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Just Us! Coffee Roasters
Julia Sagebien; Scott Skinner; Monica WeshlerCase IVEY-9B06A027-EMarketing, StrategyThe founders of Just Us! Coffee Cooperative (Just Us!) are involved in a strategic planning process. The growing demand and acceptance of fair trade products is good news for the industry and opens many opportunities for Just Us!, but there are also risks. Just Us! will likely face increased market competition from major U.S. retail coffee brands and Canadian supermarket brands, pressure on margins as more brands crowd the shelves, and more compe...Starting at €8.20
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Wal-Mart Puerto Rico: Promoting Development Through a Public-Private Partnership
Myrna Comas; Julia SagebienCase IVEY-9B10M024-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategySowing the Development of the Country (SDC) was a public-private partnership between Wal-Mart Puerto Rico (Wal-Mart PR), the island's Department of Agriculture as well as its Economic Development Bank (EDB), two NGOs Caborroje's Pro Salud y Ambiente (Caborroje's Pro Health and Environment) and ConectaRSE (a corporate social responsibility (CSR) promotion non-governmental organization(NGO)), and a group of local farmers. The objective of the proje...Starting at €8.20
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Just Us. Community-based Tourism
Ian McKillop; Julia Sagebien; Alba BruguerasCase IVEY-9B10M108-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe development coordinator for Just Us! Development Education Society (JUDES) was reviewing the preliminary agenda for the JUDES Annual General Meeting (AGM). The meeting would take place some time between May 1 and May 14, 2010, during Canada’s National Fair Trade Weeks. The coordinator was preparing her to-do list for the event. Just Us!, a Nova Scotia-based cooperative that offered fair trade products, had a very loyal regional following, and...Starting at €8.20
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Pan Boricua: Developing a Market Strategy for the Hispanic Market in the United States (Spanish version)
Julia Sagebien; Jennifer Catinchi; Eva Perez; Marisol Perez-Savelli; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B09AS20Entrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyDos inexpertos, pero fuertemente confiado, empresarios hacen frente a los molestias de una nueva empresa: exportando la masa hecho en Puerto Rico a las ciudades en los Estados Unidos donde se encuentran una gran cantidad de inmigrantes puertorriqueños que están deseando nostálgicamente para su querido pan sobao (pan hecho con manteca vegetal). Con millares de puertorriqueños que viven en y/o que se mueven a los Estados Unidos y después de varios ...Starting at €8.20
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Bitaco Tea: A Taste of a Better World
Juanita CajiaoCase IVEY-W27301-EMarketing, StrategyAgricola Himalaya was a family-owned Colombian company, the national leader in the tea industry, and the owner of the only tea plantation in the country, located in the middle of a mist forest. In Colombia, owing to the labour costs involved in tea production, importing tea was less expensive than producing it locally, but if Agricola Himalaya decided to import the tea, what would be the environmental and social impact of closing the plant and pl...Starting at €8.20
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Delirio: Branding and Dancing during the Pandemic
Juanita Cajiao; Enrique RamirezCase IVEY-W29892-EMarketing, StrategyEarly in 2020, la Fundación Delirio (Delirio), a salsa dance, music, and circus arts show from Cali, Colombia, faced the abrupt and indefinite suspension of its presentations because of lockdowns associated with COVID-19. The general director and the staff who remained had to find new ways to connect with their audiences, relying on the strength of the brand, which help them stay afloat despite restrictions on live performances. However, when con...Starting at €8.20
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Hindú: Revitalizing a Colombian Tea Brand (Spanish version)
Juanita Cajiao; Diana LealCase IVEY-W34900Marketing, StrategyIn late 2019, the Colombian company Agrícola Himalaya SA was undertaking a strategy to double its sales by 2030. The company’s popular Hindú brand of teas, developed over six decades, had expanded to include not only black and green teas but also herbal teas, fruit teas, ready-to-drink products, and an iced tea line. Over the past 10 years, the company had enjoyed steady growth, distributed its products throughout the Americas, and developed a Kn...Starting at €8.20
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Bitaco Tea: A Taste of a Better World - Teaching Note
Juanita CajiaoTeaching Note IVEY-W27302-EMarketing, StrategyTeaching note for product W27301.Starting at €0.00
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Hindú: Revitalizing a Colombian Tea Brand
Juanita Cajiao; Diana LealCase IVEY-9B21A001-EMarketingIn late 2019, the Colombian company Agrícola Himalaya SA was undertaking a strategy to double its sales by 2030. The company’s popular Hindú brand of teas, developed over six decades, had expanded to include not only black and green teas but also herbal tStarting at €8.20
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Pan Boricua: Developing a Market Strategy for the Hispanic Market in the United States
Victor Quiñones; Julia Sagebien; Marisol Perez-Savelli; Eva Perez; Jennifer CatinchiCase IVEY-9B09A020-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyTwo inexperienced, but strongly committed, entrepreneurs face the hassles of a new venture: exporting dough from Puerto Rico to cities in the United States with large numbers of Puerto Rican immigrants who are longing nostalgically for their beloved pan sobao (bread made with vegetable shortening). With thousands of Puerto Ricans living in and/or moving to the United States and after several incidents of fraud by partners of the entrepreneurs, th...Starting at €8.20