COCA COLA COMPANY Research Project For ACC 412 Presented to: Overview of Coca-Cola Leading the beverage industry for the third consecutive year‚ Coca-Cola‚ a common household name known around the world‚ climbs to the 4th spot in Fortune’s 50 Most Admired Companies in the world for year 2012. When it comes to a refreshing cold soda‚ who does not know of Coca-Cola? The company was established in 1886 in Atlanta‚ Georgia at the Jacobs’ Pharmacy soda fountain by pharmacist
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Questionable practices. Soda companies have recently come under scrutiny by using large amounts of sugars and fats in their products. Some companies have also been investigated for using pesticides in their products. 4. Weak brand awareness. Coca Cola has the largest market share out of all the soda giants. Opportunities: 1. Growing beverages and snacks consumption in emerging markets. These companies in turn will be less reliant on the US market. 2. Increasing demand for healthy food
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RUNNING HEAD:FACTORS IN THE EXTERNAL ENVIROMENTS Cardinal Stritch University MGT 499 May 16‚ 2012 Factors in the External Environments Geraldine Rodgers First we must describe a good Organizational Leaders; most good leaders are very controlled in the pursuit of their goals. Where most individuals would be simply distracted or dejected‚ good leaders discipline their minds to keep focused and steady regardless of the situation at hand. Leadership
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Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. The most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $74 billion CSD industry in the United States‚ where the average American consumes 46 gallons of CSD per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle‚" from 1975 to the mid-1990s‚ both Coke and Pepsi had achieved average annual growth of around 10%‚ as both U.S. and worldwide CSD consumption consistently rose. However‚ starting
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= 7.75 ÷ 4.5 = 1.723 The beta for Coca Cola Company is 1.723(www.pcquote.com/stocks/).Beta measures the unsystematic risk of a firm under analysis. Beta can be derived from sensitivity analysis. This beta can increase the risk of investor’s portfolio as it is more than 1 as compares to the market risk. Beta measures the responsiveness of the returns in the market. The higher the beta the aggressive the share prices(Wood‚Donald‚2000). The beta of the Coca cola company is higher and the market is
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The Coca Cola and Pepsi War 1. Why is the soft drink industry so profitable? * The soft drink industry remains profitable because of the market share based on Porters Five Forces. * Coke has protected its recipe for over a hundred years as a trade secret‚ and has gone to great lengths to prevent others from learning its cola formula. The company even left a billion-person market (India) to avoid revealing this information. As a result of extended histories and successful advertising
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with its namesake beverage‚ Pepsi-Cola‚ invented by a pharmacist named Caleb Bradham in 1898 in New Bern‚ North Carolina. With its main ingredients pepsin and kola nuts‚ Pepsi-Cola offered a refreshing drink that was healthy and capable of aiding in digestion brought about by the pepsin enzyme found in the soda. Well received by the public‚ Pepsi Cola was soon patented in 1902 and was readily available throughout 24 states in America by 1910. In 1935‚ the Pepsi-Cola Company founded by Caleb Bradham
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Coca-Cola Dividend Policy The definition of dividend is as follows: A dividend is the distribution or sharing of parts of profits to a company ’s shareholders. Now the question is why do companies pay dividends to it s shareholders? Because it’s the shareholders that are the real owners of the corporation and one would not own a piece of anything unless it would make money for them. So in turn a company wants to pay dividends to keep the shareholders happy and show that they are being profitable
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Developing The Marketing Mix The marketing mix is probably the most crucial stage of the marketing planning process. This is where the marketing tactics for each product are determined. The marketing mix refers to the combination of the four factors(price‚ promotion‚ product‚ place) that make up the core of a business’s marketing strategy. In this step of the marketing planning process‚ marketing mix must be designed to satisfy the wants of target markets and achieve the marketing objectives
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chapter 6: Planning capacity Capacity the maximum rate of output of a process or a system. Acquisition of new capacity requires extensive planning‚ and often involves significant expenditure of resources and time. Capacity decisions must be made in light of several long-term issues such as the firm’s economies and diseconomies of scale‚ capacity cushions‚ timing and sizing strategies‚ and trade-offs between customer service and capacity utilization. Planning capacity across the organization
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