Financial Analysis of Coca-Cola Company - February 7th‚ 2011 The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a beverage retailer‚ manufacturer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola‚ invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage‚ Coca-Cola currently offers more than
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Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi Co 2 1. Using the current ratio‚ discuss what conclusions you can make about each company’s ability to pay current liabilities (debt). The current ratio measures the company’s ability to pay its short term obligations with its short term assets. Between Coca Cola and PepsiCo‚ PepsiCo has a higher current ratio implying that is more capable of paying its obligations
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Coca-Cola Magi Cans Case Essay My understanding of the magi can promotion was that it was a new and innovative way of promotion by Coca Cola which should have brought in more fans but instead created a negative perception towards its product and attracted bad publicity towards its campaign. It was bold on Coca Cola’s part to go ahead with such a costly advert but what it failed to do was make the necessary corrections to its campaign during its test marketing phase where the company decided
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Introduction Coca Cola markets nearly 2‚400 beverages products in over 200 geographic locations. As a result development of a superior value system is imperative to their operations. Throughout this paper we will analyze their value system by using Michael Porter’s value chain analysis model. In an attempt to paint a current picture of the non-alcoholic beverage industry we will assess the market activity by using mergers‚ acquisitions and IPO’S as our benchmarks to determine if the market is growing
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THE DESIGN The Coca-Cola contour bottle is one of the brand’s key icons and is the symbol of the brand’s authenticity. It was developed in 1916 to create a distinct identity for the brand in consumers’ minds and to protect the brand from being imitated by competitors. Today it represents the very essence of the brand’s identity in the marketplace and remains instrumental in differentiating the brand from all other competing products. The familiar shape of the Coca-Cola bottle and the flowing script
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Analyze of Market Segmentation of Coca-Cola Individuals with different product requirements have heterogeneous needs. Market segmentation is the process of differentiation a total market into subgroups consisting of people who demand similar products. A market segment composes of individuals‚ groups or organizations with special characteristics that incline them to have similar product needs. It allows the companies to provide better demand satisfaction. Moreover‚ consumer markets can be characterized
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business profile of Coca-Cola‚ and its historical prospective. In May 1886‚ Coca-Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton a pharmacist from Atlanta‚ Georgia. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton’s bookkeeper Frank Robinson who was the first to script "Coca-Cola" into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today. Until 1905‚ the soft drink‚ marketed as tonic‚ contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut. As we know‚ every new product in its introductory
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Coca-Cola In 1892‚ Candler set out to incorporate a second company; "The Coca-Cola Company" (the current corporation). When Candler had the earliest records of the "Coca-Cola Company" burned in 1910‚ the action was claimed to have been made during a move to new corporation offices around this time. After Candler had gained a better foothold of Coca-Cola in April 1888‚ he nevertheless was forced to sell the beverage he produced with the recipe he had under the names "Yum Yum" and "Koke". This was
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Case #4 Fizz Factor 1) The Coca-Cola Company in my opinion has all the resources listed in the chapter. They have been such a successful organization over the years that they posses; financial‚ physical‚ human‚ intangible‚ and structural-cultural resources. It is because of their Global nature that I believe that they have these resources‚ and these are needed to for organizations to have capabilities and core competencies. Understanding that because Coca-Cola is such a global brand it means that
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Module 2 The Coca-Cola Company Struggles with Ethical Crisis 1. What role does corporate reputation play within organizational performance and social responsibility? Develop a list of factors or characteristics that different stakeholders may use in assessing corporate reputation. Are these factors consistent across stakeholders? Why or why not? Having a good reputation is the most important factor for any business. A corporation can spend many decades building a good reputation with the
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