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Advantage Food & Beverage Vending
Michael A. Levin; Bruce C. BaileyCase IVEY-9B12A017-EMarketingAdvantage Food & Beverage Vending is a decision-based case that highlights four options for the owner and president of the Advantage Food & Beverage (AF&B) snack vending operation. He had been running his business for 16 years and possessed a great deal of knowledge about his company and the vending industry. His dilemma was whether or not to invest in his existing operation and, if so, how to determine the best use of his resources. The vending ...Starting at €8.20
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Sy.Med Development, Inc.
Randle RaggioCase IVEY-9B09A010-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn March of 2001, the president of Sy.Med Development, Inc. (Sy.Med), a small health-care software firm, was concerned about his company's sales performance in the year-to-date. Nine units were projected, but only three had been sold. As a result, Sy.Med was 66 per cent below the president's unit forecast, 210 per cent below his net income forecast, and had lost $40,000. The president wondered whether a change to the base price of the software wa...Starting at €8.20
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Advantage Food & Beverage Sales Representative
Michael A. Levin; Bruce C. BaileyCase IVEY-9B13A023-EMarketingAdvantage Food & Beverage (AF&B), a sales and service vending machine company, has added an Avanti kiosk division and hired a sales representative to devote all their time to selling the kiosk service to businesses within a specific geographic market. In the first year of the kiosk operation, AF&B hired and fired three sales representatives while acquiring seven Avanti customers. A management review uncovered issues with the selling process and t...Starting at €8.20
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Michael Shaps Winery: Evaluating the Custom Crush Opportunity
Randle Raggio; Ben EubanksCase IVEY-9B13A027-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingBy 2010, Virginia had become the fifth-largest wine-producing state in the United States and Michael Shaps had developed a reputation as one of Virginia’s premier winemakers. He had recently doubled his annual production capacity and was considering whether to increase production of his own “Michael Shaps”-label wines (MS), or accept offers to produce private-label wines (PL) for customers — a service he dubbed “custom crush.” He could increase h...Starting at €8.20