Coca Cola India’s Thirst for the Rural Market Coca Cola India’s Thirst for the Rural Market: ’Thanda’ Goes Rural In early 2002‚ Coca-Cola India (CCI) (Refer Exhibit I for information about CCI) launched a new advertisement campaign featuring leading bollywood actor - Aamir Khan. The advertisement with the tag line - ’Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola’ was targeted at rural and semi-urban consumers. According to company sources‚ the idea was to position Coca-Cola as a generic brand for cold drinks. The
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Table of contents Executive Summary i The Coca-Cola Company Firm Profile ii The Beverage Industry in India iii India’s Societal System vii Macroeconomic Indicators and Demographics. vii Market System Aspects ix Infrastructure and Legal Order ix Cultural Dimensions x India’s Societal Predisposition xi Ideologies xii Indian Caste System xii Values xiii Religion xiv Political xv Economic xv Strategies and Policies xvi Constraints xvi Coca-Cola Strategy xvii Future Strategic Initiatives
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Coca-Cola in India 1. What aspects of U.S. and Indian culture may have been a cause of Coke’s difficulties in India? There are four areas that of culture differences may cause the Coke’s difficulties in India. First of all‚ is the spoken and written language. During the contact with the India government‚ there might comes out some misunderstood with language express. Secondly is the service and empowerment. Asian culture is more conservative and the U.S. pays more attention on empowerment
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The Case Study Report “Coca-Cola in India” BY: SALLY WIJAYA Executive Summary This report will discuss about “Coca-Cola in India”‚ what are the barriers and how to solve it. The barriers includes: Coca-Cola’s difficulties in terms of the culture barriers between US and India‚ Coca-Cola’s respond towards India’s negative perception to MNE‚ Coca-Cola’s Changes to obtain more Indian market‚ and the commitment of Coca-Cola‚ PepsiCo and other MNE should demonstrate to work with different cultures
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Case Study on Coca Cola’s Cultural Issues in India admin August 20‚ 2012 Blog No comments Socio Cultural barriers faced by coca cola in India Coca – cola‚ the world’s largest selling soft drink company had established its strong presence in the world since 1886. Coca-Cola is the first international soft drink brand to enter the Indian market in the early 1970’s. Till 1977 Coca-Cola was the leading brand in India; later‚ due to FERA (Foreign Exchange Regulation Act)‚ they left India and didn’t
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the challenges faced by Coca cola in India. More details have been added from various sources to provide a more detail picture outlining the plight of Coke in India. Coke has suffered the below difficulties when operating in India. Reports of Center for Science and Environment (CSE) release in 2003 and 2006 claiming its drink contained unsafe level of pesticide. CSE tested the soft drink under European Economic Commission (EEC) standards and find out samples sold in India contained pesticides 30
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Coca-Cola India On August 20‚ 2003 Sanjiv Gupta‚ President and CEO of Coca-Cola India‚ sat in his office contemplating the events of the last two weeks and debating his next move. Sales had dropped by 30-40%1 in only two weeks. On August 5th‚ The Center for Science and Environment (CSE)‚ an activist group in India focused on environmental sustainability issues (specifically the effects of industrialization and economic growth) issued a press release stating: "12 major cold drink brands sold in and
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Many cultural differences may have caused Coke’s difficulties in India. A major difficulty could have been communication. People from India express themselves in a totally different manner than Americans. For this simple reason‚ misunderstanding could have arisen. Another cultural difficulty could have been that India has many political and legal issues internally‚ which makes India less wholesome than the United States. These issues could have led to interference with Coke’s operations in that country
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MARKETING ANALYSIS By Saqib Rizvi PGDM(Communications) Roll No.- 27 SIMSR Table of Contents… TOPIC | PAGE NUMBER | The beginning | 3 | Coca-Cola history | 3 | Coca-Cola worldwide and in India | 5 | Logo design | 6 | Slogans | 7 | Pricing | 7 | Targeting and segmentation | 8 | Positioning | 9 | An example of segmentation and positioning | 9 | Distribution System in India | 11 | Market share | 12 | Promotions | 13 | Swot analysis | 17 | Pestle analysis | 18
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Coca Cola Coca-Cola is one of the most widely used soft drink in the world. The company has very efficient and extensive distribution system in the world. There is a great variety of brands offered by Coca-cola throughout the world like Diet coke‚ sprite‚ Fanta‚ Rc cola‚ Minute made etc. you can find the Coca-cola soft drinks anywhere in every country of the world. The ’Coca-Cola’ brand has been adopted the strategy of global marketing. They are considering the whole world as single market place
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