The soft drink industry is highly competitive. Characteristics of the industry include slow growth and maturity‚ a phase during which weak companies are weeded out of the market by the strongest corporations. In order to stay competitive‚ soft drink companies must be able to offer their product at a low price. A price that can at least match (or preferably‚ beat) a competitor’s price will allow that product to enter into a consumer’s mental set of possible brands to purchase. Because the pop industry
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global soft drink industry is currently expanding quite rapidly. This is due to two major factors. First‚ markets are expanding rapidly in developing countries and second people are turning toward natural‚ healthy‚ and low-calorie drinks. This so called “new-age” beverages‚ such as tea-based beverages‚ is considerably stimulating the development of the soft drink industry and also creating a major challenge to the carbonated beverage market. In part to address this trend‚ big soft drink companies
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------------------------------------------------- Introduction The 50-bn-rupee soft drink industry is growing now at 6 to 7% annually. In India‚ Coke and Pepsi have a combined market share of around 95% directly or through franchisees. Campa Cola has a 1% share‚ and the rest is divided among local players. Industry watchers say‚ fake products also account for a good share of the balance. There are about 110 soft drink producing units (60% being owned by Indian bottlers) in the country‚ employing
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Soft drinks. A soft drink is a non-alcoholic beverage typically containing water often carbonated water and a flavoring agent. Many of these beverages are sweetened by the addition of sugar or high fructose They may also contain ingredients such as caffeine and fruit juice. They are called "soft" in contrast to "hard drinks"that is‚ alcoholic beverages. Small amounts of alcohol may be present in a soft drink‚ but the alcohol content generally must be less than 0.5% of the total volume if the drink
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Introduction Soft drinks‚ more popularly known as sodas‚ are not exactly referred to as items of necessity. People can live without sodas. In fact‚ people might be safer if they don’t drink soft drinks so much. And yet‚ soft drinks somehow make it to the top of the list of items bought by the average consumer. Why is this‚ exactly? Well‚ for one thing‚ sodas are delicious. They stand between liquor and juice. Those who are too young to drink beer but think that fruit juice is too juvenile can order
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1 Industry Analysis: Soft Drinks Barbara Murray (2006c) explained the soft drink industry by stating‚ “For years the story in the nonalcoholic sector centered on the power struggle between…Coke and Pepsi. But as the pop fight has topped out‚ the industry ’s giants have begun relying on new product flavors…and looking to noncarbonated beverages for growth.” In order to fully understand the soft drink industry‚ the following should be considered: the dominant economic factors‚ five
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INDIA ’S SOFT DRINKS INDUSTRY TABLE OF CONTENTS TOC \o "1-3" \u PART A: CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF INDIA AND THE INDIAN SOFT DRINK INDUSTRY PAGEREF _Toc323046458 \h 3 INTRODUCTION PAGEREF _Toc323046459 \h 3 1. FACTOR CONDITIONS PAGEREF _Toc323046460 \h 4 1.1 OPPORTUNITIES PAGEREF _Toc323046461 \h 4 1.1.1 INDIA’S PHYSICAL RESOURCES PAGEREF _Toc323046462 \h 4 1.2 THREATS PAGEREF _Toc323046463 \h 6
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Outline I- INTRODUCTION II- THE CARBONATED SOFT DRINK INDUSTRY A) The industry structure B) Brand competition & consumer behavior III- ORANGE CATEGORY A) Competition analysis B) Competitor Positioning and Advertising C) Competitor Pricing & Promotions IV- CADBURY’S COMPETITIVE POSITION IN THE US SOFT DRINK MARKET AND ORANGE CATEGORY A) SWOT Analysis B) Key Success Factors V- MEDIA ADVERTISING $ PER CASE FOR MAJOR BRANDS VI- PRO FORMA INCOME STATEMENT FOR ORANGE CRUSH A) Forecast of
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The Carbonated Soft Drink Industry History The first drinkable “man-made” carbonated water was created by “British chemist‚ Dr. Joseph Priestley‚ in 1767.” “German-Swiss jeweler‚ Jacob Schweppe‚ was the first large-scale commercial producer of carbonated waters‚ and is often referred to as the father of the soft drink industry. The first known US manufacturer of soda water‚ as it was then known‚ was Yale University chemist Benjamin Silliman in 1807‚ though Joseph Hawkins of Baltimore secured
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The Pharmaceutical Industry: Key success factors High profit after launching the product: Before a pharmaceutical company establishes a new product it takes them a lot time and work. The whole project‚ from the beginning until the end‚ where the medicine can be launched can last about 12 years. But once the drug is on marked the producing company has very high margins. On average‚ a Blockbuster drug is for about eight years on the marked and each year it has revenues in the range of one
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