American university of beirut | FINANCE 210 CASE | PEPSI VS. COCA COLA | Instructor: Leila Atwi | | 12/12/2010 | Raneem Jaffal (Ratio Computation) Jana Haounji (Ratio Analysis) Alexandra Aboulhosn (Recommendations and Comparison) This is a financial comparison between Pepsi and Coca Cola in terms of company liquidity‚ solvency‚ asset management‚ profitability‚ and valuation between the years 2008 and 2009 respectively. | Part One: Pepsi Ratio Analysis: Pepsi PEPSI RATIOS
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For years‚ Coca-Cola has been one of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors of soft drink beverages and other various products. Over the course of time‚ the company has grown tremendously and has spread many of its markets to a variety of different places. Since it first began‚ nobody would have thought that it would be where it is today and how big of an influence it would have on the public. This can strongly be attributed to the company’s smart yet robust advertising and marketing
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Coca-Cola Company applies to an undifferentiated targeting strategy to promote a single product of identical size. This approach allows the firm to consider a potential buyer as the one who has similar needs and preferences like any other consumer at the market. Hence‚ there is no a particular market segment because market is regarded as the whole. Producing one item saves costs for advertising and marketing (Lamb et al.‚ 2011‚ p. 275). However‚ focusing on undifferentiated marketing prevents
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PROBLEM The Coca-Cola Co. is the leading company in the beverage Industry. It produces about 400 brands consisting of over 2‚600 beverage products. Its major rivals are PepsiCo and Cadbury Schweppes PLC. The PepsiCo obtains 60% of its Revenues from its snack division. Cadbury Schweppes PLC is the largest confectionary company and has a strong regional beverage presence in the Americas and Australia. Considering its rivals’ success in its snack division; The Coca-Cola Co. is considering
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CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project titled “DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF COCA-COLA” Submitted by: Owais Shafi Wani for the award of degree of MBA in Marketing is a record of research work carried by him. He worked under my guidance and has fulfilled the requirements for the submission of his project report‚ which to my knowledge has reached the requisite standards. Ms. Reenu Kalani (Lect.) Ansal Institute of Technology (Gurgaon) TABLE OF
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INTRODUCTION The Coca-Cola Company is the world largest beverage company. Along with Coca-Cola‚ recognized as the world’s most valuable brand‚ the company markets four of the world’s top 5 non-alcoholic sparkling brands‚ including Diet Coke‚ Fanta‚ and Sprite. Consumers in more than 200 countries are enjoying the company’s beverages at a rate exceeding 1.4 billion servings each day. The Coca-Cola Company engages in the manufacture‚ distribution‚ and marketing of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates
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individual company to have a strong reputation. "Stakeholders who are most directly affected by negative events will have a corresponding shift in their perceptions of a firm’s reputation"(Ferrell‚ 2011). #2) Assume you have just become CEO at Coca-Cola.
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On Tuesday‚ April 23‚ 1985 The Coca Cola Company announced that it would change the formula of its flagship soft drink; a formula that had been America’s favorite for 100 years. Kansas newspaper editor William Allen White said‚ “Coca Cola is the sublimated essence of all that America stands for. A decent thing honestly made [and] universally distributed.” (As cited in Oliver‚ 1986‚ p.4) How could Coca Cola have tampered with the taste of a drink that was distributed to 155 countries and consumed
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marketing is rapidly gaining momentum‚ observe new media analysts. Recent research shows that Coca-Cola is the largest consumer brand name in the world. The popularity of the product means that most of the populations globally know about the product. As a result‚ Coca-Cola is now in a position where it does not have to spend as heavily on creating a brand image since it is a very established product. Coca Cola has various methods of packaging such as can‚ plastic bottles‚ glass bottles etc. This means
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called autocratic (do what I tell you)‚ is used when leaders tell their followers what they want done and how they want it accomplished‚ without input or advice from their followers. Democratic leadership: this style‚ also called participative‚ (Let’s work together to solve this) the leader includes one or more other individuals in the decision making process to determine what to do and how to do it. Using this style is not a sign of weakness but rather a sign of strength which others will respect
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