Environmental scanning MGT/498 October 29‚ 2012 John Fritch Environmental scanning Coco-Cola and Pepsi are two major competitors in the beverage industry but each company is working on being different even though each company has similar products. Both companies are very popular and each company needs to develop and maintain a competitive edge that will help one or the other stay above the other. To gain a competitive edge‚ measurement guidelines need to be implemented to make sure that
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Coca-Cola’s New Vending Machine (A) Case Questions 1. Is selling Coke through interactive vending machines a good or bad idea? Explain your answer. It is a good idea to sell Coke through interactive vending machines. Over the last three years‚ the soft-drinking giants have watched their earnings erode as they waged a price war in supermarkets. Vending machines have remained largely untouched by the discounting. Sales of soft drinks from vending machines have risen steadily over the last
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Comparison of Lao Tzu and Machiavelli It is obvious to most people the differences between black and white‚ light and darkness‚ or Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Many people have different preferences for each of these things‚ as well as different views about them. While one person may argue that Pepsi is the ultimate cola beverage‚ another person may claim that Coca-Cola is the best by far. This is such the case with many different people in this world‚ on many different topics. A prime example of contrasting
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of its competitors‚ Pepsi-Cola‚ and the introduction of the new Coke. The author walked us through how with marketing research‚ product testing (The Pepsi Challenge) and effective advertising‚ Pepsi-Cola was able to introduce itself in the American culture. Pepsi became Coca-Cola’s fierce competitor and started getting a growing share of the market of soft drinks. Blinded by internal and other distractions‚ Coca-Cola was caught by surprise when introduced “the Pepsi Challenge”‚ a series
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departments and forcing his engineers‚ designers and marketers to work together to come up with new products. To speed the transition‚ he recruited executives from companies with strong track records in innovation‚ including Proctor and Gamble and Pepsi Cola (Ivancevich). Instead of using focus group or surveys‚ they reconstructed their mode of thinking to be Groupthink‚ here where ideas could flourish and be bright and innovative (Ivancevich). I believe he changed things up because they just were
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Pepsi Cola Products Philippines‚ Inc. (petitioner) v. Honorable Secretary of Labor (respondents) 1. Facts: a. June 1990: The Pepsi-Cola Employees Organization-UOEF (Union) filed a petition for certification election with the Med-Arbiter seeking to be the exclusive bargaining agent of supervisors of Pepsi-Cola Philippines‚ Inc. (PEPSI). i. Med-Arbiter granted this stating that PCEU-UOEF was an affiliate of Union de Obreros Estivadores de Filipinas (or the Federation) with two (2) rank and file
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in this case. Ans: In the late 80s‚ Pepsi market share was catching up with Coca-cola at a great speed. Its main success was coming from a new marketing strategy‚ directing its focus on new generation consumers as well as hosting a series of commercials called “the Pepsi Challenge”‚ which is a taste test competition between Pepsi and Coke. The result of this test was in Pepsi’s advantage‚ it indicated that consumers prefer the taste of Pepsi more. This result made the Coca-cola company’
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Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010 The software drink industry has been very profitable historically because the manufacturing process requires low cost of overhead. Although this is not the case for bottlers‚ the high volume and demand for CSD allow for the market to be very attractive to incumbents. Since the 1970s‚ the CSD industry has been enjoying an average growth every year of 3% for the last 30 year. Even at the lowest point in 2009‚ CSD sales compose of 87% of all beverage sales
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Mission Our mission is providing first class healthy product to the world that enriches their eating pattern and also give opportunities and financial rewards to our employee and partners. Serve pure product with honesty and care. Vision Our vision is start program that enrich the society eating pattern and give shape the future of purity that is close to nature and also health development of the world especially in food concerns without major financial sake. Market The market going to
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Mohan Shiv Section #1 Boston College Carroll School of Management MM 720 Management Practice I STRATEGIC ANALYSIS Professor MCCLEELLAN Case: Cola wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the 21st Century September INDUSTRY ANALYSIS OF THE CARBONATED SOFT DRINKS INDUSTRY Description of the Industry The industry of Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD) is highly concentrated. The three major companies‚ Coca Cola‚ PepsiCo‚ and Cadbury Schweppes accounted in 1998 for more than 90% of market share
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