Cola Wars Continue: Coke vs. Pepsi in the 1990s Case Study By Shamika Shoulders CSUDH -Management 490 May 26‚ 2013 SWAT Analysis Company: PEPSI Strengths • The Brand Name • They appealed to the youth "Pepsi Generation" to help build it consumer base and increase its market share. The youth is a large majority of the population. • Core Strong Competencies in managing the capital-intensive bottling business. Weaknesses • Location- little efforts in the international market.
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The Coca Cola and Pepsi War 1. Why is the soft drink industry so profitable? * The soft drink industry remains profitable because of the market share based on Porters Five Forces. * Coke has protected its recipe for over a hundred years as a trade secret‚ and has gone to great lengths to prevent others from learning its cola formula. The company even left a billion-person market (India) to avoid revealing this information. As a result of extended histories and successful advertising
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Alternative solutions: 1. Coca Cola can start using healthy sweeteners like Stevia‚ Agava juice or honey. There is a growing trend of getting closer to nature all around the world. This is in accordance with lifestyle strategy: “Cola is good for you and makes you feel better”. This would make people realize that company cares about their health and way of living. Advantages: * trend of healthy living * lower price sensitivity of the market for healthy or bio food * relatively
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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pepsi Cola produces Philippine Inc (PCPPI) grew its net income last year by 192 percent to 44 million on the back of double digit growth in volume and softer sugar prices. For the fourth quarter alone‚ net profit doubled to 147 million on gross sales of 6.2 billion. Volume grew by 21 percent for the quarter; bringing full-year volume growth to an average of is percent across brands and categories. Gross sales for the full year rose percent to P22.73 billion. “This is a significant
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were usually on a long term contract with the big companies and could not easily sign a contract with a new direct competing enterer. Two major players Coca cola and Pepsi have about three quarters of the soft drinks market were fiercely competing with advertising‚ creating new products and expanding new territories‚ without going into price war. The major products for the soft drink industry were not hard to find – carbonated water‚ sugar‚ bottles‚ so the only one that gave power for the suppliers
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9-711-462 REV: MAY 26‚ 2011 DAVID B YOFFIE RENEE KIM Cola Wars Contiinue: Coke C an nd Pepsi in 20110 oke and Pepsi vied for “t hroat share” o of the world’ss beverage m market. For more than a century‚ Co The most intense battles in the so-called colla wars weree fought over the $74 billio on carbonated soft drink (CSD) industry in the Un nited States.1 In a “carefu ully waged co ompetitive strruggle” that llasted from 1975 through the mid-199 90s‚ both Cok ke and Pepsi achieved average annual
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Thoma Bravo – Citect Corporation (HBS 9-209-022) Study Questions 1. Do you think TB or Schneider would create more value as the owner of Citect? 2. TB would assume what risks if they are the winning bidder? 3. Should TB continue to bid on Citect and at what price? Are the expected ROIs and IRRs to TB sufficient at your revised bid amount? (* note: a detailed evaluation model will be constructed during the class session *) Study Questions 1. Is Newell just another conglomerate? How
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The New Cola Wars: Coca-Cola Still Number One Coca-Cola has long been a world leader in cola products‚ with Pepsi being the only competitor coming even remotely close to removing them from their number one spot. However‚ with increasing globalization comes increasing fear that the success of domestic products may falter. In turn‚ this results in an increase in domestic producers of similar products in an effort to increase domestic success and limit control of foreign
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products that go head to head. Coca Cola and Pepsi are an example of such reveries. There has been many taste test and competitions that involved the soda kings. This reverie has been going on for over a century. (See appendix 1) The start of this long standing soda war began 1886 when creator John S. Pemberton developed the original recipe for Coke. Then 13 years later Pepsi creator pharmacist Caleb Bradham developed his formula. By this time Coca-Cola was already fulfilling order that totaled
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Cola Wars Compare the economics of the concentrate business to that of the bottling business: Why is the profitability so different? The returns received by concentrate producers differ from those received by bottlers for several reasons … Concentrate producers: Capital investment. Concentrate production business is less capital intensive than bottling. It requires less funds to be invested in machinery‚ labor and modernization. "A typical concentrate manufacturing plant cost about $25 million
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