launched and The Really Wild Drinks Company is established - 2007 Robinsons Smooth and Fruit Shoot 100% launched - 2008 PepsiCo awards Britvic a 15 year bottling agreement for V Water - 2008 PepsiCo awards Britvic a 7 year bottling agreement for Gatorade - 2009 PepsiCo awards Britvic a 4 year bottling agreement for Lipton Ice Tea Part II: Marketing Mix Strategies a. Market Britvic’s soft drinks become most popular drink in summer among adults and children. Major supermarkets, local shops
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variety of salty, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, and foods through North American and international business divisions (Navigator). Within PepsiCo one can find them merged with Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Quaker, and Gatorade. Coca-Cola manufactures carbonated and non-carbonated beverages. New beverages joined Coca-Cola’s line up, including Minute Maid, Powerade, and Dasani bottled water. Coca-Cola is throughout Northern American and international business divisions
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Medical studies linking soda consumption to childhood obesity will begin to eat away at PepsiCo’s profits. Acquiring Quaker Oats (the maker of Gatorade) will allow PepsiCo to expand further into the noncarbonated drink business. The $13.4 billion stock acquisition (Sorkin & Winter, 2000) of Quaker Oats will seem like a bargain once profits from Gatorade and the Quaker snacks start rolling in. PepsiCo has the means and capability to distribute beverages AND snacks, as Frito Lay is their largest
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flavored rice and pasta products, mixes and syrups, hominy grits and cornmeal in North America. Products manufactured and sold include Quaker oatmeal, Cap'n Crunch, and Life cereals, Rice-A-Roni products, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, and Quaker grits. Gatorade, a key brand in Quaker’s portfolio, had long been on PepsiCo’s wish list. On October 5, 2000, an investment-banking team from Merrill Lynch met with the top executives of PepsiCo to discuss a possible business combination between PepsiCo and Quaker
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Quaker Oats was in many businesses including Aunt Jemima pancake flour, Cap’n Crunch cereals, Fisher-Price toys, restaurants and candies. Until 1990 Quaker was still adding new products – everything from clothiers and opticians to Stokely-Van Camp, Gatorade, and Gaines dog food. A prime acquisition was Anderson Clayton & Company, a Houston food-products company that boasted such popular brands as Seven Seas salad dressings, Chiffon margarine, and Igloo ice chests. Then a downturn in 1990 convinced
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over 30% share in United states alone. Pepsi has many brands in soft drinks alone namely mountain dew, diet pepsi, mirinda etc. Also pepsi has expanded its reach to other products like quaker oats, Tropicana fruit juice, lays potato chips, cheetos, Gatorade etc. One of the Pepsi’s popular product was its ‘ Diet Pepsi’. It was introduced in 1964. Its main highlight was that it was a sugar free drink making it available to all larger section people. It had zero calories and also very less sugar content
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Case Analysis of the Alternative Beverage Marketplace Companies around the world are fighting for position in their industries. The completive world of alternative beverages is no different. The companies involved in this epic battle for market share all are challenged with the three questions outlined by Arthur A. Thompson “What’s the company’s present situation? What should the company’s future direction be and what performance targets should we set?” (Thompson, 2012) The
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also deliver on our purpose agenda, which consists of human, environmental, and talent sustainability.” PepsiCo: Products * Pepsi-Cola * Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Mug Root Beer, Sierra Mist, Slice, Aquafina, SOBE, Lipton… * Gatorade * Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Propel Fitness Water, Tiger Woods Line, G2… * Frito-Lay * Grandmas Cookies, Oberto Jerky, Miss Vickie's Potato Chips, TrueNorth, Flat Earth… * Tropicana * Premium Juices, Tropicana Twister, Dole, Naked
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Opportunities for Action in Consumer Markets Trading Up: The New Luxury and Why We Need It Trading Up: The New Luxury and Why We Need It In the history of man, there have always been goods reserved for the upper classes. In ancient Rome, the elite built lavish marble baths for entertaining friends and allies, while the masses waited in line at public baths. In late-eighteenth-century France, the aristocracy turned to saddle maker Hermès for the perfect seat, while commoners had to walk through
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Case Study – THE THIRST QUENCHER Gatorade is a dominant product in the sports drink market, however Gatorade is only one brand in the stables of the PepsiCo Company. Therefore, before talking about Gatorade it is appropriate to talk about the company that owns the brand. This Company is currently PepsiCo, whom bought out Quaker Oats in late 2000 and in the process acquired the Gatorade brand. Corporate Context PepsiCo’s mission: “To be the world’s premier consumer products’ company focused
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