The Carvel Corporation is an American success story. Through hard work and luck its founder and President Tom Carvel turned a dream into a million dollar success. Thomas Andreas Carvelas was born July 14, 1906, in Athanassos Greece in 1910 his family immigrated to Danbury, Connecticut and finally settled in New York City in 1920. Ever since he was a child he has always dreamed of owning his own frozen custard shop. His first break came Memorial Day 1934 when he borrowed $15 dollars from his future wife Agnes Stewart, and bought a trailer load of custard to sell to vacationers in Westchester County, New York. He suffered a setback when his trailer got a flat tire in Hartsdale NY but luck was on his side. Pop Quinlan a pottery shop owner across the street allowed him to use his electricity to keep the custard from melting, Mr. Carvel continued selling from his broken down trailer for many years, this is how he became the nation's first retail ice cream company. Tom Carvel kept his trailer on the pottery lot. The first year he grossed $3,500.00. In 1937 he turned the trailer into a frozen custard stand and by 1939 his yearly gross income was $6,000 a year and he became known as the "Ice Cream King of the East".
Tom Carvel developed his own freezer model, known as the batch freezer (this was only one of his 500 other patents, trademarks and copyright registration). In 1947, under the trade name "Custard King" he sold about 71 freezers for $2,900 each. Not long after selling the freezers many of the buyers started defaulting on their payments for their freezers. Tom Carvel discovered that poor locations, and cleanliness of their shops was the cause for the defaulted payments. He was determined to make his venture successful, and decided to oversee the operations of the freezers directly. Potential Franchise owners in the Carvel Corporation bought equipment and supplies from Mr. Carvel and used the Carvel name. In return the corporation helped them select a location and taught them how to run an ice cream business, this was all taught at the Carvel College an eighteen-day course for potential franchise owners. As a result of this strategy he claimed to have developed the franchise concept in 1949.
Carvel Corp. is known for many of their unique elements in the business. Tom Carvel introduced the marketing concept of "Buy One Get One Free" in 1936 and gift certificates in 1954.
To be more exact, its employees were enthusiastic, motivated and friendly; ultimately, they provided excellent and satisfactory customer service to which all customers responded well. Eventually, 40 years after the store was founded, Hannah retired and sold the company to Ike Telloni, a former regional marketing director of Waterloo Ice Cream for Southern Ontario. Despite Hannah’s Ice Cream being a successful business for years, the once greatly viewed enterprise spiraled downhill due to the new management introduced by Ike. Overall, Ike management demonstrated the opposite factors of Hannah’s success.
The founhder of the company, Godfrey Keebler, started with jus a small bakery in Philadelphia, PA in 1853. During the next two generations, local bakeries popped up around the country, including Strietmann, Hekman, Supreme and Bowman. With the introduction of cars and trucks (carrying the Keebler logo), bakery goods could be distributed beyond the neighborhood and regional distribution began.
Before ice could be preserved in refrigerators, keeping ice cold was a major problem. Back in this time there wasn't good enough technology to refrigerate good enough. Before the invention of refrigerators the only way to cool objects was an insulated box filled with ice. During the time the insulated box was around it only worked for a short time.Although the insulated box also required lots of ice it cooled things very good. Ice was hard to be obtained in summer so it made it even harder to cool things(Burton 52). Before the 1830s it was not possible to manufacture ice.Before the 1830s ice had to be gathered in the winter. The ice that was gathered was stored until summer and then sold for profit. William Cotton saw an opportunity to organize a company and he did.(Burton 52) John Custer became William Cotton’s partner in 1840 in the ice business. To produce ice they made a dam for ice production in the winter. The dam had problems and collapsed which was a big problem(Burton 52). Custer abandoned Mr. Cotton in 1875. Custer left cotton all on his own. John Beard helped Custer build a dam and got partnership of the company as a reward. In 1905 Beard was basically running the whole company. Then in 1905 the companies name was changed to Beard Ice company( Burton 52). Beard now had a slogan. The slog...
Henry Ford and his engineers designed several automobiles, each one designated by a letter of the alphabet: these included the small, four cylinder Model N (which sold for $500), and the more luxurious six-cylinder Model K (which sold poorly for $2500). In October 1908, ...
The automobile industry began with Henry Ford’s production of the Model T in the early 1900’s. With the creation of the assembly line, cars became cheaper and quicker to produce, thus making them affordable for many people. There were originally 500 auto manufacturers. By 1908, there were only 200; and in 1917 only 23 remained. This vast reduction was due to large amounts of consolidation within the industry.
Henry Ford was in two companies before making a successful company. The first company he had was first named Cadillac Motor Company then changed into the Ford Motor Company when they went bankrupt once, which was established in August 22, 1902. He went into this company with twenty-eight thousand dollars and eleven men. This company only made around five cars a day. The only way that they made cars was that they would group three guys on one car. During this time, the Great Depression was going on which made one of the toughest times to sell cars. When the company went bankrupt twice, he was not about to give up. When he was forty years old, he created the Ford Motor Company. On one of his projects he made a design for a car that broke the fastest car record. Once the word went around people started to buy his cars. Once the Great Depression ended he started making money. Today Ford Motor Company is one of the most successful company in America.
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., the Vermont-based manufacturer of ice cream, frozen yoghurt and sorbet, was founded in 1978, with a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of which was borrowed). It soon became popular for its innovative flavours, made from fresh Vermont milk and cream. The company currently distributes ice cream, low fat ice cream, frozen yoghurt, sorbet and novelty products nationwide as well as in selected foreign countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchised Ben & Jerry's scoop shops, restaurants and other venues.
From the very beginning, Kroger worked to please customers. He believed in never selling anything that you yourself, would not buy and set out satisfy customers and provide goods and services that were needed in the Cincinnati area. In those humble beginnings, Kroger invested his life savings of $372 and due to his commitment to what we now call Customer Relationship Management techniques, grew to the multi-billion dollar chain that it is today.
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Henry Ford founded Ford Motor Company in 1903 (“Ford Motor Company”.). In 1908 GM was founded (“Company: History and Heritage”.) and in 1937 Mopar was founded (“Evolution of a trademark”). Today, there are numerous automobile companies in competition and the automobile is the most reliable transportation in America and around the world. The invention of the automobile undoubtedly had one of the biggest impacts on American History.
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The origins of ice cream go way back to the 4th century B.C. In the 13th century, Marco Polo learned of the Chinese method of creating ice and milk mixtures and brought it back to Europe. It became a fashionable treat in Italy and France.
The history of ice cream goes all the way back to the Fourth century B.C. Early allude to this amazing delicacy involve the Roman emperor Nero (A.D. 37-68) who demanded ice to be brought down from the mountains and merged it with fruit toppings, and King Tang (A.D. 618-97) of Shang, China who had a stroke of genius to creating ice and milk combinations. Ice cream was most likely token over from China back to Europe. Over time, recipes for ices, sherbets, and milk ices progressed and were distributed in the well liked Italian and French royal courts. After the dessert was imported to the U.S., it was distributed by many well-known Americans. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson served it to their guests. In 1700, Governor Bladen of Maryland was recorded as having served it to his guests. In 1774, a London caterer named Philip Lenzi announced in a New Y...
In the USA in 1896 Henry Ford build his first car and innovate the assembly line which allowed him to mass production and making affordable cars to the customers ( Gale, 2003).