CSR Case Studies: Coca-Cola 1. Why did Coca-Cola Vietnam chose to work on water projects? Coca Cola is a beverage company‚ a major consumer of water resources‚ it uses 2.43 liters of water to produce just 1 liter of beverage which makes it prone to criticism and consumer boycotts so to protects its brand image and defend its vision statement‚ which said be a responsible citizen‚ and run its business smoothly it decided to start water program to maintain its operations in Vietnam and build a CSR
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Coca Cola Analysis 2. Coke’s strategy and structure before Daft Leadership - The structure was more centralized in the model of command and control with all the instructions and decisions‚ Atlanta - ‘Concentrate on Concentrate’ strategy - the high cost operations (trucks purchases‚ product delivery‚ and execution of local marketing) is left to worldwide bottlers. - Consolidation of the vast bottling network into 10 anchors bottlers. - Strategy‚ expansion of market share
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To analyse the specific activities through which firms can gain a competitive advantage‚ it is useful to model the firm as a chain of value creating activities. For this purpose‚ Porter identified a range of interrelated generic activities common to a wide range of firms. The resulting model is known as the value chain. According to Porter (1985)‚ " Competitive Advantage arises out of the way firms organise and arrange discrete activities". Through using the Value Chain‚ the activities performed
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Case 1: Global Human Resource Management at Coca-Cola 8/16/2013 1. What is Coca-Cola’s staffing policy for managerial position: ethnocentric‚ polycentric‚ or geocentric? Does this policy make sense? I believe Coca-Cola’s staffing policy for managerial positioning is primarily polycentric; however‚ I also believe it involves many characteristics of both ethnocentric and geocentric staffing policies as well. According to Dowling‚ et al‚ a polycentric staffing approach involves the multinational
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PepsiCo Inc.‚ profitability ratios | | | Dec 29‚ 2012 | Dec 31‚ 2011 | Dec 25‚ 2010 | Dec 26‚ 2009 | Dec 27‚ 2008 | Return on Sales | | Gross profit margin | 52.22% | 52.49% | 54.05% | 53.51% | 52.95% | Operating profit margin | 13.91% | 14.48% | 14.41% | 18.61% | 16.09% | Net profit margin | 9.43% | 9.69% | 10.93% | 13.75% | 11.89% | Return on Investment | | | | | | Return on equity (ROE) | 27.71% | 31.29% | 29.86% | 35.38% | 42.47% | Return on assets (ROA) | 8.28%
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As its new management team continues to evolve‚ The Coca-Cola Company today named Doug Jackson‚ John Guarino and Alex von Behr division presidents. Doug Jackson‚ currently executive assistant to President and Chief Operating Officer Doug Daft‚ will succeed Don Knauss as president of the Southern Africa Division. As announced separately today‚ Mr. Knauss will become president and chief executive officer of The Minute Maid Company. Mr. Jackson joined the Coca-Cola system in 1984 in South Africa‚ where
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Coca-Cola was invented by 1886‚ by a pharmacist who fought in the Civil War named John Pemberton. His nickname was “Doc”. Pemberton died in August of 1888. A man named Asa Griggs Candler rescued the business. In 1891‚ he became the main owner of Coca-Cola. When Candler took over‚ one of the most creative marketing techniques was started. He paid traveling men to hand out free Coke coupons. Candlers idea was that people would get a free Coke‚ enjoy the beverage‚ and buy more of the product.
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I. Executive Summary Coca Cola is one of the largest leading beverage company that produce products such as water‚ juice and juice drinks‚ sports drinks‚ energy drinks‚ teas and coffees. Coca Cola products are distributed through restaurants‚ grocery markets‚ street vendors‚ and others‚ all of which sell to the end users: consumers. Coke is increasing investments in bottling investments‚ front-end capability‚ equipment and people. Coke’s long –term bottling strategy is to reduce ownership
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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 Google
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B890 Assignment 1 Student Name: Sin May Yin Jennifer Student ID: S11005210 Tutorial Group: 01 Introduction: To ease the discussion in the 4 areas required‚ an introduction has been added to summarize 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)
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