Pepsi vs Coca Cola For more than a century‚ Coca Cola and PepsiCo have been the major competitors within the soft drink market. By employing various advertising tactics‚ strategies such as blind taste tests‚ and reward initiatives for the consumer‚ they have grown to become oligopolistic rivals. In the soft-drink business‚ “The Coca-Cola Company” and “PepsiCo‚ Incorporated” hold most of the market shares in virtually every region of the world. They have brands that the consumers want‚ whether it
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flagship product Coca-Cola‚ a carbonated cola flavored soft drink invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. Asa Griggs Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula and brand in 1889 and then incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Today‚ the company owns or licenses more than 500 brands and over 3500 products worldwide‚ including Coca-Cola‚ Sprite‚ Fanta‚ Minute Maid‚ Vitamin Water‚ etc. Everyday‚ it serves over 1.8 billion servings in more than 200 countries or territories (The Coca-Cola Company
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50-bn-rupee soft drink industry is growing now at 6 to 7% annually. In India‚ Coke and Pepsi have a combined market share of around 95% directly or through franchisees. Campa Cola has a 1% share‚ and the rest is divided among local players. Industry watchers say‚ fake products also account for a good share of the balance. There are about 110 soft drink producing units (60% being owned by Indian bottlers) in the country‚ employing about 125‚000 people. There are two distinct segments of the market‚ cola
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Coke has been leading the competition from 1998-2002 in terms of higher market capitalization‚ gross margin and net income. However‚ Pepsi was leading the fight in terms of growth in revenue and net income. However‚ Pepsi’s stock performed 45% better than Coke’s stock. Overall‚ Pepsi was a smaller company but it was growing faster than Coke. Coke had a strong foundation‚ however‚ their revenue during this period increased due to summer months artificially increasing the demand. Pepsi‚ on the other
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wo of the largest and most 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
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1.0 Company background 1.1 Overview From the invention of the first soft drink more than 200 years ago to some of the industry’s most beloved beverage brands‚ Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) has a proud legacy of innovation‚ bold and distinct flavors‚ and entrepreneurial spirit. On May 7‚ 2008‚ DPS became a stand-alone‚ publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange as the result of a spin-off by Cadbury‚ plc which held the Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages business group of entities
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Entering Global Markets “The multinational corporation knows a lot about a great many countries and congenially adapts to supposed differences..... By contrast‚ the global corporation knows everything about one great thing. It knows about the absolute need to be competitive on a worldwide basis as well as nationally and seeks constantly to drive down prices by standardising what it sells and how it operates. It treats the world as composed of a few standardised markets rather than many customised
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into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today. The soft drink was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob ’s Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8‚ 1886. About nine servings of the soft drink were sold each day. Sales for that first year added up to a total of about $50. The funny thing was that it cost John Pemberton over $70 in expanses‚ so the first year of sales were a loss. Until 1905‚ the soft drink‚ marketed as a tonic‚ contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich
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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 leading the market. This research required us to
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Coke vs. Pepsi Karmen Burrell AIU Online MKTG205-1004B-08 Unit 1 IP October 7‚ 2010 In assignment one we are asked to choose two competitive products to analyze how they address the 4 P’s of marketing. First‚ we must understand what the 4 P’s of marketing refers to. They are pricing‚ product‚ promotion‚ and placement of product. We are asked to describe the products‚ their industry‚ their market shares‚ and their fluctuation in sales. Now that we understand what the 4 P’s of marketing
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