WEEK 1 DISCUSSION STRUCTURAL FORCES EFFECTS on COLA DRINKS INDUSTRY SUPPLY CHAIN by GIDAGA ALFRED HOOO31960 ABSTRACT Carbonated soft drinks branded under Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola remain major household names in the soft drinks industry. Spanning operation from the original Franchise agreement of 1899 to-date‚ is an indication of managerial ingenuity of strategy design‚ implementation and control. Profitability and sustainability as a key issue in business operations necessitates these
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Pepsi vs Coca Cola For more than a century‚ Coca Cola and PepsiCo have been the major competitors within the soft drink market. By employing various advertising tactics‚ strategies such as blind taste tests‚ and reward initiatives for the consumer‚ they have grown to become oligopolistic rivals. In the soft-drink business‚ “The Coca-Cola Company” and “PepsiCo‚ Incorporated” hold most of the market shares in virtually every region of the world. They have brands that the consumers want‚ whether it
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Pepsi BY: Saba Zarif Thousands of people love the irresistible taste of Pepsi and because of that it is one of the most famous carbonated soft drinks to this day. The PepsiCo started off their glorious franchise from the Pepsi soft drink in 1893 by Caleb Bradham‚ who made it in his drug store where the drink was sold. In 1931‚ at the depth of the Great Depression‚ the Pepsi-Cola Company entered bankruptcy‚ due to financial losses acquired by speculating on wildly
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PART 1: INTRODUCTION Preface ____________________________________________________________ _ Branding is a way to differentiate a company‚ product or service from its competitors‚ and establish a personality that is both unique and appealing to potential customers. It is a multifaceted‚ multilayered process and discipline that aims at establishing long and profitable relationships with stakeholders. It begins with a branding strategy and is implemented throughout an organization and communicated
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Introduction to the Pepsi brand The following essay will offer information on the world famous brand of Pepsi-Cola and give insight on the history of the brand‚ why it has become so successful as well as provide information and statistics on the brand. Pepsi as a brand has been highly successful in the food and beverage industry‚ this essay will give insight into how the brand was able to keep up with the social and economic conditions of its consumers as well as discuss why Pepsi is a healthy brand
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10/Oct/2012 Author: Bin Liu | ID #: U1037223 | Assignment # 2 | A Completed Analysis of Marketing Plan for Pepsi New Zealand | Executive Summary This paper presents a completed marketing plan/analysis for Pepsi in order to assist it regain its “second leader” position in the soft drink market in New Zealand. The first half of this paper shows the situation analysis of Pepsi. In particular‚ the internal analysis focuses on the power of suppliers‚ buyers‚ new entrants‚ and product substitutes
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16References………………………………………………………………..…………19Executive SummaryThe Cola Wars between the two industry giants Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo continues today after over 100 years of rivalry. The competitive strategies of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been examined‚ and even though they are different‚ both seemed to have been successful to become the first and second companies in the soft drink industry. Coca-Cola with effective advertising‚ and Pepsi with effective young generation market target‚ have developed
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Introduction : The below essay is about Coca-Cola company which is a beverage manufacturer established in the year 1892.The company ’s primary product is Coca cola which was invented in the year 1886 and was first bottled in 1894.The focus of this essay will be on developing a marketing strategy for Classic Coca-Cola or Coke for first half of 2012.This will also discuss about the market segmentation ‚pricing strategy and target market using micro and macroeconomics concepts. The economic forecast
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In May‚ 1886‚ Coca Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton a pharmacist from Atlanta‚ Georgia. John Pemberton concocted the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton ’s bookkeeper Frank Robinson (Anonymous‚ 2001). Birth of Coca Cola Being a bookkeeper‚ Frank Robinson also had excellent penmanship. It was he who first scripted "Coca Cola into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today. The soft drink
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Business Week February 5‚ 2002 Pepsi versus Coke The rivalry of Coca-cola and Pepsi is extremely widespread. In order to remain competitive in a two-person race it is important to analyze the way a company does business. This article gave a competitive analysis between Coke and Pepsi by looking at both the industry structure and at the individual competitors. As it looks at the industry structure‚ it refers to Porter’s Five-Force model to determine Coke and Pepsi’s strengths and weaknesses.
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