The Acquisition of Snapple by Quaker Oats In an effort to raise the company’s growth rate and avoid a takeover.Quaker Oats‚ acquired Snapple beverage corporation for $1‚7 billion‚a price considered by many to be valued a billion too much. Snapple captured a significant loyal following by being an innovator in the ready-to-drink tea.The RTD tea segment of the beverage market was a quick developing area with promising returns ‚that’s why it attracted giants like coca cola and Pepsico‚ who entered
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Henry Parsons Crowell founder Quaker Oats. He was an American businessman and humanitarian. He had numerous accomplishments and impacted the lives of millions of people‚ but most importantly‚ he was known as a Christian man who funded many Christian initiatives (Giants for God‚ 2013). He was one who also had good leadership skills‚ which helped to make him one of the most successful business moguls of his time. Still today‚ rice cakes‚ shakes‚ know the name Quaker Oats in households around the world;
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POSITIONING Quaker Oats – Brand Equity and Positioning Abstract Brand equity and positioning are integral parts of any marketing campaign. Any product or service needs to provide value to its customers in order to be successful. A personal interview and research reveal information about the Quaker Oats brand‚ how it created equity and its position in the market. Having a solid foundation and keeping up with changes in trends and society are the keys to a successful brand. Quaker Oats – Brand Equity
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The Pursuit of Synergy: Quaker Oats-Snapple Acquisition Professor Sherif A. Ebrahim Corporate Strategy‚ Spring 2012 May 1‚ 2012 Pauline Guittard Linn Gustafsson T.J. Henry Jr. Sevinc Ulu Brittany Williams Many successful businessmen and women have concluded that the most successful acquirers are also the most disciplined. In order to secure a lucrative and profitable acquisition all strategic alternatives ought to have been considered and prudently explored. Furthermore‚ a clear operating strategy
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discussion with The Quaker Oats Company about a potential business combination. Gatorade‚ a key brand in Quaker’s portfolio‚ had long been on PepsiCo’s wish list. On October 5‚ 2000‚ an investment-banking team from Merrill Lynch met with the top executives of PepsiCo to discuss a possible business combination between PepsiCo and Quaker. The goals of the meeting were: • To assess the value of Quaker’s businesses; • To estimate potential synergies associated with a Pepsi-Quaker merger; and • To come
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Materiel Acquisition Management MGT 5084 Case Study – A Supplier Alliance At Quaker Oats Gatorade product is a type of flavored non-carbonated sports drink manufactured by PepsiCo and derived from the school’s football team‚ the Gators. In 1983‚ Quaker Oats Company purchased Gatorade sports drink which later acquired by PepsiCo in 2001. Gatorade is known as the 4th-largest brand of PepsiCo‚ in term of worldwide annual retail sales. Some of its competitors were Powerade‚ Vitaminwater worldwide
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Oats and the Effects on Cholesterol Do they really lower cholesterol or is the claim used for marketing schemes? Studies have been done‚ and they show that eating Oatmeal does lower cholesterol. According to an article written by Charles G. Humble‚ Oatmeal’s fiber content (7%) is low compared to that of oat brans (15-26%). The study that was done showed that oat bran consumption was associated with twelve percent reduction in total cholesterol compared with wheat bran consumption. In this
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Also known as OATS (Orthogonal Array testing Strategy)‚ this is a combinatorial testing method. The Orthogonal Arrays were originally discovered by Monks later absorbed by Statistical groups. Dr. Genichi Taguchi proposed this technique in test design and his technique was known as Taguchi Methods. Orthogonal arrays are two dimensional arrays in which choosing any two columns in the array gives an even distribution of all the pair-wise combinations of values in the array. OATS is effective in
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salespeople responsible for selling extruded titanium products at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corporation. The failure was due to a lack of understanding of the following components: Organization Communication Culture Structure Directives Interpersonal The principle error Maureen made was underestimating how significant company culture could impact decision-making at every responsibility level. Even though Quaker had strict functional reporting lines‚ the organization supported
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. 12 b. PepsiCo’s Acquisition of Quaker Oats ………… 12 c. Quaker boosts Pepsi’s results ………… 13 4. Merger transaction analysis ………………… 14 a. Target Firm Valuation ………………… 17 b. Discounted Cash Flows ………………… 17 c. Consolidated Cash flows ………………… 18 d. Test of Merger Performance ………………… 19 e. Evaluation and Prognosis ………………… 19 5. References ………………… 22 Pepsi and Quaker merger analysis Introduction: This case
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