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Essay on Juice Guys Case Study Analysis

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Juice Guys™ In the summer of 1998, Nantucket Nectar created a subsidiary of their brand called Juice Guys. This new product was comprised of fresh juice and fruit smoothie drinks that were taking over the West Coast. Within three-and-a-half months, Juice Guys had sold a total of 175,000 items ranging from smoothies, yogurts, sorbets, Nantucket Nectar drinks and fresh squeezed juices. Juice Guys’ revenue went up to 91% and they made a profit of $227,000 in sales. Noticing the tremendous success within the industry in such a short time, Nantucket Nectar and Juice Guys decided to expand this new juice retail concept into the East Coast. Their primary focus within the East Coast was expansion into the Boston market. Although this …show more content…

The article stated that, “many East Coast baby boomers were wondering, “what’s a smoothie?” (Fox & Rushmore, 1999, p. 4). This statement not only indicated that people in the East Coast were not aware of this new juice trend, it also stated that “consumers’ demands and tastes can greatly change from one demographic to another” (Fox & Rushmore, 1999, p. 4); whereas allowing Juice Guys the opportunity to sell more than just juice and also resulting in Juice Guys indentifying between the ages of 18-35 to be their leading influential target market.
With having only one of “The Four Ps,” (the place), Juice Guys had to come up with a marketing plan to develop the other three Ps; which were of product, promotion and price. Juice Guys knew they wanted to sell fresh juices and fruit smoothies; however, they needed to know if the consumers wanted more than just those products. Also, they needed to find a way to promote their new products and make their prices economically feasible for the consumers in this new place; which was Boston. In order to accomplish this, they needed consumers to let them know what they thought was the ultimate juice shop.
Marketing research defined is “the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data and findings relevant to a specific marketing situation facing the company” (Kotler & Keller, 2009, p. G6). Juice Guys methodology to obtain

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