14 Appendix B: Total Stores Open Comparison (Year 2000-2005) 14 Appendix C: Earnings Per Share (Year 2002 - 2006) 15 Appendix D: Debt to Asset Ratio (Year 2002 - 2006) 15 Appendix E: Strategic Group Map 16 Executive Summary The Panera Bread (Panera) brand name was rolled out in 1997.The company adopted this name in 1999 and became one of the fast growing companies of the fiercely competitive specialty bakery-café market segment. The vision of creating a specialty café with authentic
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What is Panera Bread’s strategy? Which of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closely fit the competitive approach that Panera Bread is taking? What type of competitive advantage is Panera Bread trying to achieve? Panera Bread’s strategy is to used focused differentiation to create the “quick-casual” style of dining that many new food chains are adapting today. Urban workers construct a large portion of Panera’s target, while suburban residents make up a differentiated
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Panera Bread Sara Cochavi Man 103 Class I believe that Panera bread earns the public’s trust by serving high quality foods that are healthy. It certainly attracts a much healthier clientele. In my personal experience, I often go there for breakfast simply because it is healthier and I want my children to learn healthy habits as well as enjoy healthy food. After visiting Panera’s website, I have to say that I am pretty impressed. I love that it is so aesthetically appealing, and that the customer
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Panera Bread, Customer’s Decide Kevin Moore Embry Riddle Aeronautical University MGMT 201 Principles of Management Instructor; Alan Labeouf 11/15/2012 Abstract In addition to Panera Breads restaurant business, Panera Bread has created community sustained restaurants called Panera Cares, where the customers decide what to pay for their food. Panera Cares is currently operating with positive margins based on this goodwill concept. Research shows that while some
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Morgan Johnson 1/11/16 Block 4 Green Classification Essay The Category Game As a miserable employee of the Panera Bread Restaurant/Café/Bakery, I confess that I have spent the most of my shifts during the past 2 years categorizing any and all customers I come in contact with. This childish game I play in my own head, and sometimes with my co-workers, can last anywhere from 4 to 10 hours. Every person that walks through Panera’s streaky glass doors on a mission to feed themselves the most overpriced
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Creating a Business Gerri Lutz Professor Ashok BUS 10008616 July 25, 2010 When setting up a business there will be many challenges that you can encounter during this process. And why customers would pay a higher price for goods, and others less because of the quality
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ECN302 Macroeconomics Research Paper 11/22/11 Panera Bread Panera Bread is a rising company in the restaurant industry. Panera is a retail bakery-café that started in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co., founded by Ronald Shaich. I have been an employee here for over four years, so I have a personal interest in how the company is doing. Panera was originally named Au Bon Pain Co. and later purchased the Saint Louis Bread Company. St. Louis was a chain of 20 bakery-cafés located in Missouri. The company
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Executive Summary Case Questions Does Panera need to take on debt to fund the $75 million stock repurchase? Recommendations: * We recommend financing the stock repurchase using a $75MM long term loan. * We want to maintain a safe cash balance in order to meet short term obligations. * Taking on debt gives the company the ability to use cash for projects and short term investments. * We want to avoid sacrificing our liquidity ratios in order to finance this repurchase
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In 1976, Au Bon Pain (“where good bread is”) Bakery was opened as a response to the request for a conceptional fast casual restaurant. Ronald Shaich and Louis Kane merged their business, Cookie Jar Bakery and Aub Bon Pain Bakery, together after a period of debt to create Au Bon Pain Co. Inc. In 1985, the two decided to add fresh made sandwiches to their menu after noticing that their customers were buying their fresh baked bread in order to capitalize on their profit. As of September 25, 2012
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March 20, 2014 GBA 490-005 Written Case #2: Panera Bread Company Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………….Page 3 Recommendations and Justification……………………………………..Page 4-5 Appendix…………………………………………………………………..Page 5 External Analysis of Industry Exhibit 1: Economic Characteristics & Driving Forces…………….Page 5 Exhibit 2: PESTEL Analysis……………………………………… .Page 7 Exhibit 3: Five Forces Analysis…………………………………….Page 8 Exhibit 4: Key Success Factors……………………………………
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