Cadbury Worldwide Case Study

The Pillsbury Cookie Challenge is a case study written by Natalie Mauro under the supervision of Professor Allison Johnson. The case study creates an open discussion about what the marketing manager of the refrigerated baked goods category for Canada General Mills should do to revive his products. Ivan Guillen, the marketing manager, was faced with tough challenges. He was initially “…faced with the challenge of developing a strategy that would lead to improved business performance on his category” (Johnson and Mauro, p.1, 2011). To clarify, Guillen’s category is refrigerated baked goods (RBG), which means, this category is his marketing responsibility. The issue here is that “RBG was GMCC’s fourth largest category, and its performance over the past two years had been less than stellar” (Johnson and Mauro, p.1, 2011). It is important to note that GMCC stands for General Mills Canada Corporation. Pillsbury has enjoyed majority market share in the RBG category in Canada, however, recently, the market was experiencing only moderate growth. Guillen was disappointed that their goal of 5%-7% market growth was not being achieved mainly in the refrigerated cookie dough segment. To be exact, their volume growth for two years was flat and they were having difficulty reaching new households. There was a shift among consumer’s purchases, which Guillen was challenged to figure out why.

Cadbury Beverages is the beverage division of Cadbury Schweppes, a major soft drink and confectionary marketer. In 1989 they had worldwide sales of $4.6 billion. Schweppes was the worlds first soft drink maker and the 3rd largest soft drink marketer. In 1969 Schweppes merged with Cadbury in the year 1989 and Cadbury Schweppes was on of the world’s largest multinational firms and was ranked 457th in the business week’s global 1,000. Beverages accounted for 60% of the company worldwide sales and confectionery for 40%. Cadbury Beverages is the 4th largest soft drink marketer in the U.S., with a market share of 3.4%

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Mondelez International Inc. is a large manufacturer and marketing company with a variety of beverage products and snack foods. The company came into existence in 2012 when Kraft Foods Inc. went through a corporate restructuring in order to implement “high-growth global snacks.” (Gamble, 2016.) Nabisco, Oreo, Trident gum, and Oscar Mayer are a few brands that operate under Mondelez Inc.

In the beginning of 2010 the US food giant took-over one of the most famous British confectionary companies, Cadbury, affectively making Kraft the largest food confectionary company in the world (Smith, 2010). According to Rigby and Masters (2010) the takeover “was one of the biggest – and most hotly contested – acquisitions in the UK”. The process was exhaustively followed by media, which criticized inability of British Government to limit takeovers of such famed British brands in the future – as it is part of the British identity. Moreover, during such process a large number of employees have suffered, not only through a large number of redundancies, but also through the change in management

Nestlé is a large international (191 countries worldwide) food and beverage company that is dedicated to shaping future generations into healthier people and improving the world as a whole. The company now known as Nestlé was founded in Switzerland as a result of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, founded in 1866, merging with Henri Nestlé’s company based on the infant food that he had developed, in 1905, after the two companies were rivals in the baby formula and condensed milk industry. After the merger in 1905 Nestlé was able to expand globally, with sales in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Decreased availability of resources and goods in Europe during the outbreak of the First World War lead to Nestlé acquiring factories in the United States and Australia, furthering the company’s international development. In addition, the war was beneficial for Nestlé as condensed milk is non-perishable and therefore convenient to supply emergency rations; this caused a strong demand for the product during wartime. Nestlé, like many other companies, was impacted greatly by the depression era, but used this time as an opportunity to organize company operations and invent new products such as Nescafé. The outbreak of the Second World War brought fear of Nazi invasion in Switzerland and inspired Nestlé to open a second headquarters in the United States. Post-war prosperity was beneficial for the company, as it made it easier for many of their newer products such as Nestea

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In this paper I will discuss the stance McDonald’s takes towards companies going global. The chairman and chief executive officer, Michael R. Quinlan, discussed his standpoint at a conference in Chicago. I will use our text book, International Human Resources Management by Dowling, Festing, Engle Sr (Dowling, Festing, & Engle Sr, 2013) and Case 9.1 in the text (Advice for Companies Going Global, 1991).

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INTRODUCTION JOHN CADBURY (1839-1922)is the founderof the CADBURY trust. Cadbury India is fully owned subsidy ofKraft Foods Inc. The combination of KraftFoods & Cadbury creates a global powerhousein snacks , confectionery & quick meals. In India Cadbury began its operations in1948 by importing chocolates. The corporate office is in Mumbai. CEO-Todel Stitzer. CHAIRMAN OF BOARD-Roger Carr.

“Trust is defined as the willingness to be vulnerable to a trustee based on positive expectations about the trustees actions and intentions” (Colquitt p. 205). Trust is one of the biggest aspects in the organizational realm. In order to instill proper work ethics, you must trust that your employer is instilling the correct values, and vice versa, you must trust that your employees will carry out those work ethics when not being monitored closely, or in other words “Integrity, defined as the perception that the authorities adhere to a set of values and principles that the trustor finds acceptable” (Colquitt P. 209). Without trust, a company cannot stand strong.

In this essay first we need to understand the term culture of an organisation. It is a collaboration of expression of feelings and reactions on different situations. As we know every country has different culture. Therefore, if an Australian born manager working in his home country is going to work in Britain then it can be biggest challenge in his professional career. Because both the countries have differences in their culture (Briody, trotter 2012 ).

Nestle was founded by Henri Nestle in 1866 and is the largest food and beverage company in the world nowadays. Nestle employ around 339,000 people from about 194countries and has 447 factories in almost every country in the world.

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