Introduction:
Harvey Wallbanger, president of Harvey Wallbanger Popcorn, entered the popcorn market in 1972. He is considered to be the person most responsible for creating a gourmet popcorn market in the United States. His claim to fame is that his corn is lighter, fluffier, “tenderer”, and bigger than ordinary popcorn. He also boasts that his popcorn has fewer hard, unpopped kernels than competitive products.
Harvey’s company sells popcorn to several markets in the United States:
1. Unpopped corn sold to food stores for the consumer to take home. There are several companion products— flavoured seasoning, cooking oil— and a variety of different size packages including a sealed cooking bag with popcorn, oil, and flavouring for use in a microwave oven.
2. Bulk popcorn is sold to concessionaires such as movie theatres and sports arenas.
3. Franchising the Harvey Wallbanger Popcorn Shoppe, a gourmet popcorn store, is a new venture. He has 20 company-owned stores and 120 licensed stores. Franchises of popcorn shops have been successful in the United States, but are considered a fad and only do well in shopping malls and other high-traffic locations. Consumption of popcorn is, however, a staple in American snack diets. Gourmet popcorn stores handle a large variety of savoury flavours; sour cream and onion, cheese and spice flavours, and jalapeño are popular additions to the traditional salted, buttered variety. Also included are the various caramel and other sweet flavours including watermelon, chocolate, Amaretto, and cherry liquorice.
4. The company is testing a concept of leasing popping equipment to supermarkets for making fresh popcorn for on-premise consumption and also for taking home. For gourmet popcorn shops, he has machines that can pop 1 320 litres of corn in an hour and cook up to 20 savoury flavours or seven sweet flavours at the same time. He leases a smaller version of these machines to large supermarkets; the few he has in a test market are proving successful. The idea fits in with the move by larger supermarkets to add gourmet foods, delis, and other upscale attractions for customers.
5. His newest venture is fresh-popped corn which is packaged in foil bags for distribution through food stores and wherever corn chips, potato chips, and other snacks are sold. The company sells regular popcorn plus a line of flavoured gourmet popcorn.
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...y salty snack tends to increase thirst that leads to increased beer consumption, the wise pub owner has always made salty snack foods available. The total savoury snack-food industry in Britain was £1.1 billion for 1997 and grew to over £1.7 billion by 1999.
Popcorn is available in Great Britain, but it is usually candied, similar to Cracker Jacks in the United States, and sold in small boxes at the cinema. Fresh, hot, buttered, and salted popcorn is a relatively new product concept in Britain.
One problem in positioning popcorn as a savoury snack is its possible comparison with caramel corn. Butterkist, caramel corn, is essentially a sweet snack and the British tend not to mix sweet with savoury. Fortunately, caramel-flavoured sweet popcorn products are not particularly popular in Great Britain, so this resistance may be minimal. The favourite snack of the British are crisps, which account for 60 percent of all savoury snacks Great Britain. They do not snack with television as is the case in the United States, but they do snack while drinking beer, visiting bingo halls, and at all sporting events. In all these situations, regular or flavoured crisps and salted nuts are favourites
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§ In addition to salty snack products, the company also markets a line of nuts, peanut butter crackers, processed beef sticks, Grandma's brand cookies and snack bars, and assorted other snacks.
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