brands, and 22 of them, including Pepsi, Lays, and Gatorade, generate more than $1 billion each in revenues. Enlarge Graph A brief history of PepsiCo PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. At that time, Pepsi-Cola Company was manufacturing Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, and Mountain Dew. Frito-Lay’s products included Fritos corn chips, Lay’s potato chips, Cheetos cheese flavored snacks, Ruffles potato chips, and Rold Gold pretzels. PepsiCo grew bigger with
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clusive use at Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad (IMT,HYD), 2015 9-702-442 REV: JANUARY 27, 2004 DAVID B. YOFFIE Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century For over a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola vied for “throat share” of the world’s beverage market. The most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $60-billion industry in the United States, where the average American consumed 53 gallons of carbonated soft drinks (CSD) per year. In
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The Coca-Cola Company Introduction Coca-Cola is the world’s most recognized drinks brand, as a company they strive to satisfy every individual’s need of refreshment and nutrition. With more than 3,500 different brands of beverages, they are able to cater to a wide range of consumers in almost every target market and consumer category. For example, the health conscious will most probably grab a Coca-Cola Zero or Minute Maid that comes in a few fruity flavours, for others who prefer something tea-based
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Coca-Cola Inc. Financial Analysis & Valuation Table of Content Executive Summary and Financial Inputs 2 5 Force Analysis 3 Strategies to Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage 3 Accounting Analysis 5 Ratio Analysis 5 Executive Summary In our analysis of Coca-Cola Inc., we estimate an Enterprise Value of $71.3B and an Equity Value of $60.9B, or a value per common share of $25.16. Given the current share price of $44.28, our recommendation
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Brand Image in Cola Drinks CASE:Future Cola of Wahaha Group Co.Ltd,China Sun, Jianfei 2010 Laurea Leppävaara Laurea University of Applied Sciences Laurea Leppävaara Brand Image in Cola Drinks CASE: Future Cola of Wahaha Group Co.Ltd,China Jianfei Sun Degree Programme in Business Management Thesis April, 2010 Laurea University of Applied Sciences Laurea Leppävaara Degree Programme in Business Management International Business-to-Business Marketing Abstract Jianfei Sun Brand
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The strengths of The Coca-Cola Company’s Dasani brand include its availability and convenience, prominence of the parent company, geographic coverage, financial stability, assets, distribution channels, and image of social responsibility. Dasani’s availability and convenience stems from the fact that the brand is virtually in every supermarket, convenience store and vending machine. Consumers are bombarded with the brand, which makes it very recognizable and well known. Its
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1886 by Dr. John Pemberton, Coca-Cola has gone through many changes, some good and some bad, but in the end has become the worldwide leader in its industry (Graham, 2011). The company boasts a lineup of approximately 500 different drinks, including soft drinks, teas, coffees, juices, and waters. Soft drinks are their “cash cow” with around two billion cans and bottles sold each day (Graham, 2011). The syrup originally was designed as a "cure-all tonic" and contained coca leaves (Davis, 2004). Two years
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Bahria University Department of Management Sciences MBA Program Strategic Management (Sm) Report on “Strategic Management of Coca Cola Company” PRESENTED TO: Sir Naveed m khan PRESENTED BY: * RAFIA ALAM * Irsa afzal * Saira Urf Sana * Sana Anjum * Hina Majeed MBA-6A Dated: 22nd May, 2013 Acknowledgement We have the pearl of our eyes to admire blessing of the compassionate and omnipotent because the words are bound, knowledge is limited and time is short
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Coca-Cola Company came up with the idea of launching the new product through the people survey. In India most of the people are fruit lovers. In that many of the people likes the grape flavor. So the Company decided to introduce the new flavor which is named as pulpy grape. Already the Coca-Cola Company implemented many flavors like Maaza, Thums up, Kinley, pulpy orange and so on. Now the company wanted to introduce the pulpy grape which is in the grape flavor
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2011 Due Diligence Report The Coca-Cola Company AC 600 Professor: John Kocikowski Keller Graduate School of Management 10/30/2011 Table of Contents Industry Overview 3 Corporate Overview 5 Organization and General Corporate Issues 6 Treasury 8 References 14 Executive Summary The diversity at the Coca-Cola Company is evident with their presence in more than 200 counties. They feel that they are empowered within their business structure as well as the communities they serve
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