This report is based upon the information from the Harvard business case: “Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century”. Both Coca Cola Company and PepsiCo are the largest players in the Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD) industry. The purpose of this report is to gain insight into the possible strategies that can be applied, in order to expand the overall throat share in the future. History revealed that a highly competitive strategy that was utilized in the past by both companies resulted
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popularly associated with its flagship product Pepsi Cola. While Pepsi Cola is a sizable portion of PepsiCo’s revenue stream, PepsiCo actually has significant revenue generated from a slew of other products and divisions such as PepsiCo Beverages North America, PepsiCo International, Frito-Lay and Quaker Foods North America (Overview, 2005). PepsiCo’s Pepsi Cola has long been second in market share to Coca-Cola and the competition between Pepsi and Coke has been the stuff of business school legend
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Through the world’s largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company’s beverages at a rate of 1.6 billion servings a day. Their product portfolio includes sparkling beverages such as Coca-Cola®, Coke Zero™, Diet Coke®, Sprite® and Fanta®, and still beverages, such as juice and juice drinks, waters, enhanced water, sports and energy drinks, teas, coffees, dairy and soy-based drinks, and beverages with added nutritional benefits. The Coca-Cola Company, along
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Marketing Communication of Pepsi & Coca Cola in Pakistan! Muhammad Kashif Omer Malik 840310-P655 E-mail: m_04119_omer@hotmail.com Tutor: Leif Linnskog Date: 01 Sep 2008 Marketing Communication of Pepsi & Coca Cola in Pakistan 2008 Extracts Date Author 01 September 2008 Muhammad Kashif Omer Malik Qilah Lachman Sing, Ravi Road, Lahore, Pakistan. m_04119_omer@hotmail.com +923214912558 Master level thesis in Business Administration (15 ECTS) Marketing Communication of Pepsi and Coca Cola in Pakistan
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Jennifer DuBois Professor: Malick Diarrassouba Module 3 final Project The beverage industry has undergone profane changes as health awareness among consumers has been on the rise. In the current challenging conditions for the beverage industry, PepsiCo has been taking aggressive steps to cut costs to support long-term earnings growth and reinvest savings in their business. As the company faces growing concerns in the carbonated beverage industry because of growing health awareness and obesity concerns
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beverage company which manufactures beverage concentrates and syrup to their franchised bottlers who make and deliver the final bottle drink to the market. The Coca-Cola Company was established in 1892 by Asa Candler. Besides the main product Coca-Cola coke, the company currently produces over 500 brands of other beverages and sells to more than 200 countries all over the world. Coca-Cola’s mission is to refresh the world, inspire moments of optimism and happiness and to create and make a difference.
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to have a comfort drink to satisfy thirst. In Vietnam, Pepsi and Coca Cola took large amount of market share in beverage industry, applying consumer buyer decision process will help them a part in purchasing battle. * As usual buying decision process will cover through 5 steps. However, buying Pepsi does not need that much. Before any purchasing decision was make, the need awareness definitely appear first. Commonly, people will drink Pepsi when thirsty, be invited, habitual, etc (need recognition)
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saw tremendous growth in the United States Markets increasing from 20.3 gallons per capita consumed in 1965 to 40.1 gallons per capita consumed in 1982; This explosion in growth led to the era of what has become known in the industry as the “Cola Wars.” As the consumer trended towards becoming more health conscious, the diet cola segment represented a significant opportunity for growth in the industry and companies were scrambling to understand how to position themselves for a competitive advantage
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I. Introduction Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been competitors for over a century, but their fiercest competition has risen out of the fight to gain an advantage in the carbonated soft drink (CSD) industry, specifically in the United States. In the beginning, the competition yielded benefits for both firms. They were constantly trying to keep up with the other, which proved to be a mutually beneficial relationship. However, following the end of the millennium, US CSD consumption began to decline.
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Previous Post - Next Post » Coke vs. Pepsi The Dilemma: You’re at a restaurant. You’ve specifically asked for a Coke when you get handed a Pepsi, or vice versa. You tell the waiter what you requested, and he gives you the “What’s the difference?” shrug. Perhaps it’s time you laid it on him. People You Can Impress: “Impressed” probably doesn’t accurately reflect the aforementioned waiter’s likely response. The Quick Trick: If you drink them side by side, Pepsi is the sweeter of the two (which
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