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COMPFED: The Dairy Cooperative Distribution System
Subhash Jha; Atanu AdhikariCase IVEY-9B11A047-EMarketing, StrategyBihar State Milk Cooperative Federation (COMPFED) had been marketing its milk and milk-related products under the Sudha brand name in the Bihar and Jharkhand regions of India for three decades. It operated through six unions and two dairies to process the milk collected from nearly 4,000 village-level cooperatives. COMPFED appeared to have a competitive advantage for its supply of milk, since it maintained the largest network for milk procurement...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainabilitiy at Nespresso. A boost for business
Reina Paniagua, R.; García de Castro, A.; Garrido Martinez, E.Case IIST-DGI-351-E-ECorporate GovernanceNespresso has managed to make sustainability its own. Sustainability has managed to be incorporated into the business model, as one more part. This premise is what has allowed the issue of sustainability to be one more pillar in Nespresso's strategy. Ecolaboración is its way of approaching comprehensive management to achieve a sustainable future for all, and the concept that helps each of its operations to be under that prism. The goal: to manufa...Starting at €8.20
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Indraprastha Cold Storage Ltd: Value Added Strategy in an Emerging Market
S.P. Raj; Atanu AdhikariCase IVEY-9B12A055-EMarketingThis case examines the business strategies available to an Indian company, Indraprastha Cold Storage Ltd. (IPCSL). It has made substantial investments in upgrading its existing cold storage to differentiate itself from the competition based on the premise that by providing superior product quality, it could charge a premium for its value added cold storage service. However, competitors lowered their rates in an attempt to capture even more custom...Starting at €8.20
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Ebro foods 2014
García de Castro; Reina Paniagua, RocioCase IIST-DGI-242-E-EInnovation and ChangeEbro Foods was the first Spanish food group in 2014, a global leader in the rice sector and second largest manufacturer of pasta, with a turnover in 2013 of EUR 2,013 million and a profit before tax of 199 million euros. Antonio Hernandez Callejas, its Chairman and CEO, had been directing the Seville Arrocerías Herba family business alongside his uncles, his father and his brother Felix in 1989, to be the Chairman of a multinational. Now should c...Starting at €8.20
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Ratnagiri Alphonso Orchard: Bayesian Decision Analysis
Debdatta PalCase IVEY-9B16E007-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn late 2012, the owner of the Ratnagiri Alphonso Orchard considered whether or not to purchase information from a climatology firm regarding the probability of unseasonable rains that could damage some or all of his family’s mango harvest. The owner needed to decide whether or not he should lease the orchard to a fruit merchant or keep the orchard for his family to harvest, despite the possibility of rain. Would the climatology firm provide help...Starting at €8.20
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Meakin Enterprises: Balancing Risks in the Agriculture Industry
Tyler Case; Doug KalesnikoffCase IVEY-9B17M061-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2017, a Canadian farmer and entrepreneur faced a challenging decision about the future of his two businesses: a farming operation and a trucking operation. After the hectic 2016 farming and trucking season, he began to compare his 2016 and 2015 financial statements for the farming business, Meakin Farms Inc., and the trucking business, Meakin Industrial Ag Corp. While both organizations remained viable, he wondered what he should do fo...Starting at €8.20
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Suncrest Agribusiness Company: Optimizing Seed Production
Phillip Jones; Timothy Lowe; Saurabh BansalCase IVEY-9B17D009-EService and Operations ManagementSuncrest Agribusiness Company (Suncrest), an agribusiness firm based in the Midwestern United States, was one of the largest seed manufacturers in the world. Seed corn (i.e., the seed that farmers purchased to grow corn in their fields) was the company’s largest business segment in the North American market; yet the seed corn market was subject to both demand and supply uncertainty. Farmers chose whether to grow corn or a different crop based on ...Starting at €8.20
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CAEI: Driving innvotaion and profitability in the agricultural sector. Teaching Note
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio; De Cote, Jose AntonioTeaching Note IIST-MITN-157-E-EMarketingCAEI is the second largest producer of sugar cane in the Dominican Republic. In 2010, it undertook a strategic business transformation that resulted in CAEI being, by 2017, one of the most profitable and competitive companies in the sugar industry in the Caribbean. This was achieved mainly thanks to the incorporation of new technologies, the innovations introduced in processes, and a radical change in the way employees were treated and motivated....Starting at €0.00
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CAEI: Driving innvotaion and profitability in the agricultural sector
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio; De Cote, Jose AntonioCase IIST-MI-157-E-EMarketingCAEI is the second largest producer of sugar cane in the Dominican Republic. In 2010, it undertook a strategic business transformation that resulted in CAEI being, by 2017, one of the most profitable and competitive companies in the sugar industry in the Caribbean. This was achieved mainly thanks to the incorporation of new technologies, the innovations introduced in processes, and a radical change in the way employees were treated and motivated....Starting at €8.20
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Solubles Instantaneos C.A.: A Family Heritage, Looking To The Future
Angélica Sánchez-Riofrío; Nathaniel Lupton; Teresa Larreta-MendozaCase IVEY-9B17M176-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn July 2017, Jorge Salcedo-Benitez was reflecting on his first decade as president of Solubles Instantaneos C.A. (SICA). Under his leadership, SICA had retained ownership of two leading brands of instant coffee in Ecuador: Don Café and Café Oro. As his descendants prepared to take the helm, Salcedo-Benitez wondered whether the company was still headed in the right direction. Giants like Nestlé S.A. dominated the markets elsewhere, in part by con...Starting at €8.20