hi I need your support in my case study below:

short Executive Summary made of 10 bullet points - from a marketing perspective, to include key issues and keywords from our course

marketing analysis for Sombrero Fruit Juice Outlet, to include the 7 following sections. In each of the sections mention at its end what should be the best sources of information to find the necessary data.

1.1 Current influential business trends,

1.2 Fast food market analysis,

1.3 Competitive analysis,

1.4 Targeting for the next six months (not segmenting),

1.5 Propose the existing marketing offer (the offer-mix),

1.6 Propose the existing marketing promotion (the promotion-mix),

1.7 Suggest 4 to 5 competitive advantages and 2 to 3 weaknesses,

Any other information you may provide

Case

SOMBRERO: PROPOSED FRUIT JUICE OUTLET

Moawia had five days to decide. Should he open a fruit juice business in the Al Ain Mall or continue as the operating manager at the Al Qatara bowling alley in the Al Ain Club? He had been very successful running big bowling tournaments attended by people from all over the Gulf region and had saved enough money to start his own business. Was this the right one?

BACKGROUND

Al Ain was a town of 300,000 people in the centre of the Abu Dhabi Emirate, the largest and richest of the seven emirates that are collectively known as the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The United Arab Emirates University was in Al Ain, with a student enrolment of 13,000 UAE nationals. The total population of Al Ain was comprised of 40 per cent UAE nationals and 60 per cent expatriates. Before 2002, there were no malls in the city and people would have to travel to Dubai to shop.

It was March of 2002 and the Al Ain Mall management planned to open the mall soon and was accepting business proposals for the food court to be built on the second floor.

Moawia Abdulla El Hourani had been trained in Poland and Germany in optometry. He had planned to eventually open his own optical store selling prescription glasses in Al Ain when he arrived in 1995 at the age of 29. However, by 2002 there were a number of optical stores operating in Al Ain and three more were planned to open in the new Al Ain Mall.

PROPOSED BUSINESS PLAN

Moawia had first presented to mall management his plan to open a food service business. The mall management would only consider plans for food services from people or organizations that had restaurant experience. Moawia had none. He thought of opening a fresh fruit juice operation because he had enjoyed making a variety of fruit drinks at home for both family and friends and he felt that perhaps mall

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management would not require the owner to have restaurant experience for a juice stand. He proposed to offer customers freshly squeezed fruit juices mixed with homemade soft ice cream. The mall management accepted his business proposal. Moawai gathered the financial data required to open the store and now had five days to accept the mall's offer to lease the space.

LEASE AGREEMENT

The Al Ain Mall, like all retail malls, charged rent to businesses depending on the number of square meters the business occupied. Mall tenants paid anywhere from DH2,000 to DH4,000 per square meter per year. The rate depended upon how well-known and how big the company was. Megamart and the Home Center paid at the lower end of the scale, 2,000, whereas small independent stores paid closer to 4,000. Sombrero would have to pay DH60,000 per year to lease the space (3 dirham=Cdn$1 and 100 fils=1 dirham).

Mall lease agreements were generally for five years and required the tenant, in addition to the lease cost, to pay for electricity, water, mall maintenance and security. Water and electricity were estimated at DH800 per month; maintenance and security would cost DH700 per month.

The mall only leased the space. Moawia would have to put down the flooring and build the walls and ceiling as well as install lighting and air conditioning. These leasehold improvement costs would be an asset of the business to be depreciated over the five years of the lease. Total leasehold improvement costs were estimated at DH12,000. Other start-up costs were as follows:

Overhead sign4,000

Outside sign3,000

Display case for fruit8,000

Ice cream maker25,000

Ice maker8,000

Fruit juice extractor3,500

Orange squeezer1,200

All equipment was expected to last five years. To finance the equipment, Moawia would have to borrow DH20,000 from a local bank. The bank would require interest of DH200 a month for the first year and a principal repayment of DH2,000 at the end of the year.

SOMBRERO

Moawia would name his store Sombrero in memory of his roommate in Poland who came from Bolivia. His friend brought with him a huge Mexican sombrero hat and guitar which he would use to entertain friends with his playing and singing of Latin American songs.

The store would operate 98 hours per week and employ four people full-time working nine hour shifts. Two employees would work the 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and the 8 p.m. until 12 midnight shifts. The other two would work from 2 p.m. until midnight with one hour off. Each employee would be paid DH1,200 per month plus accommodation costing DH400 per month.