Marketing decisions are very important to the success of any firm. Today marketing has many dimensions. Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola Companies have chosen to be socially conscious through their marketing efforts to improve its positive effects on society and reduce it negative effects through the way they manage brands, marketing strategy, positioning strategies and how they market to their consumers while striving for prosperity.
How Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola Company does advances and manages its brand?
According to Ahmet, C Bozer, president of the Coca-Cola Company’s Eurasia and Africa Group, states in the article, “How Coca-Cola Manages 90 Emerging Markets” that Coca Cola advances and manages its brand by finding the right mix. Coca Cola is a global company, therefore, it is important the brand is relevant locally also. To do this is to treat each country differently, while keeping and communicating the same message and brand architecture (www.coca cola.com). Pepsi Cola’s plan for how the company advances and manages its brand, is similar to Coca Cola, in that Pepsi Cola is also global and maintaining relevance locally and globally in products that appeal to local tastes and needs, and also working with local supply chain and encouraging people to live balance and healthy lives (www.Pepsi Cola.com).
Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola Company marketing strategy
In reading the 60 marketer, Coke vs. Pepsi: Why Coke is a More Valuable Brand than Pepsi, the founder, Jamie Turner states that when you think about Coke you think of more grounded traditions, like America, red, white and blue and Cokes original song, “I’d like to teach the world to sing” and in thinking about Pepsi, one thinks about trends like, Michael Jackson and the new generation. In reading the article, Coke’s marketing strategy is aimed at adults and Pepsi’s marketing strategy is aimed towards kids, the “new