Advertising Effectiveness Of Coca Cola

Pepsico is a diverse company producing beverages, cereals and snack foods. Beverages field accounts for over $66 billion of their annual revenue (2013). PepsiCo has 18 global mega brands

Coca-Cola has and always will take a serious commitment to market responsibly. So, since 2010 coca cola has followed the principles set out in their global responsible marketing policy. This was set up for Coca-Cola to follow allowing them to know what they can and can’t do. Advertising is a key strategy for Coca-Colas growth, both Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co spends billions on advertising, both techniques such a store activation, loyalty points programmes and points of sale marketing.

In almost every country in which they do business PepsiCo, Inc., is their primary competitor. Besides them there are a few other big competitors like Nestlé, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., Groupe Danone, Kraft Foods Inc. and Unilever. Nevertheless, are those companies a lot smaller than The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo, Inc,. We can see this when we compare their brand values and market shares. In figure 1 you can see that The Coca-Cola Company has 25,9% market share and PepsiCo, Inc., has 11,5%.

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.

A Pemberton’s bookmaker, frank Robinson named this mixture as Coca-Cola and wrote it in his unique script. Since that day Coca-Cola is written in the same way. History tells that in the first year Pemberton sold out just nine glass of Coca-Cola a day. After a century the Coca-Cola Company produced more than ten billion gallons of Coca-Cola liquid.

Introduction The Coca-Cola Company is one of the largest beverage selling companies in the world. To reach this highest position coca cola uses various marketing techniques and business strategies. It is a leading beverage company and has almost 500 different brands. The very popular soft drinks are such as, sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid and many more in this list.

But with the changing tastes of consumers, it has expanded its menu which now includes salads, fish, wraps, smoothies, fruits and seasoned fries. The Coca-Cola Company, makers of coke, sprite, fanta, diet coke, coca-cola zero etc. The coca-cola company operates/sells beverages in more than 200 countries around the world. The most popular and selling drink of the company around the world is coke.

1. Company Background/ product introduction (10 marks) The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s biggest leading beverage company. The company own license and market more than 500 non-alcoholic beverage brands, primarily sparkling beverages and also a variety of still beverages such as waters, enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, ready-to-drink teas and coffees, and energy and sports drinks. They own and market four of the world’s top five non-alcoholic sparkling beverage brands: Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite.

Much proof would indicate that Coca-Cola has definitely chosen a differentiation strategy since its early days. To prove this, a look will be taken into how it has being done. According to softdrinkcolar blogspot (2012:1), the company spends about 20% of their total advertisement budget for maintaining and communicating on its differentiation strategy. Coca-Cola has created differentiation using a soft sell approach and has positioned itself on the following standards: # Corporate reputation for quality and innovation: one of the best place to work-

For the Coca-Cola, recognized its brand to be the best global brand around the world. Nevertheless, PepsiCo still working hard and catching up right behind the Coca-Cola, become the biggest rival for Coca-Cola in non-alcoholic drink industry. So what are the competitive advantages these both companies do have, let us discuss. 4.1 Distribution Method Coca-Cola conquer the market by having a very extensive distribution through partnership with bottling partner. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd, is the largest bottling partner of the Coca-Cola Company in India, by owning 24 bottling plants at strategic location in various states widely covered across India, has an extensive distribution system spanning more than a million outlets.