Dr Pepper Snapple Group is the No.1 flavored carbonated soft drink (CSD) company in the Americas and a leading innovator and marketer of functional/non-carbonated beverages. DPS serves consumers throughout North America via a broad and flexible route to market. This includes a combination of direct store delivery and warehouse delivery capabilities supported by our 21 manufacturing centers, more than 115 distribution centers and approximately 19,000 employees across North America, in addition to
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Founders Tom Scott and Tom First opened Allserve, a minimart on the water, which catered to boats and other water vessels in the Nantucket Harbour. They began serving the Nantucket Harbour area during the summer vacation in college. Their first product was released after graduation in 1990, and consisted of a recreated peach fruit drink. In fact, the product was first founded in Spain during Tom’s travels, and was thought of as a way to make extra money while abroad. Everyone admired the product
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and retail outlets via its bottle network in the carbonated drink aisle and independent food broker and warehouse networks in the juice aisle, and lastly Cadbury Schweppes, PLC (Kerin, 2007). In 2004, three Cadbury Schweppes, PLC business units—Dr Pepper/Seven Up; Snapple Beverage Group; and Mott’s—integrated to form Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (Kerin, 2007). At the time, the Hawaiian Punch line consisted of 11 flavors and packaging included a 1-gallon bottle, a half-gallon bottle, a
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Cadubry Beverages Inc. Crush Brand #3 Company History * The company has the distincition of being the worlds first soft drink maker * It first started in London in 1783 where Jacob Schweppe sold artifical minderal water * After introducing many other products inclduing water, lemonade, gingerale, and food products they merged with Cadbury a major British candy maker in 1969 * 1989 one of largest multinational firms and ranked 457th in BusinessWeek’s Global 100 * in 1989 the
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Outside the automotive and two-wheeled motor vehicle industries, the Naza Group is an established player in the property development market through its subsidiary, Naza TTDI, which is best-known for the development of the acclaimed township of Taman Tun Dr Ismail in Kuala Lumpur. To-date, Naza TTDI has completed over 14,000 residential and commercial units and is currently developing the
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NANTUCKET NECTARS IMPERATIVES FOR GROWTH - Access to larger distribution network with greater emphasis on the supermarket segment. - Access to new markets. Geographical expansion into the Midwest and West regions of the US, these areas currently account for only 9% of sales. - Reduction in cost structure, gross margins are currently at 34%. SWOT ANALYSIS Strength Nantucket Nectars have a unique all natural product line-up. They have a strong management team who has developed a strong brand
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combination of both companies can lead to economies of scale by producing both companies’ products in the same manufacturing facilities. Cadburys has a history of creating cost synergies for their newly acquired firms as shown by the acquisition of Dr. Pepper and 7-Up in 1995, this experience will be vital in the consolidation process of the two firms. This will lead to ingredients being sourced in the country in which it is being
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Harvard Business School 9-898-171 Rev. December 11, 2000 Nantucket Nectars Well, we knew we were in an interesting position. We had five companies express interest in acquiring a portion of the company. Sometimes you have to laugh about how things occur. Tropicana (Seagram) and Ocean Spray became interested in us after reading an article in Brandweek magazine that erroneously reported that Triarc was in negotiations to buy us. (See Exhibit 1 for a copy of this article.) At the time, we
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MARKETING PROBLEM DEFINITION Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc, encouraged by its long-lasting history, experience, and favorable market conditions has decided to enter a new market segment, launch energy drink beverage and they are facing several dilemmas. A thorough analysis of company’s internal conditions, industry facts, market conditions and trends, is needed in order to develop possible alternatives, realize the possible outcomes of those alternatives, and finally to choose the most convenient
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, duality is the main theme. Stevenson explores the concept of duality with the setting, events that take place throughout the story and this character’s dialogue. William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, also demonstrates the inherent duality of the world. The dualities in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consist of the duality of human nature and the duality of society; Romeo and Juliet ties in with some of these dualities. Dr. Jekyll, a character
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