NUST BUUSINESS SCHOOL‚ ISLAMABAD | STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING A BETTER BRAND IMAGE: A CASE OF COLA RIVALS IN THE PAKISTANI CONTEXT | Consumer Behavior – Research Paper | | | 12/29/2009 | Asma Shamshad – Junaid Manzoor – Sidra Manzoor – Warda Zubair – Zafar A. Khan CONTENTS Table of Contents Introduction to Cola Companies4 Company Profile – PepsiCo Inc.4 Company Profile – Coca Cola Company4 Introduction to Cola Wars5 Early battles leading to new Coke5 Introducing a new flavor6
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Running head: Twenty-first Century Christian Manager Twenty-first Century Christian Manager in a Leadership Position Hephzibah Duward Liberty University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the qualities that twenty-first century Christian business leaders possess as well as the scriptural application regarding the responsible‚ ethical‚ moral‚ and servant centered conduct and communication needed to impact their followers in a positive manner. Christians are scripturally
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COLA WARS CONTINUE: COKE AND PEPSI IN 2006 The case is about the rivalry between two of the biggest companies in the world‚ Coca Cola and Pepsi. It is a battle which started in the early 1990s and which still characterizes the soft drink industry; but‚ as a former CEO of Pepsi said‚ it is a “battle without blood”: Coca Cola could not exist without Pepsi and the other way round. They mutually force each other to adapt their strategy to customers’ new needs‚ to apply competitive prices and to face
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industry‚ smaller national producers‚ such as Seven-Up and Dr Pepper‚ are relatively trivial. There are a lot of players of same size in the bottling industry. Unlike the furious competition between Pepsi and Coke‚ no sense of competition can be felt in bottling industry. Reasons are that‚ first‚ Pepsi and Coke control the majority of bottlers in 1990s; second‚ intrabrand competition is restricted by the franchise agreement‚ which is protected by ’Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act’. From the view
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The Twenty-First-Century Workplace: Seven Major Changes Predictions about everything under the sun are plentiful with the new millennium at hand. Our immediate concern is how the workplace will change as the twenty-first century unfolds. After all‚ the workplace is where you will spend half (or more) of your nonsleep life in the years to come. Management consultant and futurist Robert Barner foresees seven major changes that promise to challenge managers and employees. As a departure
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Bangladesh’s most important customer‚ and Mexico’s largest private employer. On a single recent day‚ Wal-Mart had sales larger than the yearly gross domestic products of 36 sovereign nations combined. Contributors to Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism‚ a collection of essays from historians and sociologists‚ hope to show that this five-and-dime Leviathan has plunged us into a new hyper-retail dystopia in which big-box colossi stalk the globe‚ muscling aside anti-sprawl ordinances
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Cola Wars Continue : Coke and Pepsi in 2006 1. Why historically has the soft drink industry been so profitable? * High rate of consumption increasing at an average of 3% per year * Increasing availability of CSDs * Introduction of diet and flavoured varieties Year | 1970 | 1975 | 1981 | 1985 | 1990 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2004 | Consumption in Cases (million) | 3090 | 3780 | 5180 | 6500 | 7780 | 8710 | 9290 | 9880 | 10240 | 2. Compare the economics of concentrated
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Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2006 CSD Industry Overview Coke and Pepsi‚ the two main players in the duopoly market‚ have benefited from average growth of 3% since 1970 in the CSD market. There are many substitutes to CSD’s such as; milk‚ coffee‚ bottled water‚ beer‚ juices‚ tea‚ wine‚ sports drinks‚ and tap water yet American’s drank more soda than any other beverage. Coke and Pepsi competed fiercely for market share and this competition built brand recognition for both companies. Continuous
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Dan Sweeney March 7‚ 2012 1. & 2) Short-term: The quick ratio‚ also known as acid-test ratio‚ calculates a company’s cash and accounts receivable divided by its current liabilities. This ratio is a more stringent measure of liquidity than the current ratio in that it excludes inventories and other current assets. Pfizer has a quick ratio of 1.78 while the industry median is 1.21. This shows the company does not rely too much on inventory of other assets to pay for short-term liabilities.
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Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola vied for a “throat share” of the soft drinks market for more than a century. Carbonated soft drinks (CSD) contributed to majority of the revenues in soft drinks. 丁he core market was Ihc United States which had high per capita consumption (see Exhibit 1 for per capita consumption of carbonates in select countries). The Americas accounted for 54% of the global CSD market. Europe for 34.5%‚ and Asia-Pacific for 1 \%.] The industry was characterized by the presence of strong
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