CASE: Coca Cola- The Strategy and Structure of International Business Coca Cola‚ the iconic American soda maker‚ has long been one of the most international of enterprises. The company made its’ first move outside the USA in 1902‚ when it entered Cuba. By 1929‚ coke was marketed in 76 counties around the world. In World War 2‚ Coke struck a deal to supply the US military with Coca Cola wherever in the world it went. During this era‚ the company built 63 bottling plants around the world. Its global
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Many U.S. citizens are practicing healthier lifestyles. This has affected the non-alcoholic beverage industry in that many are switching to bottled water and diet colas instead of beer and other alcoholic beverages. Also‚ time management has increased and is at approximately 43% of all households. (http://www.cdf-mn.org). The need for bottled water and other more convenient and healthy products are in important in the average day-to-day life. Consumers from the ages of 37 to 55 are also increasingly
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COCA-COLA COMPANY: • Coke was first created in Atlanta. It is an American Multinational‚ offering 500 brands in 200 countries with over 3500 products worldwide. • Coke’s slogan: OPEN HAPPINESS It represents the power of optimism and positive thinking. It is “happiness in a bottle”‚ it connects people and it brings out the best in the human spirit. • MUSEUM: Coca-Cola is the only brand in the world to have an entire museum that showcases its history‚ current reality and future possibility. The
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Starting with their differences in organizational structure implementation‚ Coca-Cola Company adopts the Mechanical Structure which is rigid‚ highly centralised and departmentalised and centralised decision making while Google Inc. practices the Organic Structure which is flexible‚ has low formalisation and departmentalisation and its decision making is decentralised. Based on what is said above‚ we can assume that Coca-Cola Company practices the classical structure of divisional organization while
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In microeconomics and strategic Management‚ the term horizontal integration describes a type of ownership and control. It is a strategy used by business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets. Horizontal integration in marketing is much more common than vertical integration is in production. Horizontal integration occurs when a firm is being taken over by‚ or merged with‚ another firm which is in the same industry and in the same stage of production as the merged
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Promotion Coca cola follows a 5 lesson guide in marketing their products‚ these steps are: 1. Create Liquid content by creating liquid content is to ‘create’ ideas so ingenious that it attracts people and how it does will just flow as like a liquid‚ thus named ‘liquid content’. eg: this content must be able to beg people to want to share it with others‚ making viral on the internet such as on social media platforms‚ etc. it can be anything from an image to a video even an article of the
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Academic Task Title: Date of Allotment: 01/03/2014 Date of submission: 22/03/2014 Student’s Roll no: A-06 Student’s Reg. no: 11013293 Student’s Name: Sajad Ahmad Dar Topic: Coca Cola Learning Outcomes: (Student to write briefly about leanings obtained from the academic tasks) Declaration: I declare that this Assignment is my individual work. I have not copied it from any other student’s work or from any other source except
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APPENDICES Appendix1: History Of Coca-Cola The world’s most recognized trademark in the World! It is recognized by 94% of the world’s population. The world has changed in many ways since pharmacist‚ John Styth Pemberton first introduced the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola in Atlanta‚ Georgia. However‚ the pure and simple magic of one thing remains the same - Coca-Cola. The name and the product mean so many things to hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe. Coca-Cola products are served more than
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Coca Cola Co. Soft drink companies around the world compete for the public’s interest in their beverages. These companies spend million s of dollars a year promoting‚ advertising and creating new and better products. In my opinion the company that stands out from all the soft drink competitors is The Coca-Cola Company. Company Description: Doctor John Premberton‚ a pharmacist in Atlanta‚ Georgia invented Coca Cola in May 1886. Pemberton invented the Cola product in a three legged brass
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Innovation Coca-Cola started its life as an innovative‚ new product that sought to quench the thirst of the Atlanta work force. While the target market may have expanded greatly over the past 128 years‚ that culture of innovation has stayed strong throughout the company. This innovation‚ however‚ as seen throughout the case study does not come from the hugely generalized‚ or even perfected‚ industry of the production‚ bottling‚ and distribution of Coke. Instead it comes from areas outside of Coca-Colas
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