On Tuesday‚ April 23‚ 1985 The Coca Cola Company announced that it would change the formula of its flagship soft drink; a formula that had been America’s favorite for 100 years. Kansas newspaper editor William Allen White said‚ “Coca Cola is the sublimated essence of all that America stands for. A decent thing honestly made [and] universally distributed.” (As cited in Oliver‚ 1986‚ p.4) How could Coca Cola have tampered with the taste of a drink that was distributed to 155 countries and consumed
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Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. The most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $74 billion CSD industry in the United States‚ where the average American consumes 46 gallons of CSD per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle‚" from 1975 to the mid-1990s‚ both Coke and Pepsi had achieved average annual growth of around 10%‚ as both U.S. and worldwide CSD consumption consistently rose. However‚ starting
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Live Positively: COCA-COLA COMPANY MARKETING PLAN Coca-Cola Company Marketing Plan Bellevue University Marketing Essentials BUSC335-308H Table of Contents Page 3 Executive Summary 4-5 Mission Statement 6 Demographic Information 7 Target Market 8-9 Current Marketing Efforts 10- Competition 11-12 Internal and External Environments that affect the Corporation 13-15 New Strategies 16-17 Target Market 18
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History of Coca Cola Company Coca Cola was invented by Dr. John Pemberton in 1886 when he concocted a mixture of water‚ sugar‚ caffeine and extracts of the coca leaf and the kola nut. The concoction was originally marketed as a headache remedy‚ but was not successful due to poor advertising and Pemberton’s ailing health. In 1888‚ Pemberton sold the business to Asa G. Candler‚ a successful druggist with excellent business sense. The company grew quickly under his 26 year leadership. He expanded
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Discussion Questions: 1- Discuss the attitude and related beliefs towards Coca-Cola of intensely brand-loyal consumers (perhaps like those who were upset by the new Coke in 1985). How might their attitude and beliefs differ from those of less involved‚ less loyal consumers? What marketing implications would these differences have? Answer: For those types of consumers they have a strong positive attitude toward the Coca-Cola brand. And this can surpass what the company can imagine to even reach the
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Executive Summary On August 2003‚ Coca Cola India faced a sales drop due to pesticides residues issue brought by a non-government organization called CSE (Center for Science and Environment). This report aims at covering the case study from the Corporate Communication 5th Edition by Paul A. Argenti ‘s book page 284-299 (Case 10-1). These papers will include the case questions with answers‚ to analyze the key problems that Coke India should focus and how well-prepared was them in dealing with
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major events in the life of the Coca-Cola Company that have an impact on the company today‚ these include: 1886: Coca-Cola‚ the beverage‚ was first produced by John Pemberton. It was sold at fountains at a Jacobs’s pharmacy‚ a local pharmacy in Atlanta‚ for 5 cents a glass. Frank Robinson named the drink Coca-Cola and wrote it in his own unique script‚ to this day Coca-Cola is written in the exact same way. They used to sell an average of 9 glasses of Coca-Cola a day. 1891: John Pemberton
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given to more recognizable marketing activities. Here‚ we will talk about how Coca Cola manage to set the price for their products using different strategies. 1. New-Product Pricing Strategies Setting prices for the first time is one of the most difficulties companies have to face at the introductory stage of the product.There are 2 broad strategies: market-skimming pricing and market-penetration pricing. For Coca Cola‚ they use the latter strategies – market-penetration pricing. The strategy
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its high reputation and strong brand image‚ Coca-Cola Company changed its original name Coke with New Coke in 1985‚ and‚ the company also aims to give their customers better taste (Datta‚ 1996). Generally speaking‚ although the company focus on whole population in the world‚ young generation is the target marketed of the company and they also want to show their products with full of youth and energy to their customers. Pendergrast(1993) states that Coca-Cola are cool and real‚ and ‚ differentiate Coke
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Coca-Cola Magi Cans Case Essay My understanding of the magi can promotion was that it was a new and innovative way of promotion by Coca Cola which should have brought in more fans but instead created a negative perception towards its product and attracted bad publicity towards its campaign. It was bold on Coca Cola’s part to go ahead with such a costly advert but what it failed to do was make the necessary corrections to its campaign during its test marketing phase where the company decided
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