profitable corporations in the United States are the Atlanta‚ Georgia based Coca-Cola Company and the New York based Pepsi Cola Company. While both are called "colas" they both attempt to address the same target tastes but from different approaches. Coke was the first on market with what is still a "secret" formula and Pepsi followed with a similar (not exact) taste. Since taste is very much a factor of your personal likes‚ either or neither may appeal to you or seem sweeter (Inforefuge.com. 2011)
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CASE 13 Coke and Pepsi Learn to Compete in India THE BEVERAGE BATTLEFIELD In 2007‚ the President and CEO of Coca-Cola asserted that Coke has had a rather rough run in India; but now it seems to be getting its positioning right. Similarly‚ PepsiCo’s Asia chief asserted that India is the beverage battlefield for this decade and beyond. Even though the government had opened its doors wide to foreign companies‚ the experience of the world’s two giant soft drinks companies in India during the 1990s
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1. Relevant literature The literature pertaining to relationships among customer satisfaction‚ customer loyalty‚ and profitability can be divided into two groups. The first‚ service management literature‚ proposes that customer satisfaction influences customer loyalty‚ which in turn affects profitability. Proponents of this theory include researchers such as Anderson and Fornell (1994); Gummesson (1993); Heskett et al.(1990); Heskett et al. (1994); Reicheld and Sasser (1990); Rust‚ et al. (1995);
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BrAnd LoyALty Jooyoung Kim‚ Jon d. Morris‚ and Joffre swait ABSTRACT: We examine a model of six latent constructs and propose that true brand loyalty can be explained as a result of five distinct antecedents: brand credibility‚ affective brand conviction‚ cognitive brand conviction‚ attitude strength‚ and brand commitment. Data from experimental conditions with manipulations of eight product classes and two involvement levels lend support for the proposed model‚ demonstrating that brand loyalty can
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Cola Marketing Strategy focused on American way of life which make brand as part of day to day needs where as PepsiCo adopted youth drink approach which accepted by consumers easily. By 2001 both companies adopted complete new Strategy to create differentiation . PepsiCo focused on Cricket and Bollywood stars to woo consumers whereas Coke kept it as drink for happy moments with rural
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Coke vs. Pepsi As we all know‚ Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been rivals for centuries. While most people have their own preference on which cola they prefer‚ they have no idea what makes these two cola brands so similar yet so different. While both are similar in color and taste‚ the biggest difference between these two brands are their sugar level. Coca-Cola‚ the dominant coke brand‚ contains less sugar compared to that of Pepsi’s. Furthermore‚ these two world renowned colas are said to help regain
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Javalgi‚ R. G. & Moberg‚ C. R. (1997) Service loyalty: implications for service providers. The Journal of Services Marketing‚ 11(3)‚ pp. 165-179. Jacoby‚ J. & Kryner‚ D. B. (1973) Brand loyalty vs. repeat purchasing behavior. Journal of Marketing Research‚ February‚ pp. 1-9. Oliver‚ R. L. (1999) Whence consumer loyalty. Journal of Marketing‚ 63(special issue)‚ pp. 33-44. Wernerfelt‚ B. (1991) Brand loyalty and market equilibrium. Marketing Science‚ 10(3)‚ pp. 229-245. Javalgi
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Interbrand. Based in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ the company distributes carbonated soft drinks‚ light and diet beverages‚ waters‚ juices and juice drinks‚ teas‚ coffees‚ energy and sports drinks in over 200 countries. Even though Coco-Cola’s beverage portfolio caters primarily to Carbonated Soft Drinks‚ the company has been expanding fast into the non-carbonated soft drinks category in response to a shift in consumer demand and a greater emphasis on healthy options. The Company generated net annual operating
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Brand Loyalty In marketing‚ brand loyalty refers to a typical consumer behavior in which s/he repurchases a brand’s product with a certain level of commitment and can be seen as a repeated buying of a particular product/service or behaviors like advocating the use in the general public or people they know. Nevertheless‚ brand loyalty does not only entail repurchasing. Repurchase may be the result of several other variables like absence of good alternatives‚ situational constraints‚ or simply
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Business Week February 5‚ 2002 Pepsi versus Coke The rivalry of Coca-cola and Pepsi is extremely widespread. In order to remain competitive in a two-person race it is important to analyze the way a company does business. This article gave a competitive analysis between Coke and Pepsi by looking at both the industry structure and at the individual competitors. As it looks at the industry structure‚ it refers to Porter’s Five-Force model to determine Coke and Pepsi’s strengths and weaknesses. Secondly
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