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Vegan Bowl

#CPG #Food & Beverage #Consumer Packaged Goods
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This case tests market sizing and financial analysis capabilities by requiring candidates to calculate revenue and margin for each city using the vegan population index, willingness to pay, and consumption patterns. The key challenge is recognizing that despite high absolute market size in some cities, distribution costs and margin requirements eliminate certain locations, while Milwaukee presents an interesting edge case requiring nuanced judgment.

Estimated Time 15 minutes
Difficulty Medium
Source ROSS
50 / 100
Our client is a start-up based out of Ann Arbor with a proprietary recipe of a vegan bowl. These bowls are to be sold as a pack of seven units, each unit a meal. The CEO of the start-up is willing to launch this product in metropolitan areas that can provide a margin of at least 40% and wants to know if he should launch this new product line or not.

Clarifying Information

  1. Our client will focus mainly on traditional brick-and-mortar distribution channels, with a partner distribution company.
  2. The retailer and distributor’s margin is 35% in total.
  3. We currently have three different flavors: WildBeet, EnergyUmami and FireSprout, with plans to expand the product line if there is enough market response to the initial products.
  4. Our client’s main focus is the US market, targeting areas where the vegan market is expanding.
  5. There are no current significant individual competitor in the markets we are launching.