Mountain Man Brewing Company Case Report Company Overview Mountain Man Beer Company (MMBC) is a family-owned brewing company that is the maker of Mountain Man Lager, or “West Virginia’s beer.” Mountain Man Lager is known for its reputation as a quality beer and is targeted throughout the east central region of the United States. Mountain Man Beer Company is in the second-tier beer industry, and known for its distinctively bitter flavor and slightly high alcohol content. MMBC’s competitive advantage
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Mountain Man Light: More Profits or Less Brand Equity? TMBA BBUS 506 A Michael Cavelero, Joel Engstrom, Nesreen Zadah, David Tobey 5/3/2010 1 | P a g e Introduction "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." – Samuel Johnson, ‘On the Sale of Thrale’s Brewery’ “Some of those coal miners could really drink some beer. We would always stay until closing time, and it happened so many times that the busses were not
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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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resonates with its core drinkers – blue collar, middle to low income men over the age of 45 In addition, the company has stayed true to its core customer base. Its product focuses on quality, sales team has helped a lot - "Grass roots" marketing, seventy percent consumed at home, and higher alcohol percentage. What is distinctive about MMBC’s product/ customers? As a product mountain beer has the following distinctive characteristics; smoothness and drinkability, distinctive bitter flavor, slight
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Decision to be made Mountain Man Brewing Company is a family owned business that brewed one beer, Mountain Man Lager, also known as “West Virginia's beer”. Mountain Man Lager held the top position among lagers in West Virgina for almost 50 years and had respectable market share in most states. The company over the years relied on its history and its status as an independent, family owned brewery to create an aura of authencity and position the beer with its core drinker – blue collar, middle to
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Mountain Man Brewing Company:Bringing the Brand to Light Market definition: American Beer Industry Market size: $75 billion industry Industry trends: y Over the previous six years, light beer sales in the United States had been growing at a compound annual rate of 4%, while traditional premium beer sales had declined annually by the same percentage. y U.S. per capita beer consumption had declined by 2.3%, largely due to competition from wine and spirits-based drinks, an increase in the federal excise
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Analysis – Mountain Man Beer Company Section G Group 2 Submitted By: 2014PGP097 | DEBARUN SENGUPTA | 2014PGP366 | SIRSENDU SARKAR | 2014PGP042 | ANKIT JAISWAL | 2014PGP319 | SAHIL CHAUDHARY | IPM2011092 | SANYUKTA JAIN | 2014PGP151 | KAKDE SUMEDH KAMALAKAR | IPM2011110 | SRISHTI SINHA | Case Background * Mountain Man Beer Company founded in 1925 by Guntar Prangel * Chris Prangel, an MBA graduate wanted to inherit his father`s business. * Mountain Man brewed one
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manage the mountain man beer company * Guntar Prangle founded Mountain beer 1925. * Family owned business – inherited for 5 years. * Initially was called as West Virginia beer. * In 2005 …generating revenues $ 50 million and selling over 520,000 barrels of mountain man lager. * Price was $ 2.25 for 12-ounces serving and $4.99 for 6 pack in local convenience store. * Was priced similar to premium brands such as Miller and Budweiser. * Chris want to launch “Mountain Man Light”
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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 Analysis Mountain Man Brewing Company Case Analysis Mountain Man Brewing Company Executive Summary Started in the year 1925 by Guntar Prangel Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC) was a well-entrenched company in the East Central US by 1960. Consecutively the company grew as a legacy brewery, gathering a very strong brand loyalty and positioning. Known for the authenticity, quality and taste the company grew out to be a market leader in the currently matured business. However, off late
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