Pepsi and Coke’s Uncivil Wars Chapter 9 in Competition Demystified: Uncivil Cola Wars: Coke and Pepsi Confront the Prisoner’s Dilemma What are the sources of competitive advantages in the soda industry? First we should look at industry structure. The cola companies buy raw materials of sugar‚ sweeteners and flavorings from many suppliers then they turn the commodities into a branded product which consists of syrup/concentrated combined with water and bottles. The companies are joined at the hip
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finished beverages which it sells to bottling and canning operations and authorized wholesalers. Coca-Cola produces more than 230 beverage brands and markets four of the world’s top five soft drink brands‚ including Coke‚ diet Coke‚ Fanta‚ and Sprite. Coca-Cola’s finished beverage products bearing the Coca-Cola Company’s trademarks are sold in over 200 countries. In 2000‚ 72% of Coca-Cola’s Operating Income was generated outside the United States. Coca-Cola also maintains ownership interest in many
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contrast the Coke a Cola and Pepsi Cola websites. I found that these two companies have been fighting to bring customers to their side since the birth of the two companies. If you ask anyone who drinks soda‚ they have a favorite‚ wether it being Coke or Pepsi. A major factor in getting a customer to buy your product is marketing. If a company appears to the public as an inviting company‚ people will flock to them. This is especially important in a case such as this where the two products are very similar
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HBR Case Study: “Introducing New Coke” 1. What is the case about? This case study is the story of Coca-Cola‚ its history and the report about one of the most fascinating stories about the company this is still regarded by many as a mysterious case: “the introduction of the new Coke”. The author Susan Fournier‚ in the case study went on by presenting the history of the Coca-Cola Company: how the company started and how throughout its history it became a brand‚ a part of everyone’s
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firms has only increased with the market nearing its saturation point. All companies in the industry‚ especially those thinking about entering‚ have to think about: rivalry among establish firms‚ risk of entry by potential competitors‚ substitute products‚ suppliers‚ and buyers. When talking about market share‚ PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have the lions share. They have dominated the industry over the past 40 years with Coca-Cola leading in the category in 2004. With little resistance from Cadbury Schweppes
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brand from products such as: Fanta‚ Sprite‚ Diet Coke or Dr. Pepper. During the years the company come up with different slogans for the products such as: “Coke is it”‚ “Catch the Wave”‚
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profitable corporations in the United States are the Atlanta‚ Georgia based Coca-Cola Company and the New York based Pepsi Cola Company. While both are called "colas" they both attempt to address the same target tastes but from different approaches. Coke was the first on market with what is still a "secret" formula and Pepsi followed with a similar (not exact) taste. Since taste is very much a factor of your personal likes‚ either or neither may appeal to you or seem sweeter (Inforefuge.com. 2011)
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competitive moves between players. This interaction over time should make it easier for a firm to predict the direction and nature of their rival’s next (competitive) move. The authors suggest in Hypothesis 2a that the volatility of the relationship between Coke and Pepsi’s competitive moves would attenuate over time. However‚ they also discuss how it can be argued that firms will engage in
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Schema Theory 1. Introduction A schema contains both abstract knowledge and specific examples about a particular social object. It ‘provides hypotheses about incoming stimuli‚ which includes plans for interpreting and gathering schema-related information. Schemas therefore give us some sense of prediction and control of the social world. They guide what we attend to‚ what we perceive‚ what we remember and what we infer. All schemas appear to serve similar functions – they all influence the encoding
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negative thought patterns to positively change negative behaviors. Schema theory is derived from Cognitive Theory. Schema theory was developed for clients who did not progress well from cognitive behavior theory. Schema theory is the focus on identify maladaptive schemas and the negative coping skills connected to the schemas. The idea of schema is everyone develops schemas during childhood‚ some schemas more damaging than others. Schemas are developed when various needs of a child are not met. Some of
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