Business Management: The Soda Industry
Business Management
The Soda Industry
The purpose of this work is to describe the Five Forces in the soda industry which are Rivalry, Buyers, Entry Barriers, Suppliers and Substitutes and keeping in mind that The Coca Cola Company and the Pepsi Company are the leaders in the industry to state what the effect of generic brands have on the soda industry marketplace.
The Pepsi Company and the Coca Cola Company have been rivals in the soda industry for many long years. Recently Coca-Cola reorganized their company and achieved new efficiencies and productivity during the restructuring that has been lucrative to the bottom line of Coca Cola's ledger. The globalization of the world at large has created new aspects to a very old industry and as well the soda sector of the marketplace.
The Five Forces:
Coca Cola Company and Pepsi...
The competition between the two companies is generally a race that is neck-to-neck across the finish line each year in terms of sales and revenue. While Pepsi Company seemed to have the lead last year the Coca Cola Company targeted grocery store consumers as being their most valued customer in the market and through lowering of prices after streamlining the bottling company problems being experienced Coca Cola has taken over the larger scale buyers in the soda market. Due to the high dollar investment required for entering the soda market neither Pepsi Company nor the Coca Cola Company have much to fear from new entrants into the industry. However, as times grow tighter in the financial crunch currently being experienced many customers that actually prefer either Coca Cola or Pepsi are likely to purchase the lower cost generic store brands. Not…
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