RUNNING head: THE COCA-COLA MARKETING MIX The Coca-Cola Marketing Mix 1 2 THE COCA-COLA MARKETING MIX Abstract The marketing mix is known as the 4 P’s or the product‚ price‚ place and promotion of Marketing. It is a marketing strategy that company’s use to estimate the value and determine the methods of advertising and distributing its products. Coca-Cola has been long admired for its approach to marketing. Over its 127 year history‚ Coca-Cola’s efforts to refine and perfect its
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Spenser Garrison Strategic Management 3/17/10 Case 1: Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2006 The soft drink industry is very competitive for all companies involved. Recently the competition between established firms has only increased with the market nearing its saturation point. All companies in the industry‚ especially those thinking about entering‚ have to think about Porter’s 5-Forces model and the pressures it outlines; rivalry among establish firms‚ risk of entry by potential
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Marketing Ethics- Coca Cola Introduction The society is becoming increasing concerned about the ethical values adopted by its companies. Marketing ethics addresses principle and standards that define acceptable conduct in the marketplace.(Linda) Marketing unethical means that the action is legal‚ but it actually is wrong. Some companies may promote the marketing ethics in order to increasing their reputation. However‚ some companies may violate the ethical values in order to earn more profits
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Campaign Critique Introduction Coca Cola‚ the world’s greatest and most successful brand for soft drinks was introduced in the year 1886. Coca Cola has had a lot of memorable images/advertisements which are seen as an icon for Coca Cola. One of these images is the image of the polar bear. Coca Cola’s advertisements/print advertisements have featured polar bears from as far back as 1922 and have had a lot of memorable moments‚ such as in the year 1993‚ where an advert was released of the polar
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business profile of Coca-Cola‚ and its historical prospective. In May 1886‚ Coca-Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton a pharmacist from Atlanta‚ Georgia. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton’s bookkeeper Frank Robinson who was the first to script "Coca-Cola" into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today. Until 1905‚ the soft drink‚ marketed as tonic‚ contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut. As we know‚ every new product in its introductory
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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
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Module 2 The Coca-Cola Company Struggles with Ethical Crisis 1. What role does corporate reputation play within organizational performance and social responsibility? Develop a list of factors or characteristics that different stakeholders may use in assessing corporate reputation. Are these factors consistent across stakeholders? Why or why not? Having a good reputation is the most important factor for any business. A corporation can spend many decades building a good reputation with the
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Coca-Cola is the world’s largest beverage company. They employee over 146‚000 employees offer over 3‚000 products worldwide and operate in over 200 countries. The company was founded in 1886 but it wasn’t until 1891 when an Atlanta business man secured the rights to the company that the vision of Coca-Cola was established and their expansion begun. In 1899 Coca-Cola’s first bottler relationship was established. This bottling relationship allowed the company to grow aggressively and expand into
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for Coca-Cola Company The soft drink industry is very competitive for all corporations involved‚ with the greatest competition being that from rival sellers within the industry. All soft drink companies have to 7 think about the pressures; that from rival sellers within the industry‚ new entrants to the industry‚ substitute products‚ suppliers‚ and buyers. The competitive pressure from rival sellers is the greatest competition that Coca-Cola faces in the soft drink industry. Coca-Cola‚ Pepsi
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Assignment The government charged the Coca-Cola Company with marketing and selling a beverage that was injurious to health. They charged the company with producing a beverage that produced serious mental and motor deficits due to the use of synthetic caffeine. They also claimed that Coca-Cola was misbranded because its name implied that the product contained coca‚ yet it did not contain the whole coca leaf (because the cocaine was removed) and the name constituted a
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