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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Environment MIRBIS Exchange Student, Sweden 2011-05-16 Cola Wars; Going global 1. Compare and analyse market strategies of Coca Cola and Pepsi in the following ways; Country Market entry strategy China Coke used a three-step strategy where the first sold concentrate to franschised Chinese bottle-owners who were fully responsible for production and distribution. This step made Coke their name in China. In the second step Coke bought shares in the bottling business to reduce the effect
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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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Coca-Cola This is 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
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Coke vs Pepsi 5-Forces Industry Analysis Barriers to Entry – Medium There are low capital requirements. This is because the concentrate producers outsource their bottling. Hereby they don’t need to build expensive plants or worry about economies of scale. “The CSDs manufacturing process involved relatively little capital investment in machinery, overhead, or labor.” Consumers have no switching costs. They can easily switch to another brand without experiencing costs. The CSDs manufactures are
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Cola Wars Strategy Case Analysis Executive Summary: Together, Pepsi and Coke have historically dominated the carbonated soft drink (CSD) market while competing fiercely with each other for market share in the U.S. Until the late 1990s, CSD consumption in the U.S. grew at a healthy annual rate of 3% - 7%, and both Coke and Pepsi were able to prosper. However, largely due to health issues related to the consumption of soft drinks, consumption of CSDs in the U.S. has been declining since the
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200 countries. Pepsi co is really a leader when it comes to convenience foods and drinks but it always come second best. It always comes behind Coca- cola, which is the world leader in soft drink. In 2006 Pepsi co was the world leader in this market we will study what strategy they used to be able to determine what is the problem since 2006 . Analysis of the problem. Problem Analysis. On December 12, 2005, for the first time in the rivalry of over a century, PepsiCo (Pepsi) surpassed its biggest
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113593 Salma Rakha 112877 Yasmine Mokhtar Yehya Tarek Salem Mady Outline: 1. Coca Cola Background 2. 7 P's 3. Market PESTEL analysis (Egypt) 4. SWOT analysis (Egypt) 5. Competition Analysis 6. Consumer Targeting, Segmentation, Positioning & Differentiation 7. Brief Marketing Plan 8. Creating value for customers and building customer relationships The Coca-Cola Company It is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and
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Coca-Cola India On August 20, 2003 Sanjiv Gupta, President and CEO of Coca-Cola India, sat in his office contemplating the events of the last two weeks and debating his next move. Sales had dropped by 30-40%1 in only two weeks on the heels of a 75% five-year growth trajectory and 25-30%2 year-to-date growth. Many leading clubs, retailers, restaurants, and college campuses across the country had stopped selling Coca-Cola3 and only six weeks into his new role as CEO, Gupta was embroiled in a crisis
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Assignment 1 The Coca Cola Company is a multinational corporation with a portfolio of more than 3,500 beverages, from diet and regular sparkling beverages to still beverages such as 100 percent fruit juices and fruit drinks, waters, sports and energy drinks, teas and coffees, and milk-and soy-based beverages which are sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. Based on Interbrand's best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand. Originally
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