Essays on Ice Cream

Introduction

The case for business expansion is undisputed. One critical raison d'être of a company is making profits. Making profit is, however, a complex and enduring process which can be maintained by multiple manners. For current purposes, business expansion is one most viable option of interest. If anything, Dubai is an increasingly diverse city in demographic makeup and business practices. Turning into a global hub for business and leisure, a growing number of local, regional and international enterprises are opting for a foothold in Dubai's bustling business and life scene (Balakrishnan, 2008). Scoopi Cafe, located in iconic Ibn Battuta ...

Question #1

Peaceful acquisition is a process in which one company takes over the management of another company without physical or moral violence . Through the use of tactics that are “peaceful” nor not forcible, Unilever like to take pride in the fact that shareholders are well compensated in any acquisition and two members of the acquired company must sit on the board of Unilever. All employees and facilities are assumed, or by offering pensions and buy outs, in the acquisitions so the loss of jobs and vitality to the are of production is usually not lost.

Question #2

Unilever was formed by the ...

2. Learning Activity 1 The evident forces that affect organizations include the regulations, economic and political factors, socio-cultural, demographics, technology, and environment. An interview with a Project Manager of an IT company stated aside from economic factors, competition with rival companies, and the bargaining power of the clients for projects affect the organization (A. Genota, Personal Communication, January 15, 2016). The Project Manager explained that a good economy drives the growth of clients’ orders that consequently benefit the company as services provider. The competition with the rivals and the bargaining power of the clients can significantly cut the company’ ...

The American Association of Advertising Agencies defines Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) as a method of achieving marketing objectives through integrating various promotional techniques like advertising, personal selling, public relations and communication (Integrated Marketing Communications, 2016). This calls for business organizations to give customers something beyond advertising. With average customers exposed to various advertisement messages for a same product, a single message of a particular brand finds it difficult to establish a noteworthy effect in the minds of customers. Therefore, a shift to IMC approach gives marketers a competitive advantage in the light of increased customer awareness about various advertising ...

Comparative Advantage:

It is referred as the advantage of a party to be capable of producing any given commodity at an opportunity cost lesser than other entities. In economic terms it can also be referred to be as the ability of one person or party to produce a particular service or good at a lower opportunity and marginal cost over another service or good (Stern, 2011).

Major sources of Comparative Advantage:

- Technology Differences: Firms or countries with more enhanced machinery and equipments may provide more production when compared to the firms or countries using the old method and machineries. - Differences in factors of production as ...

Frozen yoghurt has over time gained popularity with the population. This has largely been attributed to the shift in focus to healthy foods as well as new marketing strategies by the producers. In the contemporary society, people have become more conscious about their own health and this has had its own impact on the eating lifestyles and hence the choices. Obese rates and other health complications have been mainly attributed to poor eating habits and in the need to combat these, the younger generation in particular have turned to seeking health foods. On the other hand, the trendy culture ...

The Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is working aggressively with other partners in innovating sustainable solutions to end human trafficking and the modern day slavery. VF is offers specialized services to the victims and their families, advocates for lasting changes, and builds social movements to fight human trafficking, exploitation, and domestic servitude.

History

Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is a Non Government Organization or NGO in the Philippines. It was established in 1991 regarded extensively in the innovation of sustainable solutions to end the modern day slavery totally. The founder and executive director of VF is Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda. ...

There are seven thousand Caribbean islands, but of those, only thirteen are independent countries. The other islands remain a colony of another (predominantly) European nation. Some notable examples of these properties include Aruba, which is governed by the Dutch and Martinique which is governed by the French. The map below ("Catch GR8 Travel Tips") shows the location of the Caribbean islands and their proximity to Florida to the north, and, Venezuela to the south. The Caribbean islands are a popular vacation destination for Americans and Europeans because they offer incredible beaches, five star resorts and are famous for their rum! ...

Segmentation, Target Market and Positioning

A successful marketing strategy specifies particular targeted customers. Starbucks is an international coffee and coffee chain based in Seattle. Starbucks sells brewed coffee, cold drinks, hot drinks and snacks. Most of their products are specific to stores depending on locality and seasonal. Market target for Starbucks is students, professionals and family members. It aims at providing a third place apart from home and work, where people feel welcomed and enjoy quality coffee at friendly prices. Star bucks have attracted attention to customers who wanted an optional place apart from their workplace and homes. They offer premium coffee to people ...

Why should the Service Improvement Team be headed up by top management? Is this necessary for the effort to succeed? Give two examples. The Service Improvement Team is responsible for ensuring that quality is at its highest in delivering customer service. The team needs a top management and its necessity is drawn upon the manager’s capability to continually check and make adjustments to the way service is being delivered. In addition, the manager is endowed with the responsibility to make sure that the team is giving the public what it deserves both effectively and efficiently.

For example, the ...

Diarrhea and Constipation

There are a lot of pathologies and pathogens that could affect the normal flow of food and absorption in the digestive tract. Two common digestive problems, very common that it could be acquired by almost anyone, are diarrhea and constipation. These two digestive disorders are less severe compared to several cancers that could exist in the digestive system like colon cancer and liver cancer. Thus, diarrhea and constipation are easier to treat—these two are also very much easy to acquire.

As a brief background, Diarrhea is a bowel disorder wherein the classic symptom is an increase in the frequency of bowel ...

Current products offered by the company

Red Sox is currently a national company that distributes dairy products across the United States. It sells fresh and quality dairy products with great taste. The products include Ice cream, milk, cottage cream, source cream, eggnog, frozen novelties as well as juice and drinks (Red Sox, 2015a)

Product offering nature: physical product or a service product or combination of both

The Company only offers physical products in terms of goods with no service products. In that respect, the company’s operations focus on production and sale of the dairy products only. (Red Sox, 2015b)

Products’ uniqueness / key points of differences verses competitors’ products

Red Sox Hood makes products unique by applying differentiation strategies and adding more value compared to those of the ...

Introduction

There is no doubt that everyone loves ice cream. Due to its popularity, ice cream had many flavors that everyone loved. But despite that, it is not all the time that they want to eat it. There are times when sales in ice cream may have decreased and we want to find out if this really happens. This sampling design will be one way to see if ice cream sales indeed decrease during the winter months.

Population, Size, and Brief Reasoning

The population is a specific group or a number of people that are needed in a research or study. It is usually “the ideal population or ...

- Introduction Ice cream has been the favourite dessert option for a majority of population worldwide. High fat, low fat -- all sorts of options along with the flavours are available in the ice cream world for ice cream lovers. However, made up of cream, ice cream somehow could not be accepted completely by those with a health food fetish. In such a scenario, chefs worldwide worked hard to find a way to please these health freaks. With the innovationists trying their best, a new dawn appeared in the form of frozen yogurt. - Thesis statement

"Frozen Yogurt really is as healthy as it has been touted"

- History of Frozen Yogurt ...

Introduction

Starbucks Corporation is known to be the largest coffeehouse organization globally. The company is an American international coffeehouse chain and coffee company having more than 20,891 stores in approximately 62 countries. Its largest store chains are in United States with 13,279, second largest in Canada with 1,324. Moreover, it has 989, 851 and 806 stores chains in Japan, China and United Kingdom respectively.

Expansion of Starbucks without destroying its core business

The primary business of Starbucks is the coffee that is sold in morning hours which is the peak time when drinking coffee is most popular. For many years, Starbucks has struggled attract customers ...

Scientific thinking can be defined as the process by which individuals extend their knowledge through the formation of theory on the basis of observations or epidemiological arrays. The theory is then put to trial by dividing the entire population and the outcome or results given a broad view to the correct population via the course of inductive common sense. Before the hypotheses are implemented, the results must undergo an examination by the research planned on the argument that the theory may have substantial backing or be denied. There are six principles of scientific thinking namely: falsifiability, extraordinary claims, replicability, and ...

Human behaviour is one of the most studied subjects in the world today. The complexity of human behaviour has elicited a colossal amount of research by psychologists seeking to understand some of the behavioral trends exhibited by human beings. Consequently, these psychologists have advanced several theories that explain some of the fundamental aspects of human behaviour. Behaviorism is primarily concerned with observable human behaviour. Theories of behaviorism emphasize behavioral changes that result from a stimulus-response association that is made by a learner. The proponents of this theory regard all human behaviour as a sort of response to natural stimuli (Becker, 1963). The immediate ...

Question 1

When the product range of a company is widened, the supply chain becomes a key component of the company. When a product range is widened, the supply chain and its management also changes. In this case of The Smooth Coffee Shop, the stages of supply chain will change. According to Leeman (2010) the design of a supply chain will depend on the needs of the customers and the roles of stages involved. The supply chain of the coffee shop will have three stages namely raw material suppliers, manufacturer which in this case is the shop and customers. The suppliers will supply the raw ...

Article Review: Being Green at Ben and Jerry’s

The environment, i.e. climate change, has become a serious concern in the world. It is an issue that both citizens and legislators want to address. People make many attempts to contribute to and help in the conservation and protection of the environment. This is particularly true with regard to the consumption of gasoline and other fossil fuel.

The article, “Being Green at Ben and Jerry’s” written in 2002 by George Will, is a criticism of both the government’s and environmentalists’ efforts with regard to their environmental advocacy. These efforts seem to be mainly lip-service and “feel-good” activities supporting various ...

Question 2: How many serves of each of the five food groups and discretionary foods did you have on average across your two days? Comment on how this intake compares to the recommended serves listed in the Australian Dietary Guidelines appropriate to your age and gender? Which foods contributed most to your intake, or were missing from your intake if you ate minimal serves from a particular food group? (600 words) Across the two days, each of the food category was only served once with an exception of whole meal bread (carbohydrate and dietary fiber) and chicken-meat (hem protein), ...

Business Model and Strategic Plan Part I

Our business model is about a new line of ice creams being offered by Hard Rock Café, a global restaurant chain. This will require quite an innovative approach as restaurants like them; typically do not offer a line of ice creams and desserts. This poses a great challenge as well as an opportunity as they would be the first one to do that.

Mission

Therefore, they have kept their statement to be, “To offer the most enjoyable experience, value for money, with local flavour across the world” It clearly conveys their purpose and primary objective. This ways they are able to explain ...

Company Mission and Critique

Dunkin Brands Group Inc. is among the world’s top franchisors of the fast service restaurants that serve baked goods, cold and hot coffee, and hard serve ice cream. The Company’s brand groups include Baskin- Robbins, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Togo’s that are among the best loved names within the restaurant industry. Among the three brand groups, Dunkin’ Donuts is the biggest baked goods and coffee chain in the world, whereas Baskin Robbins is the leading ice cream franchise in the world. Togo’s is a fast growing and youngest of all the chains. It serves approximately164, 000 sandwiches ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Critique Essay about Advertising Advertisements both create and reflect the values of the viewers. Nobody has a preconceived image about products/brands and advertisements serve as a prism through which audience view a company or its product/service. Most advertisements today unfortunately focus on just promoting what the company is selling. While this is one of the important functions of an advertisement, it is not the only function. A more comprehensive objective of an advertisement is to promote the brand vision or promise and set the whole direction for the business. The recent Turkish airlines ad, which went viral on the internet, ...

Admission Essay

While growing up I really hated math and this was not because I was bad at it. I was always at the top of my class. My parents never understood why I detested something I was good at. Truth be told, I didn’t understand it either until I visited my first museum. The trip to the museum was part of a series of class trips my history class took when we got to the fourth grade. The formal tour was rather uneventful; the museum guide kept droning on about facts that we were probably too young to fully appreciate. ...

Introduction

As a regular customer of milk from Island Farms, this paper will be based on my experience with the product. The description will entail my experience at the store, the product itself as well as the consumer behavior characteristics that are evident during my interaction with the product. Milk is a good source of easily digestible protein. In addition, it contains Calcium, vitamin D and vitamin B12. These are essential nutrients that are needed by the body for growth, protection from infections, and to keep bones healthy and strong. Milk can be in the form of fresh milk or milk ...

What are the Types of Ethical Predicaments Encountered in Public Personnel Administration?

Types of Ethical Predicaments Encountered in Public Personnel Administration 3 Common Ethical Dilemmas 3 The Context of Ethics 4 Administrative Discretion 5 Constitutional Prerequisite 6 Ethical Predicaments in Administrative Discretion 6 Corruption 7 Ethical Predicaments in Corruption 8 Other Types of Ethical Predicaments 9 Nepotism 9 Information Leaks 10 Public Accountability 10 Policy Dilemmas 10 Discussion 11 Conclusion 12

References 13

Types of Ethical Predicaments Encountered in Public Personnel Administration The success and reputation of governance depends upon the functionalities and conduct of the public administrators. ...

W300 – Period

Questions asked to the business owners - Where do you see your business in the next one year? - Where do you see your business in the next five years? - Do you run the business solely? - Do you trust the people you delegate duties to? - What was the legal procedure required to start this business? - How many hours per week do you spend with your family away from work? - Do you make enough to cover all the expenses and have enough profit? - How often do ...

Jack Welch Management Institute

Introduction In several organizations, team work has become a major determinant of the entity’s success. Teamwork has proven to be very influential, therefore, it is responsible for the determination of the outcomes of thee set objectives in organizations. Due to these facts about teamwork, management in a number of organizations have embraced the spirit of teamwork. The ancient management models have been ignored, and business entities have turned to leadership and effective group coordination for maximum benefit. Thus, the success of coming up with a team in any organization, is currently highly recognized. Right, from the top management decision making, ...

Section 1 Part a: Name of company

The name of the company for this project is Dunkin Donuts. Part b: Industry The company is in the industry of franchising quick service restaurants (QSRs). Dunkin Donuts serves hot and cold coffee, baked goods and hard serve ice cream. The company focuses on menu innovation, marketing and franchisee coaching and support. Dunkin Donuts operates in four segments; Dunkin Donuts US, Baskin-Robbins International, Dunkin Donuts International and Baskin-Robbins US (Dunking Donuts Annual Report, 2012, p 1). To add onto this, Dunkin Donuts generates revenue from five main sources. The first source is royalties and fees from franchised restaurants ...

According to Blake (1), when a person makes their own ice-cream they combine fresh, rich ingredients with add-ins and flavorings of their choice, for a mouth-watering experience. The ingredients needed are: a half a cup of milk-any type, one tablespoon of sugar, a lot of ice, rock salt and a quarter teaspoon of chocolate syrup or vanilla extract and rock salt. There are many methods of preparing ice cream, this include; the freezer bag method, the Pot-freezer method, the Freezer method, the Coffee can method and the Ball method (Foxnews 1). Freezer bag method is suitable for making individual portions of ice cream which ...

Adventure Island and Busch Gardens are both SeaWorld recreational parks located at Tampa, Florida. This essay aims to compare and contrast the two parks.

Theme and Land area

Adventure Island is Busch Gardens’ water park. It is located right across Busch Gardens and has an area of 30 acres. It mimics a beach atmosphere which offers lots of fun on the sand and water. Busch Gardens on the other hand, is more of a nature and wildlife park. It has an area of 335 acres, much bigger than Adventure Island.

Park Hours

Park hours for Adventure Island begins at either 9:30 am or 10:00 am and may ...

ID Number

New Zealand

CONTENTS LIST

Section 2.1 Type of goods or service

Section 2.2 Potential Competitor Analysis Section 2.3 Statement of objectives Section 2.4 Organizational Structure Section 2.5 Integrating and controlling systems An international business refers to trade between two or more countries. The aim is to expand the market by venturing into other countries. Hence it is crucial to prepare an international business plan so as to make it happen. In order to develop an IBP, a series of steps may be followed.

Section 2.1

First, we should determine the services to be offered or the goods to be exported. However, before developing an IBP, ...

Note 1

The note observes the essentials of validity of evidence. It correctly observes the three main types of validity, that is, relationship based, criterion related and content based. Ideally, the validity of evidence is essential in noting the variables in data and information. The note takes the discussion to the extreme by illustrating some of the application of the validity evidence. For instance, in showing the relation based validation, the note examines the relationship between shark attacks and ice cream consumption in the beach. It is concluded based on credible evidence that the number of shark attacks were directly proportional ...

Just to begin with, I would like to bring to your attention that for the purposes of this project, I met one of the senior executive officer who is responsible for marketing for a fast growing frozen yogurt chain with the name Yogurtland. After the executive officer provided us with a brief overview about the company, we were given the responsibility to conduct a comprehensive marketing research after which we were to develop a marketing program from the information obtained after conducting the marketing research.

Objectives

The following represent the fundamental goals or aim for developing this marketing program. After thoroughly performing our ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

- Is it exploitation for a company to profit from selling soaps, shampoo, personal computers, and ice cream, etc., to people with little disposable income? It is not supposed to be considered as exploitation for a company to profit from selling such commodities as shampoo, ice cream, soaps and personal computers to the poor people, especially when the company takes some appropriate steps. These commodities need to be affordable to the people with little income and be obtained by this group of people in a most convenient way possible. Suitable illustrations of these can be seen in the case presented. For ...

The Android Technology has become the talk of the day as a unique invention. Android is a Linux-guided operating system uniquely developed for touch screen mobile devices like tablet computers and smartphones. The operating system was initially developed by the Android Incorporation, which was supported financially by Google. The Google Corporation purchased the Company later in 2005. The company has developed several android applications, but the most recent one is the Android 4.0, which is also known as the Ice Cream Sandwich (Komatineni & MacLean, 2012). This is an application which has become a sweeping force to the mobile devices technology. It has ...

Leo Durocher, the former baseball manager was known for his fierce competitiveness, as well as his hair-trigger temper. Many of his teams were winners, and because of his managerial success, Durocher drew attention when he spoke, usually loudly. In fact, his nickname was “Leo the Lip.” It was Durocher who is known for coining the phrase “Nice Guys Finish Last,” a direct reference to the idea that the managers or players who failed to share his fiery spirit were doomed to lose to his team. However, in the 75 years since “Leo the Lip” was credited with this ...

Supermarkets are important parts of our lives. Now that less and less people live in the country side and grow their own food, and more and more people live in cities and need food to be shipped to them, people could hardly survive without supermarkets. A cross section from all generations visits the supermarket at least once or twice a week. Some people even visit the super market once a day – sometimes because it is their social entertainment. Every super market has its own method of organization and arrangement. In order to make some observations about the uniqueness of supermarket organization, ...

This paper gives a response to a picture of beautiful of kids at the ice cream point. A part from the kids, I can see an ice cream van with an open door, a person distributing the ice cream to the kids and a writing on the foreground of the picture. There is also another set of writing on the van probably indicating the kind of service being offered by it. This architectural work was properly done as a good work of art. The artist made a good use of all the elements of art in it. There is an extensive use of coloring ...

Unilever’s Quest by Shedding Brands

Product Portfolio Management

Unilever is a multinational consumer goods giant that produces and distributes personal care products such as shampoos and beauty soaps, home care products such as washing powder, foods, and beverages such as tea and ice cream. The company has over 400 brands all over the world. Some of the best known are Lipton tea, Blue Band, Flora, Heart brand, Hellmann’s, Knorr, Omo, Dove, Axe/Lynx and Rexona.

Unilever product portfolio is designed to meet every need in the household at the highest level of satisfaction possible. From the time an individual wakes up to the time they ...

Going by catchy slogans such as “lick global warming” and “from cow to cone” is Ben & Jerry’s, an American ice cream company. The company, a division of Unilever Conglomerate manufactures ice cream, sorbet, frozen yoghurt and a number of other ice cream products. The company is headquartered in Vermont with its main factory located in Waterbury, Vermont. Currently, the company operates in 28 countries (benjerry.com). Ben & Jerry’s is famed as an innovative market leader in a super premium industry. The company blends various strategies bearing on environmental responsibility, social activism while enhancing its growth, expansion and profitability.

Segmentation strategy

Market ...

On Saturday morning I ate fried eggs with tomatoes because there is time for that in the weekend to prepare them. I had buttered toast with cheddar cheese and milk. During the day I had peanut butter sandwiches, my favorite chocolate chips, an apple and some sweets. In the evening we had tomato soup and French bread to dip into it. On Sunday we had fried eggs with tomatoes again. Also, I had some milk and some waffles that we made. During the day I had some sandwiches with cheddar cheese. I had my favorite chocolate chip cookies, ...

The Clearasil Ultra Commercial shows a man who uses the product to become confident with his skin. Before using the product, he becomes easily hurt when the sprinkles on his ice cream looked like pimples. He then uses the product, which instantly clears his skin and then goes back to the ice cream parlor and starts to show off his clear skin. The ad was humorous and seems to specifically target men who have self-esteem issues due to pimples. Its promise of an instant relief from unwanted acne makes the ad more persuasive and effective, but if you look at ...

1. Ben & Jerry’s is a perfect example of BI good case practice. To understand the concept better, the term “business intelligence (BI)” refers to technological solutions and other applications that support decision making process by analyzing data. (Phillips et al., 2006) The ice cream products market is quite saturated and according to some researches, competitive advantage depends on such criteria as price, quality and product variety. However, recent focus fell on healthiness of products and their nutrition value. Companies keep developing new products in order to accommodate the needs of the customers. Therefore, by using an online analytical processing ...

This paper presents a summary description of the steps Midwest Ice Cream Company takes to build its first planning and control. The applicability of concepts such as fixed costs, variable costs, unit standard costs, sales and manufacturing budgets used depict the same. However, attention shifts to whether each of the budgets presented in each of the steps is static or flexible. Besides, an explanation on the variance due to volume and variance due to mix is presented in the paper.

The budget is step 2 is a flexible budget. The Vanilla Ice Cream Sales Forecast in Gallons shown in step 2 ...

If you had to choose just one simple definition of justice, which would it be?

Being fair to everyone equally

Being fair to people who most deserve it

Being fair to people who most have a right to it

Being fair to people who most need it

Q1 Please say what you mean by 'fairness':

Fairness is a normative subject that denotes that it entails the verdicts concerning what is good and bad. Consequently, via fair, we can as well embrace the thoughts of just, equality, good, principled, or ethical, and the instruments of how we accomplish this state. I am reminiscent of the subsequent predicament; one has two kids, and an appetizing ice cream cake lies before them. The chore is how to ...

Introduction

Ice cream, a milk-based good, is an excellent medium for microbial growth owing to high nutrient value, virtually neutral pH value (~pH 6–7), and elongated storage interlude of ice cream. The components of ice cream may be of a diversity of amalgamations of milk, cream, condensed milk, dried milk, colouring materials, flavours, fruits, nuts, sweetening agents, eggs, and eggs products, and stabilizers. Any of these could add to microorganisms’ growth and influence the quality of the goods as evaluated by its bacterial load or the presence of different explicit bacteria species. Time reliant heating throughout the ice cream creation decreases ...

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Abstract

Federal milk marketing orders (FMMO) hoist prices of fluid milk produce and decrease the values of manufactured dairy goods for example cheese and ice cream. What consequences do the prices alterations have on the welfare of a variety of groups of customers? Do the milk marketing orders favour the wealthy over the unfortunate? To vividly answer these questions it is better to have an understanding of the effect of Federal Milk marketing orders on possible Farm Milk Processing. This paper gives an overview of facts about the milk marketing orders presenting an understanding of it effects.

Introduction

Farmers and ...