Competitive Strategies Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi Co Joyce Conyers Strayer University 3 May 2013 BUS 508 Online Course Instructor: Dr. Phyllis Parise Dowers Grove Campus Phone Number: (630)874-6128 / (630)456-2348 Cell phone Question: Choose an industry in which two or more companies has historically competed to maintain a significant share of the marketplace. These could include: Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, Apple and Microsoft, GM and Ford Motor Company, or any other well-known
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Research Proposal Pepsi Determine the current brand loyalty of Generation Y to the Pepsi-Cola brand. Situational Analysis SWOT Analysis PepsiCo Strengths * Branding - One of PepsiCo’s top brands is of course Pepsi, one of the most recognized brands of the world, ranked according to Interbrand. As of 2008 it ranked 26th amongst top 100 global brands. Pepsi generates more than $15,000 million of annual sales. The strength of the Pepsi brand is evident in Pepsi’s presence in over
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Coca-Cola in India 1. What aspects of U.S. and Indian culture may have been a cause of Coke's difficulties in India? There are four areas that of culture differences may cause the Coke’s difficulties in India. First of all, is the spoken and written language. During the contact with the India government, there might comes out some misunderstood with language express. Secondly is the service and empowerment. Asian culture is more conservative and the U.S. pays more attention on empowerment
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table of content External Analysis: 2 Macro environment: 2 Meso environment: 5 Internal Analysis 7 SWOT Analysis Pepsi case: 9 Objectives 10 Marketing Strategy 10 Marketing Plan 12 Product 12 Place 14 Price 14 Budget & Control 15 External Analysis: Macro environment: The environment is constantly changing and therefore also influencing PepsiCo’s operations. Environmental changes which are not directly involved with the company but do influence it can be put in six categories:
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Gupta should focus on in the short term and in the long term? In my opinion the most important thing to focus on short term for Gupta would be to make sure the contamination was contained only to the areas where it was originally discovered. The Coca-Cola brand would be at serious risk from a global standpoint had the news broken out more. The long term problem that Gupta should focus on is obvious, regaining the stock prices that dropped dramatically. So the main goal here would be to focus on new
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that layered positioning - with the undercurrent of achievement - really doesn't cut it for Limca. "It is best for Limca to do what it does best," quips a brand consultant. And so, with its current campaign (Limca wali pyaas) created by Leo Burnett India, that emotional undercurrent has been shown the door, and the brand is back to marketing itself on a purely functional plank - as something that quenches your thirst. Limca has been around since 1971, and in these last 44 years, the one thing that
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“MARKET SURVEY OF RIGHT EXECUTION FOR COCA COLA“ PROJECT REPORT 2009 Submitted for the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award Of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUBMITTED BY NITIN TYAGI 0823170410 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF External: Mr. Alok Agarawal (Area Sales Manager) Internal: Mr. Neeraj Kumar (Lecturer) Department of Management R.D.ENGINEERING COLLEGE, DUHAI, GHAZIABAD 1 DECLARATION I here by declare that this project report prepared in lieu of a compulsory paper
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regards to profit maximization is vital to the firm and the shareholders alike, we will analyze those strategies as well. After reading both of these competitive giants’ histories it is clear to see they are both trend setters in their own rights. Coca-Cola® was being formulated in Atlanta in a pharmacy and selling about 9 drinks a day to now selling over 1 billion servings of Coke products a day. With Coke the product has always been
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COCA-COLA CO THE, SWOT ANALYSIS, IN SOFT DRINKS (WORLD) March 2013 SCOPE OF THE REPORT Scope This global profile focuses on the industry trends in soft drinks. All values expressed in this report are retail/off-trade in US dollar terms using a fixed exchange rate (2012). 2012 figures are based on part-year estimates. All forecast data are expressed in constant terms; inflationary effects are discounted. Conversely, all historical data are expressed in current terms; inflationary
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Contents Executive Summary 3 5C Analysis 4 Company: 4 Collaborators: 5 Customers: 7 Competitors: 9 Climate: 11 Segmentation, Target, Positioning 13 Product Mix 21 Communication 24 Going to market 26 Pricing 27 Coca Cola pricing strategy 28 Coca Cola downgrade due to low cost rivals 29 Price gap blowout 29 Lower prices the answer 30 Profitability 30 Customer Acquisition, Retention and Development 31 Strategies used by companies in the carbonated drinks sector 32 Conclusion
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