beverages. These include * Energy drinks and Sports Drinks * Fruit and Fruit juices * Soft Drinks * Tea and coffee * Water * Other drinks The external environment analysis shows that coca cola enjoys a competitive position across the industry due to high capital requirements and exit costs. It has an intense but healthy rivalry with Pepsi. The Pestel analysis shows a growing demand for healthier alternatives to carbonated drinks which Coca-Cola is now addressing. Through
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Background Created in 1886 by Dr. John Pemberton, Coca-Cola has gone through many changes, some good and some bad, but in the end has become the worldwide leader in its industry (Graham, 2011). The company boasts a lineup of approximately 500 different drinks, including soft drinks, teas, coffees, juices, and waters. Soft drinks are their “cash cow” with around two billion cans and bottles sold each day (Graham, 2011). The syrup originally was designed as a "cure-all tonic" and contained coca leaves
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market encompasses CSDs, bottled water, ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee and tea, fruit beverages, energy drinks and sports beverages. Based on sales, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper and Gatorade were the leading liquid refreshment beverage (LRB) brands in the United States in 2013. All five brands combined, held a market share of over 42 percent in the U.S. in 2013. Especially to be emphasized is the performance of the carbonated soft drink CocaCola, which accounted for a U.S. market share
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FMCG industry Overview Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) goods are all consumable items (other than groceries/pulses) that one needs to buy at regular intervals. These are items which are used daily, and so have a quick rate of consumption, and a high return. FMCG can broadly be categorized into three segments which are: Household items as soaps, detergents, household accessories, etc Personal care items as shampoos, toothpaste, shaving products, etc and finally Food and Beverages as snacks
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(Module Leader) Executive Summary: This assignment is all about the business ethics and ethical dilemma. I have taken a case of PepsiCo. It is a high brand company. When it was heavily criticized about pesticides in soft drink. PepsiCo has to take the decision whether to continuously earn profit and not think about the society, their customer who believes more of that company or to think what can be done under that issue to resolve it, taken as their morale values and
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nonalcoholic beverages exceed $300 billion per year. Sales growth slowed during the late 2000s economic recession, but global sales are expected to exceed $400 billion by 2015, according to MarketLine. Functional drinks and bottled water will drive much of the industry's growth. The largest soft drink and bottled water markets are North American, the EU, Japan, and Russia. Major nonalcoholic beverage manufacturers include Coca-Cola and PepsiCo (both headquartered in the US), Britvic (UK), Cott (Canada)
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the soft drink industry so profitable? An industry analysis through Porter’s Five Forces reveals that market forces are favorable for profitability. Defining the industry: Both concentrate producers (CP) and bottlers are profitable. These two parts of the industry are extremely interdependent, sharing costs in procurement, production, marketing and distribution. Many of their functions overlap; for instance, CPs do some bottling, and bottlers conduct many promotional activities. The industry is already
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Beverage Industry : An overview Beverages is a $230 million industry in India Industry is further classified as carbonated drinks, fruit drinks and energy drinks Indian soft drink market is expected to be the fastest growing global market Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are leaders in the soft drink segment Red Bull dominant in the energy drinks segment Beverage Industry : An overview Consumers have started to be more inclined towards healthier options Fruit Drinks segment
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searching through the soft drink industry and possibilities for Coca Cola in the market. With careful consideration I have analyzed the internal and external business environments and critically examined the industry in general, taking into consideration all the external threats and opportunities. Introduction The Coca Cola Company traces its beginning to 1886, when an Atlanta pharmacist, by the name of Dr. John Pemberton, when he began to produce a syrup for sale in fountain drinks by the name of
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Twenty-First Century For over a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola vied for “throat share” of the world’s beverage market. The most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $60-billion industry in the United States, where the average American consumed 53 gallons of carbonated soft drinks (CSD) per year. In a “carefully waged competitive struggle,” from 1975 to 1995 both Coke and Pepsi achieved average annual growth of around 10% as both U.S. and worldwide CSD consumption consistently
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