A Supplier Alliance at Quaker Oats Summary Quaker Oats Company of Chicago‚ IL formed an alliance with Graham Packaging of York‚ PA. Graham is a leading global manufacturer of custom blow molded plastic containers. Plastic bottles are the largest single quantity and cost item purchased by Quaker Oats. Gatorade had captured over 82% of the global market share in the sports beverage industry. The purchasing department established a goal of lowering the bottling cost $10 million to $15 million per
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and Frito-Lay‚ Inc. PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to a broader range of food and beverage brands‚ the largest of which includes an acquisition of Tropicana in 1998 and a merger with Quaker Oats in 2001‚ which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio. Transcom Beverage Ltd (TBL) is the exclusive PepsiCo Franchisee for Bangladesh. TBL owns and operates modern plants in Dhaka and Chittagong for bottling the renowned soft drink brands such as‚ Pepsi‚ 7UP‚ Mirinda‚ Slice‚ Mountain
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"We have an excellent sales and marketing team here at Gatorade. We believe we do know how to build brands‚ we do know how to advance businesses. And our expectation is that we will do the same as we take Snapple as well as Gatorade to the next level." -Don Uzzi‚ President of the Quaker Oats Beverage Company‚ North America.1 SUMMARY The Quaker Oats Company‚ founded in 1891‚ is one of America’s oldest food enterprises. From its start in the domestic ready-to-eat cereal market‚ Quaker grew
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Smithburg had bought Stokely-Van Camp in 1983‚ mainly for its Gatorade‚ then a $90 million sports drink. Even though he drew criticism‚ Smithburg turned Gatorade into a billion dollar brand. Quaker Oats bought Snapple in 1993 for an extravagant $1.7 billion dollars even though industry leaders thought it was only worth $700 million. Smithburg’s strategy was to use the strength of Snapple’s distributors in the cold channel to help Gatorade and use Gatorade’s strength in the supermarkets to help Snapple
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major changes. For example‚ Frito-Lay’s Cheetos sold in China do not contain any cheese due to the tendency of the Chinese to be lactose intolerant. Instead of cheese flavoring‚ Cheetos is offered with barbecue or seafood flavoring. In addition‚ the packaging was made smaller so that the price would be more acceptable. Other international versions had previously been made in other markets by Frito-Lay‚ including the popular Thai product‚ Nori Seaweed Chips. Frito-Lay found that the Chinese market was
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Quaker Oats- Gatorade/Snapple Background Quaker Oats acquired the Gatorade brand in 1983 but the sports drink actually was developed in 1965 for the University of Florida Gators. At the time of the acquisition Gatorade sales were about $100 million. But the most notoriously known sports drink would grow in sales to over $1.1 billion worldwide by 1994. Gatorade wasn’t the only division produced by Quaker Oats. The company also had divisions in breakfast foods‚ pet foods‚ golden grains‚
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attracted giants like coca cola and Pepsico‚ who entered the market through joint ventures with popular tea brands. Quaker Oats has known success in the past in the beverage market with the widely popular Gatorade drink and thought it could do the same with Snapple.So in order to repeat the Gatorade success story Quaker officially acquired Snapple on December 6 of 1994.The c.e.o of quaker ‚William Smithburg overcome with hubris resulting from his previous success overpaid for the company an estimate
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Gatorade What is Consumer behavior? Does consumer behavior extend beyond a person purchasing a product‚ the answer to that question and many more lie in the following reading. Consumer behavior is the study of when‚ why‚ how‚ and where people do or do not buy a product. Consumer Behaviors involve researching what the product is‚ why would someone want or need to purchase the product along with a consumer attitude toward the product. Most importantly answering these questions allow marketers
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Supply Chain Management of PepsiCo ------------------------------------------------- Case Details: | Case Code | : | OPER102 | Case Length | : | 14 pages | Period | : | 2005-2011 | Organization | : | PepsiCo. | Pub Date | : | 2012 | Teaching Note | : | Not Available | Countries | : | US; Global | Industry | : | Food and Beverages | ------------------------------------------------- Abstract: In 2010‚ PepsiCo Beverage Company (PBC)‚ an operating unit of PepsiCo Inc. (PepsiCo)
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market. Powerade is in fierce competition with Gatorade. External analysis Competition analysis The main competitor of powerade is Gatorade. The combined market share of all Gatorade products is 84.7% of the sports drink market. These Gatorade products include traditional Gatorade‚ Gatorade Frost‚ Gatorade Fierce‚ Gatorade X Factor Gatorade All Star‚ Gatorade Ice‚ Gatorade Extreme‚ and Gatorade Endurance Formula. The combined sales for these Gatorade products were $2.1 billion for the 52 weeks
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