I. How Do Businesses Compete? （Q1‚Q2) 1. Business strategies are primarily concerned with allocating resources across functional activities and product-markets to give the unit a sustainable advantage over its competitors. 2. The unit’s core competencies and resources‚ together with the customer and competitive characteristics of its industry‚ determine the viability of any particular competitive strategy. 3. Most SBUs pursue a single competitive strategy—one that best fits their market environments
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beirut | FINANCE 210 CASE | PEPSI VS. COCA COLA | Instructor: Leila Atwi | | 12/12/2010 | Raneem Jaffal (Ratio Computation) Jana Haounji (Ratio Analysis) Alexandra Aboulhosn (Recommendations and Comparison) This is a financial comparison between Pepsi and Coca Cola in terms of company liquidity‚ solvency‚ asset management‚ profitability‚ and valuation between the years 2008 and 2009 respectively. | Part One: Pepsi Ratio Analysis: Pepsi PEPSI RATIOS | | 2009 | 2008 | Percent
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North America‚ PepsiCo International and Quaker Foods North America. PepsiCo brands are available in nearly 200 countries and territories and generate sales at the retail level of about $85 billion. Many of PepsiCo’s brand names are more than 100-years-old‚ but the corporation is relatively young. PepsiCo was founded in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Tropicana was acquired in 1998 and PepsiCo merged with The Quaker Oats Company‚ including Gatorade‚ in 2001. PepsiCo offers product
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MARKET RESEARCH 3 3.3 THE SALES PLAN . Prices And The Market . Pricing Strategies . Marketing Segmentation And The Marketing Mix . The Marketing Process . Sales And Finance In Marketing . The Sales Plan Exercise - Calculating Financial Impact Of Sales P 123 THE SALES PLAN 3.3 PRICES AND THE MARKET There are a number of different approaches to pricing. Most businesses use a mix of these approaches or use a different approach to different customers and at different times. How Your Product Or
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PROMOTION Creating a magnificent product is not enough to achieve great success. In other words‚ it needs a boost from promotion decision process (Figure 1)‚ and Milo has efficiently applied it to succeed in Vietnam market. Figure 1 PlanningDeveloping the promotion program | ImplementationExecuting the promotion program | EvaluationAssessing the promotion program | * Identify the target audience. * Specify the objectives. * Set the budget. * Select the right promotion tools. *
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potential customers and in recent years the direct sales and product promotion method is gaining popularity among the companies‚ thus it is important to know what factors affect the company’s direct sales organization for direct selling business function to be successful. The bachelor thesis is based on the analysis of the theory by studying the organization of direct sales in company SIA "Bite Latvija"‚ research seeks proposals for direct sales organization within the enterprise. Undergraduate
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Case Study 16: Coke and Pepsi 1. Identify the ongoing issues in this case with respect to issues management‚ crisis management‚ global business ethics‚ and stakeholder management. Rank order these in terms of their priorities for Coca-Cola and for PepsiCo. Number 1 Priority: The major global business ethics I found in this case study was the whole issue with excessive water usage in their companies as well as the pollution of the water. The book explains that water is very sacred in India. Even
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incorporate more fruits‚ vegetables‚ nuts‚ whole grains and lowfat dairy into its product line ● develop new artificial salts and low or nocalorie sweeteners ● expand and triple the sales of its healthier product lines‚ including Naked juice ‚ Tazo tea‚ Tropicana and Quaker. Recently‚ PepsiCo Inc ‚ the maker of Pepsi and FritoLay snacks…‚ has raised its annual dividend by 4 percent to $2.15. This also was 40th consecutive annual dividend increase of the company. Besides‚ the company ha
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Financial Analysis of Pepsi Co. Pepsi Co. was Created and developed in 1898. It was first introduced as "Brad’s Drink" to be later renamed as Pepsi-Cola on June 16‚ 1903‚ 60 years later removing the “Cola” and leaving just Pepsi. "Brad’s Drink" got its name in New Bern‚ North Carolina‚ United States‚ in 1898‚ after his creator‚ Caleb Bradham He made it in his home where the drink was sold. It was later labeled Pepsi Cola‚ named after the digestive enzyme and kola nuts used in making the beverage
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1. Pepsi relied on the celebrities on its marketing campaigns throughout its history and the message given by Pepsi was most concentrated on being young “ 1961-1964: Now It’s Pepsi for those Who Think Young”‚ 1992-1993 “Be Young‚ Have Fun Drink Pepsi” to being socially responsible. Pepsi used to have a brand image of being “cool” however Pepsi tried to change this image to being socially responsible and started the campaign Pepsi Refresh which aims to grant aid to the projects which promises to make
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