9-706-447 REV: APRIL 16‚ 2009 DAVID B. YOFFIE Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2006 For more than a century‚ Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola vied for “throat share” of the world’s beverage market. The most intense battles in the so-called cola wars were fought over the $66 billion carbonated soft drink (CSD) industry in the United States.1 In a “carefully waged competitive struggle” that lasted from 1975 through the mid-1990s‚ both Coke and Pepsi achieved average annual revenue growth of around
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CASE 13 Coke and Pepsi Learn to Compete in India THE BEVERAGE BATTLEFIELD In 2007‚ the President and CEO of Coca-Cola asserted that Coke has had a rather rough run in India; but now it seems to be getting its positioning right. Similarly‚ PepsiCo’s Asia chief asserted that India is the beverage battlefield for this decade and beyond. Even though the government had opened its doors wide to foreign companies‚ the experience of the world’s two giant soft drinks companies in India during the 1990s
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COCA-COLA Ryan Hodownes Southern New Hampshire University Dr. Greg Randolph ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to examine the company Coca-Cola‚ which is an Atlanta based beverage company‚ from an economic point of view. The beverage industry as a whole will be examined. Many things will be taken into consideration such as entry barriers for the firm‚ competitors and their goods‚ as well as the structure of the overall industry. Coca-Cola will be examined specifically by looking at the
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BRISK® CASE STUDY Overview Customer Profile The Pepsi-Lipton Partnership is a joint endeavor between two major brands‚ Pepsi-Cola North America and Unilever. This entity is responsible for the Canadian promotions of Lipton‚ one of the leading beverages in the global market. Business Situation The company launched an entirely new Brisk® Ready-to-Drink Iced Tea early last year. The brand recognized the emerging presence of a new media segment and required assistance in exploring the potential
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What is positioning? How has the organisation that you have selected positioned their product? As we all know that‚ there are three steps in target marketing which are market segmentation‚ market targeting and market positioning. According to Kotler (2010)‚ the definition of product position is “the way the product is defined by consumer on important attributes – the place the product occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing product” (P280). Furthermore‚ in principle‚ a brand must have
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Journal of Management and Business Research Consumer Preference Coca Cola versus Pepsi-Cola By Abdul Munam Jamil Paracha‚ Muhammad Waqas‚ Ali Raza Khan & Sohaib Ahmad University of Lahore‚ Pakistan. Abstract - This study is conducted between two global giants Coca Cola & Pepsi-cola. This research paper is basically a comparative study of two well known competitors in beverage industry of Pakistan which are Pepsi Cola & Coca Cola. The primary purpose of this paper is to find out which company is
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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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providing athletes with the best suited pair of shoes for their respective sports (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). In efforts of achieving that‚ Adidas is had used the strategy of collaborating with important athletes to gain their insights on the products offered (Berntson‚ Jarnemo & Philipson‚ 2006). This contributes to the fact that Adidas had earned the reputation of being innovative and creative at an early stage (Berntson‚ Jarnemo & Philipson‚ 2006). Also‚ the pursue of Adidas to gain
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Case Study Re-Positioning exercise for a leading product development services player “When a leading product development services company needed a partner to assess its brand positioning strategy and plans‚ Prayag was its choice. Read about how we leveraged our research capabilities‚ branding and industry expertise to equip the client with a comprehensive and well-chalked out branding programme.” E mail: info@prayag.com The client is a leading global product development services
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available in nearly 200 countries and territories. Many of PepsiCo’s brand names are over 100-years-old‚ but the corporation is relatively young. PepsiCo was founded in 1965. Pepsi Co is one of the largest companies in the beverage industry. The market share of the Pepsi is first to Coca Cola. About 39% of the worlds market the products of PepsiCo control share. In Asia‚ they selected Lahore to make their regional office. This was done in 1970. This regional office is monitoring all the operations carried
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