best illustrated by the "Cola Wars" - the marketing fight betweenPepsi and Coca-Cola, which lasted most of the 1970s and 1980s. The soft drink rivalry pushed Coca-Cola Co. to make one of the most famousmarketing blunders in financial history. In the process of creating Diet Coke,the company's chemists discovered a new formulation for Coke. The newconcoction was sweeter and smoother than the century-old formula uponwhich Coke had been built. In fact, it was similar to Pepsi - the drink that waseating
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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 sustainable scale advantages over its competition
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Market Research Proposal ‐ PepsiCo Is PepsiCo Healthy? Team 5: Ilaria Caputo Aneesha Duga Marga Galmes Daria Ilgen Jean‐Loup Senski EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The proposed research aims to measure the PepsiCo brand’s consumer perception as “healthy” within the North American market and to analyze the results in order to gather data to generate recommendations on the strategic marketing of the company. The research will survey a sample of 1,000 people in the US different by age
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brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand. Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century. The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the
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Competitive Strategies Coca Cola vs. Pepsi By Mohammed Hashim Professor Dr. Phyllis Parise Contemporary Business May 05, 2013 Coca Cola and Pepsi Company are two of the largest producers and distributors of beverage in the world. They manufacture, markets and sells variety of carbonated, non-alcohol beverages. They continued to lead the industry with their commitment to healthier food and maintaining the high quality of their beverages. Pepsi and Coca Cola has been known to have history of competition
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COLA WARS: GOING GLOBAL 1. Reading synthesis The Harvard Review article discuss how the 2 most successful cola companies, Coca Cola and Pepsico, had been struggling in the market since they started their operations. The interesting part is how it explained how each one of the companies developed their market in different countries. In this case, it explained the companies history in Mexico, China and India. What I think is more important to understand is that each country has different
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Market Research Proposal ‐ PepsiCo Is PepsiCo Healthy? Team 5: Ilaria Caputo Aneesha Duga Marga Galmes Daria Ilgen Jean‐Loup Senski EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The proposed research aims to measure the PepsiCo brand’s consumer perception as “healthy” within the North American market and to analyze the results in order to gather data to generate recommendations on the strategic marketing of the company. The research will survey a sample of 1,000 people in the US different by age
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For over a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi- Cola vied for “throat share” of the world’s beverage market. In a “ carefully-waged competitive struggle”, from 1975 to 1995, both Coke and Pepsi achieved annual growth of around 10%; this was largely attributed to the effectiveness of their marketing efforts. Analyzing the environment and understanding the market Instead of engaging in a “head-on confrontation” and getting involved in the largely dreaded price wars that promise to inflict much impact
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Muhtar Kent. Coca Cola (the drink) Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries.[1] It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke (a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27,
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country had stopped selling Coca-Cola3 and only six weeks into his new role as CEO, Gupta was embroiled in a crisis that threatened the momentum gained from a highly successful two-year marketing campaign that had given Coca-Cola market leadership over Pepsi. On August 5th, The Center for Science and Environment (CSE), an activist group in India focused on environmental sustainability issues (specifically the effects of industrialization and economic growth) issued a press release stating: "12 major cold
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