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Chobani: Managing Explosive Growth, Aggressive Competition and Threats to Product Quality

Xie, Y, Truesdell, K., and O’Rourke, J. S. (Editor)
February 15, 2018
SKU:
BUS-004118
Region: 
North America
Topic: 
Strategy & General Management, Marketing & Sales
Length: 
14 pages
Keywords: 
Brand Management, crisis management, customer communication, customer relations, Food and Beverage, reputation management
Copyrighted by: 
Notre Dame
Student Price: 
$4.00 (€3.75)
Average rating: 
5

A product recall in the fall of 2013 sends Chobani, Inc. scrambling to fix the manufacturing problem, and address a flood of customer concerns. While the company successfully identifies the problem, recalls the product, and fields customers’ concerns within weeks, the adverse incident calls Chobani’s foundational strategy into question. The company must decide if product quality and word-of-mouth marketing are enough to spur continued growth, combat increased competition and manage future threats associated with product quality. 

Learning Outcomes: 
  1. To highlight the challenges of managing a quickly growing company;
  2. To encourage the analysis of potential and actual responses to product quality issues;
  3. To demonstrate the importance of managing the scale of conversation in a timely and consistent fashion in the social media era;
  4. To provide an example of how consulting with regulators matter in managing a crisis and why a crisis management plan should be established for all corporations.

Reviews

Submitted by Anonymous on June 24, 2019
Rating: 
5

Chobani is a great company, the case showed it