management of Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola in an effort to make recommendations on how Pepsi Cola can build strategies in gaining a larger share of the market. The assessment of strategic management begins with the vision and mission of both organizations, which leads into literature review that identifies the consumer preferences of both Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola. Following the literature review is the teams’ own personal assessment of consumer preferences for the Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola brand (Please refer
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2012 THE COCA COLA COMPANY l Porter's Five Forces Model 1. Competitive Rivalry within an Industry Coke has nearly 50% share of the global carbonated soft-drink industry and over 80% in many markets. The market share of other competitors is too low to encourage any price wars. Cola-Cola gets one of its competitive advantages through the well-known global trade marks by achieving the premium prices. It means Cola-Cola have something that their competitors do not have. Coke appears to have
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marketing principles and this assignment has considered Coca cola, a company which is in the soft drinks industry as the base. This includes evaluation of benefits and costs of a company being market oriented and the deviation from its core activities. Further this discusses the micro and macro factors that affect Coca cola and how the marketing decisions should be taken considering these factors. The segmentation aspect which is adopted in Coca cola is discussed here. And effective strategies adopted in
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Cola Wars Continue Coke vs Pepsi in 2010 Submitted by: Dinesh MR (13141) Submitted to: Prof. NR Govinda Sharma Case Description Carbonated soft drinks (CSD’s) are popular drinks constituting very attractive and profitable business for more than a century. This business is capital intensive and was and still dominated for long period by few giants who had patent rights and who gained very high brand recognition over the years. The competition between Coca Cola and Pepsi was very aggressive
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ratio suggests investor's confidence in the future growth prospects of the company and Pepsico has the highest P/E ratio as compared to its major competitors in the sparkling soda industry including Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper. Even though it can be interpreted that PEP has lagged behind Coca-Cola over the years in US market but it is very important to understand that the majority of PepsiCo's revenues do not come from carbonated soft drinks.In fact, beverages account for less than 50% of total revenue
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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 a “carefully waged competitive struggle,” from 1975 to 1995 both Coke and Pepsi achieved average annual
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he case of Coke and Pepsi in India is a lesson that all marketers can observe, analyze and learn from, since it involves so many marketing aspects that are essential for all marketers to take into consideration. Both companies had many difficulties, especially Coca-Cola, and it's useful to observe how it dealt with the different aspects, stating from the political environment of the Indian market and the trade barriers it faced, going through the market entry and penetration strategies considered
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The Coca-Cola Project Role of e-commerce Coca Cola Co uses business to business or B2B. Electronic commerce has fast become a preferred method of doing business for the grocery industry. Major retailers have seen the rewards of enhanced supply chain efficiency and increased business automation. As a result, more major consumer goods companies are starting to use the Internet to do business with retailers. Therefore, Coca Cola being an important SUPPLIER, needs to provide its customers with a
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Coca cola The concept of system thinking is “the process of understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole. In an organisation systems consist of people, structures, and processes that work together to make an organisation healthy or unhealthy”.(Ideasresearch, Systems Thinking, viewed 5 September 2012, http://youtu.be/pEIXE9DI9e4.) System thinking is useful to global supply chains because it is an approach to problem solving, by viewing “problems” as parts of
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