Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010 Table of Contents 1 Overview 2 General environmental analysis 3 Industry Analysis 3.1 Industry Structure - U.S. soft drink market share of concentrate producers - Suppliers within the carbonated soft drink industry 3.2 Market Structure - U.S. Liquid Consumption Trend (gallons/capita) - U.S. non-alcoholic refreshment beverage volume 2009 - U.S. soft drink market share – soft drink brands 3.3 Marketing Channels 3.4 Porter’s five forces 4 5 4 2 2 2 2
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between Coke and Pepsi. • Much expansive advertisement for their brand equity Alternative • In this case the second important thing is that the alternative of the CSDs. The local brand in different areas available and these local brands are very low cost and low price. • Consumers using non-CSDs brand. They are moving non-CSDs brands. Introduce New Brands • For Coke and Pepsi have more opportunity to introduce new brands in different taste. These both brand Coke and Pepsi have very strong
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I. Introduction Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been competitors for over a century, but their fiercest competition has risen out of the fight to gain an advantage in the carbonated soft drink (CSD) industry, specifically in the United States. In the beginning, the competition yielded benefits for both firms. They were constantly trying to keep up with the other, which proved to be a mutually beneficial relationship. However, following the end of the millennium, US CSD consumption began to decline.
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NAMED CALEB BRADHAM BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH COMBINATIONS OF SPICES, JUICES AND SYRUPS, TRYING TO CREATE A REFRESHING NEW DRINK TO SERVE TO HIS CUSTOMERS. HE SUCCEEDED BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS, INVENTING THE BEVERAGE NOW KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS ... PEPSI-COLA. 3 PEPSI’S BEGINNINGS PEPSI’S BEGINNINGS Caleb Bradham knew that to keep people returning to his pharmacy, he would have to turn it into a gathering place. Like many pharmacists at the turn of the century, he had a soda fountain in his
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Challenges in the Global Business Environment ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Use the Internet to research the code of ethical conduct of one (1) of the following organizations: * AT&T * Hershey Company * Coca-Cola * Chevron Next, use the Internet to research the code of ethical conduct of two (2) similar companies
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Faculty of Management and Tourism ROOM 201 - BUILDING CTEL: 35535728 | HANOI UNIVERSITYKm 9 Nguyen Trai Road, Thanh Xuan Bac, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi - VietnamTelephone:(84 4) 8544338, Facsimile:(84 4) 8544550, E-mail:hufs@netnam.vn, Website: www.hufs.edu.vn-------------------------------------------POM ASSIGNMENT | Statement of authorship Student name: Nguyen Quang Huy, Ta Tuong Phuoc, Trinh Duc Son, Nguyen Thanh Vien. Class: __
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Responsible Culture COMPANY OVERVIEW PepsiCo is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world. It manufactures and sells eighteen brands of beverages and snack foods and generates over $98 billion in retail sales. PepsiCo encompasses the Pepsi Cola, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Quaker, and Gatorade brands and offers products in over 200 countries. It currently holds 36 percent of the total snack food market share in the U.S. and 25 percent of the market share of the refreshment beverage industry
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the use of social media marketing has increased dramatically for businesses, the advantages and disadvantages of social media marketing for entrepreneurs, how Pepsi has gain an edge with customer insight with the use of social media marketing, the impact that social media marketing will have over the next decade, and the skills need to take advantages of social media marketing. I will also provide two businesses that use social media marketing and how their use allows them to gain an edge on competition
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to decide how to set the product apart from the competition and how to employ the difference to capitalize on sales. The marketer should also know the lifecycle of the goods and know when to take advantage of the success of the good. Marketers do these things by studying the competitiveness of the good and take a more practical approach to accepting when the goods lifespan will end. The first step in finding the market fit for a product is market differentiation. Attributes and Bargaining Power The
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consumer brands. Opted brands are Coke and Pepsi. These are from the soft drink product line and have been chosen because these are widely used consumer product brands all over the world, and results and conclusions can cover the consumer’s attitudes toward the competitive brands. Furthermore, both brands have been the prominent and standing brands among the beverage around the globe. The project will focus on determining the attitudes of Coke and Pepsi consumers. During the project, data will be
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