COLA WARS CONTINUE: COKE AND PEPSI IN 2006 The case is about the rivalry between two of the biggest companies in the world‚ Coca Cola and Pepsi. It is a battle which started in the early 1990s and which still characterizes the soft drink industry; but‚ as a former CEO of Pepsi said‚ it is a “battle without blood”: Coca Cola could not exist without Pepsi and the other way round. They mutually force each other to adapt their strategy to customers’ new needs‚ to apply competitive prices and to face
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1999). In such circumstance‚ organizations must learn how to survive and prosper in a global environment that is highly dynamic and unstable. Managers in this setting not only deal with a set of social ‚ economic‚ legal and political factors in the home nation‚ but with entirely different set of these in each country of operation. International management involves balancing a firm ’s internal environment forces which is a system of shared meaning and beliefs within an organization that determines
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1-pepsico External Environment Consumers today are not as much joyous to cola products as they were before. Age and ethnicity are two main characteristics that affect consumer preference for soft drinks and alternative beverages. With age‚ health concerns become more of a factor when choosing a beverage. To illustrate‚ some studies show that cola products or soft drink in general may cause kidney stones and other related diseases. In contrast to older consumers‚ younger consumers—particularly
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CHAPTER 6 Entering Global Markets “The multinational corporation knows a lot about a great many countries and congenially adapts to supposed differences..... By contrast‚ the global corporation knows everything about one great thing. It knows about the absolute need to be competitive on a worldwide basis as well as nationally and seeks constantly to drive down prices by standardising what it sells and how it operates. It treats the world as composed of a few standardised markets rather than
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PepsiCo’s financial statements are presented in Appendix A. Financial statements of The Coca-Cola Company are presented in Appendix B. This is from the appendixes in the 7th edition of financial accounting by Weygandt‚ kimmel‚ and kieso. Instructions; (a) Based on the information contained in these financial statements‚ determine each of the following for each company. Please show all numerical equations including numerator and denominator‚ not just a final number. Present your work in a comparative
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The Pepsi Refresh Project: A Thirst for Change 1. Should the Pepsi brand team continue to fund Pepsi Refresh Project in 2011? Pepsi brand team should keep this Refresh project for maintaining and strengthen Pepsi’s brand position in soda market. The Pepsi Refresh Project is a first-of-its-kind initiative‚ positioning as a consumer brand‚ and directly respond to the evolving needs of consumers and their preferred methods of communication such as facebook‚ twitter‚ blog‚
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In order to discuss the success of the Pepsi Refresh Project‚ we must first discuss the target demographic and the goal of the campaign. The target demographic of the project was the “Millennial” consumers between the ages of 17 and 27. The psychographic target was proactive individuals who displayed initiative and a genuine interest for improving their local communities. It was an age group of people who had just experienced the financial crisis of 2008 and yet still had hope and a need for change
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| Introduction Pepsi co is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in stores restaurants and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by a pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern‚ North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16 1903.The has been many Pepsi variants over the years since 1903 to name a few they have Diet Pepsi‚ Crystal Pepsi‚ Pepsi Twist‚ Pepsi blue‚ Pepsi raw‚ Pepsi one etc. PepsiCo is situated in
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PepsiCo‚ Inc. is one of the most successful consumer products companies in the world‚ with 2000 revenues of over $20 billion and 125‚000 employees. The company consists of: Frito-Lay Company‚ the largest manufacturer and distributor of snack chips; Pepsi-Cola Company‚ the second largest soft drink business and Tropicana Products‚ the largest marketer and producer of branded juice. PepsiCo brands are among the best known and most respected in the world and are available in about 190 countries and territories
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Marketing Strategy Analysis of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola Two famous beverage companies exist in the market today‚ Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola. Each competes intensely to distribute their beverage and food products to a global market for higher profits for the last several generations. In the free market‚ it can be difficult to determine which company uses the best practices in their marketing strategy as both use similar strategies to expand their local and global markets. In this paper the subjects
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