FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT
THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW
KAUNO KOLEGIJA
Created by:
Gabrielė Sakalauskaitė - President
Giedrė Žėkaitė - Commercial Officer
Vytautas Žukauskas – Chief Executive Officer
Jurgita Šunokaitė - Financier
Gediminas Urbanavičius - Chief Administrator
Checked by:
Rasa Šemiotienė
Kaunas, 2012
Contents
Aim 3
Activity attribution 4
“ The Coca-Cola Company” history and development 4
Subdivision, activities, administration structure 11
Employees, region and partners 12 Diversity 13 Talent development 14 Training 14 Rewarding employees 14
Partners 14
Strengths 16
Weaknesess 16
The companies turnover 17
Career Development 18
Opportunities 20
Threats 20
Conclusion
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Coca-Cola invests heavily in infrastructure in emerging markets to make it easier to sell products.
Healthy Options Coca-Cola’s healthy drinks experienced the greatest growth in revenue and U.S. share gain in 2011. According to Beverage Digest, Coca-Cola’s bottled water brand Dasani gained the most volume in the liquid refreshment megabrand category in the United States. Case volume for water increased 10% globally according to Coca-Cola’s 2011 annual review. Contrast that with the 3% global case volume increase of Coca-Cola soda. Water and juice represents Coca-Cola’s biggest opportunities on the product front.
Threats
Competitors
In beverage industry the competition very high so, to remain on the top position the company need lot of finance as well as lot of organizational changes. Coca Cola have not only competitors like Pepsi, Nestle and others also giving tough time.
Removal of Barriers
Globalization removes the barriers so it also attracts the new comer companies for having the same business. Due this the many little companies enter into the market and decrease the market share as well as the sale of the product.
Cultural Differences
For a company the most common threat is the cultural differences because every nation or every geographic boundary has different culture. Same threat faced by Coca Cola Company. Because they have wide network so face this problem as well.
Local
Globalization has, for better or worse, altered the economic arena for every country in the world. For many less developed countries, globalization has leveled the playing field so that their economies can compete with the larger, more developed ones such as the United States and other large western economies. For instance, technical engineers in India and China are now just as qualified as engineers in America, but at half the cost. The once large and prosperous service sector in the United States as well as telemarketing services have largely been sourced to India as a large exodus of American multinational corporations find cheaper workers who deliver comparable quality. This then seems to be the essence of globalization - businesses
The globalization is important is because it helps a community in gaining international recognition. Globalization gets people all over the world all sorts of materials like food and cloth because companies and people and governments interact with different nations. Globalization could be positive and negative to many people around the world. Some positive things globalization does is boost the ongoing competition between countries all over the world. Globalization helps out the United States with material and cloth by example when people in the United States look at their shirts they will most likely see "Made In China".
The next stage is a stage of providing the actual change actions. Here, the company has chosen a new CEO and President, Douglas Daft, who was an opposite of Ivestor. Daft was a delegator, who wanted to turn Coca-Cola to a most desired company by employees in the world. He also saw a company as a head of the class, when speaking about diversity of workforce and business. Daft was fast in his actions. He has put Ware on the position of Vice-President for Global Public Affairs, as he was concerned about diversity issues in the company as well. They applied Ware’s suggestions about supporting the diversity from the top-executives and tying compensation increases to the achievement of diversity goals. On this stage, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia approved the Settlement Agreement, which was used to non-hourly U.S.-based workers of the company, excluding its bottlers and called for pay-back to employees, future pay equity and equal employment opportunity. Task Force was created to provide an independent supervision of company’s compliance and was reporting on implementation of these programs. On this stage, Coca-Cola learned a lot about its past mistakes and provided dozens of changes to its policies and procedures. As it is not possible to change a whole organization in a short-time period, Coca-Cola was implementing changes during the next decade after a lawsuit and even created a document, called “Manifesto of
The risk that comes with globalization connects between countries, culture and businesses. In today’s society, managers have more to deal with as the idea of outsourcing and cultural differences have made things a bit complex for the parties involved. Some companies might feel going to different countries for business could become a liability. For instance, if a U.S. company goes to Japan, events like the Japanese 9.0 magnitude earthquake that killed 20,000 people could cost them. This limitation of globalization effects everyone involved. Supply chains around the world were disrupted from the manufacturing plants being shutdown. In addition to natural disasters, there are also political, economical and financial risk to consider. However, a positive aspect of globalization is that is creates jobs for the economy. For those who couldn’t work due to the lack of jobs already in their country, they can now earn money to feed their families and establish a working class.
There are many benefits from globalization. One benefit is more efficient markets, efficient markets means supply and demand. Efficient markets cause the economy to multiply, in a world like ours if the economy is increasing, every thing that is connected to it benefits. Another advantage of globalization is new solutions, globalization permits significant procedure to occur more efficiently and important ideas to become reality. It also allow use, the human race to push forward. On the other hand, the disadvantages of globalization are that someone always has to lose, and that the home team loses. Someone invariably has to lose since globalization is fundamentally a
The multinational company that I have chosen is Coca Cola Company since it is a very popular brand and has been serving its customers for more then 10 decades and even after so many years its popularity seems to be increasing day by day which itself speaks about the company's remarkable performance. The Coca Cola Company is an American multinational corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of the nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups (Wright, 1999). It came into existence in 1886 and was invented in Columbus, Georgia by John Stith Pemberton. The current statistics of the company shows that it is currently operating in over 200 countries offering its customers over 500 brands with each day serving of more then 1.7 billion (Charles W. L. Hill, Essentials of Strategic Management, 2012). .Further more the Coca Cola Company is alone responsible for the 78% of the total gallon sales of all the beverages sold worldwide. The company is listed in New York Sock Exchange and is very popular in most of the countries especially United States of America, which alone consumes 47% of the total gallons, sold worldwide (Zurkuhlen & Meeker, 1987). The company headquarter is located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America and its current chief executive and chairman is Muhtar Kent (Charles W. L. Hill, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, 2012).
Coca Cola has differentiated its product and services that are valued by its customer. Its product are based on customer’s preferences, with affordable price and made easily accessible.
The Coca Cola company is perceived to be the most famous trademark on the globe, and it is equally so. The company claims more than 400 brands that appeal to a wide range of individuals throughout the world. They are in a position to fulfill needs of every one of their buyers making their experience with their beverages a better one. The entity’s drinks entice a lot of people across all races, age, and gender. Coca Cola is outstanding for its overall popularity as its items are sold in over four hundred countries in the world, while major contenders like Pepsi are just available in very few countries. Such a competitive advantage has placed
The negative effects of globalization come like a fringe with its advantages. As countries companies and consumers are benefitted through globalization process, it is also bringing some disadvantages for them.
It has taken much more than simply the brand and product to grow Coca-Cola in the number one leader in the soft drink market. Over the past 100 plus years, Coca-Cola has built a huge network of distribution and manufacturing networks. These collaborations that are superior to all others and all types of relationships are a distinctive competency for Coca-Cola. The way that they organize and plan their contracts has proven to be extremely successful and continues to keep Coca-Cola at the top of the market. They have been able to build relationships with suppliers, buyers, bottlers, manufactures, retailers and consumers that are strengthened by the degree of loyalty from both sides of these relationships. They continue to manage their company
The Coca-Cola Company leads the world in manufacturing, marketing and distributing soft drinks. The company is styled as unstoppable due to its universal appeal ranging from Minute Maid orange juice, Dasani purified water to PowerAde sports drinks and Fuze vitamin-enhanced water. Indeed, despite the fact that Coca-Cola has ruled the drink market for the twenty years, however, "the soft-drink giant is struggling as per-capita consumption of soda has hit multi-decade lows."
Globalization offers industries many ways to increase their profits. Since businesses and corporations have access to a wider range of potential clients, they have a chance to increase profits. Global competition also
Globalization is the integration of the worldwide economy in which resources and products move freely across the globe. Globalization has been present for decades however it has predominantly become a more frequent process and has potential good and bad effects on the world of business. Problems can include competition in manufacturing jobs and unemployment in industrialized countries. However, this can also be beneficial in other situations as globalization gives you a larger market trade will be cheaper so more countries can import and export goods which can bring in profits to multi-national corporations.
Also, Coca-Cola has very strong rivalries. The main one is of course PepsiCo, which is very famous all over the world and has a great variety of products. Thus, Coca-cola can’t afford its image to be damaged because if that happens PepsiCo will become the leader of the industry very fast. Right now Coca-Cola needs a new Strategic Communication Plan to try to overcome the issues.
The global beverages industry is currently a low-growth market, with an expected compound annual growth rate of 5.7% between 2017 and 2025 (Grand View Research 2017). Additionally, the industry is quite saturated with firms that offer increasingly differentiated products. However, due to this low growth rate, companies have been engaging in price competition to gain competitive advantage and increase their market share. Nevertheless, Coca Cola is a dominant force in this market, controlling 40% of the industry, and is therefore at a low risk of losing its position.