Case Name :      Natureview Farm

Authors :           Karen Martinsen Fleming

Source :             HBS Brief Cases

Case ID :            2073

Discipline :        Marketing

Case Length :    12 pages

Solution sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

Explores channel management issues in the U.S. food industry. Natureview Farm, a Vermont-based producer of organic yogurt with $13 million in revenues, is the leading national yogurt brand (24% market share) sold into natural foods stores. It has achieved this through its special yogurt manufacturing process and through cultivating personal relationships with dairy buyers in the natural foods channel. Set in 2000, when the company faces financial pressure to grow revenues to $20 million by the end of 2001 due to a planned exit by its venture capital investors. The immediate decision point that the protagonist, Natureview’s vice president of marketing, faces is whether to achieve this revenue growth by expanding into the supermarket channel.