Xacc280 Week 9 Financial Analysis
Financial Analysis
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Introduction:
Pepsi Co. and Coca Cola, both are very well known multinational companies. They are so famous that they perhaps don’t need any introduction since almost everyone knows basic info about these companies and their widely used products. Both of these companies have been dealing in the production of flavored waters, plain drinking water and soft drinks for decades now and have always been each other’s competitors in almost all the mainstream products they have been producing.
There are great many players in the same industry; some of them are locally based and the other ones operate internationally, but for years, Coca-Cola has been the fiercest rival of Pepsi Co and vice versa. Being one of the most dynamic transnational organizations, both the companies have their business and manufacturing sites established in overseas countries. Products of PepsiCo and Coca Cola are overwhelmingly loved by people from all of the countries in which they operate.
In fact people from all living classes and income groups find their products highly attractive and addictive. The products and services of the companies overlap since they are direct competitors of each other and each company doesn’t lose any opportunity of earning more than the other one.
The two things of main concern for every business whose operations are shifted and carried out in a land other tan its own homeland are the production management and eventual distribution of its products and services. To ease this up both of the companies have and manage full fledge manufacturing sites in the respective countries for carrying out the day-to-day operations of the two multinationals.
Since they try to compete with each other in every single thing, they use follow up strategies in response to other’s plans and strategies. This means that if PepsiCo devises
Your Name Here
XACC 280
Instructor’s Name
Introduction:
Pepsi Co. and Coca Cola, both are very well known multinational companies. They are so famous that they perhaps don’t need any introduction since almost everyone knows basic info about these companies and their widely used products. Both of these companies have been dealing in the production of flavored waters, plain drinking water and soft drinks for decades now and have always been each other’s competitors in almost all the mainstream products they have been producing.
There are great many players in the same industry; some of them are locally based and the other ones operate internationally, but for years, Coca-Cola has been the fiercest rival of Pepsi Co and vice versa. Being one of the most dynamic transnational organizations, both the companies have their business and manufacturing sites established in overseas countries. Products of PepsiCo and Coca Cola are overwhelmingly loved by people from all of the countries in which they operate.
In fact people from all living classes and income groups find their products highly attractive and addictive. The products and services of the companies overlap since they are direct competitors of each other and each company doesn’t lose any opportunity of earning more than the other one.
The two things of main concern for every business whose operations are shifted and carried out in a land other tan its own homeland are the production management and eventual distribution of its products and services. To ease this up both of the companies have and manage full fledge manufacturing sites in the respective countries for carrying out the day-to-day operations of the two multinationals.
Since they try to compete with each other in every single thing, they use follow up strategies in response to other’s plans and strategies. This means that if PepsiCo devises
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