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You will examine the nature and cost structure of the Panera Bread Company. Analyze the past, current, and future cost considerations of the company and, on the basis of your costs analysis, create a list of strategies to enhance the company’s profit.In your analysis, include the following information about the various costs that affect the company:  	Fixed costs, such as land, rent, utility bills, property taxes, mortgage payments, fire insurance, and lease on delivery trucks 	Variable costs, such as wages of production workers or salespeople, raw materials, electric power, and inventory 	Life cycle costs, such as acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, refurbishment, and disposal fees 	Operating costs, such as failures, repairs, spares, downtime, and loss of production  Create a report in a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document. Attach any supporting documents, such as spreadsheets, as an appendix. Format paper in APA formatting. Provide an Abstract, Introduction, provide references, citations and conclusion.   	 		 			 		 		 			Created a report that examines the nature and cost structure of the company selected. 		 		 			Discussed various costs (fixed, variable, life cycle, and operating) that affect the chosen company’s business. 		 		 			Suggest strategies to enhance the company’s profit, depending on the cost analysis. 		 	 
	
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Introduction 
Panera Bread is into manufacturing and merchandising business. Panera Bread is one of 
the biggest chain of bakery in US and Canada with its headquarters in sunset Hills, Missouri a 
suburb of St. Louis. The company was founded in year 1993 by Louis Kane, Ken Rosenthal& 
Ronald M. Shaich. CEO of Panera bread is William W. Moreton this person has made significant 
contributions in making the Panera Bread a brand.The company is working majorly in U.S with 
its little presence in Canada, it can be said that company is operating internationally with 
majority of stores in U.S. The primary products of the company are bakery products such as 
breads, cookies, muffins, sandwiches etc. (10-K Panera Bread) 
Panera bread was the first entity in its field which voluntarily posted the calorie 
information at all its company owned cafes and also with the advent of technology as the 
company went online it also posted the nutritional information on its website. All the nutritional 
information provided by the Panera Bread is based on its own standardized recipe. Company has 
also launched a very innovative concept on its website which is called as nutrition calculators, 
this feature will help the customers to look the nutrition information of each product for the 
desired quantity they would like to consume or order. (10-K Panera Bread) 
Financials of Company 
Financial of the company can be analyzed on various basis such as the net operating 
profit generated, net income, earning per share etc. these performance evaluation tools will help 
the investor to evaluate the performance of the company in better way. The present auditor of the 
company is PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The auditor has expressed their opinion on the 
financial statement which states that the company has complied with all the rules and regulations 
of accounting and reporting. The unqualified opinion issued by the auditor shows that the 
company is following all the accountings standards and maintaining the books as per the 
generally accepted accounting principles. (Harlod & Gary 2009) 
While evaluating the financial performance of the company we have measured the 
performance on different yardsticks and the following result has been noted. The ending date of 
the last fiscal year was December 25, 2012 as per the company records. Company had positive 
income of $173,448,000 for the year latest financial year ending December 25,2012. Total asset 
for the year ended year December 25,

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