...Coca-Cola is the world’s largest beverage company offering more than 400 brands in over 200 countries. Multi-national corporations such as Coca-Cola are synonymous with globalisation and renowned for prioritising economic growth over environmental and social well-being. In their pursuit to maximise profits Coca-Cola has been accused of exacerbating local water resources in some developing countries. This essay will review and discuss the evidence for such claims using India as an example. Coca-Cola was banned from India by the Indian Government in 1977 but was allowed to return in October 1993 after agreeing to certain regulations. As India becomes increasingly Westernised, the popularity of Coca-Cola soft drinks and Kinley bottled water has soared, particularly amongst the younger generations and urban elite. Coca-Cola India, comprising of Hindustan Coca-Cola and Bharat Coca-Cola, now includes 27 company-owned bottling plants and 17 franchisee-owned bottling plants. Although there are benefit from the economic growth that Coca-Cola brings, the water shortages and pollution are having severe effects on the local people and environment. Such water issues are particularly devastating in India as the country already suffers from water pollution and severe droughts, in both urban and rural areas. Most affected are the marginalized and low-income communities, landless agricultural workers and women. Coca-Cola’s unsustainable mining leaves little water for locals, and the little water...
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...The Coca-Cola Company The second function of the management process is organization. Management must organize, assign duties or responsibilities, and put the course of action into practice. Managers are responsible to ensure the plan is put into action the important resources while reducing unnecessary expenses. This paper will confer how the Coca-Cola Company uses the organizing function of management relating to physical assets, human resources, and technology. In 1886, John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, stirred a concoction and carried it to Jacobs’ Pharmacy that was a few doors down. Mixing the concoction at the Pharmacy with carbonated water letting the customers sample the product and the after the sampling the mixture was selling for five cents a glass. The first year average of selling the mixture was nine glasses per day. The mixture was named Coca-cola from Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, who wrote the name in script and is still written the same way today. Pemberton died in 1888 without knowing the success of the business. Asa Griggs Candler securing the rights to the business in 1891 for a total of $2300 became the company’s first president and took the company to greater heights. Marketing of the new product by giving away free coupons for the new drink was his way of making the product known passing out free calendars and signs to pharmacy’s so the symbol, and the name would get out into the world (The Coca-Cola Company, 2011) . In today’s...
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...RUN (Raising Unified Network) in northern Italy was set up in 2001 to deliver IT services to two local banks, which are still the company’s joint owners. RUN recently started expanding its customer base beyond the financial services industry, and its customers now include agricultural cooperative societies, hotels, and local government organizations as well as insurance companies and several banks. Operating in the autonomous province of South Tyrol, RUN has a bilingual workforce and website to serve the region’s 500,000-strong population, which comprises speakers of German (the majority) and Italian (about a quarter). The company competes successfully with national service providers in its leased line business, offering a range of data connections with contact center support. IT services include hardware sales, integration, and installation, together with consultancy and network management and maintenance. RUN’s strategy for business growth is focused on winning new customers from outside the financial services industry, and introducing new services in response to market demand. In order to support more customers and services, however, RUN needed to review its approach to data center planning, design, and management. “Capacity was one problem: we were running out of resources and needed to purchase additional hardware,” says Werth. “Efficiency was another issue: we had too many servers for the services we were running, with very low server utilization levels...
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...Case Analysis: (10 cases during the semester) a. Understanding the case b. All relevant issues India Low purchase power among buyers Low Consumption pre person in rural areas Low product coverage Low interest in soda consumption Low appeal of there 300ml Higher preference for replacement goods (tea, coffee, mixed fruit drinks) Low brand trust (not directly mentioned in case there was a govt ban ) China No issues dealing with pricing Usa Stale market Stagnat sales Heavy competition with pepsi Stale consumer demand Price decrimination No room for open expantion without direct competition High margins on concentrate allows for price undercutting c. Relationships among important issues India The low purchase power of the byers (make about 100 Rs a day) causes the people to view the 300ml (@10 Rs) and above as to expensive. The higher price and decreased brand trust caused lower consumption among lower income in rural areas. This lower consumption caused many store front to remove or not carry the brand. China No pricing issues so no relationships Usa The stale state of the market has eased sales growth and consumer demand. The Intense rivalry between pepsi cause wars on price suppliers spokespeople retail space and consumer interest. d. Relationships of case issues to aim of the company Indian The low income of India B and low interest in...
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...Globalization Beginning in the 1920’s building their global network, Coca-Cola is now the “world's leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, used to produce nearly 400 beverage brands in over 200 countries” (Coca-Cola, 2004). Competing globally is a difficult task due to the unpredictability of foreign markets (Bateman &Snell, 2003). Coca-Cola not only recognized the opportunity in the global market but was able to expand successfully. Canada and Panama were the start of their global market in 1906. Since then they have expanded throughout the world. Coca-Cola successfully meets consumer’s tastes globally; as a result 70% of their income is from outside the United States (Coca-Cola, 2004). Coca Cola plays a major in its industry, not only in the U.S, but also all over the globe. Coke is single handedly the most popular soft drink anywhere, beating out its competition, Pepsi Co. Overseas, Coke has established its empire from South America to Africa to all of Asia and Europe. Coke is the world's top soft-drink company. The Coca-Cola Company owns four of the top five soft-drink brands (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite). Among its other brands are Barq's, Fruitopia, Minute Maid, PowerAde, and Dasani water. In the US it sells Group Danone's spring water brands (Dannon and Sparkletts). Coca-Cola sells Crush, Dr Pepper, and Schweppes outside Australia, Europe, and North America. The firm, which does no bottling...
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...Group Case Study TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW OF COCA-COLA 3 HISTORY 3 MANAGEMENT 3 DISTRIBUTION 5 SIZE OF COMPANY 5 LOCATIONS OF FACILITIES & CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 6 STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 6 COCA-COLA’S VISION 7 PRODUCT LINES, CUSTOMERS, AND MARKET SECTORS 8 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 9 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION 9 HORIZONTAL ANALYSIS 10 VERTICAL ANALYSIS 12 LIQUIDITY ANALYSIS 14 EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS 15 SOLVENCY ANALYSIS 17 PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS 19 MARKET ANALYSIS 21 CONCLUSION 23 APPENDIX A 24 COCA-COLA’S SUBSIDIARIES 24 APPENDIX B 26 FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS 26 COCA-COLA CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET 26 COCA-COLA INCOME STATEMENT 27 COCA-COLA STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS 28 COCA-COLA’S STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY 29 PEPSI CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET 30 PEPSI CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT 31 PEPSI STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS 32 PEPSI CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF EQUITY 34 VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ANALYSIS 35 REFERENCES 40 OVERVIEW OF COCA-COLA Since its creation in 1886, the Coca-Cola Company has become one of the leading beverage entities throughout the world. In fact, Coca-Cola products are now sold in more than 200 countries. Coca-Cola’s business is centered on its production of beverage concentrates, syrups, and finished products. It is responsible for producing and distributing four of the top five nonalcoholic sparkling beverage brands across the globe. These include Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and...
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...Lesson 5: Be Brave and Creative with Your Content Creation Lesson 4. Move onto Dynamic Story Telling Lesson 3: Create Conversations Lesson 2: Ensure your Content is Linked Lesson 1: Create Liquid Content Yet in 1985 the Coca-Cola Company decided to terminate its most popular soft drink and replace it with a formula it would market as New Coke but The relationship between the arch-rivals had not been a healthy one. In the 1970s, Coke’s chief rival raised the stakes even further by introducing the Pepsi Challenge most of those who participated preferred Pepsi’s sweeter formula. in 1981, Coke’s number one status was starting to look vulnerable. It was losing market share Coke’s market share had slipped to an all-time low of just under 24 per cent. http://brandfailures.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-coke.html With Pepsi gaining ground, Coca Cola launched a product with a different taste In creating New Coke, Coca-Cola was reversing its brand image to overlap with that of Pepsi. The company has made similar mistakes both before and after By going back on its decision to scrap original Coke, the company ended up creating an even stronger bond between the product and the consumer. Biggest mistake was introducing a product it wasn't sure customers wanted Despite the thousands of taste tests Coca-Cola carried out on its new formula, it failed to conduct adequate research into the public perception of the original brand. despite expensive marketing campaigns, consumers...
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...www.GamesWala.com PROJECT REPORT ON COCA-COLA COMPANY SUBMITTED BY: * MUTHU KUMARAN (94) * NIDA MAJEED (103) * RAGHAV KUMAR (125) * RAHUL KALIA (126) * RAHUL NAGPAL (127) * SIMRAN KAUR PAHUJA (192) SUBMITTED TO: DR. KARTIK DAVE Jai Shree Ram, Dosto i am vikas gupta, age 31 years . i start a gaming website named www.GamesWala.com which has PR4 and ratings below 4 lakh. i need here 1 help from you, as i have no money to promote my gaming site,i am running graphic shop with 1 PC (yes 1 PC :) think how i am surviving with 1 PC and a family with 2 kids :P ), I do not know much about how to promote my website, so i decided to talk with you friends to come and join my site and play all the games for free, all games are personally selected by me from thousands of games. I am updating my website daily with lots of awesome games.You can play without register or register you id or you also can play with your facebook ID.hope you all will like my site and play free online games there, and don't forgot to tell your friends about my www.GamesWala.com :) CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - PAGE 2 CHAPTER 1 ...
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...Competition in the Soft Drink Industry: Case Study of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper Krisadee Rungsatcha MBA 500: Essentials of Business Management June 23, 2013 Larry Frazier Abstract The beverage industry nowadays is very competitive. Each brand pushes all strategies to be the number one in the market and try to win more consumers and achieve their goals. The main competitors in these industries are Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Inc., and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in this market and provides the most market share that PepsiCo, Inc. PepsiCo is the second leading company, and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group is the third leading company in soft drink beverage industry. This paper presents three main competitors and focuses on competitive strategies, market strategies, and overall strength of the companies. Also, it discusses a recommendation to improve the Coca-Cola Company’s competitive position. Company Summaries Coca-Cola Company. The Coca-Cola Company is the largest beverage company in the world. The Coca-Cola Company is the leader in the market of nonalcoholic beverages and owns market shares than 500 beverage brands, including sparkling drinks, juice drinks, ready to drink, teas, coffees, and energy drinks, such as vitamin water and Powerade. The Coca-Cola Company also owns the leading brands of the diet and light beverage market, such as Diet Coke and the top five soft drinks:...
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...Coca-Cola case analysis In the decade since the Coca-Cola case was written, the following environmental factors have changed. The market for carbonated drinks has slightly decreased and non-carbonated drinks such as teas, energy drinks, and flavored water have increased in popularity and consumption. There has been a tremendous increase in the use of technology for sales and marketing, internal systems management, product dispensing, etc. The global recession and continuing volatility in the stock market have affected revenues of beverage makers. Coke’s response to the increasing demand for non-carbonated drinks has been to introduce zero or low calorie drinks. One of its stated goals is to innovate with natural sweeteners, which has the potential to lower calories per serving. This is a departure from its past where the company thought that it could dictate public taste, not the other way around (Freedman and Butterfield). Additionally, to address the growing concern over the obesity rate in the US, Coke has decided not to directly market their beverages to children younger than the age of 12. (Coca-Cola). As per the balanced scorecard approach to effectiveness (Daft), in recent years Coca-Cola has been focusing not only on the Financial and Internal Business Process components, but also on the Learning and Growth and Customer components. Since 2001 Coca-Cola has started reporting on its corporate responsibility strategies and programs. The company will publish its first GRI...
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...Submitted By – Raza Zaidi Roll No – 7417 Date – 07-06-2010 Company Name – The Coca Cola Company Industry – Beverage Founded – 1892 Founders - Dr. John Stith Pemberton & Ed Holland Product/s – Coca-Cola Carbonated Soft Drinks Water Other Non-alcoholic beverages Key People – Muhtar Kent (Chairman & CEO) Headquarters - Atlanta, Georgia, United States Website - http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ Company Description The Coca-Cola Company is a beverage company, manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers more than 400 brands in over 200 countries or territories and serves 1.6 billion servings each day. The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. Vision The Coca Cola vision serves as the framework for the Roadmap and guides every aspect of the business by describing what the company needs to accomplish in order to continue achieving sustainable, quality growth. * People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best...
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...With the advance of technology and transportation, growth of World Trade Organizations, increasing acceptance of free trade and many other factors drive the world to be more interdependent. Since the global market is asking for higher efficiency, productivity and choice varieties, products, ideas and even culture are interchanging over the world and are leading it to an integrating and emerging state. Global market allows organizations to gain for more profit and opportunities, but the market is becoming more competitive at the same time. In order to stand out and survive in the market, organization must have clear vision and comprehensive marketing strategies. Over the decades, Coca Cola competed from a local scope to an international scope, from selling one type of Coca-Cola product in United State to selling over 500 different products in the global beverage market, it has been doing a very good job which allow Coca Cola to be the world’s largest beverage company today. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY - Coca Cola is the world’s largest beverage company which manufactures beverage concentrates and syrup to their franchised bottlers who make and deliver the final bottle drink to the market. The Coca-Cola Company was established in 1892 by Asa Candler. Besides the main product Coca-Cola coke, the company currently produces over 500 brands of other beverages and sells to more than 200 countries all over the world. Coca-Cola’s mission is to refresh the world, inspire moments of optimism...
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...Please enter your student numbers and word count on the next page. Please enter your student numbers and word count on the next page. STUDENT NUMBERS: SIRUI GUO (809680)WEIFEI GU (802914) | | WORD COUNT: 2914 | | Contents Executive Summary 1 1. Introduction 2 2. Market Analysis 2 2.1 Market segmentation 2 2.2 Market needs 3 2.3 Segmentation potential 3 2.4 Analysis of current and potential competitors 4 2.5 PESTEL Analysis 5 2.5.1 Political analysis 5 2.5.2 Economic analysis 6 2.5.3 Social analysis 6 2.5.4 Technological analysis 6 2.5.5 Environment analysis 6 2.5.6 Legal analysis 6 3. Market Plan 7 3.1 7P strategy 7 3.1.1 Product 7 3.1.2 Promotion 7 3.1.3 Price 7 3.1.4 Place 8 3.1.5 People 8 3.1.6 Process 8 3.1.7 Physical Environment 8 4. Market Feasibility (Ansoff’s Matrix applying) 9 4.1 Market Development (Opportunity) 9 4.2 Market Penetration 10 4.3 Diversity and Product development (threats) 10 Conclusion 11 Executive Summary The new product of Coco-Cola differs from the existing products diet coke. The opportunity of these products is it unique and sustainable market share. To different from both the existing products and competitors, the new product is low carioles and with diversity fruit flavour. The target market is the young and healthy generation. The diet coke already has the sustainable market with royal customers, so it is easy for this type of customers to accept the new product. The sparkling...
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...Transcript of Coca-Cola photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli PRESENTATION OUTLINE COCA-COLA HERITAGE TIMELINE 1886 -2013 How might Coca-Cola have responded differently when this situation first occured, specially in terms of responsibility to negative perceptions among Indians of Coke and other MNCs? If Coca-Cola wants to obtain more of India's soft drink market, what change does it need to take? Companies like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in demonstrating their commitment to working with different countries and r especting the cultural and natural environments of those societies. WONG KIM MAY ESHA CHOWDHURY KHO XIAN WEI 3.1% of all beverages consumed around the world are Coca-Cola products. DO YOU KNOW? Coke make so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take up 9 years to try them all. Coca-cola's $35.1 billion in revenue makes it the 84th largest economy in the world, just ahead of Costa Rica. The Coca-cola brand is worth an estimated $74 billion : more than Budweiser, Pepsi, Starbucks and Redbull combined. If every drop of Coke ever produced were put in 8-ounce bottles and laid end-to-end, they would reach the moon and back over 2000 times. DO YOU KNOW The red & white Coca-cola logo is recognized by 94% of the World's population. There are 33 non-alcoholic brands that generate over $1 billion in revenue. Coca-cola owns a whopping 15 of them. Around the world, the average person...
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...BMKT01C03 BMKT01C03 Dr. Farid Haddad Dr. Farid Haddad The CocaCola Company Group Report Done by: Yasmeen El Feki 113108 Merna Ashraf 113593 Salma Rakha 112877 Yasmine Mokhtar Yehya Tarek Salem Mady The CocaCola Company Group Report Done by: Yasmeen El Feki 113108 Merna Ashraf 113593 Salma Rakha 112877 Yasmine Mokhtar Yehya Tarek Salem Mady Outline: 1. Coca Cola Background 2. 7 P's 3. Market PESTEL analysis (Egypt) 4. SWOT analysis (Egypt) 5. Competition Analysis 6. Consumer Targeting, Segmentation, Positioning & Differentiation 7. Brief Marketing Plan 8. Creating value for customers and building customer relationships The Coca-Cola Company It is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers more than 500 brands in over 200 countries or territories and serves over 1.7 billion servings each day. The Coca-Cola Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Its stock is listed on the NYSE and is part of DJIA, S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock...
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