Economics Pick a marketing environment and a popular brand of your choice. Then discuss the potential impact on the brand of trends that are observable in that external environment. How will they impact the demand for the product? How will they define who the competitors are? What recommendations would you make to the brand to prepare for the changes your see coming from the environmental trends you observed? I choose Coca-Cola as

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