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STRATEGIC STUDY Historical Background and Present Context Domino’s Pizza is a billion dollar company with over 50 years in the business of pizza making (International Directory of Company Histories). Currently, Dominions has over 15,000 employees and they are open internationally in 82 countries (International Directory of Company Histories). The company expects to be the number one in pizza making and pizza delivering; this is also said in their mission statement (Domino’s Pizza Inc.). With…

MOD Pizza was started by two “retired” entrepreneurs. A husband-and-wife team, Ally and Scott Svenson, had already started and sold two successful food empires. MOD Pizza’s assembly line style of serving pizza resembles Chipotle’s serving style. Scott Svenson was a former Starbuck executive, and learned the business long before deciding to start yet another small empire. MOD Pizza was founded in Seattle, the hometown of the Svensons. Mrs. Svenson had sworn off of starting anymore…

from a small pizza place to the US’s fourth largest pizza chain (after Domino’s, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesar’s). Its IPO was first offered on June 8th, 1993 at a price of $13.00 per share (NASDAQ ticker is PZZA); as of December 2016,…

Kentucky Fried Chicken is a fast food restaurant originated in 1952, is the world’s second largest restaurant chain. There are more than 17,000 KFC outlets in more than 115 countries and territories around the world (KCF, 2013). Colonel Sanders was the spokesman for KFC until his death in 1980 after his death; they had an actor portray the Colonel for the KCF commercials. In 1998 KFC created an animated version of the Colonel and it continued until 2001 in the United States. KCF has created…

The America has the biggest cultural diversity in the world. If we go back to the history, it has been shown that mixing up people causes a new nation and a new culture and the America is a great example that exhibits that idea. As the essay “America: The Multinational Society” by Ishmael Reed describes that in his paragraph which is a quote from The New York Times. It is described that how a Chinese woman is eating pizza in front of a Vietnamese grocery store in a Jewish festival, these…

John Schnatter has succeeded with his company Papa John’s making it worldwide by selling pizza. John Schnatter has been through a lot to make this franchise become a nationally worldwide selling pizza company and continues to make it better each day. John Schnatter was born on November 23, 1961 in Jeffersonville, IN. John studied at Jeffersonville High then continued in college at Ball State University. John has a family 3 kids, a wife, 2 siblings, and two parents. When John was just 15 he…

Chick-fil-a is a Christian based company, and family owned. Truett Cathy opened up the first chick-fil-a restaurant in Atlanta, in 1967. Chick-fil-a has rapidly grown across the U.S. with over 2000 different locations in 43 states. It has grown to be the largest quick-service chicken restaurant in the U.S. There sales in 2015, was over $6 billion. Many of chick-fil-a’s restaurants celebrate family night and kid night. They have given over $68 million to over 700 charitable organizations to many…

As referenced earlier, the company believes that the current controversy surrounding the NFL has contributed to the sudden decline. With Papa John’s Pizza as the official sponsor of the National Football League it is possible that the company is losing business as a result of their highly advertised association with the NFL. Only time will tell if this marketing partnership has attributed or if the decline will continue past the football season. Evaluation Papa John’s Pizza faces numerous…

Sarah, That's insane that the Consumer Electronics Show took up space of two million square feet, thats enormous! I didn't know Audi, a automobile company attended this event, that's actually pretty cool because many car companies are implementing various technology features into their vehicles, some even making them in their standard models, but it's understandable why some companies such as Audi, Mercedes, BMW don't put all their features in their standard models since it's a luxury and they…

Macaulay Culkin, the former child star best known for the Home Alone movie franchise, was thrust back into the spotlight in 2013 when word of a parody band he was playing with broke. The Pizza Underground plays medleys of Velvet Underground parodies, substituting the actual lyrics for ones about pizza. Though Macaulay Culkin and the band have amassed some controversy by fans of VU who feel the band is marring VU’s legacy, the music is all in good fun and completely non-serious. In fact, the band…