Mary Joy dela Cruz
Management Case: “Keeping the Buzz at Burt’s and Bees” I. Background
Burt's Bees is an American personal care products company that describes itself as an "Earth friendly, Natural Personal Care Company" making products for personal care, health, beauty, and personal hygiene. As of 2007, they manufactured over 197 products for facial and body skin care, lip care, hair care, baby care, men's grooming, and outdoor remedies[1] distributed in nearly 30,000 retail outlets including grocery stores and drug store chains across different countries. The original vision of Burt’s Bees founder Roxanne Quimby was to ultimately reach “everyone, everywhere”. The opportunity to grow its brand in the mass market is a lucrative
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But just as Ben & Jerry’s has tried to stay true to its roots after being purchased by Unilever, Burt’s Bees is, by all accounts, still driven by its founding mission: “to create natural, Earth-friendly personal care products formulated to help you maximize your well-being and that of the world around you.” Only now, thanks to deep pockets and Clorox’s distribution machine, it might push the industry towards ‘all natural’ even faster.
Brand identity is an important action to branding. It is what the consumers are expected to perceive a company’s product and its brand. With Brand identity, Burt’s Bees could distinguish it from other competitors, and highlight its brand and products characteristic to create and maintain the competitive advantage.
IV. Recommendation
Burt’s Bees is in the growth stage. Together with the market’s strong interest in environmental awareness today, Burt’s Bees has a great potential however, it must be accompanied by great advertisements and not just through social media.
I recommend on a rebranding strategy to increase and strengthen the brand with the long term aim of expanding the brand within the mass market. I believe that the number one issue for Burt’s Bees’ is to grow the brand without compromising the product i.e. ingredients. Burt Bee’s can still use the concept of the “for the Greater Good” but with much better
Pollination, produce, honey, bee´s wax, life wouldn't be the same without some of the few products bees create and work their whole lives doing. Bees are dying off, over the past few years the bee population has decreased which means some of our very beloved products have either increased in price or may be hard to find. We as humans that have so much control over this planet should help the bees so they can help us. Honeybees are an essential part of humanity.
Social – Ecological trends: With a focus on sustainability, Burt’s Bees’ natural cosmetics goods are a very good advantage to stay in the market due to the fact that people are paying more attention on environmental friendly goods.
Burt’s Bees started out as a candle making company in 1984 and has grown into a recognized brand in the natural personal care products market. They entered the natural personal care products market in 1991 with the creation of their Beeswax Lip Balm, which is still their leading bestseller. They expanded their business in 1991 by moving to North Carolina where they are still headquartered today. In 1999, they began their global expansion. In 2006, they began distributing their products to drugstores and other retail centers to allow the mass market the ability to buy natural made products. Burt’s Bees has several environmental and sustainability projects, and continuously works with the Natural
Burt's Bees has the benefit of using every single natural product yet can offer a wide range of things that are sound and stylish. Further, Ocean Cosmetics’s conveyance and marketing are frail. Its products are sold in just a couple of outlets in one US area, the Northwest. Another worry identifies with Carol's capacities to grow her business. In the event that she chooses to accentuate development as an objective, the business could do well. In any case, then again, she has no past encounters (and maybe no instructive foundation) with overseeing development. These weaknesses are frequently connected with little, new ventures like Ocean Cosmetics. Another weakness is that Carol does not presently have a patent on her cream. At last, despite the fact that Carol's relationship with Sage Shipping can be consider a quality, it can likewise be a weakness if, for instance, Sage were to close and leave Ocean Cosmetics without a supplier for a significant number of its ingredients and compartments. Given different sellers exist for makers of skin care products, Ocean Cosmetics would have the capacity to distinguish different suppliers yet it would be a tedious
Since the late 1990s, beekeepers around the world have observed the mysterious and sudden disappearance of bees, and report unusually high rates of decline in honeybee colonies. Bees do more than just make honey! Bee transfer pollen and seeds from one flower to another, fertilizing the plant so it can grow and produce food. Cross-pollination helps at least 30 percent of the world's crops and 90% affects our food. The sweet fruits humans eat such as, strawberries, mangoes, grapes, apples, and bananas would not be the same taste wise as they are now. We simply couldn’t live in the same world if it weren’t for the bees.
Bees are the reason we have jelly, fruit, nuts, coffee and so many other vegetation (Lecture 09/27). Without these creatures we would lose so much more of our biodiversity, which is already suffering from other anthropogenic actions. Our society has a habit of finding the most cost efficient methods to produce goods that please the consumers without considering all the consequences of these actions. More importantly, we do not recognize the harm that we have caused until the damage is outrageous and requires a solution. But, this problem cannot follow those footsteps because it is essential for our ecosystem to thrive. These solution would not only save millions of dollars by being proactive, but would allow us to sustain food sources, biodiversity, and the survival of
The article “Hivey Leaguers” discusses problems affecting the bee population in the United States ranging from chemicals and insecticides to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Colony Collapse Disorder occurs when the worker bees disappear from the hives, leaving behind the queen and the nurses to take care of the immature bees. This newly discovered threat to bee populations caused widespread panic in the entomologist community and lead to a race to find the cause, and the relative cure. Though this new disorder was a danger, the real bane of the bees was a much more sinister, and domestic, threat.
Bee populations are declining at an alarming rate all around the world, and daily life without bees would be detrimental. Without the bees around to help pollinate our food, 30 percent of which is grown using bees, there is an incredibly high chance that we would starve. “Mankind will not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.” (Albert Einstein) By using harmful pesticides in our agriculture, and the excessive use of high fructose corn syrup, we are killing the bees at an alarming rate. One of every three bites of food rely on pollination for a profitable harvest. We must acknowledge everything that the bees provide for humans, then ban pesticides that hard bees, move away from industrial agriculture and put our focus
Since an extreme amount of food is produced by bees, without them, more people and animals on this planet would not be fed. Over the past years, the bee population has decreased significantly (Grossman, 2013). The primary suspect for the troubles that the bees are facing is Neonicotinoids, also known as neonics, used on agriculture. They are a new type of pesticide, which were created in order to prevent harm to human health, but still has major consequences for bees. The effects of the neonics are similar to nicotine, which lessen their motor skills. Also, Therefore, banning pesticides is very important to the wellbeing of the bees. In addition, a large amount of our food is produced by bees and it they were to be
Jim and Jan Nesti have been in the bee business for years and their bees aren’t dying. To keep their bees safe they had to know what’s killing the bees.
Brit Amos begins talks about the loss of foods stating that “Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of {North} America’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees” (Amos). Honey bees are much more famous for producing honey. However, most people do not know that “the benefits of honey go beyond its great taste” (“Health Benefits of Honey”). For example, “The 3 key health benefits of honey are related to the fact that: 1. Honey is nature's energy booster 2. Honey is a great immunity system builder 3. Honey is a natural remedy for many ailments” (“Health Benefits of Honey”). It is interesting to think that something as small and insignificant as the honey bee can provide us with so many basic needs.
According to the American Marketing Association (AMA), a brand is a “name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition”. However, as Keller highlights, a brand is also “something that has actually created a certain amount of awareness, reputation, prominence, and so on in the marketplace”. Therefore, a brand is an identity created to differentiate itself from the competitors and to be remembered in consumer’s mind.
Since an increasing number of people focus on brand names instead of product, brands become important elements for customers to choose products (Carroll, 2008). When customers trust the brand, the benefits for the manufactures are generated. In the first place, brands can be used by products as the tool to identify and differentiate themselves from various products. Secondly, brands are helpful for companies to build a competitive advantage (Bick, 2009). Therefore, organisations take more attention to branding.
Honey bees, feared by the misinformed and admired by the intelligent, are dying. The interest in bees from many environmentalists is not for a sudden cause, as this issue is not new to the world. Honey bees as a population have been in decline for years but have yet to reach the endangered species list anywhere in the United States except for Hawaii. Many people kill bees that buzz around joyfully, simply because they are afraid of being stung by them; however, a vast majority of bees do not sting and the others do not care. This unfortunate commonality is not even one of the top causes of the worldwide epidemic of honey bees. Although bees are jokingly idolized on the internet in pictures and videos as a result of a popular children’s movie, their population decline is in fact quite serious. Honey bees and other pollinators like birds and insects ensure the pollination of flowering plants and crops all around the globe. Not only do honey bees pollinate plants that produce the foods that humans eat, but they also pollinate trees that produce clean oxygen for Earth. Without honey bees, the world as we know it could soon end, due to carbon dioxide pollution and lack of farmable foods. The population of honeybees and other important pollinator-bee species is dwindling due to a dilemma known to scientists as colony collapse disorder (CCD) because of the use of bee-killing pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, the decrease of flower meadows in the world, and the general increase
The team that originated Burt's Bees definitely has the skills, knowledge, experience, resources and motivations to exploit all opportunities which come their way. After being in business for just ten years, the company already had a strong amount of successes: Roxanne Quimby was successfully running 20 employees, bringing in a steady $6 to $8 million per year; the product was found in every store in America and had just begun to expand overseas and had just begun to expand to the retail market. All of these successes indicate a company that was being successfully run.