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Marketing strategy of Coca-Cola
1. The reason why we chose Coca-Cola
-We know that the Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is the best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers more than 500 brands in over 200 countries or territories and serves over 1.7?billion servings each day. The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North America, Coca-Cola Refreshmen…
2. Corporate Profile and History
nsentacasetoAsaGriggsCandler,whoownedtheCompany.Candlerthankedhimbuttooknoaction.OneofhisnephewsalreadyhadurgedthatCoca-Colabebottled,butCandlerfocusedonfountainsales.
1899 … The first bottling agreement
TwoyoungattorneysfromChattanooga,TennesseebelievedtheycouldbuildabusinessaroundbottlingCoca-Cola.InameetingwithCandler,BenjaminF.ThomasandJosephB.WhiteheadobtainedexclusiverightstobottleCoca-ColaacrossmostoftheUnitedStates(specificallyexcludingVicksburg)--forthesumofonedollar.AthirdChattanoogalawyer,JohnT.Lupton,soonjoinedtheirventure.
1900-1909 … Rapid growth
Thethreepioneerbottlersdividedthecountryintoterritoriesandsoldbottlingrightstolocalentrepreneurs.Theireffortswereboostedbymajorprogressinbottlingtechnology,whichimprovedefficiencyandproductquality.By1909,nearly400Coca-Colabottlingplantswereoperating,mostofthemfamily-ownedbusinesses.Somewereopenonlyduringhot-weathermonthswhendemandwashigh.
1916 … Birth of the contour bottle
Bottlersworriedthatthestraight-sidedbottleforCoca-C