Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Santé Au Naturel: Healthy to the Core
Robert Mackalski; Marc DucusinCase IVEY-9B17A069-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingSanté Au Naturel was a natural health boutique in Montreal’s downtown core. The company was off to a strong start in a growing market, but as its best-selling products became more mainstream, large retailers were entering the market, stealing customers, and driving down margins. In early 2017, Santé Au Naturel's owner reflected on further differentiation of her offering and targeted marketing; she wanted to improve her marketing mix to grow sales...Starting at €8.20
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Lake Erie Paper
Peter C. Bell; Jing ChenCase IVEY-9B07E002-ECorporate GovernanceThe production manager at Lake Erie Paper (LEP) was considering installing a moisture meter to test the water content of the wood chips used to make corrugated paper. Use of a moisture meter would speed up the testing process and could reduce costs and/or improve paper quality, but the manager wanted to be sure that the meter provided a consistent and reliable measure of the water content of the arriving woodchips.Starting at €8.20
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Club Sportif MAA: Staying Ahead of the Game
Robert Mackalski; Delaney Brown; Marc DucusinCase IVEY-9B17A046-EMarketingClub Sportif MAA (the MAA) was an iconic fitness club and athletic institution in Montreal and the oldest fitness facility in Canada. In early 2017, the club’s president and general manager faced a changing market and pressure to ensure that the club evolved and remained competitive. Consumer and fitness trends had increasingly fragmented the market in this area, and the MAA membership declined since 2016. The MAA, which traditionally served a fa...Starting at €8.20
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Northwest Newsprint, Inc. (B)
Peter C. Bell; Jing ChenCase IVEY-9B09E003-ECorporate GovernanceNorthwest Newsprint, Inc. is a major producer of newsprint and pulpmills in the Pacific Northwest and Canada from which they supplied various North American markets. In Northwest Newsprint, Inc. (A), product #9A98E035, the assistant controller's supply chain optimization approach leads to the conclusion that Northwest Newsprint, Inc. has far too much manufacturing capacity. This supplemental case addresses the ability of price changes to mitigate...Starting at €5.74
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Birks: The Sparkle of a Cherished Brand
Robert Mackalski; Alfred Jaeger; Marc Ducusin; Phoebe BalshinCase IVEY-9B18A014-EMarketing, StrategyBy 2016, Birks Group Inc. (Birks) had largely recovered from the 2008 financial crisis and was posting profits again. Birks was a high-end designer and manufacturer of Birks-branded jewellery and a mono-brand and multi-brand retailer of luxury jewellery and watches. It operated 29 retail outlets across Canada under its Maison Birks and Brinkhaus banners and 17 stores in two U.S. states (Florida and Georgia) under the Mayors banner. After restruct...Starting at €8.20
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Fody Foods: Eating Life to the Fullest
Robert Mackalski; Marc Ducusin; Marika Lapointe; Emma ClaytonCase IVEY-9B19A002-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingFODY Foods Inc. (Fody) was a Canadian-based entrepreneurial manufacturer and marketer of a line of food products designed for people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that affected an estimated one billion people worldwide. With public awareness of the socially sensitive condition growing, Fody’s founder needed to figure out how to market the company’s line of products while creating a new category in the process.Starting at €8.20
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Cunningham’s Pub: Halle-Lujah for Wings
Mary Dellar; Robert Mackalski; Nicolette Papastefanou; Marc DucusinCase IVEY-W25213-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingNew opportunities, challenges, and decisions arose for a pub owner and his business partners when celebrity Halle Berry raved on social media about the hot wings served at the pub. Berry's post sparked an unprecedented 28-day sellout and a firestorm of news coverage that kept the business going at a time when the restaurant industry was suffering from government-imposed restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pub owner and his partners won...Starting at €8.20