Dr. Pepper-Snapple Company Kim Hayes Deonta Samilton Jordan Narcisse Tori Wallar Professor Cary Accounting November 11, 2013 Section 2: Introduction Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group, Inc. 5301 Legacy Dr. Plano, TX 75024 Industry: Beverages (Non-Alcoholic) Sic Code: 2080- Beverages Major Products: Canada Dry (Ginger ale,) 7-up (lemon-lime,) A&W (Root beer,) Sunkist (Orange,) and Sun Drop (Citrus.) Competitors: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Stock exchange: 47.33 Ticker symbol: DPS
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CASE #1 DR. PEPPER SNAPPLE GROUP, INC. ENERGY BEVERAGES DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM: Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. is a major integrated brand owner, bottler, and distributor of non-alcoholic beverages in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Recently, Andrew Baker, brand manager for the company, has been tasked with formulating a marketing strategy to determine whether or not launching a new energy beverage would be profitable in 2008
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Pepper Snapple Group History Overview From the invention of the first soft drink more than 200 years ago to some of the industry's most beloved beverage brands, Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) has a proud legacy of innovation, bold and distinct flavors, and entrepreneurial spirit. On May 7, 2008, DPS became a stand-alone, publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange as the result of a spin-off by Cadbury, plc which held the Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages business group of entities
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According to the article, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group is one of the largest integrated brand owners, bottler, and distributor of nonalcoholic beverages. The company analysis highlights seven strengths that Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. possess, which include a strong portfolio of leading, an integrated business model, consumer-preferred brands, customer relationships, stable cash flows, manufacturing and distribution coverage, attractive positioning, and experienced management. In addition, they are
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Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.-Energy Beverages Teshia McSwain Columbia Southern Introduction Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.-Energy Beverages initiated its triumph in business back in 1983 offering some of the most well-known beverages. Like any other businesses, this company has extreme competitors including Coca Cola and Pepsi, among others. However, the company faces challenges with an absence for energy drinks among its products (Hitt et al. 2013). Not only does Dr. Pepper Snapple Group not
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Category: - Functional Drinks -> Drinks boost consumers energy, non-alcoholic drinks. o Other Functional Drinks: Teas, enhanced water drink, fruit and sports drinks, o Ingredients: vitamins, herbs, minerals, amino acids. ϖ DPSG -> Dr. Pepper Snapple Group participated in the CSD flavored carbonated soft drink US and Canada market segment. - Competitor: o Second Largest non-alcoholic drink category. First largest beverage: carbonated soft drinks, sport drinks, and bottled water. o Fastest
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stores in Greenwich Village under the brand name Snapple. By the late 1980s, their brand had achieved near-cult status on both coasts of the United States, with its iced teas particularly in demand. It had taken 15 years, they said, to become an overnight success. In 1994 Quaker bought Snapple for $1.7 billion. The vision had been to combine Snapple with Gatorade, an earlier and very successful acquisition, to form a powerful beverage business unit. Snapple, however, did not thrive: sales fell in each
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Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. Energy Beverages Author: Ravi Sockalingam, PhD Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.’s brand manager Andrew Barker was tasked with recommending the company’s top management if it should decide to introduce a new branded product into the energy beverage market. A brief overview of the company’s position Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. maintains a well-entrenched position in the flavored carbonated soft drink (CSD) market. In 2007 he held a market share of the US CSD
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Marketing Plan for Snapple Date: Dec. 5, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………….………………………………………….…….pg. 2 COMPANY DESCRIPTION…………………………………………………………pg. 3 STRATEGIC FOCUS AND PLAN…………………………….………………….....pg. 3 SITUATION ANALYSIS…………………………………...……………………..…pg. 5 MARKET-PRODUCT FOCUS…………………………………………………….…pg. 7 MARKETING PROGRAM……………………………………………..…………….pg. 8 FINANCIAL DATA AND PROJECTIONS……………………………...…………pg. 10 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE……………………………………………….pg. 11 IMPLEMENTATION…………………………………………
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MANAGEMENT Case No. 3 SNAPPLE: REVITALIZING A BRAND INTRODUCTION In the 1990s, Snapple Corporation was one of the leading “New Age” beverage brands when the category was just beginning to take off. With the combination of a unique product, package design, and quirky advertising, the company grew form a regional underground favorite toa nationally recognized brand. Snapple’s rise in the beverage industry was crowned in 1994, when the Quaker Oats Company purchased Snapple for $1.7 billion. Quaker
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