Company Introduction:
The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company that was created in 1886 by the pharmacist John Stith Pemberton, in Georgia. Nowadays, the brand is sold in more than 200 countries and the company own more than 500 nonalcoholic beverage brands, mostly sparkling but also still water, juices, tea, coffees and sport drinks such as energy drinks. Four brands present in the top 5 of nonalcoholic beverage are own by CCC such as Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta and diet Coke.
Between the 80s and 90s, the company decided to create a new advertising image in the Christmas way with the polar bear. Then the brand image is focus on sport and friendship, to strengthen this positioning, Coca-Cola, the Olympic games and the FIFA
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Coca- Cola’s current ratio is increasing year after year. The company is over performing in its industry. Coca-Cola Co. 's current ratio improved from 2011 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2013.
- The Acid test Ratio
An indicator of a company’s short-term liquidity. The quick ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets. For this reason, the ratio excludes inventories from current assets, and is calculated as follows: The quick ratio measures the dollar amount of liquid assets available for each dollar of current
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Thus, a quick ratio of 1.5 means that a company has $1.50 of liquid assets available to cover each $1 of current liabilities. The higher the quick ratio, the better the company 's liquidity position. Coca-Cola’s quick ratio is improving year after year. The company is over performing in its industry
Efficiency Ratios Stock turnover:
A ratio showing how many times a company 's inventory is sold and replaced over a period.
The days in the period can then be divided by the inventory turnover formula to calculate the days it takes to sell the inventory on hand or "inventory turnover days." Coca-Cola’s inventory turnover has been decreasing year over year. The company has been underperforming in its industry
4. Accounts receivable turnover
Accounts receivable turnover is the ratio of net credit sales of a business to its average accounts receivable during a given period, usually a year. It is an activity ratio which estimates the number of times a business collects its average accounts receivable balance during a period. Average Accounts Receivable
Coca- Cola’s accounts receivable turnover has been slightly increasing. The company has been over performing in its industry.
Capital Structure -
Their current ratio improved from 1.59 to 2.44 which shows the ability to cover current liabilities has improved. Massachusetts Stove Company strategically made decisions to not only increase their current assets quickly but also managed their liabilities to keep them from growing out of control. This means that the company could cover current liabilities at any time relatively easily with their cash, receivables, or other current assets. In terms of the market, Massachusetts Stove Company does have the demand of 220,000 active prospects they could try to sell stoves too if a dire need arose for quick cash. Management even brought their quick ratio to 1.08.
The debt to ratio is a ratio that compares a firms total liabilities and shareholders’ equity. It shows the proportion of the amount of money invested by the business owners as well as external entities. Debt to Equity Ratio = Total Liabilities/Shareholders’ Equity = $80,994/$931,490
Macy’s Inc. started in 1858 in New York City as a dry goods store. By the end of the first year, sales had grown and by 1877, R. H. Macy & Co. had become a department store undergoing expansion. The company was revolutionary in its industry by launching such practices as the one-price system, at which, items were sold to all customers at one price. Macy’s also pioneered the practice of advertising specific items for good in newspapers among others. Over time, the company has become of the biggest department store chain in the United States with locations across the country and an active website.
Coca-Cola has been around for over to her New Year's, starting in 1888. This beverage has been an American favorite since it came out. This shows that even though Coke has a lot of quantity they still deliver at continuous quantity (World of Coca-Cola). How did Coca-Cola appeal to its consumers? Out of logos pathos and ethos Coke showed using more pathos when advertising their product with examples of their open happiness and the snow bear commercials.
Ninety-four percent of the earth’s population recognizes the Coca-Cola logo. That’s not an easy feat to accomplish, especially as a company that primarily sells soft drinks. A major reason why Coke is such a successful company is their advertising. In the commercial titled Brotherly Love, Coca-Cola uses calm music, warm lighting, and a humorous story to associate their products with happy memories in the minds of young people with one or more siblings.
The more a product is found desirable the more likely will the person buy it. Effective advertising and positioning attracts customers. The brand equity of Coca cola is very high and it has established an emotional connect with consumers. Coca Colas brand slogan “Open happiness” has successfully positioned the brand as a global icon of happiness. Such connects are very important in order to persuade a consumer into buying the brand.
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.
Coca-Cola Company is one of the premier global consumer brands. The company has been around for a century and has been growing constantly. Today Coca-Cola manufactures more than 500 sparkling and still brands that are sold in more than 200 countries around the world. Coca-Cola’s main competitor is Pepsi. Therefore,
Coca cola uses many different techniques to differentiate their brand and product from others. This is done by the colors, shapes, styles and the font of their logo. The font of the coca cola logo is one of the most recognizable brands around the world being recognized by 96% of the world’s population. The company has invested a lot of time and money in research and development to ensure the most effective life cycle impact of its
In the carbonated soft drinks industry, Coke Cola and Pepsi Co are the biggest players in the market for aerated beverages. Both the companies have been competing strongly against each other for decades. The market is dominated by these two industry leaders with a total market share of 72%; Coke’s market share is 42% and Pepsi’s 30%. This is known as an oligopoly market; where there are few large firms competing with each other in the industry. Since both the company’s market share so large, the market is very close to a duopoly (other players having a very small impact on the market).
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.
In the year 2010, it spent almost $800 million on ‘non-traditional’ methods of advertising. • Nike has chosen to target the seventeen year olds more as research has shown that the 17 years olds spend 20% more on shoes than the adults. • It has decided to do away with the dependence on the ‘big budget top-down brand campaigns that usually celebrate just one hit. • Its advertising and marketing campaigns are widely split between advertising agencies that specialize in recent technologies and social media. • It has chosen to focus more on the production of ‘cool stuff’’.
A problem with the current ratio is that it accounts for inventory, which is not as liquid as other current asset accounts, and may lead to a disingenuous analysis. Another problem arises with this ratio because it accounts for the receivables account, which may overvalue the ratio, especially if the business
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 current ratio is a liquidity and efficiency ratio that measures a firm's ability to pay off its short-term liabilities with its current assets. In the year 2012, KHB had a current ratio of 1.688 but it comes to decrease in 2013 to a 1.642. The ratio in the year 2014 was 1.670 indicating a slight increase. The competitor of KHB, the PMMB had a current ratio of 4.785, 4.012 and 3.622 from the year 2012 to 2014 respectively. A current ratio should be more than 2.0 as a higher current ratio indicates a more promising current debt payments.