Product Lifecycle of Coke: Product life cycle has four phases 1. Introduction 2. Growth 3. Maturity 4. Decline. The markets where Coke is a dominant player are United States of America, Europe and Asia, Africa. There is a vast difference in terms of above given phases for example, in U.S.A & Europe it has reached maturity stage where it can’t expand its market more but if we consider Asia, it is still in the growth phase. Coca-Cola is currently going through the maturity stage in Western countires. This maturity stage lasts longer than all other stages. Management has to pay special attention to products during this stage of the product life-cycle. During the maturity stage, products usually go through a slowdown in sales growth. …show more content…
As Cola consumption has decreased in the US Colas have come to realize the untapped international market. In 2003 both Coke and Pepsi had a solid presence in India and had each introduced a 300mL bottle. In order to grab market share Pepsi began to drop prices (even with summer approaching, which was contrary to policy in America). Shortly thereafter, Coca-Cola decided to drop their prices slightly, but focused on the reduced price point of their 200mL container. Coca- Cola planned to use the lower price point to penetrate new cities that were especially price sensitive. The carbonated soft drink market in India is nearly 37% of the total beverage market …show more content…
To study the promotion strategies adopted by Coca-Cola 2. To study the advertising effectiveness Coca-Cola on customer 3. To analyze the awareness of consumer regarding Coca Cola. 4. To help the company for further changes in the quality, pricing, and policies. Research design The Research available is descriptive so as to describe the complete qualities of juices available in market. Sources of Data collection To do a research always we use two sources of data collection. But this is based on secondary data collection. Secondary Source: Secondary source is the internet, magazines, and old data files of the research. CHAPTER 6 PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES GETTING SHELVES They get or purchase shelves in big departmental stores and display their products in that shelves in that style which show their product more clear and more attractive for the consumers. EYE CATCHING POSITION Salesman of the Coca Colacompany positions their freezers and their products in eye-catching positions. Normally they keep their freezers near the entrance of the stores. SALE PROMOTION Company also do sponsorships with different college and school’s cafes and sponsors their sports events and other extra curriculum activities for getting market
Panaderia Cuscatleca has their product in a Mexican newspaper and they keep it in their store, which won’t really promote their store if it’s always inside their store. They have business card that is plane with just blue letters say their bakery name and the contact number and store address, which it really plane. Beside those advertising they do go to charities events and festival to promote their bakery, but the problem is that the festival is located far from their store. Which is no really affected because why go to Panaderia Cuscatleca 8 or 12 miles away when they can go to the closes one near them. Panaderia Cuscatleca need to stand out of every other bakery by making their own logos stickers because who doesn’t love stickers and pass it around one by one, they should reward their customer by creating an award card for pass purchases and give out free sample because people are afraid to buy something they never eaten before, getting to know your customers and letting your customers knows about the bakery is how you attract
Instead, consumers are addicted, they continue consuming and Coke continues producing. If people would like a better company or a better drink, they should ask what themselves what they can do to end this vicious cycle of parasite-like businesses that feed off of resources and public
Is the target set by the Houzit is difficult with the current capabilities and resources to achieve. This is because the company limited the number of employees. In addition to its focus on the company to operate its stores have bright, comfortable shopping misalignment been proposed government legislation. In this way, the company will determine the next gap Houzit goals and the company 's current strategy, capabilities and resources. Magazine advertising and PR, together with in-store promotions and web based promotions: Promotion is the way use to market the product product or service to customers, stakeholders and the broader public and increased marketing to match the growth in seasonal demand that occurs during this period.
India is a target for numerous firms to expand geographically. For example, Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners are investing $5 billion in India between 2013 and 2020 because that country has 1.2 billion people who on average only consume 12 eight-ounce bottles of Coke a year compared with 240 in Brazil and 90 bottles globally. PepsiCo is also expanding aggressively into India (David & David, 2015, p 138). Some products or service may be very successful in one demographic, but may not be in another. This is why companies like Pepsi test their products in a small demographic first, before releasing the product to a much larger
23. “If the sun never set on the British Empire, then it was always teatime somewhere.” 24. Tea can reduce thirst, lessens the desire for sleep and hearten and help the heart. 25.
Analysing the data: - Identifying patterns and trends Problems relating to marketing: - These incorporate what cost to change, how best to publicize the products and administrations, where to offer them from etc. Types of research: - There are two types of research that businesses’ use to gather the right information for the company the first research is called primary research and the second method is secondary research. Primary Research: - Experiments, investigations, or tests carried out to acquire data first-hand, rather than being gathered from published sources. Secondary Research: - Research based on secondary data.
Before the product enters the market, there are no sales, as the product is being prepared for the market. There is market research that is being conducted. Introduction stage begins with the launching of the product followed by growth where there is an increase in the market share. When the product reaches maturity stage, the sales are at their peak. At the decline stage, the sales are declining.
Age and life cycle can be tricky variables because there are different needs and wants as accord to the age of a person. The main sector in which Coca-Cola Company targets is the youth because there is a much need of refreshment and energizers to cope up with their daily activities. Gender is also an issue needed to be given prior by Coca-Cola. Men and women tend to have different attitudinal and behavioral orientations, based partly on genetic makeup and partly on socialization practices. Coca Cola targets both genders with its wide variety of drinks.
Cannibalising standard variants: Rising awareness of soft drinks-related health issues, in particular sugar levels, has sparked a trend for “better for you” beverages globally. As for Coca-colas’ carbonates, some countries saw standard cola are being cannibalised by low calorie colas and this represents a challenge. Coca-cola must continue to sustain growth in standard cola and expand low calorie
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’
1.2. Product Differentiation This refers to differentiation that aspires to make a product more attractive by contrasting its unique qualities with other competing products (Investopedia, 2015:1), as in the case of Coca-Cola, other soft drink brands. Successfully adopting this strategy would have a company gaining a competitive advantage, as the customer would then view the product as unique or superior. This is what coca cola has managed to do, and has managed to do it on a scale that is globally unique, and globally recognized.
Among them, coca cola’s products are generally made available through intensive distribution. Intensive distribution for the newest product has allowed to maximize contact with customers and become very successful. It usually goes with heavy promotion, lower prices and large target market. Coca cola’s product are mainly distributed in a wide variety of locations including corner stores, convenience stores, restaurants, hotels, shopping mall petrol station and many, many
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Coca-Cola, the product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Coca-Cola Company is the world’s leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, used to produce nearly 400 beverage brands. It sells beverage concentrates and syrups to bottling and canning operators, distributors, fountain retailers and fountain wholesalers.
The term Research Methodology refers to a set of procedures, methods & techniques that are put together by the researchers to obtain a solution to the problems they confront during the collection of data. The researchers look for the most crucial data which is inevitable for the research. Generally there are three kinds of approaches or research methods namely Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed. These methods are used to gather data and resolve issues that emerge during the process of data gathering. The researcher can bring forward his findings either in the form of quantitative or qualitative or mixed research methodologies only when the data is collected based on the preliminary data gathering process and the secondary data gathering process.
The health food drinks market is highly competitive with various heavy players like GSK, Cadbury, Nestle, Heinz etc. The health food drinks market is divided into white beverages and brown beverages. Horlicks with 36.2 % market share leads 5500 crore health food drinks market. Bournvita is leader is brown beverage category followed by Boost. Nestle Milo a relative new entrant to the market was launched in India in 1996.