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Cаsper, The Sleep Cоmpаny (frоm 2014 tо 2020 pre-pаndemic) (Adapted from WSJ article, “Casper has big dreams, but Wall Street is waking up to losses as its IPO nears” by Eliot Brown, January 24, 2020: Accessed through ASU library agreement) The Business Landscape From early 2014 to 2016, the US economy grew at a rate 1.5% which was the slowest growth rate since the 2008 recession. Commodity prices such as oil were dropping world wide with interest rates remaining near historically low levels. The stock market indices were a roller coaster due to the Brexit vote for Britain to exit the EU in 2015 and 2016. Money continued to pour into venture capital funds by the billions, as yield-starved investors remain anxious of missing the next big thing. Having soured on consumer tech, venture capitalists say interest has recently begun to soar in financial-related startups, or “fintech” thus pushing money away from product-based businesses. Many states in the US, including California and New York, are considering taxing online sales to make up for slowing traditional tax revenue in 2018. While the economic impact of online sales was being debated by state legislators, consumers were moving strongly towards the virtual experience economy of augmented and virtual realities while also embracing anonymous consumerism. Younger Millennial consumers continue to be the most comfortable shopping online and are looking for satisfying online shopping experiences. Casper, the Sleep Company “We believe sleep is the superpower that charges everything people do.” Casper launched in 2014 seeking to disrupt the mattress industry by cutting out middlemen and attracting customers happy to avoid slogging to mattress stores. At the time mattresses were primarily sold in retail large furniture stores or specific mattress stores. Price ranges varied widely for a mattress but a typical mid-tier quality queen sized mattress could cost $1500 to $2000 not including delivery and fees to dispose of your current mattress. Most mattresses were made of steel coils to support the sleeper and required an additional box spring underneath the mattress to complete the bed. Casper decided to provide compressed foam beds direct to customers’ doors at a greatly reduced price from traditional mattresses. Prices were lower due to reduced costs in materials and since sales were made online to consumers there were no retailers to take a percentage of the sales and delivery. Companies including Casper, luggage-maker Away and sneakers seller Allbirds pioneered a new business model selling products directly to consumers instead of through other retailers, often via Google and Facebook ads. Many of them have tech-like valuations and ambitions to go public. Five-year-old Away Luggage’s $1.4 billion valuation is nearly half the $3.1 billion market capitalization of luggage leader Samsonite International S.A. Casper told investors it was poised to dominate a sleeping-related market it estimated at $432 billion. The Launch of Casper Casper paired clever advertising with a friendly brand written in sans serif font in a soothing shade of blue. Celebrity investors like Leonardo DiCaprio were touted. Then Casper ads flooded podcasts, Instagram and the New York City subway. The company fashioned itself as “the Nike of sleep”. Executives trumpeted an origin story in which the co-founders realized the value of sleep after they were overworked in a startup incubator. The co-founder and Chief Executive Philip Krim also previously ran an online mattress company that he eventually sold. Casper Finances Casper has raised more than $300 million from investors, with a valuation on the private markets of $1.1 billion. In six years, Casper has become a leading name in mattresses as a marketing survey shows that 31% of the U.S. is aware of its brand. Casper has spent $422 million in marketing in the past four years alone while they reported a net loss of $67 million on $312 million of revenue for the year of 2019. Competitors Casper’s early success spawned imitators who realized the basic business model was simple to replicate. Competitors found that Casper didn’t make its own mattresses but procured them from a handful of U.S. foam factories that supply numerous brands. Work piled into these factories from dozens of competitors, who could start companies with little more than a logo and website. They found the process simple given that some factories design, produce and ship the mattresses directly to consumers for the companies. Manufacturers also frequently shared competitively sensitive information among their foam mattress companies. But the new entrants in the market—including Purple Innovation Inc. and Leesa Sleep LLC—meant that prices for online ads targeting mattress-inclined millennials soared ever higher, dimming the hopes of making a profit. Purple, a main competitor that went public through a shell company a couple of years ago, recently turned a profit and sports a faster growth rate than Casper. Sam Bernards, the former CEO of Purple, said he tracked more than 200 similar companies in the foam mattress industry. While many were small, they were “all competing for the same keywords on Google, and the same on Facebook.” The result, he said, was “just economics 101. The more competition, the higher the spend.” Incumbent online retailers including Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. began making their own mattresses, undercutting the others on price. Casper’s lowest-price queen mattress is listed on its website for $536. An Amazon-branded memory foam queen-sized mattress sells for $289. Casper Responds to the Competition Casper says that brand—and marketing spending—set it up well to play into a growing category it calls the “global sleep economy,” which includes everything from pillows to sheets to sleep-tracking devices to dog beds. It even launched a magazine devoted to sleep, wellness, and comfort. The company also is pushing a non-tech approach: expanding its retail store footprint, which it says is “complementary, not cannibalistic” to its online sales. Casper began opening stores in malls and hip retail strips, requiring new investment and employees. Then it started selling through other retailers too, including U.S. furniture chain Raymour & Flannigan, adding a middleman and the costs that come with it. Casper said its online sales have grown faster in cities with retail stores, suggesting they spur online growth too.
Bаsed оn the Cаsper cаse, which оf these items wоuld you hypothesize were included in their Cost Structure building block of the Business Model Canvas framework? Choose all that apply.
Bаsed оn the Cаsper cаse, which оf these items wоuld you hypothesize were included in their Customer Channel building block of the Business Model Canvas framework? Choose the best answer.