NATUREVIEW FARM
HARVARD BUSINESS
SCHOOL CASE
NatureView-A small Yogurt
Manufacturer
Founded in 1989
Produced Organic Yogurt with
longer shelf life
Natural foods industry
Increase revenues from
$13Million in 1999 to $20Million
in 2001 to position for acquisition
32 Oz 8 Oz 4 Oz
• 4 Flavours
• 14% revenue
• 8 Flavours
• 96% revenue
• Children’s
Multipack
LETS
UNDERSTAND
THE MARKET
FOR PACKAGED
YOGURT
Supermarkets,
46%
Health Food
Stores, 25%
Natural Food
Stores, 29%
WHERE CONSUMERS BOUGHT THEIR
YOGURT?
MarketLeaders
Dannon
Yoplait
Breyers
0
10
20
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40
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60
70
80
8 Oz Cups 32 Oz Cups 4 Oz Multipacks
% OF SALES GROWTH RATE OF SEGMENT
DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS FOR
NATUREVIEW
SUPERMARKETS
NATURAL FOODS
STORE
THE
SUPERMARKET
CHANNEL
15% Margin
27% Margin
97% of Sales
Larger display section
Lesser Prices
4% Broker’s Fee
High Slotting Fee-
$10000/chain/SKU
Regular Trade
Promotions Expenditure
32 Oz Cup $2.70
4 Oz Cup $2.85
8 Oz Cup $0.74
THE
NATURAL
CHANNEL
FOODS
7% Margin
9% Margin
35% Margin
Allows to “break cases”
Accounted for 24% of
Natureview’s sales
Only one time product
introduction fee
Higher Prices
Smaller Display
32 Oz Cup $3.19
4 Oz Cup $3.35
8 Oz Cup $0.88
PROSPECTS
IN FRONT
OF
NATUREVIEW
Largest Revenue Pot
Successful for companies in the
past
First Mover’s advantage over
competitors
High Risks
Intense Competition
Arousal of Channel
Conflict
ANTICIPATED
SALES
35 Million
Units
Marketing
Expenses
$1.2
Mil/region/year
SG&A increase $ 0.32 Mil
Largest Profit Margin
Lesser Competition; strong brand
position
Lower promotion costs
Doubt on Ability to achieve target
in 12 months
management team doubted that
new users would “readily “enter
the brand”
Arousal of Channel Conflict
Need to develop relations with
supermarket retailers
ANTICIPATED
SALES
5.5 Million
Units
Marketing
Expenses (in 64
Chains)
$0.12
Mil/region/year
SG&A increase $ 0.16 Mil
Already Established relationships with
Natural food outlets
Confident sales team of achieving targets
all-natural ingredients would provide the
perfect positioning
High growth in this channel
Increase in R&D expenditure
Potential channel conflict is
deciding factor
ANTICIPATED
SALES
1.8 Million
Units
Marketing
Expenses
$0.25Mil
Cost of
Complementary
cases
2.5% of sales
SG&A increase $ 0
Sales Units 35 Million Units
Sales $25.9 Million
Distributor Margin $2.83 Million
Retailer Margin $6.9 Million
Income To Company $16.07 Million
Manufacturing Cost $10.85 Million
Broker’s Fee $1.036 Million
Slotting Fee $2.52 Million
Trade Promotions $1.77 Million
Marketing Expenses $1.2 Million
SG&A Costs $0.32 Million
Net Profit -$1.62 Million
Sales Units 5.5 Million units
Sales $14.85Million
Distributor Margin $1.62 Million
Retailer $4 Million
Income To Company $9.21 Million
Manufacturing Cost $5.4 Million
Broker’s Fee $0.59 Million
Slotting Fee $4.2 Million
Trade Promotions $8.68 Million
Marketing Expenses $0.12 Million
SG&A Increments $0.16 Million
Net Profit -$9.98 Million
Sales Units 1.8 Million
Sales $6.03 Million
Wholesaler Margin $0.25 Million
Distributor Margin $0.35 Million
Retailer Margin $2.11 Million
Income To Company $3.32 Million
Manufacturing Costs $2.07 Million
Free Cases Fee $0.15 Million
Marketing Expenses $0.25 Million
SG&A Increase $0
Net Profit $0.85 Million
DISCLAIMER
Created by Neelansh Kamboj, IIT Jodhpur, during a marketing internship under Prof. Sameer Mathur,
IIM Lucknow

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