9-801-458 REV. OCTOBER 24, 2008 CARLISS Y. BALDWIN LEONID SOUDAKOV PepsiCo’s Bid for Quaker Oats (A) Introduction By the end of 1999, following a multi-year restructuring effort, PepsiCo had once again become one of the most successful consumer products companies in the world. In less than four years, it had achieved an 80% increase in net income, on 30% lower sales, and with 75% fewer […]

Founded in 1893, Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink that is a product of the firm “PepsiCo. ” It the sass and sass it was the leading soft drink company in the market. From then to now a lot has changed in terms of market scenario as well as product development. The current market scenario comprises of two main market leaders in the soft drink […]

Internal Analysis of Pepsi PepsiCo is comprised by three major divisions namely PepsiCo America Beverages, PepsiCo Americas Foods, and PepsiCo International. PepsiCo America Beverages includes beverage business in North America and Latin America. PepsiCo brands are made available in more than 200 countries, generating sales at the retail level of more than $100 billion. Its beverage product line includes Tropicana, Gatorade, and its own bottled […]

COMPANY Case Pepsi: Can a Soda Really Make the World a Better Place? This year, PepsiCo did something that shocked the advertising world. After 23 straight years of running ads for its flagship brand on the Super Bowl, it announced that the number-two soft drink maker would be absent from the Big Game. But in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLIV, Pepsi was […]

In the short story, Story by Lydia Davis there are many conflicts, complications, crisis, falling action and resolution of the plot. The conflict the woman in the story faces the most is that she is trying to get a hold of a man. He seems to be not truthful with her and does not use proper communication. This bothers her and she visits his apartment […]

Business Ethics Business ethics is a topic that is often on the forefront of media and journalism reports in the United States of America today. To someone that doesn’t have a background in business, or a general understanding of the business world, these reports can be cumbersome and hard to follow. One must first understand what business ethics actually are. Dictionary. com defines business ethics […]

Strategic Analysis of PepsiCo | | Introduction Pepsi co is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in stores restaurants and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by a pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16 1903. The has been many Pepsi variants over the years […]

An internal analysis of Pepsi reveals some core strengths and weaknesses. Their strengths include a broad product line and great reputation, number one maker of snacks, and they sell three products through the same distribution channel. Pepsi, Gatorade, and Tropicana share production capabilities which aids in the reduction of costs, improves efficiency, and smoothes out the impact of seasonal fluctuations in demand for a particular […]

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) was developed by Kaplan and Norton in the 1990’s, it is a management system designed to measure the entire performance of a company by measuring all relevant angles of the company’s operations. BSC requires the company to retain its core financial measurement, but it goes further and expands the measurement to other important business areas. The BSC looks at the entire […]