Lita's Mexican Food

Claire Xia
Claire developed a model for estimating the impact of future product launches on important financial indicators such as sales and cash flow. Additionally, she developed an inventory management system for categorizing raw ingredients, purchasing cycles, and organization into final products

Kindred Cultures

Vincci Zheng
Kindred Cultures Inc is a female-led business that manufactures water kefir, a probiotic-rich drink. Vincci was responsible for conducting analysis and providing recommendations concerning their B-Corp. readiness and cost-efficiency.

VanCity Credit Union

Debbie Oyenuga
Examines and compares the type and total amount of waste generated, disposed and diverted, at the national, provincial, regional district and municipal levels in order to recommend people and governments to avoid them.

BC Food Processors Association

Espoir Tuyisenge
Developed a unique safety guidelines document for commissary kitchens in British Columbia. Based on primary and secondary research, including interviews with the provincial government and regional health authorities.

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts

Candice Zhang and Carolina Rodrigues Cunha
This project provides a review of PICA’s current position, market landscape, and revenue-generating strategies to map a range of competitor types and leverage the results to develop a feasibility analysis of new services or courses.

TD Canada Trust

Becky Li
This partnership with TD Canada Trust included co-op placement that helped establish familiarity with TD’s day-to-day operations, and a financial & market analysis project that linked this direct experience to high-level insights into the banking industry and investment markets.

Bimbo Canada Ltd.

Hanyu Wang
Due to recent acquisitions and customer-base growth, Bimbo Canada must revise the legal territory maps included in its franchisee contracts. This project provides renewed property mapping based on up-to-date customer data, with a final deliverable of 450 maps.

Nada Grocery

Chelsea Zhang
This project conducted with Nada Grocery, assesses customers’ preferences via market research, including in-store customer feedback, and face-to-face interviews and surveys, in order to understand what works and doesn't work in figure the customer shopping journey.

UBC

Alvaro de la Viña
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This project assessed the opportunity to produce and use black soldier fly larvae meal as an ingredient for animal feed in Mexico. It included a supply and demand analysis, a competitive framework, and a financial analysis. Read More

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Potluck Catering

Olivier Ntwali
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Using financial and market data, this project categorizes customers to understand density cost contribution of recipes in order to build an automated recipe costing and pricing tool to adequately explore and understand cost minimization strategies.