were sold off to larger distributers. Howard Stern‚ Rush Limbaugh‚ and Wendy Kaufman were a huge part of the success. The original owners sold the company to Thomas H. Lee Company in 1992‚ who then sold it to Quaker Oats in 1993. Quaker owned Gatorade and thought that by purchasing Snapple it would be as successful as the sports drink once they started stocking grocery store shelves. Unfortunately‚ Business Week tells us that this acquisition proved to be one of the major U.S. business disasters
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The PepsiCo‚ Inc.(PEP) was founded in 1965 and is a global food‚ snack and beverage company that encompasses over 22 brands within Pepsi Cola‚ Lay’s‚ Gatorade‚ Tropicana and Quaker Oats and are a vital player in the beverages and foods industry. Their primary sector is based on consumer goods and the company employs approximately 297‚000 people and $60B in revenue. Currently‚ the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo is Indra K. Nooyi and its headquarters is located in Purchase‚ NY. On 19
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Frito Lay In 1930‚ two men in different parts of the United States began companies that would eventually come to control the international snack food market. One-named Doolin purchases were made from corn dough used for centuries by Mexicans to bake bread. Fascinated with the product‚ Doolin sold his ice cream business and purchased the corn chip producer’s business for one hundred dollars. The brand‚ Frito‚ was created in the kitchen of his mother‚ along with the early production of the corn chips
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increases profitability. Pepsi and Coke has remained one of the most recognizable brands in the world and distribute some of the most popular names in the food and beverage industry. These brands include Quaker Oats‚ Tropicana‚ Lay’s chips‚ Aquafina‚ Gatorade‚ Doritos‚ Dole‚ Lipton and Mountain Dew‚ Minute Maid‚ PowerAde‚ Vitamin water‚ Dasani. Brand equity is a tremendous strength for Coke and Pepsi and allows them to gain more from their marketing expenditures by solidifying product loyalty. Thus
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significant market potential. PepsiCo is a large company which conducts both domestic and global marketing and is very well known. One of the main products and one that I use everyday is Pepsi. PepsiCo also produces Quaker Oats‚ Lays chips‚ Gatorade‚ and Tropicana orange juice. With the world so focused on ecological factors in today’s environment it is only wise for PepsiCo to align itself with the majority. 2005 has seen PepsiCo immersed in ecological environmental factors. Domestically
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Reaching for value Strategic opportunism Stuart E. Jackson Stuart E. Jackson is Vice President of L.E.K. Consulting‚ Chicago‚ IL‚ USA. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ American philosopher and sage of Concord‚ is often misquoted on the subject of consistency. What he actually said was: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds‚ adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. But is that enough? Sometimes it is not. All too often‚ business leaders get trapped in their strategic
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KEL182 CHRISTIE L. NORDHIELM Quaker Oats’s Oatmeal Division Polly Kawalek emerged from Bob Morrison’s office after her annual review in December 1998. By any measure‚ 1998 had not been a successful year for Quaker Oats’s oatmeal division (“Oatmeal”)‚ and culpability fell on Kawalek’s shoulders. It had been the warmest winter in memory across the country‚ causing demand for oatmeal to drop‚ and failed product releases had cost sales and led to trade marketing spending deficits. Furthermore
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are advertised to help you have a better athletic performance‚ and to find out which one worked best. Procedure: 1. I measured each test subject’s reaction time prior to exercise for comparative measures. 2. I divided each 1200ml portions of Gatorade‚ Powerade‚ and Water into 300ml portions respectively. 3. I had each test subject take one of the drinks and go on a 30min run. I then‚ instructed the subjects to sip gradually and consistently throughout the run. 4. When test subjects returned
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and have failed numerous times at expanding their product and marketing capabilities. Below is a list of key products offered by both Coca Cola and PepsiCo: PepsiCo Coca Cola Frito-Lay Brands Gatorade Brands Coca-Cola Brands Lay ’s potato chips Gatorade Thirst Quencher A&W Ruffles potato chips Gatorade Frost Thirst Quencher Coca Cola Doritos tortilla chips Propel Fitness Water Canada Dry Tostitos tortilla chips Tropicana Brands Dasani Fritos corn chips Tropicana Pure Premium juices Diet
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of distribution)? 2. Snapple flourished in 1972-1993 period while so many start-up premium fruit drinks remained small or disappeared? How did three entrepreneurs develop the right product for their customers? Hint: 4 P’s. 3. Quaker acquired Gatorade and took sales from $100M to $1B. How? Hint: 4 P’s. 4. Quaker acquired Snapple for $1.7B and sold it to Triac for $300M? Did Quaker make error in buying Snapple‚ did Quaker manage it badly‚ or was Snapple just a fading fad? Hint: What happened
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