Café Coffee Day – An Overview
Café Coffee Day is largest coffee chain in India owned by Coffee Day Global Limited. Earlier known as Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company. Coffee day Global Ltd grows coffee in its own real estates of 12,000 acres. It is Asia’s largest producer of Arabica beans exporting to the clients across various countries including USA, Europe and Japan. Café Coffee Day started as a retail restaurant in 1996. The first outlet was set up by V.G. Siddhartha on July 11, 1996 at Brigade Road, Bangalore. It rapidly expanded in various cities across the country
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Café Coffee Day focused on Students, Housewives, Executives and Young working Professionals who need to hang out after school, college or office. CCD seeks to target any individual who is “Youthful at fundamental level” at reasonable cost.
Positioning
Café Coffee Day has connected with coffee lovers as seeing to higher growth in cafés. Café Coffee Day has played an essential role in awakening India to the coffee café culture by giving individuals an enjoyable ambience from comfortable seating to requesting the finest choices of coffee blends, beverages and food. From above it has given a place where individuals could go and spend a while to think and talk about things they like. It is third place away from the home and college or work environment for the young and the young at heart. CCD’s Tagline is a lot does happen over coffee.
Major macro and global environmental influences on the market and Critical Success
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This is an immense point of preference particularly in a service organization. Café Coffee Day must endeavor to keep this favorable position.
Strong Brand Image:
Café Coffee Day has a solid and clear brand image. Their customers can easily recognize and identify with the Café Coffee brand. This expansions and keep up brand devotion.
Strong base for expansion & growth:
Café Coffee Day have worked hard on their brand image and customer service and have a solid base for future expansion and development internationally.
MARKETING MIX
Product
The offerings by Café Coffee Day have developed as per changing tastes of the customer. The wide network of outlets over India requires a standardized menu which can be recreated remembering same level of value. The product should commence a sense of indulgence in light of aroma, appearance and taste.
At present Café Coffee Day offers
• Beverages o Hot – Hot Coffee, Hot Tea, Hot Chocolate o Cold – Cold Coffee, Ice Tea, Frappe, Fruit Slush
• Food – Sandwiches, Samosas, Desserts, Cookies, Ice creams, Cakes
• Merchandise – Coffee Maker, Coffee Mugs, T Shirts, Coffee/Tea
The caffeine found in coffee helped “scientists, intellectuals, merchants, and clerks” feel energized, “alert”, and “stimulated” at the beginning of the day and at the end of the night, allowing for more discoveries to be made and for more tasks to be accomplished. This led to coffee replacing beer as the morning drink of choice, as the general public preferred feeling energized, “alert”, and “stimulated” to feeling intoxicated and tired. The coffeehouse culture also possessed an intellectual and calm vibe, which still prevails today, that promoted scientific discoveries such as heliocentrism, the belief that the sun is the center of our universe, as well as the laws of physics. Coffeehouses were centers for not only the gossip and gaming mentioned in the previous paragraph, but also for several scientific
This drink originated in the Middle East, heavily influenced by Arabian culture. Over the course of many years, coffee made its way to Europe through trade and helped Europe to come out of its drunken and alcohol induced haze that has lasted for centuries. This, in of itself, is a huge impact to history, despite the fact that Europe had been drinking mostly alcohol for the past few centuries and the people 's initial dislike of coffee, the drink somehow managed to take over the Western World. Those who drank coffee instead of alcohol in the morning began the day alert and stimulated, rather than relaxed and mildly intoxicated, making the quality of their work better. Coffeehouses became a social center to discuss current events, philosophy and science.
“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer follows the story of Dina, a young black girl from Baltimore, as she copes with life studying at Yale (117-119). Throughout the story, Dina seems to be a fiercely and independent character that likes to be on her own and away from society. She always speaks her mind, regardless of the consequences, but her independence destroys her because of her lack of introspection. This helps her to give up things that will help her get out of her individualism. Due to this, she pushes away the only friend she has because of her inability to understand herself, and her toxic personality.
In "Getting Coffee is Hard to Do" by Stanley Fish (August 5, 2007), the author asserts that by shifting the burden of labor to the consumer, businesses are frustrating their customers. Fish supports this thesis by describing the frustrating process of getting coffee in today's coffee shops. The purpose of the essay is to ridicule the "coordination problems" faced by customers in coffee shops in order to get the reader to appreciate the frustrations consumers experience. Fish's intended audience is fellow coffee consumers, and he provokes thought in these consumers about how the practices of businesses are changing; another intended audience is coffee shop owners and employees, whom he encourages to have empathy toward the customer and do more
Nowadays, the number of coffee drinkers are increasing. As the demand for coffee grows, the number of coffee chains is also increasing. Of that, the representative coffee chains in North America are Starbucks and Tim Hortons. Starbucks has the highest brand awareness amongst the world coffee chains. It started in Seattle, the United State in 1971.
Political • Growing demand and supply shortage has increased world coffee prices. • Favorable advantage to accessing raw material through supplier relationships. • Fair-trade practices include its Coffee and Farmers Equity (C.A.F.E.) program among other fair trade policies and agreements. • Starbucks adheres to local, national and international government laws and policies and tightly control labour practices, avoiding scrutiny and negative imagery from being a large corporation. Economic • High industry sensitivity to the macroeconomic factors affecting disposable income, a main industry driver.
Part A Macro environment is important factor affecting the development of enterprises. A macro environment is the condition that exists in the economy as a whole, rather than in a specific sector or region.(Macro Environment n.d.) Cultures, politics, technology, nature, economy and demographic are the six major forces in the company 's macro-environment.(Kotler & Armstrong 2014, p96) Political factors Political factors include government regulations and legal issues and define both formal and informal rules.(PEST Analysis n.d.) All the companies have to follow these rules.
We can look through its macro environment by six factors. The six factors are: political, economic, cultural, technological, natural, and demographic environment. The macro environment analysis is to find out the possible threats and opportunities of the brand. The analysis will
But as the time goes by the taste of the product had been the top reason why the consumer keep on patronizing it. Moccona coffee produced different variety of product that suits the taste of their target market. As they move on globally different consumer represents different taste buds. As part of their product strategy they venture in developing a product with different flavour or fusion.
Secondly, the geographic location of Starbucks’ target audience is the urban city of Malaysia, where Starbucks outlets are often regarded as the third location besides their home and workplace for urban professionals to work or to spend some downtime alone or with their peers. Teenagers would spend time at Starbucks as well for meet-ups with friends and as a place to study. Thirdly, there are several psychographic and consumer insights involved.
Micro and Macro Environmental factors that influence Marketing decisions (LO 2.1) Micro Environment: This indicates those elements over which the marketing firm has control or which it can use in order to gain information that will better help it in its marketing operations. Furthermore, these are the factors close to a business that have a direct impact on its business operations and success. It is important to carry out a full analysis of micro environmental factors prior to decide corporate strategy.
Starbucks was founded in 1971. They have 18.850 stores in more than 40 countries which makes them the first coffee specialty retailer in the world. They operate most of their stores having only 50 franchises (as of 2017) as to keep strict control over quality. The success of Starbucks is based on their unique value proposition. They offer customer the finest coffee produced by themselves, with strong commitment on creating a global social impact, served in stores that promote a welcoming and warmth sphere where everyone can feel “like home”.
We enjoy market leadership and are fast expanding. We have the largest franchise network of outlets within the country, having presence in all major urban centres, and are prepared to explore market potential in Gulf, UK, USA and Europe soon It’s a long history of 40 years of hard work, perseverance and passion. The idea of establishing Cafe Students was conceived and materialized by Haji Mohammad Ali (Late) in 1969 with very humble beginnings. It all started from home cooked Biryani and a few other dishes served from a small eatery located in the middle of the city, Saddar, Karachi.
They sell the finest coffee from all over the world. It also has a book corner in the left hand side of the shop where we can buy books. They make very good coffee as well. This place is an ideal place for students and employees to release stress. As I made my way through the transparent glass door, a blanket of warm air hit me and the rich aroma of coffee which was delectable.
There are six major macro environmental factors of a company which are demographic environment, economic environment,