Ivey Business School (Canada)
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A Risk Versus Reward Approach to Market Research
Sheri Lambert; Sara HonovichCase IVEY-W27947-EAccounting and ControlKing’s Hawaiian Bakery, West Inc. (King’s Hawaiian), a beloved and highly regarded company, produced a line of bread products dating back to the 1950s and was inspired by a Portuguese sweet bread. The business had grown over time, adding more production facilities and expanding from Hawaii to the mainland United States in 1977. King’s Hawaiian had done minimal consumer research related to its development of new products before it hired Troy Figgi...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainability through Simply Good Jars
Sheri L. Lambert; Sara HonovichCase IVEY-W28631-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingFounded in 2017, Simply Good Jars (SGJ) was launched with the introduction of a unique salad-in-a-jar line of products. The founder, owner, and chief executive officer of SGJ was looking to build a ready-to-eat salad business with a mission of “making better-quality delicious food more attainable.” The SGJ brand promoted healthy, quality ingredients and sustainability. Initially, the product was tested in various locations, including vending mach...Starting at €8.20
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Ambuja Cements and Holcim India Merger
Pitabas Mohanty; Tina Stephen; Supriti MishraCase IVEY-9B16N056-EFinance, StrategyOn July 24, 2013, the management of Ambuja Cements Limited announced the merger of Holcim (India) Private Limited with Ambuja Cements in a two-stage process. First, Ambuja Cements would buy a 24 per cent stake of Holcim (India) from Holderind Investments Ltd. of Mauritius for ?35 billion. Subsequently, Holcim (India) would be merged with Ambuja Cements. The management of Ambuja Cements projected huge synergy from the merger, whereas proxy firm ad...Starting at €8.20
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Maruti Suzuki: Good Company or Good Stock (A)
Pitabas Mohanty; Supriti MishraCase IVEY-9B17N014-EFinance, StrategyOn January 28, 2014, the management of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) surprised the market by announcing that its plant in Gujarat would be operated as a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Company of Japan, MSIL’s parent company, rather than by MSIL. The stock price fell by 8 per cent that day. The days following this announcement were marked by justifications by MSIL management about the benefits of the new structure and allegations by some analysts...Starting at €8.20
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Soom Foods: Zooming Out for A Booming Supply Chain
Neha Mittal; Sheri Lambert; Sara HonovichCase IVEY-W27963-EMarketing, StrategyFounded in 2013 by sisters Shelby, Jackie, and Amy Zitelman, Philadelphia-based Soom Foods (Soom) aimed to educate US consumers on tahini and make the product a staple in US pantries. By 2021, the business had grown into a multimillion-dollar revenue company and had achieved national distribution through an omni-channel sales effort. However, Soom’s reliance on the single-source Ethiopian Humera sesame seed to prepare its high-quality tahini had ...Starting at €8.20
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Breastcancer.org: Fundraising Challenges of a Social Enterprise in a Crowded Market
Sheri Lambert; Sara HonovichCase IVEY-W25827-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingBreastcancer.org (BCO), a small, Pennsylvania-based non-profit organization with a $5.4 million annual budget in 2020, was looking ahead several months to the start of Pink October (also known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month). Unlike the many non-profits that focused on medical research to find a cure for breast cancer, BCO was dedicated to helping patients and their caregivers make sense of complex information, and it had established a digital ...Starting at €8.20
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Ratan Tata Or Cyrus Mistry: Tata Steel Shareholders’ Dilemma
Pitabas Mohanty; Supriti MishraCase IVEY-9B19N016-EFinanceIn October 2016, the board of Tata Sons, a company in the Tata Group, India’s largest business group, decided to remove Cyrus Mistry from the chairmanship of its board. Subsequently, Tata Sons appealed to the shareholders of the other Tata Group companiesStarting at €8.20
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Maruti Suzuki: Good Company or Good Stock (B)
Pitabas Mohanty; Supriti MishraCase IVEY-9B17N015-EFinance, StrategySupplement for product 9B17N014.Starting at €5.74