MARKETING AND PROMOTION Promotion is part of marketing which can be considered as one of the youngest disciplines in the business world and is driven by innovation (Sutheralnd and Canwell‚ 2004). Within it‚ marketing communications‚ or promotion‚ is a management process through which an organization engages with its various audiences. Through understanding and audience’s communications environment‚ organizations seek to develop and present messages for their identified stakeholder groups‚ before
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Candidate no: 045751 ‘NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Pepsi ’s Refresh Project‚ a first-of-its-kind experiment in social media’ "You ’re not going to fix this with a new logo or can or graphics‚ or ad campaign‚" he said. "This requires a major‚ comprehensive approach to the category and a refocusing to optimally capture the value of the brand at every beverage occasion‚ rather than have the discourse be ... how much volume can we pump out into the marketplace‚" said Mr. Laboy‚ PepsiCo Executive interview
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USD 1 billion revenue Pepsi is positioned to win in the long term. (Source: Pepsi Annual Report 2010) The underlying performance of Pepsi remained solid despite a challenging macroeconomic environment. A strong performance was delivered by Pepsi with growth in revenues along with increase in net income ensured sustainable performance. For detailed financial analysis please refer section 7 above. Internal Process Perspective PepsiCo operates about 100‚000 distribution channels and approximately
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Pepsi and Coke’s Uncivil Wars Chapter 9 in Competition Demystified: Uncivil Cola Wars: Coke and Pepsi Confront the Prisoner’s Dilemma What are the sources of competitive advantages in the soda industry? First we should look at industry structure. The cola companies buy raw materials of sugar‚ sweeteners and flavorings from many suppliers then they turn the commodities into a branded product which consists of syrup/concentrated combined with water and bottles. The companies are joined at the hip
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Marriott Corporation Evaluating the cost of capital 1. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott Corporation? 1 (a) What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? R (f)‚ or risk free rate used for calculating cost of equity was the Geometric Mean (GM) for LT US govt. bond returns (Exhibit 4). We used the overall GM of 1926-1987 of 4.27%. This is because this is the period that Marriott has been in operation and would be a good reflection
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SITUATION A. Corporate Overview and Financial Performance: PepsiCo‚ Inc. is one of the most successful consumer products companies in the world‚ with 2000 revenues of over $20 billion and 125‚000 employees. The company consists of: Frito-Lay Company‚ the largest manufacturer and distributor of snack chips; Pepsi-Cola Company‚ the second largest soft drink business and Tropicana Products‚ the largest marketer and producer of branded juice. PepsiCo brands are among the best known and most respected
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Nokia Product * NOKIA’S Thinking: A good product sells itself. Price * NOKIA uses a pricing strategy that best suits the product. * Like It has the cheapest phones like NOKIA 1100 and costly phones like NOKIA Lumia. Place1 * Nokia has opened its retail outlets ‘Nokia Priority’ as well as many authorized dealers at various places. Promotion * Advertising‚ selling‚ sales promotion‚ public relations‚etc. are the major weapons of marketing. Samsung Product * Samsung
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wo of the largest and most 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
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DISTRIBUTION DEFINITION A distribution channel is a set of independent organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available to the consumer or a business user. IMPORTANCE OF DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS The main function of a distribution channel is to provide a link between production and consumption. Organisations that form any particular distribution channel perform many key functions: Information Gathering and distributing market research and intelligence - important
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Tourism distribution channel is a system of intermediaries or middleman that facilitates the sale and delivery of tourism services from suppliers to consumers (Buhalis and Law‚ 2001). Distribution channels can serve as part of the marketing mix that can makes the products available to consumers as the link between suppliers of tourism products and their end consumers‚ as well as the bridge between supply and demand (Kracht and Wang‚ 2010). This shows that‚ important to have a good distribution channel
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