Mountain Man Brewing Company Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC) also known as “West Virginia’s Beer”. MMBC developed its brand equity as a symbol of toughness, authenticity, quality and uniqueness this with several other factors made MMBC successful. This legacy was started by Guntar Prangel in 1925 when he reformulated an old family recipe with quality ingredients. Brand Equity is defined as the $$$$ value contained in a specific brand. High alcohol content that appealed to the blue collar market
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MOUNTAIN MAN BREWING COMPANY Bringing the Brand to Light CASE STUDY ON BRAND MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCT INTRODUCTION Mountain Man a well-known brewing company is planning to introduce a new product line of beers. This case analysis and decides whether Mountain Man should go with its product introduction or not considering its financial health and brand value. Narendhiran S 2012H149236P 1. INTRODUCTION Company: Mountain Man Brewing Company is a family owned brewery located in West Virginia,
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Mountain Man Brewing Company! ! Case Study! ! ! Group Eleven ! Olusegun 9286 | Saranya 9290 | Omolola 9734 | Janet 10033 | Joseph 8605 ! SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATION Situational Analysis Mountain Man Beer Company (MMBC) has been a huge Success, and for the first time, the company is experiencing decline sales. It was discovered that Drinker’s preferences and taste change to light beers, and the company needs to take on a different approach to spark the sales
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Mountain Man Brewing Company was established as a family concern in 1925 in West Virginia by Guntar Prangle. The company brewed single-product beer, Mountain Man Lager, which won “best beer in West Virginia” and was elected as “America’s Championship Lager”. Mountain Man Lager featured quality, bitter favor and slightly higher-than-average alcohol content that uniquely contributed to the company’s brand equity. Mountain Man was a local market leader and distributed its lager in several states outside
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| | | Study of Mountain Man Brewing Case | Student Name Institution Name Date By the year 2005, the barrels that mountain man lager sold were well over 520,000 barrels. This translates to the brand receiving revenue of slightly above $50 million. The beer also holds a respectable market share and a top market position in West Virginia for a period of 50 years and also the states it is distributed in. the revenues recorded however were 2% less than the revenues that had been received in
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Case: Mountain Man Brewing Company 1. What has made the Mountain Man Brewing Company successful? What is distinctive about MMBC’s product, customers and brand equity? Reasons why MMBC has been successful: * MMBC used their history and status as an independent family owned brewery to enhance the feeling of authenticity of their brand, which resonates with its core drinkers – blue collar, middle to low income men over the age of 45. * MMBC has very high brand awareness – in a recent
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Case Study: Mountain Man Brewing Company Situation/Background Analysis: Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC), located at West Virginia State, was a family-owned beer company, which possessed respectable market shares in the Central East beer region of the United State. Thanks to the unique bitter flavor and the high quality of its only product -- Mountain Man Lager, which was selected as the “Best Beer in West Virginia” and “America’s Championship Lager” recently, the small company gained a national
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Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC) Case study 1. What has made MMBC successful? What distinguishes it from competitors\ * Brand Loyalty * Older working class, blue collar * Effective marketing * Sales team - "Grass roots" marketing * 70% consumed at home * higher alcohol % * 2. What has caused MMBC’s decline in spite of its strong brand? Think in terms of the beer market in general, as well as the market MMBC serves. * Alternate
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Technology | Mountain Man Brewing Company: Bringing the Brand to Light | Advanced Corporate Financial Planning | Professor Testa 1/23/2012 | | | Shaun Levine Ranjan Maitra William Weintraub Taylor Wold Objective Complete a NPV analysis to see if Mountain Man Brewing Company should implement Mountain Man Light to its existing product lines: * SWOT Analysis on Mountain Man Lager
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Case Overview/Selection/Assignments BrandScape Dates and Assignments Because of the tight seven-week scheduling of this course, we need to arrange for teams and team assignments for both the BrandScape and Case Assignments right away. To facilitate this process, the assignments and dates are outlined here. Please, as soon as is possible, sign up for the BrandScape date as well as the case of your choice. Please indicate your team by name, names of all team members, and your preferences with
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