The Pursuit of Synergy: Quaker Oats-Snapple Acquisition Professor Sherif A. Ebrahim Corporate Strategy‚ Spring 2012 May 1‚ 2012 Pauline Guittard Linn Gustafsson T.J. Henry Jr. Sevinc Ulu Brittany Williams Many successful businessmen and women have concluded that the most successful acquirers are also the most disciplined. In order to secure a lucrative and profitable acquisition all strategic alternatives ought to have been considered and prudently explored. Furthermore‚ a clear operating strategy
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Materiel Acquisition Management MGT 5084 Case Study – A Supplier Alliance At Quaker Oats Gatorade product is a type of flavored non-carbonated sports drink manufactured by PepsiCo and derived from the school’s football team‚ the Gators. In 1983‚ Quaker Oats Company purchased Gatorade sports drink which later acquired by PepsiCo in 2001. Gatorade is known as the 4th-largest brand of PepsiCo‚ in term of worldwide annual retail sales. Some of its competitors were Powerade‚ Vitaminwater worldwide
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1. In the period of 1972 to 1993‚ why do you think that Snapple flourished when so many small startup premium fruit drinks stayed small or disappeared? Explore each of the Four Ps. *Major successful market was serving RTD teas (ready to drink teas)* 1972-1986: - 3 founders: Leonard Marsh and Hyman Golden and Arnold Greenberg - Snapple’s mantra: 100% Natural ( showed their passion for healthy no preservative juices - It outsourced production and product development and built
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Quaker Oats Morrison reviving Quaker after the Snapple debacle– cost $1.4 B write-off ●Focus on Gatorade. Gatorade -cash cow – potentially could dry up ●Pre-Morrison‚ Quaker mainly riding Gatorade under-investing in food brands ●Morrison comes in and changes PA: Younger manager presidents – oversee individual product lines such as hot cereal‚ cold cereal‚ snacks‚ and domestically sold Gatorade-cost-cutting - reinvested right into their own brands ●SK ●Same representative-move multiple brands of the
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basketball about four times a week. For years Chuck had been using dietary products to mixed with his sport drinks. On June 11‚ 2000 Chuck went out to play some basketball. When he came home on this hot summer day he had drank one of the gatorades that him and his wife mixed creatine in the night before. This particular sunday was Chuck’s first time consuming the creatine product. Later on that day Chuck decided to go to bed early becasue he wasn’t feeling well. Then next day when
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Competition in energy drinks‚ sports drinks and vitamin enhanced beverages Kyle Holloway Spring Hill College INTRODUCTION Alternative beverages such as sports drinks‚ energy drinks‚ and vitamin-enhanced beverages developed into an important competitor for the beverage industry and saw rapid growth in the mid-2000s. Alternative beverages compete on the basis of differentiation from each other in the market and traditional drinks‚ such as carbonated soft drinks and fruit juices. The largest
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the fall of 2000‚ it appeared that the right moment for an equity-financed acquisition had arrived. At this time‚ PepsiCo management decided to initiate confidential discussions with The Quaker Oats Company about a potential business combination. Gatorade‚ a key brand in Quaker’s portfolio‚ had long been on PepsiCo’s wish list. On October 5‚ 2000‚ an investment-banking team from Merrill Lynch met with the top executives of PepsiCo to discuss a possible business combination between PepsiCo and Quaker
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FIZZ AND FILM Question 1 PepsiCo international launched Pepsi’s Sea of Stars in the Middle East region to help build brand awareness. Pepsi’s brand awareness is very high in the Middle East. Should Pepsi use a similar kind of campaign in other markets and is there any value in having identical advertising in both market? Answer Pepsico International can not use the same strategy to market its products in other countries because in each country has a different culture. Middle East countries‚ including
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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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Purpose The purpose of this experiment is to apply Beer’s Law by analyzing samples provided by Q laboratory to determine their absorbance and prepare a Beer’s law plot. Molarity of these samples was also calculated to determine concentration and percent error rate. Students also analyzed the concentration of blue dye #1 to determine the concentration of blue dye #1 in a commercial blue dye drink. Procedure Exercise #1 Step #1: Convert %T (Table 1) to absorbance and prepare a Beer’s law plot
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