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
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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
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The Krispy Kreme, INC. Case By Group 10 Aydin Abdollahi Farrah Shareef Yiming Wang The Krispy Kreme, Inc. case examines the chain of events that caused this once prized stock to come suddenly plummeting down by 80% in 2004. In the year 2000, Krispy Kreme went public and quickly became the hot stock to own, the company already had an iconic status and this helped to fuel their success on Wall Street. Wall Street had nothing
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Case #6: KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC. Synopsis and Objectives This case considers the sudden and very large drop in the market value of equity for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., associated with a series of announcements made in 2004. Those announcements caused investors to revise their expectations about the future growth of Krispy Kreme, which had been one of the most rapidly growing American corporations in the new millennium. The task is to evaluate the implications of those announcements
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Krispy Kreme was a successful manufacturer of Doughnuts that was established in 1937 by a young entrepreneur named Vernon Rudolph. Rudolph was an industrious man who found clever ways to market and sell his unique confections to the American public. By the 1950’s Rudolph’s business had expanded to twenty-nine shops within twelve different states. Each shop featured pick-up windows (early versions of drive thrus) and possessed the capability of producing 500 dozen doughnuts per hour. In 1954, Mike
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* Diagnosis: In my opinion, Krispy Kreme’s rapid expansion may be the biggest problem for them. The rapid expansion also caused its rapid fall. From the case we can see Krispy Kreme’s start to selling doughnuts in location other than its own shops in November 2000. This strategy causes the company get difficult to control the quality, freshness and the displayed of the doughnuts. This cause customs loss trusts with the brand, in the long-term, they will loss loyalty customs which would be the most
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Case #6: KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC. Synopsis and Objectives This case considers the sudden and very large drop in the market value of equity for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., associated with a series of announcements made in 2004. Those announcements caused investors to revise their expectations about the future growth of Krispy Kreme, which had been one of the most rapidly growing American corporations in the new millennium. The task is to evaluate the implications of those announcements
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Colton Higgins Case #7 Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme Doughnut Inc. in 2000 was soaring high. The company was looking promising as the company stock was up after its IPO and the company was listed in Fortune Magazine. With a very ambitious goals in expansion the company seemed to be going in the right direction. The underlying problem in this case is that in 2004 the company began to reveal some discrepancy’s in their accounting department. KKD stock price tumbled which lead investors to start
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts began as a single doughnut shop in Winston Salem, North Carolina in 1937. By the start of the new millennium, Krispy Kreme was not only able to boast iconic status but nearly had a cult-like following. Less than a year after its initial public offering in April 2000, Krispy Kreme shares were selling for 62 times earnings. As it had a tremendous increase in bottom line and brand recognition, it formulated an aggressive strategy to expand. Its shops
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on technology Krispy Kreme Doughnut case study Purchasing a secret yeast-raised doughnut recipe from a French chef in New Orleans, Vernon Rudolf opened the first Krispy Kreme in Winston-Salem, NC in July of 1937. The plan was to supply doughnuts to local grocery stores, but customers soon started inquiring about purchasing hot doughnuts. A hole was cut in a wall of the store and he started selling “Hot Original Glazed” doughnuts directly to customers. Currently, Krispy Kreme produces more than
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