variety of still beverages such as waters, enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, ready-to-drink teas and coffees, and energy and sports drinks. They own and market four of the world's top five non-alcoholic sparkling beverage brands: Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. Finished beverage products bearing their trademarks, sold in the United States since 1886, are now sold in more than 200 countries. They make branded beverage products available to consumers throughout the world through the network
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Inputs 12 Importance of Volume to Supplier 13 Impact of Input on Cost or Differentiation 13 Threat of Backward or Forward Integration 13 Access to Capital 14 Access to Labor 14 Summary of Suppliers 14 Buyers 15 Buyer Concentration versus Industry Concentration 15 Buyer Volume 15 Buyer Switching Cost 15 Buyer Information 16 Threat of Backward Integration 16 Pull Through 16 Brand Identity of Buyers 17 Price Sensitivity 17 Impact on Quality and Performance
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for the competition to enter the soft drink market include: • Bottling Network: Both Coke and PepsiCo have franchisee agreements with their existing bottler’s who have rights in a certain geographic area in perpetuity. These agreements prohibit bottler’s from taking on new competing brands for similar products. Also with the recent consolidation among the bottler’s and the backward integration with both Coke and Pepsi buying significant percent of bottling companies, it is very difficult for a
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Running head: Cola Wars1 Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century University of Redlands Deborah Bedgood-Ealy Professor Richard Doyle March 12, 2015 Coca-Cola and Pepsi function in the soft drink industry as dominating players and have remained market leaders for a long time. The key competencies of Coke and Pepsi range from the product, supply chain and distribution, marketing and customer loyalty. Each of them has developed operating procedure. The supply chain
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difficult for the competition to enter the soft drink market include: • Bottling Network: Both Coke and PepsiCo have franchisee agreements with their existing bottlers who have rights in a certain geographic area in perpetuity. These agreements prohibit bottler’s from taking on new competing brands for similar products. Also with the recent consolidation among the bottler’s and the backward integration with both Coke and Pepsi buying significant percent of bottling companies, it is very difficult for a firm
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for the competition to enter the soft drink market include: * Bottling Network: Both Coke and PepsiCo have franchisee agreements with their existing bottler’s who have rights in a certain geographic area in perpetuity. These agreements prohibit bottler’s from taking on new competing brands for similar products. Also with the recent consolidation among the bottler’s and the backward integration with both Coke and Pepsi buying significant percent of bottling companies, it is very difficult for a
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Threat of a new entry is considerably low in today’s soft drink market. In the initial stages of the industry, Coca-cola was the dominant leader of the market, and then new entrant Pepsi made a huge impact on sales and profits of Coke. But, today Cola-Wars between Coke and Pepsi are so dominant, that possible threat of a new entrant is relatively low. The several factors that make it difficult for the new companies to enter the soft drink market include: 1. Role of bottlers: * Bottlers
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high fructose corn syrup to the concentrate, bottle or can, package and ship it food stores, fountain outlets, vending machines, convenience stores, and other outlet. Recently, both Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. have pursued a strategic plan of backwards integration, consolidating their bottlers into one company. Summarizing on the supply chain and competitive nature of this industry, profitability mainly arises due to the short supply chain, low material costs, low fixed costs, efficient supplier/distributor
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The article focuses on the main aspects of Ansoff analysis. The four strategic options entailed in the Ansoff matrix are discussed along with the risks inherent with each option. The article includes tips for students and analysts on how to write a good Ansoff analysis for a firm. Moreover, sources of findings information for Ansoff analysis have been discussed. The limitations of Ansoff analysis as a strategic model have also been discussed. Introduction The Ansoff matrix presents the product
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Buyers * Large and powerful companies (Coke, Pepsi, Campbell etc) – bulk buyers offering long production runs * Expect just-in-time inventory, superior service * Knoweledgeable about cost to manufacture cans – negotiation strength – expect savings on can cost to add to bottom line * Backward integration possibility Substitutes xxx * Many low cost substitutes for metal containers available: glass, plastic, paper, fiberfoil, paper and plastic combinations, etc. * Posing
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