding months. b. To increase sales and profitability in terms of its core business, selling of doughnuts. c. To regain and increase stock price therefore increasing shareholder value. d. To correct inaccurate entries in the financial statements of KKD and to present a clean and unbiased reports. e. To extend further reach to consumers strategically to achieve significant growth in the next five years. f. To implement extensive marketing measures for its brand and products and investment strategy for both on and off premise operations. IV. AREAS OF CONSIDERATION • Fortune magazine had dubbed Krispy Kreme Doughnut, Inc. “the hottest brand in America.” With ambitious plans to open 500 doughnut shops over the first half of the decade. • The company generated revenues through four primary sources: on-premise retail sales at company owned stores (27% of revenues), off-premises sales to grocery and convenience stores (40%); manufacturing and distribution of product mix and machinery (29%); and franchise royalties and fees (4%). • Roughly 60% of sales at a Krispy Kreme store were derived from...
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...Running head: KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC.: A CASE ANALYSIS Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.: A Case Analysis Presented to By October 09, 2009 Table of Contents II. Table of Contents 2 III. Executive Summary 3 IV. Situational Analysis 5 A. Environment 5 B. Industry Analysis 5 C. The Organization 7 D. The Marketing Strategy 9 V. Problems Found in Situational Analysis 10 A. Statement of primary problem. 10 B. Statement of secondary problem 12 C. Statement of tertiary problem. 13 VI. Formulate, evaluate, and record alternative course(s) of action 14 A. Strategic Alternative 1 14 1. Benefits 14 2. Costs 15 B. Strategic Alternative 2 16 1. Benefits 16 2. Costs 19 C. Strategic Alternative 3 19 1. Benefits 19 2. Costs 21 VII. Selection of Strategic Alternative and Implementation 22 A. Statement of Selected Strategy 22 B. Justification of Selected Strategy 23 C. Description of the implementation of strategy. 23 VIII. Summary 28 IX. Appendices 29 A. Financial Analysis and Selected Tables 29 B. Reference List 32 Executive Summary Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., began as a family-owned business back in 1937, as an expansion of a pre-existing business, when Vernon Rudolph purchased a doughnut shop along with the now-famous secret recipe for making yeast-raised doughnuts. His doughnuts, which he delivered to grocery stores in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area, quickly became...
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...CASE STUDY OF KRISPY KREME Just like their Donoughts the Krispy Kreme stock seemed irresistible when they went public in 2000. It was even named as IPO of the year and the Forbes named it as the company to look out for. But now it is just a firm with a market capitalization over 300 million. So what did Krispy Kreme did wrong to be in a situation like this. The decline of Krispy Kreme Donoughts Inc. with a market capitalization of over 3 billion to just over 300 million was due to the use of synthetic leases, repurchased franchises, disappointing joint venture results and due to the problems of earnings management. This paper argues that there were numerous warning signals in the doughnut franchisor’s accounting and managerial decisions that investors refused to take seriously as they bid the stock from its IPO price of $6 to its eventual peak of $50 on NYSE. There are lots of lessons that can be learned from this autopsy of the Krispy Kreme and might well make investors and auditors more wary about jumping on the next IPO bandwagon. They bought out a struggling Michigan franchisee and agreed to raise the purchase price from $26 million to $32 million so that the franchisee could afford to close two stores and to settle its overdue debts owed to Krispy Kreme, thus avoiding a bad debt loss. Why would so many large franchisees of a supposedly-successful chain want to get out of their investment when operations seemed to be going so well? As we see in the exhibit...
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...Journal of Business Case Studies – April 2008 Volume 4, Number 4 Lessons From Krispy Kreme J. Richard Anderson, Stonehill College ABSTRACT The recent decline of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. raises a natural question: shouldn’t investors (and auditors) have been more wary of this Wall Street darling? Weren’t there tipoffs that would have allowed investors to avoid another franchisor “crash and burn” situtation like Boston Chicken or TCBY frozen yogurt? This paper traces the meteoric rise and fall of Krispy Kreme and discusses a number of advance indicators of future problems: insider share-dumping, conflicts of interest within the Board of Directors and senior management, turnover in the CFO position, the use of synthetic leases, repurchased franchises, disappointing join venture results, and the problems of earnings management in the quarterly reports of a fairly small publicly-owned business. Keywords: Corporate Financial Reporting, Investor Awareness, Reading Financial Reports INTRODUCTION S hould we be surprised when a Wall Street darling like Krispy Kreme Doughnuts crashes and burns? Shouldn’t there be warning signals when a company ranked as the best IPO of the 2000-02 period with a 711% stock price runup in three years loses all of that appreciation over the next 18 months? What causes a company to go from a market capitalization of just under $3 billion to little more than $300 million in such a short period? This paper argues that there were numerous...
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...Executive Summary: I. Introduction Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., began as a family-owned business back in 1937, as an expansion of a pre-existing business, when Vernon Rudolph purchased a doughnut shop along with the now-famous secret recipe for making yeast-raised doughnuts. His doughnuts, which he delivered to grocery stores in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area, quickly became immensely popular with customers. So popular in fact, that he cut a hole in the wall of his shop so that he could sell hot doughnuts to potential customers passing by on the street. (Peter and Donnelly, 2009, Page 690). Who knows, but this may have been one of the first “drive-thru/walk-up” windows in the restaurant business! And that is just one example of Mr. Rudolph’s and his early partner, Mike Harding’s, forward-thinking marketing ideas for that era. The ideas of making all of the shops look the same, so that they would be recognized by patrons wherever they traveled, as well as the viewing windows for watching the doughnuts being made, were good examples of marketing promotional strategies. These strategies are still considered by Krispy Kreme to be “Brand Elements” as reported in current, annual financial reports. By keeping control of the recipe and the doughnut-making process, they also maintained product standards and reduced, while not completely eliminating, the competition through the uniqueness of their product. In fact, attempts to change the recipe, or even the look of the shops...
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...[FIN 482: CASE STUDIES IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: CHITRANGNA CHAUDHARY ROOSEVELT ID 900336721] November 06, 2015 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, INC. 1. What can the historical income statements (case Exhibit 1) and balance sheets (case Exhibit 2) tell you about the financial health and current condition of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.? The annual growth of Krispy Kreme donuts from Jan 2000 through Feb 2004 have been quite consistent. The income growth from 1999 2003 has more than 10 folds. However the equity has been increasing in negative numbers from 2001 continuously form the last four years. The reason for this might be the development of business in other aspects is not developing and growing as much as otherwise which of course has impacted the company's income. In the balance sheets of Krispy Kreme donuts of the assets look really good from Jan 2000 to 2004 however there are a few facts that were noted which are as follow: 1. Cash and cash equivalents between defeated off between 2003 and 2004 had dropped considerably; 2. Assets held for sale in February 2004 were almost 37 million and change the company did not amortize their re-acquired franchise rights, goodwill and other intangible assets it was overstated asset in 2000 to 2003 and therefore there was a dramatic increase from 49 to 175 million respectively; 3. Total assets and shareholders were impressive but if you really break down the components they were not so good. In 2004 short-term debt and the...
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...Krispy Kreme Dougnuts: Empty Calories or Empty Profits? Case Study of the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD), a once high flying growth stock has been hampered as of late with shareholder lawsuits. When sales growth and earnings began to drop significantly in 2003, the company blamed its problems on the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets like Atkins and South Beach at the time. But the SEC began probing Krispy Kreme's accounting for franchise buybacks and is now facing shareholder lawsuits for inflating profits. Senior management officials allegedly knew of the problems, but continued to pad sales figures by doubling doughnut shipments to wholesale customers at the end of fiscal quarters, according to lawsuits. Inflated Sales: The suit alleges that between January 2003 and last May, when Krispy Kreme issued a profit warning, "the company issued false and misleading statements, including false financial results" and "repeatedly ratcheted upward its public quarterly and fiscal year revenue and earning projections ... all in the face of slowing sales and market saturation." In addition, the lawsuit claims,CEO Scott Livengood, former COO officer John W. Tate and former CFO Randy S. Casstevens - "unloaded more than 475,000 shares of Krispy Kreme stock for proceeds of $19.8 million", while fully aware sales were declining since January 2003. The charges, leveled by two unidentified "confidential witnesses" who are former employees of the...
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...Krispy Kreme Case Study FINA 470-01 Strategic Financial Management Company Overview: Krispy Kreme is a retailer and wholesaler of “high quality doughnuts and packaged sweets” (2010 10-K report) as well as various beverages. Krispy Kreme consists of stores and franchises that include domestic and international franchises, company stores and the KK Supply Chain. Krispy Kreme is also the sole provider to all their stores and franchises of the ingredients and equipment needed for store operations via the KK Supply Chain. Notably, neither equipment nor ingredients can be purchased from any other vendor and thus the franchises/stores are completely dependent upon Krispy Kreme. Vernon Rudolph acquired the Krispy Kreme recipe from a New Orleans chef and moved to Nashville and opened his own doughnut shop in 1937. Initially selling to grocery stores, he ended up cutting a hole in the building to sell to passersby who inquired about buying hot donuts directly from the bakery. Mr. Rudolph patented Krispy Kreme in 1939. Family members joined the bakery to help Rudolph meet rising demand for his doughnuts. Rudolph invented and built all his donut making equipment. To date, the company still uses only company made equipment. Other stores started popping up around the south in the 1950s and 1960s as the company quickly expanded. Rudolph died in 1973 and as the company began to flounder, it was sold to Beatrice Foods in 1976. Original franchisees repurchased the company...
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...Journal of Business Case Studies – April 2008 Volume 4, Number 4 Lessons From Krispy Kreme J. Richard Anderson, Stonehill College ABSTRACT The recent decline of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. raises a natural question: shouldn’t investors (and auditors) have been more wary of this Wall Street darling? Weren’t there tipoffs that would have allowed investors to avoid another franchisor “crash and burn” situtation like Boston Chicken or TCBY frozen yogurt? This paper traces the meteoric rise and fall of Krispy Kreme and discusses a number of advance indicators of future problems: insider share-dumping, conflicts of interest within the Board of Directors and senior management, turnover in the CFO position, the use of synthetic leases, repurchased franchises, disappointing join venture results, and the problems of earnings management in the quarterly reports of a fairly small publicly-owned business. Keywords: Corporate Financial Reporting, Investor Awareness, Reading Financial Reports INTRODUCTION S hould we be surprised when a Wall Street darling like Krispy Kreme Doughnuts crashes and burns? Shouldn’t there be warning signals when a company ranked as the best IPO of the 2000-02 period with a 711% stock price runup in three years loses all of that appreciation over the next 18 months? What causes a company to go from a market capitalization of just under $3 billion to little more than $300 million in such a short period? This paper argues that there...
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...Krispy Kreme Case Study: Adapting to the Changing Needs of Consumers By: Andrea Slonecker, Jessica Curtin, Mike Hurlbut, & Keith Anderson Table of Contents Executive Summary............................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Company History ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Current Situation ....................................................................................................................................... 4 External Environment Analysis ........................................................................................................... 6 General Environment ................................................................................................................................ 6 Industry Environment ............................................................................................................................. 10 Competitive Environment ....................................................................................................................... 12 Internal Environment Analysis .......................................................................................................... 17 Peformance...
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...Krispy Kreme Case Study: Adapting to the Changing Needs of Consumers By: Andrea Slonecker, Jessica Curtin, Mike Hurlbut, & Keith Anderson Table of Contents Executive Summary............................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Company History ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Current Situation ....................................................................................................................................... 4 External Environment Analysis ........................................................................................................... 6 General Environment ................................................................................................................................ 6 Industry Environment ............................................................................................................................. 10 Competitive Environment ....................................................................................................................... 12 Internal Environment Analysis .......................................................................................................... 17 Peformance...
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