EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Coca Cola Company is basically the world wide largest marketer, manufacturer and distributor of non-alcoholic beverages. It manufactured more than 3600 products in which it contains water, tea, juices, coffee, energy drinks and many more.
As the competition is very much strong of soft drinks in the market sector it is emergent for coca cola to create uniqueness to stand out. This report will demonstrate thoroughly how the coca cola company sustains competitive effects by its product after the analysis of market segmentation differentiation. Besides target market and behaviour of the customer will be revealed on foundation of secondary and primary data. The mix product of marketing will be clearly illustrated in the third section, followed by explain about new launch products. Moreover financial review is mentioned in this report, in order to estimate the cost in the process of marketing and ensure about break point taken into account.
INTRODUCTION
COCA COLA COMPANY is a private and individual brand. The coca cola products (Coca-Cola and Sprite) are company own featured products. Before launching the products in the market, this report evaluates the FMCG market as well as customer group. It uses customer purchasing behaviour and competitors in its first and second data. Finally demand and cost are highlighted from the knowledge of finance and economics.
FINDINGS
MARKET ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS OF FMCG MARKET
Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) include every product like food and non food product. The price of the products is very low with high quality. FMCG market consist of package food, health goods, drinks, cosmetics all are household goods. In Australia there is more than 80% market share of FMCG sector. Non-alcoholic beverages is a sector of FMCG market which was valued $80 billion and has a shared of 17% in non-alcoholic beverages in Australia. Firstly, the customer loyalty of brand is high in FMCG market which means it is not easier to change the brand when they buy FMCG products.
CUSTOMER ANALYSIS
THE COCA COLA COMPANY has more than 400 brands of drink designed in a way to satisfy the consumer. They have different drinks of all ages, sexes, races etc. This company able to sell all of the product worldwide and the success is unbelievable. In today’s society people are looking forward to have a healthy lives and healthy products. Coca cola has best in produce great taste which is having low fat and low calorie like diet coke and coke zero. The most important news about coca cola in Australia is that 50% people in Australia has never drunk the cola-cola.
Figure 1
In addition primary research illustrates that the people drink coca cola two times in a day which are more habitual of drinking coca cola and its product. People have different standards when they purchase non alcoholic drinks because they need to consider about the quality, and how much energy it contains. Respondents are basically gave more importance to that product which is having best quality and have lower price.
In addition, second research is in Australia people are very much attracted towards the alcoholic drinks so this is also the reason why soft drinks are not purchased very much by the consumer.
HISTORY
Coca-Cola Amatil’s managing director is Terry Davis. And the board chairman is David Gonski. CCA has facilities all over the Australia with key sites at northmead, north Sydney, queensland, Victoria, kewdale.Coca cola was established in 1986 and every franchise has a strong heritage in traditions of coca cola. This company traces its beginning to1886 when Dr. John Pemberton (an Atlanta pharmacist) began to produce syrup of coca cola in sale. Then bottling business began in 1899 when two Chattanooga businessman ( Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B.Whitehead) secured rights to bottle and sell coca cola in the U.S from the coca cola company. Coca cola bottling system continued their local business until 1980 and after that they consolidate to began franchises of bottling. In 1986 they merged some of their company. In 1986 the total unit sales were 880000 $. In december 1991 there was a merge between coca cola enterprises and Johnston coca cola bottling group. After that senior management team of Johnston take the responsibility of the business and there is a dramatic change in the business and the sales reached upto 1.4 billion in 1992 and total revenues were 5 billion at the end of the year.
In 1992, coca cola company was the largest soft drink company in the world. Everyyear 800000000 coke were sold in the U.S alone.
MARKET SEGMENTATION, TARGETTING AND POSITIONING
Coca cola serves its product using market mass technique. But there are some minor factors through which we can target the coca cola products and target the customers somehow. These factors are mentioned below:
Targeting Specific Segmentations
A) Geographic segmentation internationally :
Coca cola segments its products country wise and region wise. The vital important things is taste and quality because in each and every country there is a different taste and income level of earning of people.
B) CLIMATE :
Coca cola mainly focuses on hot areas of the world. Because there is more requirement of soft drink in hot areas. They earned almost double income in summers as compared to winters.
Consumer Expenditure
Chief executive of coca cola Terry Davis said that the trading environment in Australia is always remains challenging although it improved some momentum in lead to Christmas.
Due to a lot of competition in the Australian market there is a lot pressure on coca cola due to several brands like pepsi. They always give discounted offer and always organised a lot of schemes which affect a lot on the sales of the coca cola.
CCA said that it is expected to record volume and revenue (growth) for the half year of December and stuck only 4 to 5 percent growth of profit till the end of the December 31 which is not a good growth rate for the company.
POSITIONING
Reference: By Henry Lin ‘ October 17th, 2012
The very first thing which came in mind when we talk about the perfect substitutes of Coca Cola is only Pepsi does not matter whether the taste and cost is almost same in all over the world.
However, if we compare market share in Australia then Coca Cola is more preferable as compared to Pepsi. It is estimated that Coca Cola outsells is approximately three times more in Australia and New Zealand supermarkets and five to six times more in the whole cola market.
These two had a depressing past, where Pepsi went bankrupt twice until being bought by LOFT INC, A CANDY MANUFACTURER. In 1922 and 1933 coca cola was offered the opportunity to purchase Pepsi but declined everytime because coca cola was enjoying the monopoly and market power.
DIAGRAM SHOW ABOUT THE COKE DOMINANCE CHAIN
Reference: By Henry Lin ‘ October 17th, 2012
Firstly, noticed that coke is available everywhere as compared to Pepsi. Coke is available in all outlets, supermarkets, stores while Pepsi is available in mini supermarkets foodworks. The list of places of Pepsi is very hard to find because all popular brand uses coke to sell like McDonald, subway, KFC etc.
It is easy to find Pepsi in 7 eleven, supermarkets and petrol stations. Distance is also the main and important advantage (factor) of selling coke because if you want to drink some soft drink and coke you can find easily everywhere and for Pepsi if you have to go 500 metres away from that place then you will not go and purchase coke and drink, so this also the main advantage which help the coke to grow up their sales.
COMPARISON WITH COMPETITORS (PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION/PRICING DIFFERENTIATION, SALES, INCOMES STATEMENT):
Reference: HOOVERS A D&B COMPANY
Coke is the famous product of non-alcoholic beverage company and it is one on the top world’s most recognizable brands. Coca cola make a business of about 16 billion dollar including soft drinks Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. It is the largest beverage distribution system. Coca cola trade in more than 200 countries of their product.
THESE ARE THE FIVE QUALITY OF COCA-COLA COMPANY WHICH HELP THE COMPANY TO MAINTAIN ITS UNIQUENESS ALL OVER The WORLD TO DIFFERENTIATE FROM ITS COMPETITORS
Coke is invented in 1886 by Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton
There are mainly three competitors of Coca-Cola
1) PEPSICO,INC.
2) NESTLE S.A.
3) Dr. PEPPER SNAPPLE GROUP, INC.
New Product Development and Launch
MARKETING MIX
PROMOTION
The aim of the promotion is to increase the sales of the product, to decrease the price of the running cost of the product which will not vary from other products. To remain in competition they should be more resistant. In addition, the manager of the company should always try to make marketing strategies because to remain consistent in the competition. Specially the main aim of the company promotion is to boost up of the sales of the company. Promotion helps the company to maintain the relations of company to customer for a long period of time. Advertising helps the company to give the whole details about the product in a very descent manner so that the customer attracted towards it. There are a lot of things which help the company like their logo and price and availability of the product. Mass media is also very important factor of promotion like newspaper, radio, magazine and internet and others also.
Reference: Insights Controller,
Coca-Cola Enterprises
There are some social networking sites also which help the company a lot in doing the promotion of their products and people attracted more towards them because now a day people eat their food or not does not matter but they are very much attracted towards these social networking sites due to best communication way in the world.
PRICE
Price is the only thing which affects the company profit and survival. Before setting the price of the product company must be aware of the customer perceived value (how much people can spend the money on that product). Like the coke product of coca cola if they set the price near about $5 then automatically, the sales of the company should go down. The only reason was the company should set their price keep in mind about their competitors. The company should set the price in which the quality does not affect and sales also increase and profit also.
PLACE
The important thing of selling the product of the company and earn a lot of profit is place. If the company sell their product in retail market then they can earn more profit as compared to wholesale market. The product sold to direct customers is more profitable. Depending upon the customer behaviour set the rate of the product according to the place and situation of that suburb. The best method to sell the product according to me is to create official website and customer should go and buy the product from there as easier.
People, Process and Physical Evidence
People
The company always concern about the people both inside and outside of the company business. Firstly, for the inside people, company should recruit and select proper people for the different departments. It is the responsibility of the company to provide the safe, working and learning environment in the company as well as organise some training programmes and motivate them for their loyalty towards the company. Now with the outside people company should behave properly with their suppliers, retailers and brand conscious customers and maintain the good relations with them. Company should open customer service if any customer is having any queries then he should directly go there and clear his query.
Process
Customer service always plays a vital role in the company. The aim of the customer service is to maintain healthy relation between company and its customers (suppliers and retailers). It deals with the customers who are having complaints. It build long relationship with the customers and company. In addition the stress of managing, producing and selling is also responsible on customer service. Customer service focuses on every step of the company.
Physical Evidence
Physical evidence is those which help customers to evaluate the product before they purchase it. In short the company does not have its headquarters and prestige offices because of less investment. However if the company focuses on packaging, internet website and promotion coupon, even then the company will able to build their image in a good corporate world.
SWOT ANALYSIS FOR COCA COLA
DATE 10 APRIL 2014
A) Internal Positive Strengths
1) Low capital investment at the starting of the business
2) Growing and emerging sector
3) Huge appreciation from customer
4) Dedicated R and D sector for improving standard
5) Brand recognization is more at that time
6) Easy to set up
7) Easy to maintain
8) Advertisement really raise above the acceptance level of the business
9) Marketing strategy of capturing the mind of individual works
10) Mobility, Home Delivery, Transportation raise it very high speed
B) Internal Negative Weakness
1) Dedicated R and D sector really quiet costlier
2) Marketing strategy is difficult because cannot implement the conventional strategy
3) Know about taste of individual is quiet difficult
4) Maintaining the standard all over the globe is really difficult task
5) Dedicated market teams followed by the business so starting is little costlier for co. Owner
6) Imported goods really add a price factor on that so become expensive
7) Maintaining staff salary is quiet issue so self service is introduced
8) Brand image really needs more and more to maintain it
9) Campaigns, advertisement is costlier
10) Supply chain maintainence is such a issue
C) External Positive Opportunities
1) Globally acceptance is really a good opportunity to spread the business at global level
2) Advertise campaigns golf sports really give opportune to business
3) Easy to maintain
4) Easy to implement and brand recognition is opportunity for the business
5) Franchise and local input make the business more mobile and easy in a loop
6) Coca cola has the famous strategies prove all over the globe
7) To survive in cut throat any competition really improvement to time prove asset to the company
8) Maintainence and improvement of standards is such a thing of looking at global acceptance
9) Funding
10) Shareholder
11) Capital raise method really worthfull
D) External Negative Threats
1) Huge competitors
2) High capital requirement for business expansion
3) Globally diversity
4) Various standards to maintain various socities
5) Supply chain management
6) Funding, raising of investment and capital is such a threat for the co.
7) Maintaining the various products with adequate standards should be appropriate
8) For entering into the restauring sector the different quality check, standard and licencing is such a loophole for spreading the business
9) Local locators and movers is such a tough competitors to cut the consumer and associate them with their particular brand
10) Maintaining the social, religious equity to make a chain at various loop is also a such a issue for the co.
FORECAST AND FINANCIALS
Source: HOOVERS A D AND B COMPANY
http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.The_Coca-Cola_Company.3f8a006eaf87d773.html
SALES REPORT OF COCA-COLA
Financials
Company Name PUBLIC- (TICKER: KO)
HEADQUARTERS
Market Value 168393.23
as of 2014-04-04
Fiscal Year-End Dec
2013 Sales (mil) 46,854
2013 Employees 130,600
Employee Growth Percent -13.45%
Assets (mil) 90,055
Net Income Growth Percent -4.82%
Sales Growth Percent -2.42%
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF COCA-COLA COMPANY
INCOME STATEMENT
Income statement 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Income Statement 2013 2012 2011 2010 220092222009
Revenue $46,854 $48,017 $46,542 $35,119 $30,990
Gross Profit $28,433 $28,964 $28,326 $22,426 $19,902
Operating Income $10,228 $10,779 $10,154 $8,449 $8,231
Net Income $8,584 $9,019 $8,572 $11,809 $6,824
Diluted EPS $1.9 $1.97 $1.85 $2.53 $1.47
Cash Flow
13 2012 2011
Cash Flow (mil) 2013 2012 2011
Cash at the beginning of the year $8,442 $12,803 $8,517
Net Operating Cash $10,542 $10,645 $9,474
Net Investing Cash $(4,214) $(11,404) $(2,524)
Net Financing Cash $(3,745) $(3,347) $(2,234)
Net Change in Cash $1,972 $(4,361) $4,286
Cash at end of the year $10,414 $8,442 $12,803
Capital Expenditure $(2,550) $(2,780) $(2,920)
Balance Sheet
Assets (mil) 2013 2012 2011
Current Assets
Cash $10,414 $8,442 $12,803
Net Receivables $4,873 $4,759 $4,920
Inventories $3,277 $3,264 $3,092
Other Income Assets $12,740 $13,863 $4,682
Asset Summary
Total Current Assets $31,304 $30,328 $25,497
Net Fixed Assets $14,967 $14,476 $14,939
Other Noncurrent Assets $43,784 $41,370 $39,538
Total Assets $90,055 $86,174 $79,974
LIABILITIES(MIL) 2013 2012 2011
Liabilities (mil) 2013 2012 2011
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable $1,933 $1,969 $2,172
Short Term Debt $17,925 $17,874 $14,912
Other Current Liabilities $7,953 $7,978 $7,199
Liability Summary
Total Current Liabilities $27,811 $27,821 $24,283
Long Term Debt $19,154 $14,736 $13,656
Other Noncurrent Liabilities $9,917 $10,827 $10,400
Total Liabilities $56,882 $53,384 $48,339
STAKEHOLDER ‘S EQUITY(MIL) 2013 2012 2011
Equity
Preferred Stock Equity $ $ $
Common Stock Equity $33,173 $32,790 $31,635
Equity Summary
Total Equity $33,173 $32,790 $31,635
Shares Outstanding 4,402 4,469 4,526
CREDIT RATING
The credit rating of Coca-Cola Company is low because the project rist of these businesses are very low and moderate to low risk of failure.
CONCLUSION
To add up, the report has evaluated FMCG market, and target customers group through analysing secondary and primary researches. To sum up, customer buying behaviour and competition in the market are discussed in detailed. To launch of new products there are some reasonable approaches in which you can found like targeting marketing and marketing mix. Moreover, revenue income and financial statement is discussed in detail of the company of last three years. Lastly, report indicated the profit maximized of the company which is the objective of mine in this report. It should be better to increase the demand and supply of the product and reduce the cost of the product to maximum possible extent.
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