...Final Individual Assignment: Coca-Cola 1.) Q: What have been the key success factors for Coca Cola? A: According to an online Strategic Management lecture, the key success factors of Coca-Cola can be summed up as the following: strong global presence, licensed bottlers, high utilization of fixed assets, advertising and differentiation, well-recognized and cherished brand name, retail and distribution network, product innovation capabilities, and breadth of product line. Coca-Cola’s widespread product usage, throughout over 200 countries, demonstrates its global presence- proving why it has been such a powerful and dominating company. Maintaining strict contracts with licensed bottlers and utilizing specific bottling systems keeps the company diverse and progressive. The company also prospers greatly because of its buying/selling networks and numerous product lines. Varying from country to country, the company’s line provides options that would fit each unique consumer’s personal preferences. Coca-Cola’s particular product positioning aids its advertising strategies and helps to keep its name memorable and recognizable. From its holiday commercials to its catchy jingles, it’s no wonder why this brand is a household name. The innovation and creativity within have kept the company thriving for decades. 2.) Q: Where is Coca Cola vulnerable? What should they watch for? A: According to the critical Forbes.com article “Coca-Cola's Problems Reflect a Giant Losing Relevance”...
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...Strategy Q1: Assessment of environmental issues affecting Coca Cola Provide a detailed assessment of the environmental issues affecting Coca Cola global business and marketing strategy. Given guidance in terms of opportunities or threats they may pose for the company in the future. Lo; illustrate how marketing decisions are affected by various forces in the external business environment “WATER is to Coca-Cola as clean energy is to BP.” So declares Jeff Seabright, Coca-Cola's manager of environmental affairs, when asked about the firm's new global water strategy. The fizzy-drinks maker unveiled that strategy as part of its annual environmental report, released this week. “We need to manage this issue or it will manage us,” says Mr Seabright. At first sight, the analogy with oil may seem odd, but it is not so far-fetched. Big Oil has long been the target of activists clamouring for action on global warming. BP stole a march on its oily brethren by accepting that climate change is a real problem, making smallish investments in clean energy, and grandly proclaiming itself “beyond petroleum”. Coca-Cola has also been targeted by activists, but over the issue of water rather than energy. The firm has been hit hardest in India. First, experts from Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment, a green think-tank, tested various soft drinks and determined that they contained high levels of pesticide. It turned out that Coca-Cola was not the cause of the problem. But its inept handling...
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...“Coca-Cola” is a global company which has dedicated a song to make people across the globe for creating awareness of its popularity. “Coca- Cola” is the second most spoken word in the world. The coca cola company offers more than 3500 products in 200 countries and has a history of 126 years. The environmental factors influence the marketing decisions of Coca Cola Company. The marketing decisions are often influenced by changes and impacts in technological environment. Factors like foreign corrupt practices, ethics and social responsibility on marketing decisions are discussed and covered in this paper. Coca Cola is not seen as just soft drinks, but as a global organisation which has presence in more than 200 countries offering 3500 products. Developing the brand image of the coke as a truly international and global product is the new and foremost marketing strategy of the company. Methods used by the company for marketing the product internationally and domestically are advertisement through televisions across the globe, advertisements on spill boards, magazines and various other methods. In 1927 onwards company started marketing products, but it could not continue marketing because of communist policies in china till 1979. Thereafter Chinese government opened and allowed entry to the market. The Chinese market is mainly influenced by environmental factors because of the success of different products in smaller and rural markets. The company was unwilling to sell the products...
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...Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness 1 Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Cherise Bacon Dr. Williams BUS 499 - Business Administration Capstone April 16, 2014 Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness 2 Coca Cola declares that their company serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions. * To refresh the world * To inspire moments of optimism and happiness * To increase value and make a difference Coca Cola vision serves as the framework for our roadmap and guides every aspect of their business by describing what the need 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 they can be. Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality beverage brands the antipate and satisfy people’s desires and needs. Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers together to create mutual, enduring value. Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping build and support sustainable communities. Profit: Maximize long-term return to share owners while being mindful of their overall responsibilities. Productivity: Be highly effective, lean and fast organization. (By Coca-Cola company). Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness...
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...Case Study #2 Cola Wars Management 5650 Fall 1 October, 17, 2013 Introduction There has been stiff competition between companies that produce similar goods. This competition is alive and well, especially in situations where there is need for a multiple of companies that offer similar goods and services to counter monopoly. However, these wars can take a different turn and bring changes to general operations of some firms (Long & Harding, 1998). Coca Cola and Pepsi are such companies that produce soft beverages, and the wars between these cola firms are far from over. In the recent past, Pepsi has made essential changes in its line of production, and this decision has enabled the beverage firm earn more revenue than Coca Cola. This case study will look at the strategies that both Coca Cola and Pepsi have adopted in their recent operations and the effects of these policies on the two beverage firms’ operations. Pepsi has made use of the application of the Pearce and Robinson Strategic Management Model to outplay Coca Cola in most of its internal strategic operations. This strategic management model has eleven components, and each component plays an important role toward the full implementation of the model as a system (Pearce-Robinson, 2010). Indra Nooyi, the boss at the Pepsi Co. has made several steps to counter Coca Cola’s high quality products. One of her major concern has been to produce less sugary goods at fairly pocket friendly prices. She has applied the eleven...
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...Cola Wars Tonya Hall October 1, 2012 Executive Summary Coca-Cola Company is a leading manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of non-alcoholic drinks in the United States and all over the world. It is a multinational company that has market presence in almost all countries of the world. The company has also diversified from its initial soft drinks to manufacture fruit juices and other non-soda beverages. Its objective has been to maintain its global leadership in the supply of beverages and other non-soda beverages through maintaining high quality production methods that ensure that the name and products remain a household brand. Coca-Cola Company I. Current Situation The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. It is one of the most recognized soft drink brands in the world. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John S. 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 (“Coca-cola management”, 2012). Asa Candler heavily promoted his product through the distribution of coupons for complimentary glasses of Coca-Cola and the distribution of souvenirs depicting the company trademark. Within three years of incorporation, Asa Candler announced that the beverage was being consumed in every state and territory...
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...Strategic Choice and Evaluation Strategic decisions are an important factor to help with growth within an organization. Coca-Cola analysis trends in buying from the consumer in each market unit and provides the products that consumers want. Being able to analysis the trends will help the company to be able to set up goals to be able to grow. This paper will discuss value discipline, generic strategy, grand strategy to help the company realize growth, and a recommendation on what can be done to help the company grow. Value Discipline Value disciplines are a model that was created to describe three generic value that companies can adopt these values are operational excellences, product leadership, and customer intimacy (Business Dictionary website, n.d.). Coca-Cola has recently rolled out the Operational Excellent (OE) Site Lead within all of the facilities. This new position is in place to drive the OE culture, built OE capability, and to deliver the OE vision across the facility. The OE site lead is responsible to provide expertise, training and leadership on Lean Principles and Structured Problem Solving to all employees. Other programs that OE has led to are Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Total Quality Management (TQM) Recently Coca-Cola has been rolling out a new program called Total Productive Maintenance. This Total Productive Maintenance is a maintenance program that involves a newly defined concept for maintaining facility and equipment. The goal of the Total...
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...Babar, Jagmeet, Manjot, Harman, Giridhar, Vamshi, Sheetal | Table of Contents Introduction 3 Customer Perception 5 Process Management 7 Global delivery Network 8 Concentrate 10 Licensing Agreement 12 Bottling Plant 13 Logistics Management 14 Packaging 15 Transportation Modes 17 Reduction in Cost 17 Agile/Adaptability 18 Responsiveness 19 Resilience 21 Sourcing 22 SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) 23 CRM (Customer Relationship management) 23 Distribution Method 24 Reference 25 Introduction The operations of Coca Cola are administered by the distributed management principles across the world and this has been achieved by setting separate management and operational teams in those areas. The supply of Coca Cola to the customers is made possible through company’s own participation and through the strategic partnerships with the bottlers, chemical providers and the delivery facilitators. The company has the tradition of changing the operating structures according to the fluctuations in the market place. The global strength of Coca Cola has been attained by the company through its strategic partners and it is important to note that there 250 bottling partners across the world. This not only facilitates the operational procedures for the company but also minimizes the chances of any weak grip over the supply chain issues. The Coca Cola is not a single managerial perspective or legal entity and further, the company is also not controlling or owning all of the bottling...
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...ANALYSIS OF COCA COLA COMPANY Ltd. Introduction Coca-Cola Company Limited is the world’s largest beverage company as well as the leading producer of soft drinks. The company has spent millions of dollars in the research and development as well as marketing and production in order to create a new unique product to gain the advantages in the so-competitive market. This report is basically focused on how Coca-Cola Company Limited can analyze the market situation and use the best strategies in order to compete with other competitors in the global market. This report will also include the SWOT analysis of the company and the problems the company faced. The strategies used, recommendations and plan implementations will also be examined in this paper. History and Background Coca-Cola Company Ltd. starts from the discovery of Coca-Cola mixture by the Dr. John Pemberton who tried to mix the caramel mixture with carbonated water. In the first few year, he only sold one kind of products, but now is the wold largest producer of non-alcoholic beverages. Coca Cola Company Ltd.. is listed as the most valuable firm in the world. They owned over 300 brands in over 200 countries and serving carbonated soft drink and non-carbonated beverages such as fruit juice, fruit drink, sports drinks, coffees and bottled water. Not only preserving and operating in their existing brand, Coca-Cola Co. also develops new global and local brands to reach, attract and satisfy broader range of consumers...
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...Bahria University Department of Management Sciences MBA Program Strategic Management (Sm) Report on “Strategic Management of Coca Cola Company” PRESENTED TO: Sir Naveed m khan PRESENTED BY: * RAFIA ALAM * Irsa afzal * Saira Urf Sana * Sana Anjum * Hina Majeed MBA-6A Dated: 22nd May, 2013 Acknowledgement We have the pearl of our eyes to admire blessing of the compassionate and omnipotent because the words are bound, knowledge is limited and time is short to express His dignity. It is one of the infinite blessings of almighty ALLAH that He bestowed us with potential and ability to complete the present training and make a material contribution towards the deep oceans of knowledge. This report reflects the efforts of few people who assist us in its preparation. First we avail this opportunity to bow our head before ALLAH almighty in humility who given us the wisdom and perseverance for completing this piece of report. We invoke peace for Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) who is forever torch. We feel highly privilege to ascribe the most and ever burning flame of my gratitude and deep scene of devotion to the “Sir Naveed M. Khan” who taught us “Strategic Management” with heart and also gave a guideline to this report and guides right from the beginning till the completion of this report. Than we are grateful to Mr. Tabassum Mumtaz (HR Manager) at Coca Cola in Karachi who guides us about their organization, its products their strategies, financial...
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...Assignment Marketing Plan On (Product Coca-Cola) Prepared by Md. Mosaddek Hossen Id # 0220012 Tanima Trina Id#0220063 Sohel Mahmud Id # 0220013 Sabrina Chawdhury Id # : 0000000 Group- Leo Marketing Management Sec-1 Submitted to Mr. Rumman Hassan Lecturer School of Business Independent University, Bangladesh 25th April, 2006 25 April, 2006 Mr. Rumman Hassan Course Instructor Marketing Management School of business IUB, Dhaka-1212 Sub: Letter of transmittal Dear Sir, It’s our great pleasure to submit you this report on Market plan of Coca-cola. We have got a great experience while working on this report. We would like to leave this report to your kind consideration for any unintentional mistake that may accuser while doing this report. We are always at your service if you want to ask us any thing about this report and it will be a great pleasure to work with you again in future. Sincerely yours Md. Mosaddek Hossen Id # 0220012 Tanima Trina Id#0220063 Sohel Mahmud Id # 0220013 Sabrina Chawdhury Id # : Group- Leo Table of Contents Page number Acknowledgement --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Executive Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Beginning of the project -------------------------------------------------------- 7 Preface -------------------------...
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...Coca-Cola Company A Multinational Enterprise The Coca-Cola Company indeed is an MNE because it operates a headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia with other local operations in nearly 200 countries around the world. Coke succeeded as a multinational because of its understanding and appeal to global commonalities (Rugman, A. M. & Collinson, S., 2006). The firm has implements three principles that are assigned to make it more locally responsive, the three principles are: Coca-Cola's three principles * Principles * Description * Operates on a local scale The company modifies its operations to meet local need and institutes a strategy of "think local, act local". Country-by-country basis: It focuses itself as a pure marketing company and pushing its brands on a regional basis and local basis rather than a worldwide basis. Integrates with local environment: Coke is now working to become a model citizen by reaching out to local communities and getting involved in local activities Background of the Coca-Cola Company A carbonated beverage called Coca-cola or often referred as Coke is the world's largest beverage company and the best-known brand in the world. Coca-Cola Company has operated for 124 years since 1886. Coca-Cola was invented by a pharmacist in Atlanta, John Pemberton and he has become one of the global market leaders in the beverage industry (iloveindia.com). The Coca-Cola Company offers over 400 different brands in more than 200 countries worldwide. Coca-Cola...
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...The Marketing Review, 2003, 3, 289-309 www.themarketingreview.com Demetris Vrontis1 and Iain Sharp2 Manchester Metropolitan University Business School and Legal and General The Strategic Positioning of Coca-Cola in their Global Marketing Operation Examines how Coca-Cola has strategically positioned it self within the world’s soft drinks market. Given that they operate in over 200 countries, they are faced with a clear choice of whether to standardise their product offerings globally and reap the potential benefits of economies of scale, adapt their offerings to a particular market (which may facilitate increased market specific penetration), or adopt an integrated approach utilising both approaches simultaneously (Vrontis’ AdaptStand approach). There has been much literature written regarding the external and often uncontrollable factors which may impact upon a firms positioning strategy; this paper looks at these externalities and the internal controllables in order to derive a ‘best fit’ strategic and tactical approach. Moreover, this paper looks at the strategic international positioning of Coca-Cola by utilising a number of models. Keywords: Coca-Cola, global, international, strategy, positioning, adaptation, standardisation, AdaptStand, AdaptStandation, international, marketing, Introduction If we consider business to be akin to war, then perhaps there is no better starting point than the writings of Sun Tzu [circa 400-320 B.C.]. ‘The Art of ...
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...Coca Cola Company and The Management Within Joiss Mardianto Kaplan Higher Education Academy Diploma of Hospitality and Tourism Management Intake 9 Introduction To Management Mahum Jafer December 14 , 2012 ] Abstract This thesis consisted of brief report about Coca Cola Company introduction, including the history of the company and the products it is selling and the management system within the company. This report explores the role of recruitment & selection process of the organization. This report provides a defined role of other departments inthis process, role played by Head Office in this process, internal & external support of different departments in this process. There is provides brief explanations of the company strength in competing with the other competitors and the weakness within the company itself. Table of Contents Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………..... 2 Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Coca Cola Mission and Vision ……………………………………………………….. 5 Environmental Factors ……………………………………………………………….. . 6 Major Factors …………………………………………………………………………… 7 Management Functions in Coca Cola ……………………………………………….. 8 A. Planning and Strategizing …………………………………………………...... 8 B. Organizing ……………………………………………………………………..... 9 C. Leading ……………………………………………………………………….... 10 D. Controlling ……………………………………………………………………… 11 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………...
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...STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY Dinesh Puravankara B Sc (Dairy Technology) Gujarat Agricultural UniversityJ 991 M Sc (Dairy Chemistry) Gujarat Agricultural University, 1994 PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION In the Faculty of Business Administration Executive MBA O Dinesh Puravankara 2007 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Summer 2007 All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author APPROVAL Name: Dinesh Puravankara Degree: Master of Business Administration Title of Project: Strategic Analysis of The Coca-Cola Company. Supervisory Committee: Mark Wexler Senior Supervisor Professor Neil R. Abramson Supervisor Associate Professor Date Approved: SIMON FRASER UNIVEliSITY LIBRARY Declaration of Partial Copyright Licence The author, whose copyright is declared on the title page of this work, has granted to Simon Fraser University the right to lend this thesis, project or extended essay to users of the Simon Fraser University Library, and to make partial or single copies only for such users or in response to a request from the library of any other university, or other educational institution, on its own behalf or for one of its users. The author has further granted permission to Simon Fraser University to keep or make a digital copy for use in its...
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