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Coca Cola History Summary

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HISTORY & BACKGROUND OF COCA COLA The Coca Cola company is known as one of the world’s largest carbonated soft drinks company that began before World War II. It is an American-based company found in 1886 by an Atlanta pharmacist. Dr. John S. Pemberton created the formula of French Wine Coca, which is known as Coca Cola now and introduced the carbonated soft drink as a patent medicine at first. The beverage became more noticeable when Frank M. Robison, Dr. Pemberton’s partner changed the product name and created the famous script logo, which he believed that will attract customer in advertising.The marketing phenomenon grew even bigger when the small company was bought over by Asa Griggs Candler prior of the founder’s death in 1888. Candler 's decision was what made the Coca Cola Company so successful today due to his interest and aggressiveness in marketing this product. Over the years, Coca Cola had faced many challenges in finding its identity in packing until the …show more content…

Thumbs up, Maaza and Kinley are consider as the star product of the Coca Cola Company. This is because the refreshment sold to customers are mainly from India and United Arab Emirates, which contributes the most cash to the company as people consider this as their first choice of carbonated soft drink. The Coca Cola company believes that these three beverages have high growth and a market share.
Cash Cows: A product that generates more money than they require are considered as a cash cow. This is because the product is known as the leaders of an organisation in the marketplace and company take out little fund when investing . Limca and Coca Cola are the cash cows of Coca Cola, which has low growth and high share in the market. These products may not be dominant in the marketplace but is able to grow with the support of loyal customers or those who are a fan of

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John Pemberton was a pharmacist who developed an early version of the soda drink. His expensive addiction to morphine made him desperate to make money. This led him to sell his rights to the drink shortly before he died. The production of Coca Cola led to the creation of bottling plants and factories which provided individuals with jobs where they could work to earn a living. Conditions for people working in the factories (depending on

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Coca Cola became such a well known American Icon because it was a suitable drink for everyday consumption by people of all ages unlike alcoholic drinks and wasn’t bitter like coffee and tea. Also, Coca Cola was always there during hard times in American like the Depression and the Prohibition period. It became well establish by people that journalist William Allen White declared “it was a sublimed essence of all America stands for…” 31. During World War II and the Vietnam War, wherever the American soldiers landed the Coca Cola Company followed, remained the soldiers of home and boosting their morale. The Coca Cola also made factories wherever they landed establishing themselves in every continent on Earth to every known countries and territories.

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Herbert 1: Ira C. Herbert begins his remarks by explaining that the Coca-Cola company has come to the attention with the situation involving the Grove Press Inc. using the slogan, “It’s the Real Thing” to advertise the book Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher. Herbert is utterly demanding when it comes to suggesting to the Grove Press Inc. to advertise the book in a different manner, eliminating the usage “It’s the Real Thing”. For instance, in the letter, he defends possession of the slogan by establishing that the “company has made use of “Its the Real Thing” to advertise Coca-Cola long prior to the publication of the book, we are writing to ask you to stop using this theme or slogan…” (para 2). In other words, the Coca-Cola company is quite

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Coca Cola, also known as soda water, was originally made by Joseph Priestley, and local doctors prescribed it to various ailments (Standage, p.228). Joseph Priestly was also working on other inventions, but stood with soda water because many people were still purchasing the hopeful medicinal libation. Ironically, people back in the day believed Coca Cola was the cure to their illness, but today too much Coca Cola can result in health risks. Coca Cola is made up high fructose corn syrup and a great majority of sugar. With this in mind, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol can result from consuming too much

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That is a monumental number considering there are so many soft drink and beverage choices to select from. Also it is proven that Coke’s market share is seventeen percent higher than the next two competitors. As viewers watch the commercial they conclude that Coke is the number one selling beverage and should be the first choice of beverage. This “must have” mentality ensures that the product is looked at as the prime candidate for consumption because they provide a great taste at a low cost. Coca-Cola also uses kairos to their advantage by airing their advertisement at a great time.

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1. That companies feed off our impulse buying based on the quantity of items that the consumer sees before reaching the items that they originally came for. They make large profits on this, as well as on size differences for cheaply produced items such as soda. 2. To show what the consumers purchase, and to be able to know where to place the items throughout the store.

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Selling for 5 cents a drink, his first year of sales gave him a revenue of $50. A decade later, with the implementation of Prohibition, people began to turn to soda, Coca-Cola becoming the most popular and recognizable of brands. By 1891, the drink was sold nationwide, and new factories began to open in different parts of the country (Geisst). The invention of Coca-Cola in 1886 has made a profound impact on different elements of American culture; socially, religiously, economically, and traditionally, to name a few. Based on social aspects, Coca-Cola brought influence to the American culture.

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A-Four support activities: 1- firm infrastructure and finance : -Strong brand, product, marketplace solution, delivery and support. (brand value from 35$ in 1973 to 10.7 billion in 2014 ). -Empowerment of top management –geographic structure. -Low debt, short term debt 2.9 billion, and long term debt 1.1 billion. Cash in hand 2.2 billion.

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“CASH COW” in this case means as a royalty market which normally comes from the customers that interested in the company’s slogan or the business. “DOG” category means to the thing that company is not good at or not worthy to invest in particular area. In this case fashion is the thing that company has to improve but not literally focus on. “QUESTION MARK” means to customers which does not belong to any category, or it means to the group of customers that did not care about the brand value nor the philosophy of the company. Generally, this group of customers depends on their impression though the brand, this group of customer has the potential to become a “STAR” category, or it can degenerate to a “DOG” if they do not receive a good impression.

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The product “The products that The Coca-Cola Company sells are called nonalcoholic beverages which include numerous nonalcoholic sparkling beverages; various water products, including packaged, flavored and enhanced waters; juices and nectars; fruit drinks and dilutables (including syrups and powdered drinks); coffees and teas; energy and sports and other performance-enhancing drinks; dairy-based drinks; functional beverages; and various other nonalcoholic beverages. These competitive beverages are sold to consumers in both ready-to-drink and other than ready-to-drink form.” (Coca-Cola Company 10-K 2015) (4) The competition market The Coca-Cola Company Competes in the non-alcoholic beverages part of the commercial beverages industry.

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Coca-Cola strives to utilize every strategy available to become successful whenever it launches its business in overseas markets. Pepsi seemed to have discovered Coca-Cola’s disadvantages and it was using them to check Coke’s dominance. The new market structure brought about cut throat competition between the two cola giants. However, the competition ate into a large chunk of the two companies’

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Coca Cola was first introduced by John Styth Pemberton, a pharmacist, in the year 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia when he concocted caramel-colored syrup in a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard. He first “distributed” the product by carrying it in a jug down the street to Jacob’s Pharmacy and customers bought the drink for five cents at the soda fountain. Carbonated water was teamed with the new syrup, whether by accident or otherwise, producing a drink that was proclaimed “delicious and refreshing”, a theme that continues to echo today wherever Coca-Cola is enjoyed. Coca-Cola originated as a soda fountain beverage in 1886 selling for five cents a glass. Early growth was impressive, but it was only when a strong bottling system developed that Coca-Cola became the world-famous brand it is today.

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• Many successful brands to pursue. • Advertise its less popular products. • Buy out competition. • More Brand recognition Advantages of coca –cola Market Leadership: Coca-Cola FEMSA is one of the biggest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages in the world, with operations in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and the Philippines. Business partnerships: Coca-Cola FEMSA is cooperating with The Coca-Cola Company to grow more propelled joint plans of action to keep investigating and taking part in new lines of refreshments, expanding existing product offerings and successfully publicizing and advertising our items.

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