automobile loan is $375. What is Louise’s debt payments-to-income ratio? Is Louise living within her means? (LO 5.3) Louise’s Gross Income = $3‚000 Less: Income taxes = -700 Less: Social Security Tax = -250 Less: IRA contribution = -100 Net take-home pay = $1‚950 Her monthly payments on VISA‚ MasterCard‚ and a car loan add up to $500 per month. Louise’s debt payments to income ratio is 500 to 1‚950‚ or 25.6 percent. This ratio exceeds the recommended 20 percent figure
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Case Study: Coke Zero I highly agree with the statement that “companies should develop products what will bring new customers into market rather than just creating variants on the old” (Lamb et al. 289) because when old products failed‚ it is an opportunity for the company to invest in different market segments— “a subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product needs” (Lamb et al. 261)—that could potentially increase additional consumers
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Deception with Purpose: Pepsico’s Water Claims in India By India Resource Center and Community Resource Centre November 30‚ 2011 Pepsico‚ one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world‚ has begun claiming that it has achieved "positive water balance" in India‚ that it is "Giving Back MORE WATER Than We Take". Wonderful as it may sound‚ Pepsico’s claims of achieving "positive water balance" simply do not add up. The India Resource Center approached Pepsico in 2010 to question them
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Soft drinks in India is a INR 11‚000 Crore industry1. The rising mercury levels have ensured that the Indian soft drinks industry is going through a healthy phase wherein‚ it registered an impressive growth of 24.6% in the year 2011/12. Carbonates had a growth of 13.6% growth‚ Bottled water saw an incredible 34.3% growth‚ Fruits and vegetable juices registered a growth of 29.7%‚ Sports and energy drinks saw a growth of 17.2%. PepsiCo operates in these product lines and the impressive growth numbers
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Recently‚ I found myself standing in line waiting to get a sandwich at Dutch‚ when I looked through the ever-so-perfectly placed drinks cooler...and what did I see? Coke and Coke Zero‚ the original and the supposed ’clone.’ Now‚ naturally being an extremely inquisitive person‚ I decided it was time to do an experiment. I grabbed one of each and about 10 of those little water cups and went over to the completely unsuspecting group I had come with. Little did they know‚ they were about to be a part
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direct and indirect employment 1‚50‚000people (including suppliers and distributors) BEVERAGES Pepsi‚ 7UP‚ Mirinda‚Mt. Dew and DietPepsi HYDRATINGAND NUTRITIONAL BEVERAGES Aquafina ISOTONIC SPORTS DRINKS Gatorade JUICE BASED DRINKS Tropicana100%‚ Tropicana Nectars‚Tropicana Twisters and Slice LOCAL BRANDS Lehar Evervess Soda and DukesLemonade Manufacturer Sponsored Retail Franchisee Pepsi Co licenses bottlers in various markets that buy its syrup concentrate. These bottlers then
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receivable turnover for 2008. 4) Days sales in receivable for 2008. 5) Inventory turnover for 2008. 6) Days inventory on hand for 2008. 7) Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents from 2007 to 2008. 8) Asset turnover ratio for 2008. 9) Working capital at the end of 2008. 10) Current ratio at the end of 2008. 11) Debt (excluding “deferred income taxes”) to total assets at the end of 2008. 12) Book value per share at the end of 2008. (Hint: Use the value reported for “common shareholders’
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in Purchase‚ Harrison‚ New York‚ withinterests in the manufacturing‚ marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods‚ beverages‚ and other products. PepsiCo was formedin 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay‚ Inc.PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to abroader range of food and beverage brands‚ the largest of which includean acquisition of Tropicana in 1998 and a merger with Quaker Oats in2001 - which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio as well
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Cash or Not? Whether or not cash should be eliminated is a big debate in our world today. Cash should not be eliminated to provide for safer control of your money. Without cash‚ plenty of problems appear like acts of crime‚ not having banking connections‚ and having your personal information on record. To start off with‚ criminals and hacking progress as technology does. In the Upfront magazine article called "The End of Cash"‚ the author says‚ "Security experts worry‚ for example‚ that hackers could
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Company Name: PEPSI Date of Submission: 7th December 2010. Submitted By: Group-Luminous. Name I.D. Farhana Akhter 0941 Al-Batul-Sabera 08530160 Sharmila Rani Dus 0941 Mahmuda 0941 Md.Hanif Miah 0941 H.M.Enayet Karim 08510140 Submitted To: Ms. Rahma Akhter. Lecturer of U.I.T.S School of Business. Term Paper ON Marketing Plan "Every Pepsi Refreshes the
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