Harvard Business School 9-387-108 Rev. June 21‚ 1989 Coca-Cola Versus Pepsi-Cola (A) Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had been competing for 93 years in 1982‚ and the rivalry had intensified since the early 1950s. By the mid-1970s‚ business journalists had labeled this competition "The Cola Wars." The launching of the Pepsi Challenge in 1977 propelled the wars into the 1980s‚ considerably altering the landscape of the soft-drink industry. History of Soft-Drink Concentrate Producers Soft drinks had existed
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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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Financial Management: Coke vs. Pepsi BUS 508 – Business Enterprise June 11‚ 2011 Financial Management: Coke vs. Pepsi The purpose of this paper is to analysis companies Coke and Pepsi and determinate (a) which company is better able to pay current liabilities (debt)‚ (b) explain what profitability ratios can tell about a company’s performance and how that information would influence investing decisions‚ (c) discuss which financial ratios to utilized while examining the company’s most
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PEPSI: REFRESH EVERYTHING CAMPAGIN By: Lorraine Reynolds March 12th 2015 GSCBC21: Effectve PR Professor Jonas LJUNGGREN PEPSI: REFRESH EVERYTHING CAMPAGIN The Pepsi Refresh Project (PRP) was a new campaign launched by Pepsi Co. It was a campaign where Pepsi asked consumers to come up with different ideas on how to improve aspects of their local communities based on four categories – arts‚ music‚ education and communities. There was also an extra Pepsi Challenge where they would post a question
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Analysis of Pepsi Refresh Project PR campaign (R.O.P.E. Format) Case Study #1 Pepsi Refresh Project In today’s generation Y age so many Americans and world citizens use social media. Facebook‚ Twitter‚ online blogs and photo and video sharing sites like Youtube are being accessed by a wide variety of publics. It makes sense that to run a successful PR and marketing campaign these social media sites be used to promote and spread the missions and objectives of the campaign
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1. Why do companies like PEPSI need to globalize? What are the various ways in which foreign companies can enter a foreign market? What hurdles and problems did Pepsi face when it tried to enter India during the 1980s? Companies like Pepsi need to be global for the following: * Expand Sales- Increase the market for their production by tapping potential new countries * Minimize Risks- Globalization and International trade also helps in minimizing risks. * To leverage on technology
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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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Porter’s Five Forces Model Porter’s five forces use for; to develop a wide and detailed analysis of competitive position (especially on industry level)‚ while the determining and creating new strategies‚ planning‚ making investments or disinvestments for current or a brand new business or organization. (Businessballs‚ Michael Porter’s Five Forces Competition Theory Model‚ 2009). Porter’s five forces determined as; “Supplier Power; Differentiations of inputs‚ supplier concentration‚ importance
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PepsiCo’s top brands is of course Pepsi‚ one of the most recognized brands of the world. Pepsi has stayed in this market for almost one century. So they are so experienced and stationed in people’s mind deeply. Now no one doesn’t know the brand Pepsi-Cola Whenever the name Pepsi is heard‚ people will conjure up the image of fresh and cool drink. Advertising It has the ability to place an Idle sum of money to the promotion. We can see that the advertisement of Pepsi-Cola is
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Kalyani Barman (57) INTRODUCTION Pepsi is a 100-year-old carbonated soft drink brand loved by over 200 million people worldwide. The largest single selling soft drink brand in India‚ Pepsi is ubiquitous on just about every social occasion. In 1886‚ the US Caleb Bradman‚ a man with a plan formulated a blockbuster of a digestive drink and decided to call it Brad‟s drink. The potion was to become Pepsi Cola in 1898‚ and eventually‚ Pepsi in 1903. Since its inception‚ Pepsi has always been at the forefront
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