1. General Information on Coca Cola 1.1 Description of Coca-Cola Co. and its history Coca-Cola started as a cure for the addiction to morphine. After Colonel John Pemberton was injured in war and addicted to morphine‚ he looked into ways to find a cure for the addiction and finally in 1886‚ the first non-alcoholic version of a French Coco Wine called Coca-Cola was made. Today the Coca-Cola Company is a conglomerate focused on beverage manufacture‚ retail and marketing. It produces non-alcoholic
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Assessment 1 Case Study Report of Coca Cola Company Hang LU S81293 Executive Summary The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world ’s largest beverage company‚ largest manufacturer‚ distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States. 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
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understand that Coca Cola has faced several crises in the past. On February 2003‚ CSE (Center for Science and Environment)‚ an activist group in India has already brought the issue about Coca-Cola’s Kinsley Bottled water which was declared containing pesticides residues‚ six months before they brought up the same issue about Coca Cola. Since Coca Cola India remained silent about the first issue‚ the buzz was created and spread‚ made it even harder to maintain the situation. While in 1997‚ Coca Cola also had
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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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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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5. References & Appendices --------------------------- 36 1. Introduction The Coca-Cola Company is the world ’s largest nonalcoholic beverage company. They own or license and market more than 500 nonalcoholic beverage brands‚ primarily sparkling beverages but also a variety of still beverages such as waters‚ juices‚ ready-to-drink teas and coffees‚ energy and sports drinks‚ and etc. Along with Coca-Cola‚ which is recognized as the world ’s most valuable brand‚ they own and market four of
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Coca-Cola Managing Resource Constraints in China Background China is a major and expanding market for Coca-Cola. Surging sales in emerging markets like China and India have been credited for Coke’s best sales growth for almost nine years with sales rising 19% from 2007 (The Times‚ 2007). According to President of Coca-Cola China‚ Doug Jackson‚ the company currently counts China as it’s fourth-largest market in terms of revenue‚ although it is expected to overtake Brazil to become its third-largest
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Discuss the Organizational Culture of Coca-Cola. Is it a strong culture? Why? The culture of the Coca-Cola organization is mission driven; focused on refreshing the mind‚ inspiring optimism‚ and making a difference. The rich history of the organization has allowed the company to compile hundreds of stories of consumers and employees. These stories share real life examples of what Coca-Cola Company that they created a museum in Las Vegas that focuses on the stories of customers. After visitors heard
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On Tuesday‚ April 23‚ 1985 The Coca Cola Company announced that it would change the formula of its flagship soft drink; a formula that had been America’s favorite for 100 years. Kansas newspaper editor William Allen White said‚ “Coca Cola is the sublimated essence of all that America stands for. A decent thing honestly made [and] universally distributed.” (As cited in Oliver‚ 1986‚ p.4) How could Coca Cola have tampered with the taste of a drink that was distributed to 155 countries and consumed
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Case #4 Fizz Factor 1) The Coca-Cola Company in my opinion has all the resources listed in the chapter. They have been such a successful organization over the years that they posses; financial‚ physical‚ human‚ intangible‚ and structural-cultural resources. It is because of their Global nature that I believe that they have these resources‚ and these are needed to for organizations to have capabilities and core competencies. Understanding that because Coca-Cola is such a global brand it means that
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