Azam Nunn Khan July 29‚2013 MGMT 311 Homework #3 Page 283 Applying the concepts #2 Coca-Cola has sustained success in the maturity stage of the product life cycle for many years. Visit Coca-Cola’s web site (www.coca-colacompany.com/topics/heritage) and discuss how Coca-Cola has evolved over the years. Identify ways that Coca-Cola can continue to evolve to meet changing consumer needs and wants. Coca-Cola’s ability to sustain success for many years in the maturity stage of the product life
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Table of contents Executive Summary i The Coca-Cola Company Firm Profile ii The Beverage Industry in India iii India’s Societal System vii Macroeconomic Indicators and Demographics. vii Market System Aspects ix Infrastructure and Legal Order ix Cultural Dimensions x India’s Societal Predisposition xi Ideologies xii Indian Caste System xii Values xiii Religion xiv Political xv Economic xv Strategies and Policies xvi Constraints xvi Coca-Cola Strategy xvii Future Strategic Initiatives
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Coca-Cola was invented by 1886‚ by a pharmacist who fought in the Civil War named John Pemberton. His nickname was “Doc”. Pemberton died in August of 1888. A man named Asa Griggs Candler rescued the business. In 1891‚ he became the main owner of Coca-Cola. When Candler took over‚ one of the most creative marketing techniques was started. He paid traveling men to hand out free Coke coupons. Candlers idea was that people would get a free Coke‚ enjoy the beverage‚ and buy more of the product.
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The Coca-Cola Company is the world leading beverage organization in manufacturing industry with a history of 126 years‚ operating in more than 200 countries worldwide. Coca-Cola is the world’s most valuable brand in which the company features 15 billion dollars brands that includes Diet Coke‚ Coca-Cola Zero‚ Sprite‚ Fanta‚ Minute Maid and others (The Coca-Cola Company‚ 2006-2012). The company is not a single entity as the organizational operations required cooperation with almost 300 bottling partners
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Jennifer Student ID: S11005210 Tutorial Group: 01 Introduction: To ease the discussion in the 4 areas required‚ an introduction has been added to summarize the challenges faced by Coca cola in India. More details have been added from various sources to provide a more detail picture outlining the plight of Coke in India. Coke has suffered the below difficulties when operating in India. Reports of Center for Science and Environment (CSE) release in 2003 and 2006 claiming its drink
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November 13‚ 2012 English Advanced Exposition Joseph Conlin Over the years Coca-Cola has overcame a great deal of success. For over a century now Coca-Cola is still in business and at the top of its game. Advertising with Coca-Cola helped the brand become popular in households‚ and nationwide. Coca-Cola has used Internet marketing and other strategies to stay at its peak position. The first date a Coca-Cola soda was sold to a customer would go back over a century to May 18‚ 1886 at Jacob’s
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Innovation Coca-Cola started its life as an innovative‚ new product that sought to quench the thirst of the Atlanta work force. While the target market may have expanded greatly over the past 128 years‚ that culture of innovation has stayed strong throughout the company. This innovation‚ however‚ as seen throughout the case study does not come from the hugely generalized‚ or even perfected‚ industry of the production‚ bottling‚ and distribution of Coke. Instead it comes from areas outside of Coca-Colas
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The public issue facing The Coca-Cola Company was its impact on availability and accessibility on water sources. A Public issue is mostly the one that affects a person’s day to day life. The traditional use of land by communities and farmers on a diverse scale of production becomes much more difficult when water sources are at risk. (Hwang & Steward‚ 2008). Water conservation had become a huge issue in India and all over the world. A decade ago Coca-Cola faced a major crisis in south India. The
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Introduction Coca Cola‚ the largest and most recognizable beverage company in the world continues to refresh consumers with over 500 brands every day. The beverage is often referred to as coke‚ which was registered and trademarked in1944. No matter what country or language Coca Cola is produced in‚ a consumer will recognize the beverage as being a coke. It is through the world’s largest beverage distribution system that consumers in over 200 countries worldwide are able to benefit from the many
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In this case of Coca-Cola changing their well established Coke formula and introducing an new one in 1985 for the purpose of gaining more market share; the reason why such decision was made by Coke’s executives was mainly because of a series of marketing campaign conducted by their major arrival - Pepsi. During mid 1970s‚ Pepsi has ran a the famous “Pepsi Challenge” of blind taste tests on all the commercials to show that the majority preferred Pepsi than Coke based on its teste. By 1977‚ Pepsi had
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