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    THE QUAKER OAT COMPANY: THE RISE TO BIG BUSINESS BY: COURTNEY SMITH THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY AND THE PATH TO BIG BUSINESS • Strategies: • New Product Development • Horizontal Integration • Economies of Scale • Forward Vertical Integration • Overseas Expansion NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT • Ferdinand Schumacher was the first to introduce steel-cut oats to the American table. • Established the German Mills American Oatmeal Factory in Akron‚ Ohio in 1856 • German and Irish immigrants were his only customers

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    businesses. And our expectation is that we will do the same as we take Snapple as well as Gatorade to the next level." -Don Uzzi‚ President of the Quaker Oats Beverage Company‚ North America.1 SUMMARY The Quaker Oats Company‚ founded in 1891‚ is one of America’s oldest food enterprises. From its start in the domestic ready-to-eat cereal market‚ Quaker grew an appetite for diversification‚ snapping up pet food‚ grocery and toy businesses‚ and by the 1960s had expanded into Europe. While William

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    Case Analysis, Quaker Oats

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    Quaker Oats- Gatorade/Snapple Background Quaker Oats acquired the Gatorade brand in 1983 but the sports drink actually was developed in 1965 for the University of Florida Gators. At the time of the acquisition Gatorade sales were about $100 million. But the most notoriously known sports drink would grow in sales to over $1.1 billion worldwide by 1994. Gatorade wasn’t the only division produced by Quaker Oats. The company also had divisions in breakfast foods‚ pet foods‚ golden grains‚

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    A Supplier Alliance at Quaker Oats Summary Quaker Oats Company of Chicago‚ IL formed an alliance with Graham Packaging of York‚ PA. Graham is a leading global manufacturer of custom blow molded plastic containers. Plastic bottles are the largest single quantity and cost item purchased by Quaker Oats. Gatorade had captured over 82% of the global market share in the sports beverage industry. The purchasing department established a goal of lowering the bottling cost $10 million to $15 million per

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    Henry Parsons Crowell founder Quaker Oats. He was an American businessman and humanitarian. He had numerous accomplishments and impacted the lives of millions of people‚ but most importantly‚ he was known as a Christian man who funded many Christian initiatives (Giants for God‚ 2013). He was one who also had good leadership skills‚ which helped to make him one of the most successful business moguls of his time. Still today‚ rice cakes‚ shakes‚ know the name Quaker Oats in households around the world;

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    The Pursuit of Synergy: Quaker Oats-Snapple Acquisition Professor Sherif A. Ebrahim Corporate Strategy‚ Spring 2012 May 1‚ 2012 Pauline Guittard Linn Gustafsson T.J. Henry Jr. Sevinc Ulu Brittany Williams Many successful businessmen and women have concluded that the most successful acquirers are also the most disciplined. In order to secure a lucrative and profitable acquisition all strategic alternatives ought to have been considered and prudently explored. Furthermore‚ a clear operating strategy

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    Kellog Quaker Oats Case

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    KEL182 CHRISTIE L. NORDHIELM Quaker Oats’s Oatmeal Division Polly Kawalek emerged from Bob Morrison’s office after her annual review in December 1998. By any measure‚ 1998 had not been a successful year for Quaker Oats’s oatmeal division (“Oatmeal”)‚ and culpability fell on Kawalek’s shoulders. It had been the warmest winter in memory across the country‚ causing demand for oatmeal to drop‚ and failed product releases had cost sales and led to trade marketing spending deficits. Furthermore

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    The Quaker Oats Company

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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A strategic plan has financial and other implications over the next several years of implementing the company strategies. And strategies come in different forms and magnitudes. Since strategic plans covers a relatively long range of period‚ difficulties in maintaining the organization’s effort to keeping the strategic plan arise. The Quaker Oats Company began long range planning in fiscal 1965. The plans created that year and annually thereafter were primarily numbers-oriented

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    Quaker Oats Company

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    Title of the Case: The Quaker Oats Company Time Context: Early 1971 Summary/Abstract: Harry Ambrose had recently been appointed The Quaker Oats Company’s director-long-range planning. An MBA with nine years of managerial experience but no previous exposure to the management of formal planning systems‚ in early 1971 Mr. Ambrose had a task of guiding the company through what is essentially the initiation of formal‚ long range planning. Mr. Ambrose also has objectives to attain for the betterment

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    Quaker Oats Morrison reviving Quaker after the Snapple debacle– cost $1.4 B write-off ●Focus on Gatorade. Gatorade -cash cow – potentially could dry up ●Pre-Morrison‚ Quaker mainly riding Gatorade under-investing in food brands ●Morrison comes in and changes PA: Younger manager presidents – oversee individual product lines such as hot cereal‚ cold cereal‚ snacks‚ and domestically sold Gatorade-cost-cutting - reinvested right into their own brands ●SK ●Same representative-move multiple brands of the

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